10 Best New Female Video Game Characters Of The Decade

10. Isabelle - Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Isabelle has become a huge cult hit this decade, and with the impending launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, looks set to enter 2020 strong as well. Though Animal Crossing already had a niche popularity since its beginning, it was Isabelle’s arrival in 2012 which injected new life into the game.

Your bright and helpful assistant, Isabelle is your guide throughout the game, and quickly becomes one of your villagers’ closest friends too. There’s just nothing unlikeable about her, and yet she’s never boring.

Though Animal Crossing doesn’t look to have a huge story from the outside, once you’re in the world you very much feel a part of that reality. Isabelle is crucial to this, and her unwavering popularity almost eight years after she appeared is a testament to how important her introduction was.

With the unexpected arrival of Isabelle in Smash, she’s been introduced to an entirely new group of fans, and seems to have won them over too.

Plucky little Animal Crossing might not be topping any ‘best of the decade’ lists, but through Isabelle they’ve certainly left a mark on the 2010s.