Does your game feel finished?

[UmbreonRogue]

The museum, catalog, and DIYs aside, it definitely feels finished for me. My island is completed at this point with sporadic minor additions, the last major addition was an outdoor sauna last week, and I'm pretty satisfied with it as is.

 

[Hellfish]

I've actually fully remade my entire island after finishing it. It was nice for me to redo everything with new ideas and has pushed me over 500 hours played now ^-^

 

[coffee biscuit]

Nah no way, the game just came out less than 2 months ago. We have no idea how much content is coming, it could be a completely different game in a year or so for all we know. The game probably feels finished for people who time traveled a ton and rushed to get stuff done, so of course it's going to feel like they ran out of things to do. Also, I'm not knocking time travelers, I do it myself but I do have personal limits on it specifically to stop myself from going too fast and running out of content before new updates come out.

Not to mention I just restarted so my island is definitely nowhere near complete now lol

 

[Loriii]

No. I still don't have most of the items plus I probably need to concentrate on decorating my home soon.

 

[Carole]

I legit am running out of things to do besides fill up the museum.. my island is the way i want it and i have my dream villagers..

I'm thinking of starting over LOL.. does anyone else feel finished or do you keep yourself busy?

I added a second character to my main island yesterday! This really livened things up. When adding characters doesn't help, I'll probably start over. In ACNL, I reset about every 2-6 months. I know most people don't reset, but I think it is fun.

 

[Luella]

I TT and I don't feel like I'm near finished!

When I realized how many items there were in the game it made me uneasy about really decorating my island. I like to have all my options available to me before I really get into things. Horribly indecisive as well.

So I started a catalog island and asked for help on my wishlist. I'm almost done cataloging all furniture sets plus stuff that I wanted. And I get to help people so that's nice.

I'm probably going to run it for another week-ish and then start playing the game more normally. Glad for that hedges update being around before then.

 

[moonolotl]

For a second i felt like i was completely done, but i very quickly found a lot more stuff to do.

I decided to completely redo my entire island, i decided to change up my dreamies/not have a 100% set dreamies list and now things feel much more exciting to me. I try to keep myself busy with various projects around my island

 

[Imbri]

I am nowhere near finished. I don't even have a basement yet!

There are still areas of my island I'm working on, whether it's improving on an idea or trying to decide what to do with that empty spot.

The museum is a long way from done, so there's always work there.

I'm still tweaking my villagers, so they have their default homes, rather than the starter houses.

And my house? My rooms are only half decorated, because I'm waiting for specific variants or diy recipes.

That's off the top of my head. I'm sure there are other things going on that I'm forgetting.

 

[Llunavale]

Let me guess, time travel.

Not necessarily...kinda dismissive actually. I'm in the same boat as @jumpman, I feel like I've "finished" my island too and I don't time travel (on this particular island - the one I play my day-to-day on).

Like, to me at least, collecting more furniture and DIY's isn't what keeps the game feeling alive to me, it's just something that happens a few times a day. It was unlocking new buildings (which, if you've played since release, you'll have unlocked everything by now that you can currently unlock), raising "friendship" with villagers, unlocking all the rooms of my house, and designing my island how I like it. I've done those things. I could introduce new villagers slowly, but that's boring - when you've been through it with one Cranky villager, you've been through it with all of them, and sure I could redesign my town (and definitely will eventually), but that's just intentionally looking for "new" stuff to do.

Repeating the same stuff day-in-day-out, to me, is a sign of being finished. New stuff happening and new stuff being available to do is a sign of it being unfinished.

I appreciate the "don't rush it" mindset people have, but...there's not rushing it, and then there's intentionally doing everything unnecessarily slowly just to pretend there's more to do than there is. You can only "not rush it" for so long.

 

[R. Planet]

I might be getting close to finished except for the fact that I change my mind the second I finish even the smallest project so everything is in a state of constant upheaval and flux...

 

[Alicia]

The game doesn't feel finished for me at all, I've been slowly changing up my island and figuring out what I want it to look like. I'm really starting to love my island. I've still got a lot of work to do and I'm hoping I don't completely change my plan again!

 

[nammie]

definitely not!! I think one of my biggest regrets for acnl was getting all my dreamies so fast, and having concrete ideas for areas really early on as well... I hate terraforming so I'm doing that super slowly lol, and I'm also letting villagers come and go, and I think there's so much more to do in acnh because of this! I'd say I'm done maybe 20% of my island? and I have no clue what to do with a lot of rooms in my house atm (bc the furniture is so lacking in this game ugh)

also yea anticipating more shops so I'm leaving space for that haha. I hope I can be like at least 80% done by next year march though!

 

[artisansystem]

I've purposefully taken developing my island slowly because I'm anticipating new buildings, so I definitely don't feel anywhere near finished! I do, however, have a lot of cleaning up to do, and I'm currently avoiding it... woops

 

[RETSAMDET]

Not at all so far. But I’ve been taking things quite slowly, and waiting a while between each major decision to get a feel of what I want to do next. The northern part of my island is still fairly deserted, and I still have a couple of houses left to build when the time is right. And there’s a lot of outdoor landscaping that I want to tackle that I haven’t even planned out yet.

I’m playing in real time, and life has gotten busier again recently, so most of my progress happens on weekends. Weekdays are mostly for maintenance, and I keep playing late enough that the shops are closed, which is making it harder to fill out my catalog and acquire more furniture that I might want to use for decorating.

 

[Xara]

mine doesn’t. i still have a ways to go with my island and my museum along with my catalog so i’m nowhere near being finished yet aha

 

[Chris]

Not even close.

I've 6-7 buildings left to move. Some areas I've finished terraforming, but they still need decorated. My house is a dump. I need to move all my trees. Still got loads I want to do with shrubs, fencing, and flowers. I need more inclines and bridges. I've three villagers I want to move (Pinky, Lopez, and Filbert), and others that will follow them eventually but getting those three out is my main priority. I'm still missing 4 fossils and I've less than half the DIYs. Bug/fish are going to take a year to do. I've only 2 authentic paintings in the museum. etc.

 

[aria2232]

Far from it. Still trying to get all the hybrids. The flowers are taking up quite a bit of space so I don't want to start doing terraforming seriously until I am done with breeding. Then there's finishing collecting for the museum, and Reed has only visited twice. My art gallery is literally empty! Haha

 

[Lurrdoc]

I am in no way shape or form even close to being finished lmao

 

[Zura]

If you're running out of things to do then I'd recommend a thing called a break. This is why I don't understand the TTing crowd considering this is pretty much the outcome.

Rn I'm currently in town redo hell. Because of this I am never bored. Please send help

 

[bam94-]

Not even close! I haven't touched my house in ages because I'm spending all my Bells on moving buildings (currently in the process of terraforming). I love how every time I open the game, I see something else around my island that I'd love to change and I'll do a quick bit of terraforming.

I need to decorate the whole island with bushes, trees, flowers, etc.

I still need to collect all my villager's pictures (haven't gotten one yet).

The museum hasn't been completed.

I love how I never run out of stuff to do.