2020's Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch has been nothing short of a critical and commercial success. However, popularity almost always comes with its fair share of problems. In New Horizons' case, it comes in the form of imitators. In a particular, a fake Animal Crossing game has popped up on the Microsoft Store. Beware of the Fake Animal Crossing Game The fake Animal Crossing game is literally just a game about helping animals cross busy city streets.
Being exclusive to the Nintendo Switch, New Horizons has had players on other platforms begging for a port. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon. But, this hasn't stopped others from attempting to con interested players.
Perhaps the biggest con of them all is the fake Animal Crossing game listed on the Microsoft Store.
The game, which is listed as Animal Crossing New Horizons on the Microsoft Store, is currently being sold for $2.99 and couldn't be any more different from the Switch-exclusive title. Instead of having you create your own paradise, the fake Animal Crossing game has you helping farm animals who have escaped to cross the city streets safely and avoid being run over by cars.
According to the game's description the Microsoft Store, it has "5 different characters" with "difficulty increasing" and "table of top scores".
In any case, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to tell that the fake Animal Crossing game is not an Xbox or PC port of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. But, even though the game is an obvious fake, Microsoft doesn't seem interested in de-listing it anytime soon.