Villager Popularity Tier List

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released globally on 20th March 2020, exclusively for Nintendo Switch. The game was initially announced at E3 2019 via a Nintendo Direct.

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There are 397 villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This includes 35 species of animals, with eight different personalities. However, players can only have up to 10 villagers living on their island at any given time.

This includes both the initial set of villagers that are available when you start the game and additional villagers that can be encountered through various means such as amiibo cards or randomly visiting other players' islands. Each villager has their own unique personality, appearance, and preferences, which makes them all special in their own way.

Our Animal Crossing Tier Lists are ordered on your monthly votes. Each month you will get a set amount of votes (varies depending on the size of the tier list). The tier list updates automatically at the end of each month at UTC 12am. The clock above will adjust to your timezone.

Rank messages will tell you how much an Animal Crossing Villager/Candidate has moved up or down since the previous month. If 2 Villagers/Candidates have the same amount of votes, then whichever was higher the previous month will be ranked higher. Your votes will reset each month automatically. If you'd like to see how many votes a particular Villager/Candidate received, click the orange vote icon and you'll be able to see individual votes in the popup.

Clicking any of the filters will automatically sort all tier lists to only display the selected. For example if you click the "deer", then the tier list will only display Deer Villagers in order of highest votes. Feel free to use the search bar to quickly search for your favourite Villager's position!