The Animal Crossing: New Horizons love hotel has shut down. Japanese Animal Crossing creator churip_ccc announced on X that their adults-only New Horizons island had been shut down by Nintendo, according to a translation of the post on Automaton.
“Actually, just a day before the update, the Dream Address for the Adult Island was deleted by Nintendo,” chrip_ccc wrote. “To Nintendo, I apologize from the bottom of my heart. Or rather, thank you for turning a blind eye for more than five years. To everyone who visited the island, and to all the streamers who showcased it in their videos, thank you so much.”
Automaton reported that the island was created just a few months after New Horizons was released in 2020. It was pretty popular with Japanese YouTubers and livestreamers, the publication said. It’s a high quality island; there’s a love hotel flanked by several of New Horizons‘ Gallant statues—inspired by Michelangelo’s David—using neon palm trees for clever censorship. There’s a pachinko parlor and a luxury, uh, love suite with a rose-shaped bed, in-house jacuzzi, and dim lighting.
New Horizons players were able to visit the island using the Dream Island feature, which essentially made a public copy of an island. You could visit a player’s island without them being there. Alas, now it’s gone, and the adults only New Horizons island will live only in infamy, and on YouTube.