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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp C
Nintendo Co., Ltd. · 9,125 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 26 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
19 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Incomplete Game. After playing for awhile, the game loses all purpose. It’s so unnecessarily difficult to level up in Happy Home Academy, earn friendship points, and earn essence. I feel like it wouldn’t be much to have some type of online play available c…" - Bimpsonator
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"data"
9 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "please fix. please fix the login i lost 10+ of data and limited collab items and stuff i paid real money for that i will never be able to get back please let me log into my account it says when i log in that no data can be transferred is all my years o…" - Andreaorza100
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"playing"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Incomplete Game. After playing for awhile, the game loses all purpose. It’s so unnecessarily difficult to level up in Happy Home Academy, earn friendship points, and earn essence. I feel like it wouldn’t be much to have some type of online play available c…" - Bimpsonator
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"years"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
5
"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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"spent"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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"account"
8 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "please fix. please fix the login i lost 10+ of data and limited collab items and stuff i paid real money for that i will never be able to get back please let me log into my account it says when i log in that no data can be transferred is all my years o…" - Andreaorza100
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"nintendo"
7 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lost all progress.. GREAT game, but you have to save your progress in the weirdest and most extra way or you’ll lose everything if it ever gets undownloaded. Crazy that it doesn’t just link to your Nintendo account like it used to. I was a very high level and …" - alexisg64
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"been"
6 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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"animal"
6 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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"crossing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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"since"
6 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Complete version killed the mobile game. I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No onli…" - mwack17
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Incomplete Game
After playing for awhile, the game loses all purpose. It’s so unnecessarily difficult to level up in Happy Home Academy, earn friendship points, and earn essence. I feel like it wouldn’t be much to have some type of online play available considering the 20 dollar price tag. I want to keep playing, but I feel stuck at level 211 now. There really isn’t a point in buying unless they somehow balance out the “complete” version of the game
This app does not work offline. 100% fail.
If you’re interested in purchasing an app for your child to use offline, say for long trips etc, this isn’t it. It’s been an absolute fail for our needs unfortunately. Can’t comment on the game itself as it hasn’t functioned long enough to really know.
Charged without even signing in
Anyone else get charged over $20 without even signing into the app yet???
please fix
please fix the login i lost 10+ of data and limited collab items and stuff i paid real money for that i will never be able to get back please let me log into my account it says when i log in that no data can be transferred is all my years of data just gone because my phone deleted the game??? this is ridiculous
Game is not truly complete.
This game is not truly complete. They did not include all of the academy classes from the original game, so anyone who buys this game to start playing it will never realistically be able to complete the academy. It would take roughly 38 years which is totally unrealistic and unfair.
Lost all progress.
GREAT game, but you have to save your progress in the weirdest and most extra way or you’ll lose everything if it ever gets undownloaded. Crazy that it doesn’t just link to your Nintendo account like it used to. I was a very high level and I’m so frustrated I might just quit.
BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD🤬🤬
So and doesn’t have to update of the normal animal crossing I’m deleting it right now loser
Years of save data gone
Insane that when you delete the app all of your data is gone. Spent 6 years playing this game and will never play another Nintendo game again. I’m absolutely heartbroken.
No data transfer?!
I spent years and big bucks on this game just to come back to it and have it tell me after the update there’s no information that can be transferred from the pre update pocket camp. So you’re telling me I have to earn everything all over again and lose all the stuff I took so much time and money to get, and on top of that I have to pay another 20 DOLLARS just to find this out?! I had it linked to a Nintendo account because I created an account just for pocket camp… so what the heck is going on? HUGE let down.
Help
I was scrolling the through the App Store and accidentally pressed download now the game is trying to charge me when I pressed cancel download
Sad..
I’ve been playing this game for years and I went to update it a little while ago only to come back to it saying I don’t have an account. I’ve been signing in through Nintendo for about 3 or 4 years and it’s now telling me all progress is lost and or non existent. I’m really disappointed honestly because I’ve never been able to play the actual animal crossing because I don’t have a switch. This was actually really devastating lol. I was on about level 50 I had so many bells and outfits and my camp was absolutely beautiful and built with so many event things. I did not know that if we didn’t go and physically transfer our data, it would be completely lost. Is there anything I can do ? I tried singing in again today and the same thing :/ I’ve seen a lot of reviews saying the same thing and I’m absolutely heart broken that Nintendo themselves wouldn’t think about that factor. I will not be restarting or redownloading in fact because I have NEVER had such a popular game have such a bad issue. I’ve waited for so long for the official pocket camp only to be able to experience it..
Help!
After redownloading the app, it keeps telling “ you haven’t connected to the server for a long time. Pls try again after you’ve completed to the network once “. Happened on both of my iPhone 15 & 16, iOS 18.
I cant use this game!!
It kept saying can’t connect to the server… so sad
Needs a LOT of improvement, SEVERELY disappointed.
$20 for an app that doesn't save your data/give you access to your account when you delete the app is absurd. I usually don't write reviews but words can't describe how disappointed I am that I spent money on this app due to a lot of removed features that made animal crossing fun such as the market and being able to interact with friends. Not to mention how lazy the developers have gotten. Every month there is supposed to be an update where you get monthly cookies and furniture rotated out which was what made me keep playing. But I noticed that each month at the same time, it it always the same ones. February's cookies this year is the same as February's cookies last year, with not even 1 new cookie!! I understand that it would be a lot of work to make all new cookies every month every year... but not even 1 new cookie a month is seriously lazy. If you are making users pay $20 for this app at least push out some new content or introduce some new concepts inside the game instead of relying on nostalgia and the forced loyalty where you lose your account if you delete the game in order to keep your app alive. It is a horrible feeling to lose the spark and happiness of playing a game you once loved because corporations don't want to put in the work to keep customers happy. DO BETTER. 😐😐😐
“No transfer data”
I bought this game when it came out and already did the transfer back then. Played for a while and it worked just fine. Now, I’m coming to redownload the game and it’s saying there is no transfer data from my Nintendo account? I don’t understand how that’s possible if it was working when I got the game.
its great but you cant backup save data
cant give it 5 stars as if you delete the app all progress is lost
Scam?
I paid money for this and had my account transferred. Well it didn’t transfer it got deleted somehow even though it was backed up on my Nintendo account. Prior to me purchasing I had spent a good amount of time and money obtaining items for my camp and getting achievements. Now it won’t even save any new account I try to make since I have no other option. Ur start from scratch.
No controller support, No landscape support? C’mon.
C’mon Nintendo, it’s the 21st century, get with the times and add controller and landscape support. It’s ridiculous someone has to ask.
Forced online
It’s a offline game why keeping online verification ?
Please have better account storage
My phone offloaded my app and didn’t realize until it was too late, I lost my account and years of progress because my app wasn’t completely downloaded. Original pocket camp wasn’t like this so I’m very upset
Complete version killed the mobile game
I’ve been a big Animal Crossing fan since Game Cube days. I played the mobile version, I guess going on 6 years. While the new “Complete” version had some really cool changes initially, the overall game is dead for existing players. No online gameplay, no visiting friend’s campsites, no new events, very few opportunities to obtain essence, etc. I would’ve gladly kept paying the monthly subscription if it meant the game continued. Slapping “complete” on the game title truly reads, “lazy ending”. I’m sad to leave the game behind after the years and money spent on a once beautiful game. If y’all ever decided to continue the game, many players would gladly come back.
So disappointed
I’ve been playing pocket camp, on and off, for years. I’ve collected so much and spent a good bit of money in game. I found out it’s not free to download anyway, which is fine since I knew I already loved the game. Only to find out that ALL of my previous data no longer exists and cannot be connected to this new version. Years of collecting, playing, and my real hard earned money, gone. Starting from zero the game is incredibly overwhelming and irritating. And to top it off, we can’t even befriend players anymore? It’s sick. Can’t even purchase anything to give myself a good start. It’s like they’ve sucked the joy out of the game. I only wish I could get my money back from deleting it off my phone.
I miss the old app
When they shut down the old app, I was excited to see that they’d turned it into a full game that would be a one time purchase. It turns out, they erased my old data, and there’s nothing I can do to get that back. 100s of hours wasted, all of my seasonal items, just gone, and I have a start all over.
I thought, since I’ve spent money on the free to play app, surely I’ll be able to restore all of my progress. But I can’t. So that’s $40 on top of everything that has proofed into non-existence. I almost don’t want to play. I had so many campers that were friendship level 35+, I was level 205 on my camp. I had so many buildings and upgrades. And it’s all just gone??
If you’re finally transferring your data from the old game, it doesn’t have it anymore. You’ll have to start over.
I thought, since I’ve spent money on the free to play app, surely I’ll be able to restore all of my progress. But I can’t. So that’s $40 on top of everything that has proofed into non-existence. I almost don’t want to play. I had so many campers that were friendship level 35+, I was level 205 on my camp. I had so many buildings and upgrades. And it’s all just gone??
If you’re finally transferring your data from the old game, it doesn’t have it anymore. You’ll have to start over.
Animal Crossing
This game is not that fun, it is impossible to start up, and nothing makes sense. I was promised a relaxing island I got to design on, and then I can’t even walk through it! Animals are cute, but I thought they had houses! And personalities! They’re just cute designs walking around! It is boring and there’s just too much stuff. Worst 20$ I ever spent.
no new updates in six months :(
i’ve been playing since shorty after its release, and i can confirm that there hasn’t been ANY new items or collections since september! everything since then has been recycled and originally apart of the november 2024 - march 2025 updates. i’m so disappointed, especially since this game costs money. please do not abandon it!
It was good when it was live
We’ve been playing animal Crossing since the first game came out on the DS. I downloaded this game the first day it became available back in 2017. And I played religiously… I was very saddened when I found out monthly updates were going to be discontinued. But I paid the one time fee and played it for a bit, but now it’s no fun anymore. I’ve gotten everything I can get on the app so there’s no need to go and do the daily or monthly challenges. So I’m thinking I’m about to delete the app. I rarely play it anymore, if I’m going to play Animal Crossing, I do it on the switch.
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)