Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
| Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer | |
|---|---|
US box art | |
| Developer | Nintendo EAD |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Director | Isao Moro |
| Producers | Hisashi Nogami Aya Kyogoku |
| Programmer | Gentaro Takaki |
| Artist | Akiko Hirono |
| Writers | Makoto Wada Mitsuhiro Takano Kunio Watanabe |
| Composer | Kazumi Totaka |
| Series | Animal Crossing |
| Platform | Nintendo 3DS |
| Release | |
| Genre | Sandbox |
| Mode | Single-player |
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is a 2015 sandbox video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was released in Japan in July 2015, in North America in September 2015, and in Europe and Australia in October 2015. The game is a spin-off of the Animal Crossing series where the player designs homes for various anthropomorphic animal characters.
Happy Home Designer received mixed reviews from critics upon release; critics praised the creative freedom and improved design controls, but criticised the lack of challenge and unrewarding gameplay loop. Many also felt the game should have been downloadable content (DLC) for Animal Crossing: New Leaf instead of a standalone release. The game sold 3.04 million copies worldwide as of March 2016 and a sequel, Happy Home Paradise, was released as DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons on November 5, 2021.