With the addition of Happy Home Paradise and the gigantic 2.0 free update, Animal Crossing: New Horizons features a total of 413 different villagers that can be recruited to players’ islands or have dream vacation homes created. New Horizons originally had 391 villagers at launch, and six Sanrio crossover characters were added in the 1.9.0 update. The 2.0 update has contributed to New Horizons’ massive villager roster by adding 16 more villagers, bringing the number up to 413.
Part of what makes Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ villager list so long is that it includes all 333 villagers that were in Animal Crossing: New Leaf at launch. A whopping 100 of Animal Crossing: New Leaf's villagers were all-new additions to the series, due in part to the new deer and hamster animal species the game brought with it. The Welcome amiibo update, similar in scope to the New Horizons 2.0 update, added 14 more new villagers and brought 46 back from previous titles.
By comparison, Animal Crossing: New Horizons added very few new villagers, with only eight at launch. For the 2.0 update, 16 new villagers were added to the game, but half were returning from older games. Although New Horizons has by far the largest villager roster compared to past Animal Crossing games, there seems to have been more focus placed on bringing back older villagers. Still, the total number of villagers in the Animal Crossing universe is actually 488, leaving 75 absent from New Horizons.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update added 16 villagers to the game. Of these, Ione the squirrel, Petri the mouse, Quinn the eagle, Shino the deer, Marlo the hamster, Cephalobot the octopus, Sasha the rabbit, and Tiansheng the monkey are entirely new to the Animal Crossing series. Like New Horizons’ other villager newcomers before them, such as Raymond the cat and Audie the wolf, these characters have quickly become fan favorites. To get these new Animal Crossing villagers, players can try their luck with the Series 5 amiibo card packs, although they have also been added to the mystery tour islands and as potential campsite visitors.
The other eight villagers added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the 2.0 update are returning for the first time since either the original Animal Crossing game or its Japan-exclusive expansion with e-Reader functionality. They are Rio the ostrich, Zoe the anteater, Ace the bird, Faith the koala, Roswell the alligator, Frett the dog, Azalea the rhino, and Chabwick the penguin. Like the all-new villagers, these returning characters can be found on mystery tour islands, as campsite villagers, or in the Series 5 amiibo card packs.
Happy Home Paradise is New Horizons’ last DLC, meaning the 75 missing villagers likely won’t make it into the game. Most of the missing villagers’ last series appearance was in the Animal Crossing e-Reader expansion game in Japan. The only exceptions to this are Champ the monkey and some special collaboration characters. Some of these characters were added to New Leaf’s Welcome amiibo update as references to other Nintendo games, and could move in to the player’s town by scanning certain amiibo. These included villagers based on Wolf Link, Ganon, Medli, and even Epona from across the Legend of Zelda series, and squirrels based on Callie and Marie from Splatoon. Inkwell the octopus was another Splatoon-inspired villager, and the Felyne from the Monster Hunter series could also move in with the right amiibo.
The most unique of these collaboration characters, however, aren’t from games at all. Holden was a jock hamster created in collaboration with Fueki, a Japanese stationary company. Filly, the normal horse, was part of a collaboration with 7-Eleven. Neither of these villagers could move in to the player’s town, but could sell exclusive items based on their store of origin. While it would have been nice to see the Nintendo-themed characters make a return, villagers like Holden and Filly weren’t likely to return to begin with. After the 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons has 413 villagers.
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