Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
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.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA, read 5 September 2026.
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- Released
- 2015
- Developer
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- Unknown
- Download
- Not stated
The record
| First released | 1 January 2015 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platforms | Nintendo 3DS |
| Genres | Simulation |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q19749315, seeded 30 August 2026.
How long is Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer? How long to beat it
Total play time for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is about 60.2 hours to do everything, and around 11.8 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 11.8h | 52 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 27.4h | 27 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 60.2h | 6 |
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Where Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer sits on the grid
The grid places every game in the catalogue on measured axes rather than on an opinion. This is where Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer lands on each map it has the data for, with the share of the catalogue it beats on each axis.
- Year
- 83ahead of 41% of the catalogue
- Reach
- 30ahead of 72% of the catalogue
Percentiles are against the games that carry a reading on that axis, not the whole catalogue: counting a game with no figure as a zero would flatter everything that has one. How the grid works.
What readers say about Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
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Common questions about Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
What platforms is Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer on?
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is available on Nintendo 3DS. It first released in 2015.
Who made Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer?
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer was developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and published by Nintendo.
How long does it take to beat Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer?
about 11.8 hours for the main story, 27.4 hours with the main extras, 60.2 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.