A new Animal Crossing edition of Monopoly is available for purchase

Animal Crossing New Horizons Board Game
Animal Crossing New Horizons Board Game (Image credit: iMore)

What you need to know

  • Nintendo has been branching out to introduce their IPs in other kinds of games.
  • A new Monopoly board with an Animal Crossing: New Horizons theme has surfaced online.
  • This new board allows players to sell resources and earn Nook Miles.

After rumors swirling around the internet, it's finally real. Nintendo and Hasbro have collaborated once again to make a new, special edition version of the classic property trading game, Monopoly. Except this time, it's got an incredibly endearing Animal Crossing: New Horizons theme.

With four adorable player tokens resembling different human island inhabitants, players can roll a special Nook's Cranny die alongside the regular six-sided die, allowing them to go around the board in classic Monopoly fashion. This time around, however, they'll be collecting resource tokens, such as bugs, fish, and fruit, instead of property. After all, it would be kind of mean to evict your fellow animal neighbors. Except with a net... right?

Another feature of this themed board allows players to collect skill cards after making their way around the Monopoly board, granting them a skill they can use throughout the rest of the game. It's a fun, simplified twist to the Monopoly formula, that any child over the age of eight can enjoy.

Will you be giving this Animal Crossing Monopoly game a try? Let us know in the comments!

Nadine Dornieden
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Nadine is a freelance writer for iMore with a specialty in all things Nintendo, often working on news, guides, reviews, and editorials. She's been a huge Nintendo fan ever since she got to pet her very own Nintendog, and enjoys looking at Nintendo's place in the video game industry. Writing is her passion, but she mostly does it so that she can pay off her ever-growing debt to Tom Nook. Her favorite genres are simulation games, rhythm games, visual novels, and platformers. You can find her at @stopthenadness on Twitter, where she'll more than likely be reposting cute Animal Crossing content.