Animal Crossing: New Horizons has some quirks when sharing a digital copy

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an excellent entry in Nintendo’s long-running social simulator series. But now that the franchise is on Switch, it has some weird quirks in how its ownership rights work that many players will want to know about. Most notably, if you are sharing a digital library across two Switch systems, you can play the game at the same time. But there are a number of significant caveats to keep in mind.

When the Switch Lite launched in September, I wrote about how sharing digital games between Switch systems works. The quick version is that you can play any digital game that belongs to your account on any Switch. But other accounts can only play your digital games on the system you designate as “Primary.” And that still works for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.