Nintendo confirms Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete release date for December 2024

With a hefty price tag

Marco Wutz | Oct 28, 2024

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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete will be released for iOS and Android on December 3, 2024, Nintendo confirmed. It will cost $9.99 USD in the first two months after launch thanks to a special discount, after which the price will be increased to $19.99 USD – quite the hefty price for the mobile space.

Pocket Camp Complete is a paid offline version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, a free gacha game that will end its service on November 28, 2024. Initially released in 2017, it brought the popular series’ cozy social simulation gameplay to mobile devices.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete will contain all content from the free game, strip out all microtransactions, and receive one year of support that includes new and free content. Users of the current game can transfer their save file over to the purchased product. You can prepare for this already by linking your Nintendo account to your game save, which will enable you to access it down the line.

Due to Pocket Camp Complete not requiring a constant online connection, some features will be adjusted compared to the original version, such as the ability to meet up with friends. In the paid version, players can scan a friend’s Camper Card, adding them to a list of registered users that can appear at a new location introduced in Pocket Camp Complete, Whistle Pass. Invited friends can appear there to provide souvenirs and support actions.

Players have one month to prepare for Pocket Camp’s end of service – and, potentially, say their farewells to their camp, in case they don’t plan on buying the paid version.

Published Oct 28, 2024|Modified Oct 28, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg