Love Island Villa Recreated in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

A creative Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan has re-created the island villa from popular reality series Love Island within their village in the life simulation game. The massively popular life sim has been one of the most universally beloved games to release on the Nintendo Switch, quickly skyrocketing into the upper echelons of the console. Animal Crossing: New Horizons would rise to become the second best-selling game on the console with a staggering 47 million copies of the game sold since its 2020 launch. Now, one fan is paying tribute to a fan-favorite reality series in the game.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been home to plenty of creative and unique designs for many players and their personalized island resorts. Animal Crossing fans have used the extensive terraforming options and decorations to create stunning homages to a variety of media properties, including Princess Peach’s Castle and the Great Deku Tree in Animal Crossing. The game also features an in-depth clothing design system, allowing players to create shirts, hats, and whole outfits using a grid-art system. One fan is now showing off their Animal Crossing homage to a long-running reality series.

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Reddit user Small-Horse-6833 is showing off their unique idea for an Animal Crossing: New Horizons design on the game’s official subreddit. The design takes heavy inspiration from CBS reality romance series Love Island, re-creating the exterior of the villa complete with a large couch, pool, and ping pong table. The interior also looks to match the appearance of the Love Island villa, with a stunning re-imagining of the show’s bedroom and common areas. The user has also created custom posters to hang throughout the Animal Crossing villa, closely matching the show’s promotional material.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fan Creates Love Island Villa

The impressive Animal Crossing village design comes as the game has seen its first new updates in quite a while recently. June saw Nintendo roll out a new update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the first time in two years, pushing out several small updates and making multiple fixes to the game. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has particularly seen a suite of updates looking to optimize its performance on the newly-released Switch 2.

With Animal Crossing: New Horizons starting to receive new updates again, rumors have begun to swirl about the future of the franchise. Recent information has surfaced that suggests that Nintendo may be planning to announce a new Animal Crossing game soon, likely to be the first entry in the series on Switch 2. Rumors have suggested that the new Animal Crossing could be announced as soon as July during a Nintendo Direct. Animal Crossing fans should have lots to look forward to from the franchise in the near future.