Pocket Camp Complete Worth Buying?

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Pocket Camp Complete Worth Buying?

Sometimes we need a few minutes to sit and relax with a cozy game throughout the day. Pulling out your switch to play something like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, might be slightly too involved – but on your phone? That’s easy enough.

Lobo Isabelle and the player in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete.

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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete does cost money, but it’s a great way to tap into the Animal Crossing world for a few minutes while you’re waiting for anything. If you’ve played the free version, you probably already know if you want the complete version. However, with the free version losing service, you might be questioning whether you should start playing now.

Review

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, the player standing next to the van and Isabella in front of the camp sign.

We don’t have an official review for Pocket Camp, so we’ll give you an overview of our thoughts below.

Mobile games are a prime market for idle games and games that don’t take up too much of your time, purely because they’re meant to help you pass the time while you wait for something. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, thankfully, checks this box pretty well.

You can spend a handful of minutes on it and still feel like you did a decent amount – whether it’s visiting other islands, talking to your current campers, or completing quests. The quests, themselves, are actually pretty easy to complete and you really don’t need to go out of your way to do them.

This is, perhaps, one of the reasons that Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete works really well as a mobile game.

Unlike the free version, which is, unfortunately, no longer being maintained by Nintendo, this edition feels like a complete game. There are no microtransactions that subtly coerce you to spend more on the game than it’s worth.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, Goldie sleeping on a hammock in the camp.

There are different types of currency – Bells and Leaf Tokens – but you can’t spend any real-world money to gain either of them. Instead, you complete quests and do as you will in the world.

You have access to all the content you needed to be a Pocket Camp Club member to get, and there’s even more than what there was in the free version.

By all accounts, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete is a full game where you can experience every aspect of it without needing to dip into your bank account for microtransactions. The price of it, however, is frankly, absurd.

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If I didn’t get it on sale (with the help of an additional coupon) I would have never even considered buying it. $9.99 USD, for a mobile game, is a lot already. But $19.99 USD? Unthinkable. At least with microtransactions, you can kind of control how much you spend on a mobile game, even if it does lock you out of specific content or items.

Let’s say that price is no object to you, however, and look more at the actual content of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete. It feels like there’s a lot in this game – and without the tutorial, it would border on too much.

Thankfully, the tutorial is comprehensive and gradually introduces different elements so you don’t become overwhelmed. After that, you’re given pretty much free rein to do as you please.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, the campgrounds with Reese and Cyrus standing in the back, waiting on the player.

Despite Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete giving you a lot of freedom (relatively speaking), the goals you need to complete to gather your villagers gives you some pretty good direction and keeps you on track.

What I dislike, however, is that the game tells you that you can decorate your camp as you like to show off your personality. However, if you want a specific villager, they can request that you make and place down a specific piece of furniture before they’ll even think about visiting your camp.

Other than that, as a mobile game, it’s a good mobile game. It helps pass the time easily, you have a lot of content and things you can do, and if you so choose, you can spend the better part of an hour or two on it. If you’re giving it to a child to distract them, you also don’t have to worry about them spending all your money on things you didn’t want or need.

Cost

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, the Player Character and Isabella talking to Reese and Cyrus.

It’s challenging to justify putting money down for a mobile game, sometimes, especially when the price tag isn’t a few dollars. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete is going to cost $19.99 USD, and that’s before tax.

That price can come down slightly if your app store, like Google Play, is offering a coupon, but the chances of that happening are not extraordinarily high.

If you get the app before January 30, 2025 at 10 pm PT, it will only cost you $9.99.

Time Expenditure

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, the Player and Goldie making a smoothie.

There’s really no definitive way to beat Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. As a mobile game and as an Animal Crossing game, it is inherently designed to lean more into the endless side of things.

There are a few different markers you could use to determine your own endpoint, such as collecting all the villagers, decorating your camp exactly how you want, and so on. However, both of these goals can take you several weeks or months to complete, especially if you’re only spending a handful of minutes inside the game every day.

What Players Are Saying

Only If You Love Decorating – Rebecca Phillips

The best part of Pocket Camp is being able to decorate your camp with all the unique items (something that’s sorely lacking in New Horizons). Now that the microtransactions are gone, you can decorate to your heart’s content without spending more than $10 (or $20 after January 31), which is definitely worth the price if you’re going to spend a lot of time tweaking your camp to your liking.

Pocket Camp really lacks in the villager aspect, though. You have fairly basic interactions with the villagers, and they’re static, rather than freely walking around like in the main series games. But if you’re not too bothered about that and just want to go ham on decorating, I’d say it’s worth it.

Great… If You Like Animal Crossing Enough – Tallis Spalding

To put it simply, Animal Crossing is a fun game, but mobile games generally don’t see an extended amount of play, which means coughing up $20 to play is hard to justify. If you really like Animal Crossing and you find yourself on your phone more often than not, looking for things to do, it’s a good option.

The game is cozy and it has a great opportunity to customize your camp which, really, is what Animal Crossing is all about.

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