How Animal Crossing Gives Me a Sense of Control

More musings on Nintendo’s colorful slice-of-life simulator.

Matthew Maniaci

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Image credit: Matthew Maniaci. Animal Crossing: New Horizons © Nintendo

In the days since I first bought it, I’ve sunk over 100 hours into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For those of you unfamiliar, it’s a video game published by Nintendo wherein you create and cultivate an island full of animal residents while also catching bugs and fish for a museum…

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Matthew Maniaci

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.