Highlights
- A fan-created Animal Crossing sequel concept called “Discovery Cruise” introduces a cruise ship as a central location, with islands acting as external social hubs.
- The cruise ship in Discovery Cruise would dock at existing customized islands from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, allowing players to claim those islands as their own by paying bells.
- Trade and exchange of items would be a central theme in the sequel concept, with ports available for players to interact and visit each other’s ships and islands.
An Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan creates a unique sequel concept that would take place on a cruise ship. The intro to Animal Crossing: New Horizons has the player character arrive at the island by seaplane, but this sequel idea would introduce a cruise ship to the island chains.
Before Animal Crossing: New Horizons, most titles focused on building up and maintaining a village. Animal Crossing: New Horizons focuses on building up a vacation island, with the concept being revisited with many islands in Happy Home Paradise. Beyond the main island that Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can customize in many ways, they can create dream homes for different characters in the DLC. Focusing on the many Animal Crossing islands that already exist, this player has made an interesting sequel idea that wouldn’t abandon them.
Reddit user Amb97survivor recently shared their Animal Crossing sequel concept called “Discovery Cruise.” Similar to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Discovery Cruise would utilize islands as external social hubs, while the cruise ship would act as a central location. The cruise ship could dock at islands, including those already customized in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Should a player like a particular island, they’d be able to claim it after paying an undisclosed number of bells. Beyond these islands, the cruise ship would welcome new Animal Crossing characters daily, and rotating shops would provide goods that the player may need.
Stepping up his role as an occasional New Horizons island visitor, Gulliver is captain of the ship in the fan-created Discovery Cruise. Tom Nook returns in Amb97survivor’s sequel concept, owning the cruise ship and various islands that players may visit. With trade being a central theme in Animal Crossing, Amb97survivor’s sequel idea also features ports that allow players to exchange items. This would presumably be an online aspect of the New Horizons sequel. Though it wasn’t elaborated on, it’s likely that Animal Crossing fans would be able to visit each other’s ships and islands alike. Amb97survivor’s Animal Crossing sequel would allow the player to choose five characters and five shops to become permanent residents on the cruise ship.
Just like Animal Crossing: New Horizons had islands for players to customize, this sequel concept could let them create their dream cruise ships. Because Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold so well, it’s likely to see a sequel in the future. Even though Amb97survivor sees cruise ships as the next great Animal Crossing advancement, it’s unclear what a potential genuine sequel would look like.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Switch.