
In Animal Shelter, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.14/day in the week to Aug 14 → 1.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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**CMON DEVS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! - PART 1** I don’t even know where to start with this one because there is so much to talk about. The devs clearly abandoned their work to move on to the second game, and that alone raises some big red flags. They left this game in a half broken state and moved on while there are still so many annoying bugs that can completely ruin the player’s experience. I had to restart the tutorial three times, and it pissed the hell out of me. There is a bug where you get stuck carrying a pet and suddenly you become unable to click anything or even from dropping the animal. Another similar bug can leave your pet frozen in petting mode where it won’t do anything else and you can’t even pick him up. The vet tutorial was another disaster. After collecting a blood sample, you are supposed to send it through the box in front of the building, but the tutorial blocked me from putting anything inside, meaning I couldn’t complete the task or progress in the game. What makes bugs like these even worse is that the game blocks you from saving early on and also prevents you from saving while carrying an animal, so if something breaks, you are screwed at that stage. Even the save feature itself is questionable because manually saving doesn’t seem to preserve the exact moment you saved and can instead put you a few seconds back. Basic movement is also weirdly limited. How is there an option to crouch but no option to run? The devs seriously never thought about adding Shift to sprint? Oh wait, yes they did but only when you are riding a horse and not when you are walking. You can’t even jump. Sure, jumping isn’t necessary for an animal shelter simulator, but younger players are used to little things like that because messing around is part of the fun. They also missed a huge opportunity by not letting you customize your character. You are basically an invisible person interacting with the animals, and having an actual character would have made things like taking pictures with them much more entertaining. This connects to one of the biggest problems with the game: it seems confused about who its target audience actually is. From the outside, it looks like a cute and interactive game where you are going to have the time of your life caring for animals and helping them find homes. I assume the intended audience was probably younger teenagers rather than very small kids, but once you actually start playing, you realize the game complicates so many simple things that it starts draining the fun out of them. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, with almost every animal going through the same damn process over and over again. Making every task take longer and adding extra steps does not automatically make something entertaining. What do you mean I have to shampooOOOoo, wash, clean, and dry the animals manually?! The hitboxes for these tasks are absurd too. You will spend an unreasonable amount of time scrubbing an animal’s butthole just trying to get the cleaning meter to finally reach its climax. Back in my days, we had the rain do all the work. Jokes aside, that is only the tip of the iceberg. The vet gameplay suffers from the same problem. Most of the actions are repetitive, the first medical room you receive is way too narrow, and some treatments literally make you wait around 30 seconds just so you can perform another action and finally discharge the animal. If you accidentally pick up a sick animal from the arrival car while all your medical tables are occupied, you can’t simply place the animal on the floor and come back to it. No, you have to find him a shelter, leave it there, and then later search through your maze of animals to find him again. The devs need to tone these tasks down. Then there are the employees, or as I like to call them, the ghost employees, because you never actually see them. You can hire employees to refill food/water or clean buildings, but the system is incredibly sloppy. The cleaning guy will proudly announce that he finished cleaning a building, then you go to check his work, and the room is still filled with piss and ♥♥♥♥ because apparently the only thing he cleaned was one empty box you left on the floor. The food guy works one building at a time and will refill either food or water, and as a beginner, you probably won’t even understand how useful he is supposed to be. The employees never physically appear in the world, you never really know when they are going to work again, they have zero unique skills, and they can’t assist with most of the tasks that actually waste your time. Selling an animal is another entire journey by itself. You can either throw the pet at the first stranger willing to give you money or go through the intended advertisement system to find a suitable owner. Anyone who has played this game long enough will eventually realize that taking pictures for advertisements is a complete waste of time. First, you find the animal and take a picture using your boomer camera instead of the tablet in your pocket that is already connected to practically everything because apparently we desperately need that instant photo print. Then you walk over to a scanner and upload each picture to the computer one at a time, waiting several seconds between them. After that, you have to figure out which photograph belongs to which animal because nothing is automatic. Then you post the advertisement, wait for a potential buyer, spend money to reveal their traits, wait again, and manually compare those traits because the game can’t even highlight matching and conflicting traits in green and red for you. It might sound trivial when explained one step at a time, but you cannot do all of this quickly, and once you have multiple animals it becomes such a chaotic waste of time that you eventually stop bothering with the feature entirely. When the pickup car finally arrives, you get a notification telling you which animal needs to leave, but it doesn’t even tell you whether that animal is a dog or a cat. You have to open the computer and search for the name yourself in order to remind you. There is no highlight, no arrow, and no marker guiding you toward the correct animal. If you happen to have three dogs named Boo, congratulations, you are now running a marathon around the shelter trying to figure out which Boo is the chosen one, and if you grab the wrong animal, that just means even more walking. It would have been so much easier to have employees bring the animal to the gate or prepare them there so you can give them one last goodbye before they leave. The animals themselves also needed much more personality. Their basic needs are incredibly easy to satisfy, and you can even cheese the system by leaving animals on medical tables because their needs decline so slowly there that they are practically frozen in time until you are ready to ship them away. Dogs also seem to struggle much more with entertaining themselves compared to cats. Cats have toys they can reliably interact with, while dogs are much more hit or miss. Most of the animals they just stand in the corner of a shelter staring at the sky like they are waiting for an angel to descend and rescue them. They look lobotomized. There are also some funny animal bugs. I once picked up a dog while it was pooping and somehow turned it into a mobile ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ machine. I am not talking about one or three turds. I mean something like 50 or more appearing as I moved around until the bug finally unstuck itself and the machine shut down. Animals can also be dragged into the wrong shelters by getting them to chase a ball or laser toy. You can move adult cats, dogs, and even the smaller DLC animals into places where they clearly aren’t supposed to be. Once you pick them up, you can’t put them back down unless you return them to their proper shelter.
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil +1 more
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Cute game and cute concepts, money grab with all the DLCs they release rather than making it part of the base game as originally advertised before game released.. before game release they also advertised gameplay way different than it really is, because of that thats why i dont recommend. theres also a lot that you need to do that can be pretty hard to achieve in just single player alone without at least a friend or hireable employees, hard to manage all your duties and care for more than a couple animals in a single day. Second game looks a bit more promising and id like to check it out, but am wary due to how the first game turned out
Fun game will keep you busy, some functions need optimization tho.
Эта игра могла бы стать одной из самых милых и добрых среди обширного многообразия симуляторов. Славная идея о заботе, лечении и поиске дома для обездоленных животных. Неплохой старт, поддержка фанатов и благотворительность со стороны разработчиков в пользу реальных приютов. Разве не прелесть? Итак, игра звалась Animal Shelter и могла бы стать лучшей в своём роде. Но играть и получать удовольствие здесь решительно невозможно. Геймплей увлекает только поначалу, а потом уже попросту не может предложить ничего интересного. Ощущается это словно огрызок полноценного проекта или, максимум, демоверсия. Все действия цикличны и приедаются очень быстро. Абсолютно все доступные игровые механики открываются в первые часы, а после продолжается день сурка. Здоровые животные зачастую готовы к отправлению в новый дом уже через пару минут после прибытия в приют. Больные животные утомляют однообразием диагнозов: в абсолютном большинстве это паразитарная инфекция у собак и кошек и колики у лошадей. В моём случае за более чем сотню часов игры (около 200 кошек и собак) стрижка когтей встречалась всего 3 раза, а расчистка копыт (около 70 лошадей) так и вовсе всего 1 раз! Также могу добавить, что за всё суммарно проведенное время были медикаменты, которые не пригодились НИ РАЗУ. К самому процессу лечения тоже немало вопросов. Например, анализ крови с помощью микроскопа в 9 случаях из 10 не даёт результатов. То есть, метод просто вычеркивается из процедур никак не облегчая диагноз. Поэтому если в медицинской карте фигурируют другие манипуляции, то лучше воспользоваться ими, иначе возня с микроскопом станет просто тратой времени, особенно с оборудованием низкого уровня. Зато анализатор работает по каким-то своим неведомым правилам – можно идеально и быстро решить “головоломку” с бактериями, но аппарат упорно будет выдавать надпись “результаты анализов неправильные”, хотя и звуковой сигнал, и изменение диагноза будут сигнализировать об обратном. Помимо этого, пропажа текстур медоборудования: градусники, стетоскопы, сиропы частенько исчезают из визуального поля, то бишь увидеть нельзя, а в инвентарь сложить можно. Сломанные анимации приема лекарств (у котят они просто отсутствуют, бедные зверята просто замирают столбом). Замена лечебного корма для лошадей на обычный при каждом новом входе в игру. И на закуску – проверки инспекторов. Их периодичность настолько зашкаливает, что они буквально накладываются одна н другую или следуют друг за другом с разницей в минуту-две. Но отсутствие текстур мелких предметов – это полбеды. Пробовали отыскать “невидимую” кошку в открытом вольере для выгула? Или упираться в “призрачное” дерево при входе в помещение? Развлечение то ещё, доложу я вам. Но даже это не идёт в сравнение со всеми проблемами и ошибками представленных дополнений, после которых, как мне кажется, игра скатилась в ад окончательно! Котята и щенки “зависают” после мытья или поглаживания и взаимодействовать с ними более нельзя до загрузки сохранения. (Решение есть – мытьё проводить только на операционных или гигиенических столах, а избавлять от скуки только с помощью лазерных указок и мячиков. Но эти манипуляции изрядно растягивают процесс.) А уж мытьё лошадей – сущий кошмар! Анимация вставания на поддон сломана – животных мотает из стороны в сторону. Вдобавок их просто невозможно вымыть полностью, показатель никогда не будет заполнен. К тому же они моментально начинают кататься по земле и бегунок гигиены падает моментально. (Решение: довести все показатели до возможного максимума и держать лошадей на операционном столе или на поддоне для мытья.) Верховая езда реализована ужасно. Седло может сломаться прямо во время поездки, из-за чего игрока выкидывает под текстуры без возможности взаимодействия. И снова поможет только загрузка сохранений. Помимо этого, перечислю ошибки, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться регулярно: сломанные достижения, наложение музыки одна на другую, некорректное отображение показателей корма и воды, ложные оповещения о загрязнении и болезни. И обо всём этом разработчики знают, но исправлять не собираются (последний патч датируется декабрем 2024). Вместо этого они конвейером выпускают похожие однотипные игры – “Отель для животных”, “Зоомагазин”, “Зоопарк” и, конечно же, “Приют для животных 2”, куда, судя по отзывам кочуют одни и те же проблемы. И можно было бы списать все технические проблемы на неопытность, но ведь халтура лезет даже в мелочах, не требующих особых знаний! Описания к животным основаны только на собаках, отчего мы получаем такие шедевры, как “Эту малютку нашли в канализации” в качестве истории лошади или “Это животное собирались использовать в боях” к предыстории котёнка. Что это, если не показательная лень? Игра сама по себе далеко не шедевр, и даже проходной её назвать сложно, а уж дополнения похоронили её окончательно, доломав то немногое, что ещё худо-бедно работало. Animal Shelter раздражает, утомляет и не приносит ровным счётом никакого удовольствия. И никакой добрый моральный посыл этого не изменит.
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La verdad es que no esperaba engancharme tanto. Es el típico juego que te pones un rato para "relajarte" y de repente te das cuenta de que han pasado 4 horas limpiando jaulas y jugando con los perros. Lo mejor es ver el cambio de los animales desde que llegan todos asustados o sucios hasta que consiguen una familia. Se siente súper gratificante, no te voy a mentir. La mecánica es sencilla: limpiar, alimentar, curar y mejorar el refugio, pero funciona muy bien. Eso sí, no esperes un triple A súper complejo. A veces los controles son un poco raros y llega un punto en el que repetir las tareas cansa un poquito, pero para pasar la tarde después de currar o estudiar, es gloria bendita. Cero estrés y mucho cariño. Si te gustan los animales, cómpralo sin pensar. Cumple perfectamente con lo que promete.
In Animal Shelter you can take care of dogs, cats and horses (If you buy the DLC). The gameplay loop is very much the same, you adopt an animal, you patch them up and give them medicine and when they have enough points, you can put them up for adoption. This game is really stressfull If you have a full shelter and when you don't, it's just blankingly making sure the animals get points. You can re-build and decorate your shelter and write customized summaries for every animal but honestly? It's mostly for your own entertainment, nothing effects the points or the adoptability. The consequences of neglecting an animal are also nonexistent, you just lose shelter points and you get them back anyway when you help the next animal. So, is this game worth it? In a sale? Yes. It's fun for a while but other than that, it's not a great game, it's just okay.
If you like career sims, then this one has cute animals. It's repetitive, but that's the genre. I initially gave it a recommend, but honestly, I got sick of the bugs. Objects disappearing, tabs not working, animal AIs glitching. There are other games to scratch this itch.
I'll say It's a fairly good game. I would say to not buy it or DLC's at full price. There are a lot of bugs, plus game-breaking bugs which are very annoying. One of these is when it glitched and I couldn't put the dog down because it was between putting the dog down and not-so I couldn't save and had to restart my entire game because it was the start of the game. Many visual glitches like items "disappearing" when far away but when you walk up to it, it reappears. Other glitches or things that struggle are pets who have stomach ulcers or any other issue that needs to be fed vet food before they're full or you'll be sitting on this pet for likely days (real life days) of playing before they'll finally be hungry enough to eat the food. I would say, don't get the horse DLC unless you REALLY like horses or you'll be upset. The horse DLC was very rushed and quite poor in my opinion and I often ignore it while playing and rarely go to the ranch because it's so bad. (horses have bad walk/trot sorta animations). All of the riding is clunky and horses do this weird trot while you lead them and are super slow when being led. And if the horse is ill then they keep rolling so they are constantly getting dirty like every 3 mins. Just stick to the puppy/kitten and vet DLC unless you really like horses. And DON'T REPORT BUGS IN GAME! Last time I tired it left this red bar across the screen saying "thanks for reporting this bug" and wouldn't go away until I shut down the game and rebooted it back up. So if you don't like really buggy games or repetitive gameplay (I don't mind the gameplay) don't get it. If you don't mind those things, then get it on discount.
This game is having way too many glitches. It does not let me view the whole tutorial and I keep ending up in empty rooms and sometimes with no way out but to start the game as a new one. I have had to do this at least five times now.
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