Nintendo showed off their latest mobile game yesterday, finally giving fans a first look at the Animal Crossing game they first teased about a year and a half ago. In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, you will start out by stumbling into a management position for a humble, undeveloped campsite. You’ll live in an RV, bond with fellow campers, and slowly gather the resources to build your fledgling campsite into… well, whatever your ideal version of a campsite is. In short, it looks like a slightly scaled-back and streamlined take on the full Animal Crossing experience, and it looks awesome.

Given how long we’ve known about this project, it’s no surprise there was plenty of speculation as to what form the Animal Crossing app might take. Many thought it would be a companion app for the inevitable Switch game, for instance. From what I’ve seen so far, I’m impressed by how well they seem to be walking the tightrope between a full entry in the series and a pale imitation.

Their previous efforts at adapting their own IP to mobile have been mixed in this regard. Super Mario Run is about as good a stab at bringing true 2D Mario gameplay to your phone as I can imagine, but Fire Emblem Heroes’ pared-down maps, narrative, and other elements left that game feeling like a mere shadow of its source material.

Pocket Camp looks like it retains much of the charm, variety, and sense of progression that define an Animal Crossing game. And the scope seems grand enough to feel lively, interesting, and satisfying, yet just modest enough that fans will likely still crave (and ultimately buy) the more robust Switch entry that is hopefully on the way. If Nintendo’s lucky, this game might even win a few new fans over. And I do hope, for the sake of fans old and new, that some sort of progress from Pocket Camp carries over to that next game in the series.

Check out the website here for more info and to preregister for an alert as soon as the game hits your territory. It’s scheduled for release in late November.