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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete

Released 25 October 2017 Developer Nintendo

A phone version of Animal Crossing in which you decorate a campsite, gather materials, fish, craft furniture and make friends with animal characters who visit. It started in 2017 as a free game that needed Nintendo's servers and sold extras; since 2 December 2024 it has been Pocket Camp Complete, a paid game that runs mostly offline and sells nothing further. It suits younger children and families who like gentle decorating games.

Money health FairPay clearly, know the ceiling
Addictive design None0 of 5 — counts the hooks designed in
Average price A$19.99Apple App Store (AU)
Spending ceiling Has a ceilingEverything costs A$19.99
Australian rating ACBGClassification of the original free game, 25 October 2017

How it makes money

Fair: pay clearly, know the ceiling

Pocket Camp Complete is a one-off purchase of A$19.99 on the Apple App Store, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions. It replaced the free-to-play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, which closed on 28 November 2024. The original made its money from Leaf Tickets (a currency bought with real money that shortened waiting times and bought 'fortune cookie' random items), limited-time furniture and monthly subscription plans from US$2.99 to US$7.99. Complete drops all of that; it launched at US$9.99 for its first two months before rising to US$19.99.

How you pay

  • Editions

    A paid re-release of a game that used to be free: launched on 2 December 2024 at US$9.99 for two months, then US$19.99. Existing players could transfer their save data, and some collaboration items, such as the Sanrio collection, were not carried over.

    minor part of the game
  • Pay once

    Pocket Camp Complete costs A$19.99 on the Australian App Store (22 October 2026). The app description says it keeps the gameplay 'without additional in-game purchases', and the store lists no in-app purchases or subscriptions.

Used to, but no longer

  • Loot boxesremoved

    Fortune cookies, sold for 50 Leaf Tickets or 5,000 Bells, each held 10 limited-edition items of varying rarity. Nintendo withdrew the game from Belgium from 27 August 2019 over loot-box concerns. In Complete, fortune cookies are bought with earned Complete Tickets, not real money.

  • Wait or payremoved

    Crafting and other waits ran on real-time timers, and Leaf Tickets could be spent to skip them.

  • FOMO timersremoved

    Fortune cookies and seasonal furniture were typically available for a limited time, which kept players buying and checking in during events.

  • Free-to-playremoved

    The original Pocket Camp (October 2017 to 28 November 2024) was free to download and made over US$250 million in player spending by November 2021. It was replaced by the paid Complete version on 2 December 2024.

  • Pity timerremoved

    Each fortune cookie bought earned a stamp, and a full card of 10 stamps could be swapped for a chosen item from that cookie's set; buying five at once gave a bonus stamp.

  • Game currencyremoved

    Leaf Tickets could be earned in play or bought through the app store, and were used to shorten timers, craft without raw materials and buy event furniture and fortune cookies. Complete has no purchasable currency; events award Complete Tickets instead.

  • Always onlineremoved

    The free version needed Nintendo's servers and was switched off on 28 November 2024. Complete keeps save data on the device and does not need a constant connection, only occasional ones for the Nintendo Account, time updates and downloads.

  • Subscriptionremoved

    From November 2019 the original sold monthly plans: the Happy Helper Plan at US$2.99 a month and the Furniture and Fashion Plan at US$7.99, which also gave five fortune cookies a month; a third, the Merry Memories Plan, followed in January 2022. Their features were folded into Complete.

What it costs

Price: A$19.99 · everything A$19.99

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Pocket Camp Complete
Paid, offline-capable version with no in-app purchases; launched at US$9.99 for two months		 Apple App Store (AU) · iOS A$19.99 Oct 2026

Store prices change often and sales are common; we record the regular price on the date shown.

Reviews from across the web

What the critics said

69Metacritic
Metascore
  • 7/ 10

    Shacknews

    Loren Chandler · 21 December 2024 · iOS

    Said Complete bundles the old subscription features into one purchase but is largely unchanged from 2017, with thin new social features, so returning players will find little new while newcomers may enjoy it.

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Age ratings & content

What's in it

The rating boards list no content warnings for this game beyond notices such as in-game purchases or online play.

Classification

ACBG

Australian Classification · record

Classification of the original free game, 25 October 2017

Interactive elements: Online interactivity

Age ratings judge content (violence, language, gambling themes), summed up in the content labels above. They say little about how hard a game pushes spending — that's what the money badges are for. About rating boards

Safety & parental controls

Who can talk to your child, and what can they buy?

  • No chat
  • No contact with strangers
  • No user-made content
  • Needs an online account

Complete needs a Nintendo Account and occasional internet connections, but not a constant one, and has no chat. Other players appear through the Whistle Pass, which shows players you have registered, and through Camper Cards that you scan to trade and collect; you cannot create custom designs in the app, only use ones downloaded from New Horizons. The original free game also let random players visit your campsite. The App Store label for Complete lists contact details (name, email, address, phone), game content and a user ID as linked to your account.

Who makes it

The company behind it, and its track record

Nintendo

Developer and publisher · Kyoto, Japan · founded 1889

  • Labour dispute

    Labour dispute

    US National Labor Relations Board, 2022: unfair-labour-practice charge by a fired contract tester settled for $25,910 plus union-rights notices.
  • Shut down paid games

    Shut down games people paid for

    Nintendo, March 2023 and April 2024: closed the Wii U and 3DS eShops, then ended online play for 3DS and Wii U software.
  • Competition law

    Competition-law action

    European Commission, October 2002: fined Nintendo €149 million for colluding with distributors to block cheaper cross-border sales (1991 to 1998); reduced to €119.2 million by the EU Court of First Instance in April 2009.
  • Publishes odds

    Publishes drop odds

    Nintendo, August 2019: said it would require drop-rate disclosure for paid random items in Switch games.

Latest on the record

  1. Court case

    Brazilian first-instance court ordered R$5 million in loot-box damages, subject to appeal

    Brazil Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Technical Note 55/2026)
  2. Game preservation

    Nintendo replaced Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp with a paid offline version

    Eurogamer
  3. Game preservation

    Nintendo closed the Wii U and 3DS eShops and later ended their online play

    Nintendo

Nintendo: full profile and track record →

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Platforms & release

Where you can play it

PlatformReleasedStore
iPhone and iPad
Free-to-play original from October 2017; paid Pocket Camp Complete from 2 December 2024		 25 October 2017 Store page
Android phones and tablets
Free-to-play original from October 2017; Complete is also available on Android (Pocket Gamer); price not confirmed		 25 October 2017 —

Further reading

Facts last checked 22 October 2026. Sources: en.wikipedia.org, apps.apple.com, itunes.apple.com, www.classification.gov.au, www.metacritic.com, www.shacknews.com, www.pocketgamer.com, opencritic.com. Spotted something wrong? Send a correction.