Real-World Animals ACNH's Sequel Should Add As Villagers

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons didn’t add any new villager animal species, giving New Horizons' sequel ample opportunity to add new kinds of real-world animals. Although New Horizons didn’t introduce any new villager species, the game added 16 new villagers to the series. The previous game in the series, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, added hamster and deer villagers to the series for the first time.

With New Leaf’s additions, there are 35 different species of animal villagers that can be categorized in the Animal Crossing series. Some may overlap realistically, such as penguins, ostriches, ducks, eagles, and chickens all being different species of bird while a general “bird” is also its own villager species. But within the world of Animal Crossing, all these villagers have very distinct appearances from each other and are recognizable at a glance due to their very unique silhouettes and heights.

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While 35 different species can already seem like a lot, there are always more kinds of animals that villagers can be based on. Some animals are used as the basis for various Animal Crossing NPCs but haven’t yet been made into villagers, while other animals don’t appear as characters in the games at all. Whether the next Animal Crossing game is a direct sequel to the wildly successful New Horizons or simply another entry in the long-running series, there are plenty of animals that new villager species can be based on. There are so many possibilities, in fact, that fans have made their own Animal Crossing villagers based both on pre-existing species and entirely new ones. The cute style of the Animal Crossing games means almost anything can be made to work, opening