A fan of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has successfully completed a quest to see all the game’s artwork in real life.
The game features 43 pieces of art which are based on real-life creations, including such pieces as Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus.
Players can acquire the art by purchasing it from Redd, a dodgy fox who specialises in bootleg art. Redd sells four pieces of art at a time, but four of them are fakes, so the player has to determine which is real and therefore worth buying.
Rather than settling for the video game equivalents, filmmaker and Animal Crossing fanMayuren Naidoodecided to travel the world and see all 43 pieces in person. Now, as reported byNintendo Life, Naidoo has finished his quest.
Naidoo posted a tweet on Sunday announcing that his journey lasted 16 months and took in 10 different countries spanning three continents. Within these countries, Naidoo visited 17 cities and a total of 29 museums to find and see the 43 pieces of art.
Naidoo also included a video montage in his tweet including footage of all 43 artworks, proving he completed the task.
in april 2022, i set the goal to visit all 43 artworks that appear in animal crossing: new horizons in real life…16 months, 3 continents, 10 countries, 17 cities and 29 museums later, i have seen…pic.twitter.com/jZIVWQzhNA
Animal Crossing: New Horizonswas released in March 2020 and has become an enormous success forNintendo, selling a total of 42.79 million copies as of August 01, 2025.
In November 2022 it was claimed that the game is thebest-selling video game of all time in Japan, selling 10.45 million copies there alone and surpassing the long-time record held by originalPokémonGame Boy titles Red and Green (10.23m).
