How often have you been playing NH?

I got the game on launch day and haven't missed a day yet.

However, how much I play on any given day varies. Sometimes, when I'm burnt out on the game, it's around 30 minutes to an hour, other times I'm on the thing for most of the day. It just depends how I'm feeling and what I fancy doing with the game at that point in time (most of the time it's fishing or catching bugs or trying to get the NPC items I haven't got yet, rather than designing?)

At this moment in time it's "we're very much in the game's slump period, so I'm not feeling the greatest of motivation to play it, and I fancy tackling my backlog of other Switch games until later this year when the more substantial stuff comes out... but at the same time I'm trying to redesign my island" so I'm going between the two extremes!
 
I've been playing since April 3rd last year when I got my coral switch lite.

I've been bored this May & June and only logged in for a few minutes to do my mailing to friend's wishlists & talk to a couple of villagers. At least starting last month I have a reason to play: getting the giraffe stags and other creatures for the models.

But I'm hoping we'll have a major update soon cuz catching bugs for me is not as fun as fishing but damn my completionist compulsion, I just gotta get ALL the models even if it takes me a long time lol.
 
I was playing for hours daily when I got it in April last year until around December and stopped. I picked it up around February for Festivale and then stopped and only played it when friends needed items.

I started playing again but it's only for an hour or two around for one or twice a week. I still enjoy it and still taking time with decorating.
 
I swing in and out of playing it.

When I first bought the game I played it daily for a long time and I really enjoyed it. Slowly though, as I started to feel like my island was a little more "done" I found myself playing less and less. I tend to come back around the holidays so that I can re-decorate my island, collect the new DIYs/furniture items, and maybe play through the holiday if it's one I enjoyed. I think this year I'll replay Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Toy Day but that's it. I'm mainly excited to decorate though now that I'm not waiting to get the DIYs and I kept some decorations in storage.

For August I'll probably be a little more active than normal depending on if Camp Belltree has any events requiring me to use the game and also because of the fireworks! Otherwise it was getting to the point where I was checking in maybe once a week, probably less, just because I haven't been interested in playing games all that much. I've been much more into sewing and reading at the moment but when I am playing my Switch more it's not tricky to hop onto Animal Crossing since I have it downloaded but usually I just check the shops and then close the game... I don't even really talk to my villagers, pick weeds, or fish or anything. 😅
 
Just recently, it's been either for a few hours or not at all. I'm in the final stages of designing my island, and I keep holding out for updates that might feature new items for certain areas. Most of my game time is otherwise spent trying to obtain villager photos.
 
I stopped playing November of last year. This is a stark contrast with NL which I played for three straight years.
 
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I hadn't played in months, aside from loading up the game to participate in the recent Bell Tree World Championships and Celebrating Diversity forum events which required them.

I picked it back up this week for Camp Bell Tree and have been trying to make progress through the time I missed. My island is back in January so I'm needing to do stuff like Festivale, collect the Mario items they released in March, get some of this years' wedding items, etc.
 
I got it at launch, played it everyday obsessively - I spent all day playing it, often stayed up all night playing it by constantly trading with others from this forums and hosting giveaways. (I live in Australia so everyone was only awake in the middle of my night)

I seriously was addicted and it consumed my life. It got less extreme after the first two months, but I still played everyday for hours. Somehow never could finish my island. I stopped playing in June 2020, which is unfortunate because I really like the wedding furniture.

I think what stopped me is how I used trading too much that I stopped needing to check nooks shop to fill out my catalogue, people stopped being interested in my giveaways so I stopped putting in that effort, (was too bad, I really enjoyed doing it) and I was a bit burnt out with decorating my island. I took a long break, played it a little bit before Christmas then didn’t play it until this July. Now I play it everyday as to complete my island and complete the things I didn’t, like the museum. Now I’m trading again and using this forum daily. I once again feel the need to play!

I’m totally okay that I put the game down. Nintendo’s games are crazy expensive, but 110% every cent I spent on this game was worth it. I’m a huge animal crossing fan, and am used to putting the game down for a long time and coming back to it. It doesn’t mean I love the game any less. I’m completely satisfied with what I’ve got from the game.
 
Until around early July, I played every single day since I started (which was March 22nd), and I would grind like crazy until around last August so I could pay off my debt and be rich relatively quickly. Ever since I paid off my last debt I've been worrying more about finishing the museum and island design, so far I'm very close to being perfect with both. However, me playing this much has built up to me having massive burnout so now I only play about once a week to check on my villagers and get rid of any weeds, and if I'm really in the mood I'll go to a nook miles island to try and get a bug I need (6 nook miles islands later and I still haven't caught a blue weevil yet)
 
I can't really remember the last time that I booted it up and legit saved any of my progress. Some days I just power it one, realize that nothing is going on and shut it off. It doesn't help that the the day I have the most time to play it is during Sunday so having a visiting npc doesn't happen and sometimes the shops are already closed. I could TT, back or forward, but right now there isn't a lot compelling me to want to do that.

When I first got the game, like legit the first week I played a good bit. Even with me having a hellish covid-work schedule, I found time to play it for an hour or more every day or other. That gradually dropped to 15 minutes or so with an occasional hour or so when I decided to get back into designing/terraforming, which I found out was the primary goal of the game after some time.

I believe us being on lockdown for months definitely helped make NH be an escape for a lot of people. But I did not have that option. So the game wasn't really a safe haven to me and I became quickly disappointed at the lack of quality updates and cut content and was more critical about it compared to others.

When I do log on and save my progress, it's like anywhere between 5-10-15 minutes.
 
I have played daily, with a few exceptions, since last April. I can say my enthusiasm for the game was strong through Toy Day, but as I completed major goals and updates slowed down, my daily play became more of a routine.

I like logging in to check on my villagers and watch my island change with the seasons, but I would say that without a MAJOR update next go, I probably will start to ween myself off. Small holiday items just don’t do it for me.
 
I’ve been playing it about twice a month for the last couple months, mostly to catch any fish/bugs I still need that are available during that month and to see what’s in the shops. My island is pretty much fully decorated and there aren’t any new items available that would inspire me to re-decorate any areas, so I’m just leaving it as it is. I find the villager dialogue really boring so I never talk to my villagers. Overall it’s kind of a bummer that New Horizons doesn’t have as much lasting appeal as New Leaf did for me.
 
I haven’t been playing much since
The camp Event started. In the activities that require the game , I open it up and play. However this past two weeks I haven’t gotten much playing. Today I played a bit, but not much.

I imagine I will play more once the event is over.
 
I played almost obsessively for the first few months in lockdown and the following summer, but then as my inspiration for my island drifted and i went back to school irl and began having more mental health issues i stopped playing completely for a while. i picked the game up again briefly around february but quickly went back into a hiatus until a week or so ago. i’m hoping that throwing myself back into the game, even if my progress is slow, will help me with some of my irl issues and give me something to look forward to
 
I play a little bit every day, but know I can take a break since I won’t lose villagers. That’s the only reason I don’t go back to NL, which I believe is a superior game. I just don’t want to deal with the stress of not being able to take a break and home placement again.
 
In the beginning...It was daily. It didn't take long to lose interest and now it's only every 4th or 5th day. I spend MUCH more time on New Leaf.
 
On break from school so I'm playing a lot right now, plus I'm pretty new to the game.
 
Since April 9th. I play most days for maybe 15 minutes just to maintain the island, update my dream, and fix some seasonal things.
 
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