Animal Crossing: New HorizonsCan a game take care of us? And do we want it to? Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height, the game averaged one million copies sold per day, as players sought comfort, escape, and a virtual means of connection. In this book, game scholar Noah Wardrip Fruin, isolated with his family by both lockdown and