Best Animal Crossing games

748 duels later, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still #1 in the Animal Crossing ranking, with Animal Crossing: New Leaf close behind.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons sits at 1408 ELO points and wins 72% of its duels, edging out Animal Crossing: New Leaf by 68 points. The sharpest gap appears between ranks 2 and 3, where 103 ELO points separate Animal Crossing: New Leaf from Animal Crossing: City Folk. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer holds rank 4 at 1200 ELO, while Animal Crossing: Wild World rounds out the top 5 with 1185 ELO. At the bottom, two entries share the title Animal Crossing, with the lower one at 890 ELO winning only 4% of its duels, revealing a franchise split between celebrated releases and titles that failed to capture the community's enthusiasm.

The ranking draws on 748 duels from 58 players across 7 contenders, last updated on 12 October 2026. The figures reflect a community that has spoken clearly about its preferences within the franchise, with New Horizons maintaining its lead and the podium firmly established. If you have a favorite Animal Crossing game, add your voice to the ranking and help shape the results.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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