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Soapbox: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Easily My Most Nerve-Racking Game Of 2020

Cute and calming, but there’s a catch.

If you’re a fan of nerve-shredding tension, there are plenty of video games that’ll get your pulse racing. Love a steep challenge? Why not test your reflexes against a rock hard shmup or grind through an intimidatingly expansive RPG? Want to give your grey matter a workout? There’s no shortage of mind-bending puzzlers, and there’s always Ring Fit Adventure if you want to build brawn as well as brains. Can’t stand being mollycoddled? The Souls games are just the ticket, dropping you in the deep end and letting you get on with progressing inch-by-inch through the world using trial and awful lot of error.

There was one game in 2020, though, that had my heart racing faster than any other: possibly the most friendly, approachable game of the year, in fact: Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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