I can't stop playing Animal Crossing and it's ruining me - CNET

Commentary: The Switch game is good at keeping you hooked.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 13 million copies in just six weeks. .

In my Animal Crossing island?

I'm trying to get my island star rating up, and spent hours earlier in the week organizing miscellaneous monuments, lining beaches with tropical coconut trees, and decorating the highlands with shrubbery and flowers. .

The Switch game sold over 13 million copies in just six weeks.

The joys of this process are hard to describe to someone who hasn't played an Animal Crossing game before.

If you're the type of person who likes to commit to one single game for long periods of time, New Horizons is a dream.

Animal Crossing doesn't really have an end.

At a certain point, you're given an island rating (1 star) and tasked with improving it to attract more villagers.

So you can get a 5-star island, the highest rating on the scale, but does that mean you won Animal Crossing.

In some ways, it's not actually a game, more like an exercise in sculpting.

I designed a Zelda-inspired dungeon in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

Islands that looked like they were designed by Animal Crossing's actual development team.

I'm not a completionist, I like to enjoy the meat of a game and move on to the next.

I eventually got my island up to a 3-star rating, a pathetic achievement considering the amount of time sunk into the game.

As I restart the game, Nook informs me that I've now unlocked the Island Designer app on my phone

Essentially, he's telling me that now the game really begins. 

Animal Crossing: New Horizons really is a masterclass in keeping you hooked