Animal Crossing doesn't really seem like a fun game, yet millions of people have bought the latest installment, New Horizons, in its first week out, making it one of the best-selling Switch games of all time.

I personally love Animal Crossing, which is weird, because I rarely choose to play games like that.

So why have I put hundreds of hours into Animal Crossing games over the years?

Like all great Nintendo games, Animal Crossing doesn't shy away from bright colors.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there are a handful of added systems that weren't in previous games, like the ability to reshape the land and water of your island, add in more bridges and inclines to make traveling around easier, and improve civic structures.

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Animal Crossing doesn't have any puzzles to figure out or enemies to beat, though.

Every day you play Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there's a dice roll that determines which pieces of furniture are available to buy from Nook's Cranny, which fossils you'll unearth from the ground, and which new visitors could be on the island.

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That's what really keeps people coming back to Animal Crossing over and over again: The potential.