Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

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  2. Mixed: 25 out of 99
  3. Negative: 20 out of 99
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  1. SkittleDork7
    Nov 26, 2017
    5
    It's Animal Crossing, so it's fun. However, this is very watered down. It's fun, don't get me wrong. However, it's too simple and feels repetitive. I do like it, but I can see why people wouldn't. If you're a super-fan of Animal Crossing like me, I'd say check it out for a day but just go back to New Leaf or Gamecube.
  2. MuffpuffZeBuff
    May 10, 2020
    8
    The game is otherwise exactly what you expect from the series if it was mobile. The graphics look really good for a mobile game, the characters are friendly and cute even if simplified for phone, and the gameplay is the fetching of items that make up animal crossing but without anything else.

    Story there isn’t anything to say as it is mostly just a tending to a camp, but you don’t play    The game is otherwise exactly what you expect from the series if it was mobile. The graphics look really good for a mobile game, the characters are friendly and cute even if simplified for phone, and the gameplay is the fetching of items that make up animal crossing but without anything else.

    Story there isn’t anything to say as it is mostly just a tending to a camp, but you don’t play these games for a gripping story. Basically if you like animal crossing this is a taste of it or a version aimed at very little kids to introduce them to it. No, it won’t keep you entertained long and it isn’t a full animal crossing but it does what you’d expect of it.    … Expand
  3. Pixelparrot
    Nov 22, 2017
    10
    This is a great mobile game!
    It's charming, addictive and just adorable.
    The customization system has improved alot! It's super easy to edit your camp.
    If you have played an animal crossing game before, you know that it's kind of difficult to edit your house. Here they have fixed everything.
  4. SilverClock
    Dec 3, 2017
    3
    Pros:
    Animals now have a friend level that you can see as you raise it.
    A grid is visible when you place furniture. Market allows you to sell items to other players. (Except furniture and clothing.) You can view your catalog at any time and monitor your completion in specific series. 301 furniture items and 163 clothing items available to unlock as of 12/3/2017. A decent time killer    Pros:
    Animals now have a friend level that you can see as you raise it.
    A grid is visible when you place furniture.
    Market allows you to sell items to other players. (Except furniture and clothing.)
    You can view your catalog at any time and monitor your completion in specific series.
    301 furniture items and 163 clothing items available to unlock as of 12/3/2017.
    A decent time killer if you have no access to a console or handheld game, especially if you are an Animal Crossing fan.

    Cons:
    Repetitive. Gameplay loop is: Fetch item-->deliver it-->gain friendship-->unlock furniture to craft-->craft furniture-->allows new animal to move in-->repeat. Loop takes 10-20 minutes to complete and allows you to repeat it every 3 hours. You show off your furniture to your friends. That's it. That's the game.
    Is about 5-10% of what you would expect from a full Animal Crossing game.
    Just makes you want an actual Animal Crossing game.    … Expand
  5. wegie125
    Dec 28, 2017
    5
    I got my hopes up way too much I guess because I was the most hyped up person for this game, at least in my family. I was talking about how this game would be the next animal crossing and that it was the game we had been waiting so long for. It finally released and man I was so disappointed with literally everything, this game is mediocre that it hurts. It's just so bland. Compare this toI got my hopes up way too much I guess because I was the most hyped up person for this game, at least in my family. I was talking about how this game would be the next animal crossing and that it was the game we had been waiting so long for. It finally released and man I was so disappointed with literally everything, this game is mediocre that it hurts. It's just so bland. Compare this to any other app and it is a pretty good app, put it next to animal crossing games and it's weak as hell. This game felt like more of a fan game than something a group of professionals worked on. It's fun but simply not what I wanted because I wanted a new animal crossing and that's what I will always be waiting for.… Expand
  6. CanadianYeti
    Nov 24, 2017
    6
    Pocket Camp packs oodles of charm and a lot of good vibes into this mobile package, and I’d recommend all Animal Crossing fans give it a look. It’s way better than amiibo Festival was. Unfortunately the grinding required to find crafting materials does become a bit overbearing really fast, as entire days can go by without any progress being made. For a free game, I’d say it’s worth yourPocket Camp packs oodles of charm and a lot of good vibes into this mobile package, and I’d recommend all Animal Crossing fans give it a look. It’s way better than amiibo Festival was. Unfortunately the grinding required to find crafting materials does become a bit overbearing really fast, as entire days can go by without any progress being made. For a free game, I’d say it’s worth your time. Just don’t expect to spend too much of it.… Expand
  7. Kingphazer
    Dec 2, 2017
    8
    Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been out for just over a week now and the game has just started its holiday event. I just hit level 16 and pretty much know what this game's about, and I completely love it.

    While it's a very watered down version of the game, it's been incredibly fun so far. The game's a little grindy and repetitive, but what AC game isn't? In this rendition, you're in    Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been out for just over a week now and the game has just started its holiday event. I just hit level 16 and pretty much know what this game's about, and I completely love it.

    While it's a very watered down version of the game, it's been incredibly fun so far. The game's a little grindy and repetitive, but what AC game isn't? In this rendition, you're in charge of a campsite and it's your job to furnish it. You craft your furniture with crafting materials, which you get from the animals around the campsite in exchange for fruits, bugs, and fish. This is their only purpose as you can't sell them for bells. The more you level up, the more animals and furniture become available for your campsite. Your house in this game is a camper, which you can upgrade to make it bigger or have a second floor.

    The game's premium currency is abundant at the beginning, but if you're impatient you'll burn through it. That being said, if you're a fan of the series, you won't mind waiting a day or two for certain items to be completed - it's a lost less annoying then Nook's closing down for a day.

    The animals definitely have less personality than a full game, I'm noticing phrases get repeated quite often. It's a mobile game and I'm not surprised. What was a pleasant surprise was the little cut-scenes that happen sometimes after you fulfill an animals request. I won't spoil anything, but these are downright adorable and fun when they pop up.

    The game may not be for everyone, but it's a great placeholder until we get a full game for the Switch whenever that may be.    … Expand
  8. LittleL
    Nov 26, 2017
    3
    I grew up playing animal crossing, i remember being a little kid and begging my parents to buy the GameCube version at a toys r us, i wanted this game to be great...but its painfully average and not the animal crossing i grew up playing. I realize its a spin off but it honestly feels like a completely different game with the animal crossing skin tossed on it.

    Seasons don't change and it    I grew up playing animal crossing, i remember being a little kid and begging my parents to buy the GameCube version at a toys r us, i wanted this game to be great...but its painfully average and not the animal crossing i grew up playing. I realize its a spin off but it honestly feels like a completely different game with the animal crossing skin tossed on it.

    Seasons don't change and it doesn't run on real time. Excluding the other 2 spin offs all animal crossings did this. It gave AC its magic and made you feel like you were living out your own virtual life which this game does not do at all, when i play this i feel like im playing a mobile game to pass time instead of actually enjoying myself. Adding in microtransations only makes things worse. Anyone whose played a real animal crossing game knows the endless grinding that needed to take place in order to get anywhere in the game, here you can bypass it simply by paying real world money.

    The bottom line here is if you removed the animal crossing skin your left with a boring "do this collect that" phone game that is nothing like the originals. I would rather pay 10 dollars for a simple remake of the gamecube version and be able to play that on the go over this.

    While this may be a average phone game at its core, its a bad animal crossing game that i have no intent on playing again.

    My final rating for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is a 3/10    … Expand
  9. XxsonicshinobiX
    Nov 22, 2017
    6
    okay i'm going out on a limb here. i have been watching this game like a hawk, but okay this "animal crossing" game or grind-athon you have to do this anyoing quests to at least get frends. i gave this game a fair chance, I WAS HYPED FOR THIS GAME but just shot down when i got to the meat of the game #ripanimalcrossing this game is okay i say this diserves a 6
  10. Techbane
    May 31, 2018
    3
    The differences are subtle and sinister in nature, but this isn't the Animal Crossing you know and love -- it's FarmVille wearing a cuddly animal friend skin to mask its avaricious intents. There's no world generation, no actual player interaction, no unique animal populations, no creative outlets for town tunes or clothing; instead there are a series of resource harvesting zones withThe differences are subtle and sinister in nature, but this isn't the Animal Crossing you know and love -- it's FarmVille wearing a cuddly animal friend skin to mask its avaricious intents. There's no world generation, no actual player interaction, no unique animal populations, no creative outlets for town tunes or clothing; instead there are a series of resource harvesting zones with regenerative timers to deliver things to animals (for which you have limited storage space; expandable with premium currency) to earn materials to craft furniture (and wait for that to be built, or remove the wait with premium currency) to impress other animals and get them to move in. Your one and only creative outlet is furniture arrangement. You can trade resources with friends, but only by offloading things you don't want into market stalls; you can't post or field specific resource requests. K.K. Slider makes his appearance as a limited-availability talking prop obtained for $12.50 of premium currency, with all of 3 lines of dialogue and no music to play for you. There's even the classic "pester 5 friends to access the premium zone" system (or just pay premium currency for every visit).

    Animal Crossing was never about powergaming so it's hard to look at all the wait timers and say they ruin everything on their own, but once you strip out the random generation, exploration, and creativity aspects and constantly needle players about how their lives can be improved by just paying more money (even in the incidental dialogue of the animal characters), you've corrupted what was once an enjoyable unwinding activity into something far more hypocritical and transparently capitalistic in nature.

    TL;DR: It's literally FarmVille with an Animal Crossing skin. AND NOW LOOTBOXES!    … Expand
  11. LRDR
    Nov 26, 2017
    1
    This is not Animal Crossing. This is a loveless grinding simulator without any of the creative freedom of the original games.
    I don't understand how anyone can enjoy this repetitive microtransactionfilled mess.
  12. Adobeygo
    Mar 14, 2018
    0
    Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been the popular game for my son because he like everything with cartoon and nature. And he also follows another simulation game: Wonderful Island. Anyway, two both are very interesting. If you has child, just let him or she play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp or Wonderful Island!
  13. rryo
    May 5, 2019
    2
    god, they made my childhood game such a drag. this game isnt too bad, it's just insultingly boring and such a disappointment to me as a fan. where do i start? the animals in this game lack any kind of personality at all. just "oh im sporty and im cute-sy." its as dry as cardboard. everyone is just too nice and predictable its bleak. in the older versions, the animals had the mentalgod, they made my childhood game such a drag. this game isnt too bad, it's just insultingly boring and such a disappointment to me as a fan. where do i start? the animals in this game lack any kind of personality at all. just "oh im sporty and im cute-sy." its as dry as cardboard. everyone is just too nice and predictable its bleak. in the older versions, the animals had the mental capacity to express human emotion, like anger. it was fun when i pissed them off and they said something hilariously rude. it felt like i was actually getting to know someone and i just dont get that in this new game.

    the map sucks too. exploring the open world and wondering around used to be an important element of this game. now you get a map, you click somewhere, you get a loading screen, and youre there. wheres the fun in that? they literally just stripped this game of what used to make it so good and that to me is just insulting.

    the older games were a much better creative outlet too but this game is SO limited in that aspect. its all gone. everything is so dry, repetitive and in a way... sad. its like i just log in the game once in a while to get random free things from the animals in my camp, only to question why i need the materials and bells in the first place as this game just fails to make me care about anything about it.    … Expand
  14. MintyEthan
    Mar 21, 2020
    5
    Kind of **** that it’s only one island per switch, that doesn’t work with a shared family
  15. Cream147
    Nov 24, 2017
    7
    It's a decent little mobile game, and it has given me a taste of Animal Crossing that I desperately needed. I can't see me playing this in a month though, it just doesn't have the depth required for that sticking power I don't think. Roll on Animal Crossing Switch.
  16. RafaelDB464
    Dec 10, 2017
    7
    Simple but cute game that keeps me having some decent fun for a while. i gotta thank this game to make me wanna try Animal Crossing on 3DS and i'm loving it

    Thanks Pocket Camp
  17. Hendin
    Dec 24, 2017
    9
    This is a super fun game to play, and its free. Its super easy to edit and talk to animals, in this game and its just beautiful to play.
  18. FAtttkid
    Jan 6, 2018
    5
    Game gets boring after having some animals in your camp. Nothing to do. Could be better if servers ran faster and more features to enjoy.
  19. Dsros96
    Nov 30, 2019
    5
    This game brings the Animal Crossing world into your mobile phone. It's cute and beautiful but it's repetitive and in some moments it's just asking for microtransactions.
  20. Parkbird
    Dec 11, 2019
    9
    User, who played previous game, feel interesting in this mobile Pocket camp!
  21. BambiRue
    Apr 20, 2020
    8
    Simple fun.

    This is basically animal crossing lite or a mini version of animal crossing. No, it has less to do and see than the main games, but it is a free mobile game so what did you expect? It does fall into the traps that other mobile games do with a heavy amount of in-game purchases, but the game is totally playable without them and most of the purchases are for cosmetic things    Simple fun.

    This is basically animal crossing lite or a mini version of animal crossing. No, it has less to do and see than the main games, but it is a free mobile game so what did you expect?

    It does fall into the traps that other mobile games do with a heavy amount of in-game purchases, but the game is totally playable without them and most of the purchases are for cosmetic things or to speed up things that take IRL time to complete.

    Overall it is just really harmless and an OK into to animal crossing if you aren't already familiar with the series.    … Expand
  22. Azzytap
    Apr 26, 2020
    7
    It is fun for a while but gets very boring after you fill your camp with characters. Around LV 50 you will have nothing to do anymore.

    But a lot can be forgotten because it is a free mobile game. There isn’t much to explore but no duh it is for a phone they can’t have a lot. They also have many more characters feature than I expected and due to the mobile format there are events that    It is fun for a while but gets very boring after you fill your camp with characters. Around LV 50 you will have nothing to do anymore.

    But a lot can be forgotten because it is a free mobile game. There isn’t much to explore but no duh it is for a phone they can’t have a lot. They also have many more characters feature than I expected and due to the mobile format there are events that routinely give out new furniture and clothing to collect.

    Ain’t it sad I’m giving the mobile FTP PTW version of the game a better score than the newest entry to the series?    … Expand
  23. Big_Ravioli
    May 23, 2020
    3
    In Tom Nook's latest money making scheme, you are forced to pay real life money in order to have fun. Which is also true about the other games, since you have buy the game, but since this one is a mobile game it's bad.
  24. Francine98
    Jun 20, 2020
    10
    It's a good mobile game to enjoy on the go and I love the details and the camp
  25. AsrielD31
    Oct 28, 2020
    7
    Графика приятна, особенно для мобилок. Сюжет типичен для серии AC. В игре достаточно сильно проявляется донат, ведь есть задания которые требуют определённую мебель, которая получается только донатом.
    Как иронично, что игра при старте пишет, что она "free-to-start", а не "free-to-play".
    Игра затягивает своей простатой, но в то же время может быстро наскучить.    Графика приятна, особенно для мобилок. Сюжет типичен для серии AC. В игре достаточно сильно проявляется донат, ведь есть задания которые требуют определённую мебель, которая получается только донатом.
    Как иронично, что игра при старте пишет, что она "free-to-start", а не "free-to-play".
    Игра затягивает своей простатой, но в то же время может быстро наскучить.
  26. Artem_0w0
    Nov 24, 2020
    10
    Отличная игра! Мне она понравилась,
    В игре очень мало доната и прочих микро транзакций. Для тех кто не играл в игру, в ней вы должны строить и развивать свой лагерь.
  27. Adasc2906
    Dec 15, 2021
    8
    I played this game for a bit and if you don't own new leaf or horizons then it's fine i guess

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#95 Best iOS Game of 2017
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#2 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2017
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#18 Most Shared iOS Game of 2017

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. GameGrin
    Dec 14, 2021
    70
    Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is a fun and cute game for everyone willing to either pay up or be patient. Expecting this game to give you more than a decorating sim is simply a mistake.
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  2. Cubed3
    Mar 26, 2018
    60
    Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has a lot going for it and does a lot right. It has some elements that looks really promising and can take the whole franchise in exciting new directions in the future. However, a lot of the soul of the franchise has been removed by becoming too punctual and predictable. The player knows exactly everything that is going to happen at exactly every time of the day.
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  3. CD-Action
    Feb 8, 2018
    55
    Pocket Camp is worse than main renditions of Animal Crossing in every aspect. Nintendo took a great franchise and taught it nasty mobile habits. [01/2018, p.51]
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