Nintendo and Microsoft have been pretty buddy-buddy lately, but just about anyone in the world would be able to tell you that Nintendo wouldn't just slip one of their best-selling first-party Nintendo Switch exclusives onto PC without so much as a word. Which is why the fact that Animal Crossing: New Horizons appearing on the Microsoft Store is so baffling. Using the official logo, name, and boxart of the official Nintendo game, this fake listing tries to imitate Animal Crossing's latest release. It even has an ESRB rating--E10+--and is available on mobile and HoloLens of all platforms.

Should you check "Animal Crossing: New Horizons"'s description, you'll find that it's even weirder: you need to help escaped farm animals cross a street to safety--definitely not typical Animal Crossing fare. Screenshots add to the entire bootlegged appearance by being ones for Crossy Animal Road, ripping off Crossy Road, yet another game, in the process. Coming from HugoStudioLab, you can get the game for just $2.99, but you'd be best off not supporting a weird mish-mash of stolen properties. Perhaps the most confusing part of all this is that Microsoft allowed the game onto their platform in the first place, and in the past four days of it being released, it still remains, without having been taken down.

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[smallissue]

This is nothing new; Google Play allowed several fake knock-offs in the past, also.

The past

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

The Microsoft game store is freaking terrible for Windows. The Xbox stuff is actually not that bad but the Windows games... most are trash.

Yea most stuff on the Microsoft Store is just ports of Mobile Games.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

"An animal farm has let its animals escape. Help them to cross the city without being run over."

Isabelle is kill?

Where were you when isabelle kill
i was at home eating dorito when phone ring
isabelle is kil
no

 

[James_]

The past

BRB, boutta play Super Bros Run

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

BRB, boutta play Super Bros Run

AMONG

 

[chrisrlink]

still waitng for that TM violation Lawsuit nintendo will send these idiots at this rate Nintendo should trademark the word Lawsuit and Cease and desist they use it so much

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

The Microsoft game store is freaking terrible for Windows. The Xbox stuff is actually not that bad but the Windows games... most are trash.

ONLY good thing they have on there is Cut the Rope. Other than that, even the Epic or Origin game stores are better than the Microsoft game store.

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AMONG

US

 

[raxadian]

Cut the Rope

Isn't that game over a decade old by now?

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

Isn't that game over a decade old by now?

Still somewhat good, though. I heard the devs are still making games to this very day!

 

[K3N1]

Hasbro edition stuffed animal crossing.

 

[raxadian]

Hasbro edition stuffed animal crossing.

That one requires a lot of money for each pony friend.

 

[DarthDub]

This reminds me of the time I played a Pokemon bootleg from the same store. It was kinda addicting too.

 

[Jonna]

I find the Nintendo title quite clever. For one, there are often place names with Crossing in the title. Also you see signs alerting you to where animals cross, like deer crossing. Finally, the game is about interactions and relationships, so the characters lives cross.

Also animals can get very cross.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

I find the Nintendo title quite clever. For one, there are often place names with Crossing in the title. Also you see signs alerting you to where animals cross, like deer crossing. Finally, the game is about interactions and relationships, so the characters lives cross.

English teachers be like

 

[Foxi4]

All things considered, the title is kind of fitting. It's a better description of this thing than it is of the original.

 

[Alex4nder001]

One person actually bought it lol

 

[Crazynoob458]

One person actually bought it lol
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oofs out of existence

 

[jeffyTheHomebrewer]

oofs out of existence

[LOUD WARNING]

 

[Bagel Le Stinky]

One person actually bought it lol
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Lol they rated 1 star when they thought it wasn’t even the game

 

[regnad]

English teachers be like

Amazing. I am in fact an English teacher.