
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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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish +5 more
Engagement
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Reviews
I absolutely love this game and I think more people need to play this. If we got more people on, maybe the developers would spend more time thinking about this game. If anyone wants to message me on Instagram, I'll put together a Discord server for people who want to meet up and play! Instagram is DragonValor988
[h3]Meadow - A Shelter Game - тихое путешествие, которое лучше всего раскрывается в компании.[/h3] Meadow - это не про цели и не про победы. Это [i]про состояние[/i]. Игра даёт редкую возможность просто [i]быть[/i]: выбрать животное, выйти в огромный природный мир и раствориться в нём под спокойные звуки окружающей среды. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3579769324 Здесь приятно всё - от мягкой визуальной стилистики до звуков, которые буквально [i]убаюкивают[/i]. Исследование построено на [i]любопытстве[/i]: находишь обелиски, открываешь новые окрасы, животных, постепенно собираешь свою маленькую историю путешествий. И именно через такие детали игра раскрывается лучше всего. Но особенно Meadow оживает, когда рядом есть другие игроки. Без слов, через жесты и движения, вы можете собраться в небольшую "стаю" и просто [i]бежать вместе[/i] - и в такие моменты игра начинает ощущаться [i]по-настоящему живой[/i]. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3506468439 Разные животные, разные окрасы, случайные попутчики - всё это создаёт уникальную атмосферу, которую сложно повторить в других проектах. Иногда, правда, складывается более уединённое настроение: можно оказаться в мире практически в одиночестве. В такие моменты Meadow превращается уже не в социальное приключение, а в спокойную, почти [i]медитативную прогулку[/i], где акцент смещается на личные ощущения и исследование пространства. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3676141435 С системой достижений ситуация уже менее однозначная. Формально их много, но часть из них недоступна без покупки дополнительного контента от разработчиков - включая другие их проекты, саундтреки и прочие материалы. В итоге закрыть игру на [i]100%[/i] стандартным способом не получится, и для перфекционистов это может стать ощутимым ограничением. Итог: Meadow - это [i]игра-настроение[/i]. Она не всегда стремиться развлечь в привычном смысле, зато умеет дарить редкое ощущение [i]покоя и тихого единения[/i] - с миром и другими игроками. Особенно ярко это чувствуется, когда вы находите свою "[i]стаю[/i]".
Thank you for accompanying a short journey, the pink frog <3 2/6/2026
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cozy and chill game, love the art and the emotes u can get in store. However, Meadow doesn't feel fully finished. You can easily fall out of the world as there are missing land and waterfalls that fall into nothingness. The world doesn't feel fully rendered. While that's off putting, it does add a little fun i guess, for those who enjoy glitches. There's no way for text communication, only by emojis, which I personally enjoy. Not a lot of players online, at least not at night. Kinda good for me, coz my gear isn't that good yet. You're just running around as an animal, in my case i started as a badger, collecting puzzles and flowers, and yeah. It's pretty chill
I always appreciate multiplayer games that encourage teamwork and exploration, and creative social mechanics. The concept of this game is really cute, and the art style and animal designs are absolutely beautiful! I really love how colorful and detailed everything is, and how big the world feels. Truly, if you have a passion for exploring colorful, unique, detailed landscapes, this is a game I'd point you toward! Something to note about this game is that there are no chat systems. You cannot /talk/ to people you encounter. But there are a lot of helpful emotes and stickers you can use and unlock that let you get ideas across to your silent friends just fine :) I only wish this game could be updated further, and had more players. It feels like it was abandoned when it still has so much potential to work with. I know the team behind this game lost a lot of staff not super long ago, and its hindered their development, but now that they've been working on other stuff, I hope they can come around to their past games and give them some TLC (because this game did use to get updated routinely until it stopped getting worked on outta nowhere). But, nonetheless, it's a very relaxing and visually pleasing experience. If you're a fan of the other shelter games, and you want a more calm, social, laid back experience, then you'll likely love this one! 💙
I genuinely miss this game. Nowadays it's very much dead, with little to no players. So in a way I don't really suggest you buy this game, since you won't really get the experience it had in its prime, but if you have some friends to arrange gameplay with, or are okay finding the rare player, then by all means go for it! Every once in a while you'll see three or slightly more online. Before Might and Delight left it alone, and the player population went down significantly, it was a wonderful and fun experience. There's no chat, you can only communicate through emotes, and honestly that made the gameplay a lot more enjoyable and peaceful. With two or more players you could interact with the obelisks to break them and get shards, which depending on their colors, would help you unlock another animal, and more skins and emotes (some animals and skins you need to unlock by buying other Shelter games, and Meadow story books, however). You can find those shards throughout the map without needing an extra player to open the obelisks, but it's a lot more grinding, and it's a bit hard to find anyone else in the game today to help you out. Today, I felt incredibly bored, I wanted to play a game so I could desperately get out of the boredom. Scrolled through my steam library and found Meadow there. I remembered how dead it is, but a wave of nostalgia overtook me and motivated me to install it and boot it up, and to my surprise there was 4 people online! Hopped on my Lynx and just roamed about, and found a little Lynx cub, another player! We exchanged waving emotes and roamed the map together, opening any obelisks we found that only needed two players. Then we came across a Fox, they decided to follow us too, but they suddenly crashed and we had to leave em behind after waiting a few minutes to see if they'd come back :( Eventually I had to hop off for the night, it was getting late, but in the end, it was a great time, and reminded me of the older days when Meadow was a lot more active... I don't have much hope that Might and Delight will try to make this game active again, they had done so before, but it didn't seem to work out. They're also focused on other games they're developing, which I understand honestly. But still, I thank them so much, for making such a wonderful game that has given me some good memories.
В игру можно играть, но надо ли, когда онлайн мёртвый.
One of the most charming non-mmo MMOs i've ever played. I just REALLY wish people would still play it, the empty world paired with the meows or barks of the only, lonely animal in a world makes me quite sad.
This game is actually very relaxing and fun to mindlessly enjoy. As someone with social anxiety it's also an easy way to socialize with such minimal communication features. Also for the love of God PLEASE change your keybinds and look at control settings before playing. You will get carpel tunnel if you do not change them.
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