
Explore the vast and open landscape as a wild animal. Meadow is an online fable experience that lets old and new fans of the Shelter game series come together and explore a peculiar and wondrous world together.
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Heaven is a place called Meadow! Vast, teeming with life, and a unique social experience. Frolic freely in the lush fields of Meadow – a unique multiplayer sandbox.
Unlike traditional titles from the Shelter game series, in Meadow – A Shelter Game, the more time spent embracing the gameplay features in the world, the more you receive. Owning any previous Shelter related title(s) or products will also unlock in-game content. The open landscape also provides ample room for exploration.
Band together with other animals, form alliances or choose to explore the world alone. Whatever you decide, the open world is one you will want to immerse yourself in.
Main features:
Play as any combination of animals on land, water or air in the largest expanse of land ever created for a Shelter game.
Communicate with other animals via specially created emotes, symbols and sounds.
Use your senses to discover, track and band together with other animals or choose to discover the world alone.
Visit the den to choose from up to 9 different animals. Modify your chosen animal with over 60 skins to create the animal you want to be.
Explore over 90 expressions and symbols to unlock.
New original music from Retro Family.
The more Shelter titles and products you own, the more bonuses you unlock.
Shelter products in Meadow
Owning any Shelter game will unlock the ability to play as that animal in Meadow (e.g. owning Shelter 2 unlocks the lynx, etc.).
Owning all games (no soundtracks or books included) will give you the possibility to play as the adorable bear cub from Paws – A Shelter Game.
Gain unique sound abilities if you own any combination of soundtracks from the Shelter-games.
Owning the interactive books from the Shelter-series will unlock unique 3-dimensional emotes.
For the collector and owner of the entire Shelter catalogue, you will unlock the ability to play as a bird.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish +5 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Reviews
趁着80%off的春促写个评测! 很随性且放松的游戏,不知为什么总让我想起星际拓荒——但比那还漫无目的。Meadow可以说就是一个动物扮演前提下的步行模拟器。 玩家对于探索和收集的欲望是meadow最大的游玩动力:游戏里没有任务,没有升级,没有战斗,没有死亡。唯一勉强称得上“主线”的只有一件事:收集各类植物、碎片、方尖碑,以解锁新的动物以及皮肤。 当然,你可以给自己安排任务:比如探索不同可游玩动物之间的差别(移速、跳跃高度、叫声、动作差异);沉浸式对动物进行扮演,在地图上寻找巢穴、饮用溪水、享用食物,用有限的动作与表情与其他动物玩家以符合食物链的方式互动;试图摸清楚整个地图,包括地上和地下的路径;每月都去寻找位置不同、造型不同的本月专属动物雕像;收集全动物,全皮肤,或者全部的Steam成就…… 总之,要做什么完全由你决定。什么都不做也可以。 而我同样相当喜欢的一个设计是,游戏里,与其他玩家之间的互动只能用简单的符号和动物叫声表达。没有文字交流,当然更没有属于人类的语音交流,一切都很原始和符号化。我真的十分享受在这个基础上与陌生玩家的相识和互动。游戏甚至自带匿名功能(可自由选择是否开启),其他玩家看不见你的名称、你也看不见其他人的——也因此很适合体验各种随机且随性的相识、相遇、相伴和分离。 在一切匿名的前提下,一次分离就是永别,因为我永远没法知道下次再和它相遇会是什么时候;又或者,即便下次遇见相同的动物,我也无法预测背后会是怎样的玩家。但从另一个角度来说,哪怕换了不同的动物、皮肤、叫声,一些熟悉的表情习惯、行为甚至是卡顿频率(。)都能让我不由自主微笑起来,会有种似是而非的、遇上了曾经短暂相伴的动物伙伴的朦胧的快乐。 不过话又说话来……我这么玩是因为我真的很享受一期一会的体验,且非常不热衷于在游戏外建立任何基于游戏的社交关系。如果其他玩家更喜欢有固定的游戏搭子、希望能通过meadow认识更多的朋友,虽然现在还活跃的玩家不多,但在Steam论坛/Discord上还是有不少活人的。或者说只要选择不开启匿名功能,一场游戏下来说不定就能收获好几个新朋友了呢(非匿名的前提下,游戏里有按键能显示在场玩家的Steam用户名)。 总之,可以想象,它不是适合所有人的游戏 。加上现在距离发售已经快10年了,服务器基本都成了鬼服……不过就我一个月来的游玩体验来看,至少欧服还有不少人玩,最多的时候能有10+个玩家同时在线。和刚发售时的旺期肯定不能比,但这个人数对我来说其实相当正好。尤其是欧洲时间的晚上,经常能和1-5个动物玩家一起组成动物探索队,一起快乐地收集地图里的资源。因为每个玩家的游玩习惯和对meadow的熟悉程度都十分不同,每次合作游玩都能收获些新的体验,这一点真的十分难得。 一言以蔽之,meadow很适合 [list] [*]喜欢且享受在游戏世界里漫无目的地行走, [*]喜欢探索、收集、看风景,且能在无任务、无需求、无社交的前提下自娱自乐, [*]喜欢扮演动物, [*]不想和其他玩家以正常方式进行交流/好奇无文字的前提下如何交流 [/list] ……的玩家。 总之,趁着好价买来玩玩试试吧(怂恿)!
The game is dead. It's just a big, empty field with a few collectibles. Don't buy this.
I wish this game was still alive and had players, probably one of the best games to happen for people who love Shelter. It's comfy
I used to be a really big devoted fan for this game years ago. However, a lot of the modern changes have disappoint me a lot. The GUI is clunky and unclear as the emotes (The only way to communicate with other players in game) are now spread at the bottom rather than the side. This covers quite a bit of the screen and it is slow to select which emotes you want to use to communicate with other players. Also, the mini map being constantly on screen unless you want to hide all your emotes is also frustrating. The mini-map moves around way too much and really takes away from the relaxing experience this game used to be because its far too distracting and less immersive. Why would an animal know where other animals are at all times? Why would I want to know that unless I really wanted to and could just press M which quickly brings up the map with no problems? Part of the joy of this game was the mystery of coming across players unexpectedly. I know they added the emote wheel, but why would I open a wheel (pressing C) when I can use my number keys instead? It feels redundant when it used to be just as easy as looking in the bottom left of your screen. The game no longer feels as intuitive to play and enjoy. I would write an actual review if there was some kind of adjustment in settings for me to have the old GUI back...
Best 7 bucks I've ever spent. I love this game, it's really cute and I LOVE how the communication features is instead of a direct chat. Would recommend. :]
have cried multiple times playing this game very pretty visuals, the music is great and the ppl are very kind im so sad it kinda died :(
I love this game i wish there were more players.i'd love to pl,ay with anyone
Начну с того, что попала ко мне эта игра еще в свое золотое время, когда на серверах было много людей. Все собирались в огромные группы животных и ходили по серверу фармя фрагменты открывающие скины или новых животных. Но со временем игра сама себя и загнала в тупик, так как все бесплатные животные уже были открыты, а что бы получить новых нужно было скупать все игры Shelter, что выходило не дешево ради одного животного покупать целую игру. Так и осталась игра в простое, новых бесплатных животных не добавляли, а платных никто не хотел покупать. Зайдя в игру в 2026 году, увидела от силы только 6 человек на сервере, подключившись, буквально через 3 минуты меня выкинуло на рабочий стол. Зайдя снова в игру уже писалось, что сервера недоступны. Увы игра не подается как отдельных продукт от франшизы Shelter, а просто как бесплатное дополнение с коопом. На сегодняшних день, могу с уверенностью заявить, что золотые временя этой игры остались в далеком прошлом, разработчики сами постепенно убивали эту игру, дабы срубить по больше денег с продукции Shelter, сервера уже доживают последние свои дни, смысла в нее играть уже нет. А ведь могла получится действительно неплохой симулятор животных со своей изюминкой в плане графики, мне она даже зашла, я играла в первый и второй Shelter и графика добавляла душевности в эти игры, и я бы была не против поиграть и в симулятор с онлайном, бегая с другими игроками. Оглядываясь назад могу сказать, что воспоминания об этой игре остались у меня только приятные, но сегодня я прощаюсь с этой игрой.
陪伴很短 是暂时的 只是这个时间延长后让我们觉得很长 后来想起来其实也短 其次人类语言是无力的 本不需要那么多的交流 直到总有人害怕孤独 现在就会想 我们一起在草甸上奔跑过就好
I absolutely love playing this game with a video or some chill music on in the background. The fact that noboody can actually talk to each other makes it all the more fun, trying to figure out what other players want to do. The only thing I wish for this game, is for it to have controller compaitbality.
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