Shelter 2

I lost Cookie & Dough, RIP Cookie Dough. When the cubs are still little, stick to the beginning map, where there are no birds of prey, or wolves. Don't be curious and cross the tree bridge or the frozen river into loss and despair. Pretty walking simulator, but with the stress of motherhood.

It's simple in theory, heartbreaking in practice. I love the story, as simple as it is. Losing a cub is hard and you're always reminded by it in the loading screen (seeing 3 cubs instead of 4 for example). I love the style of the game, it's nice and unique. Survival mode is quite a challenge even without the Mountains DLC (which is a really solid DLC ngl, prob my fav map too). All in all, great game. PS since it says nowhere (or I couldn't find it) I discovered you can play and explore as the mother lynx after yours cubs are gone as the game doesn't force you to move on

In Shelter 1, if you don't feed your cubs enough, they will die and it's sad. In Shelter 2, if you don't feed your cubs a set of Santa's Reindeers every 3 seconds and bring rabbits in the sum of all Rabbits of the entire Rabbit franchise to your downed cubs (which happens every few minutes), they will die and it's annoying. You turned a sad consequence of a balanced mechanic into a frustrating and annoying occurrence. And the game is over within under two hours?! I don't think I've done two playthroughs on Shelter 1, but I got over 5 hours there. 3 Bucks per hour for Shelter 1 for a playthrough 18.5 for Shelter 2 Something is off. "Besides hunting skills, there are also maternal features such as calling the cubs closer, sniffing out prey, drinking water from rivers and lifting and carrying your cubs from harm’s way." Except practically none of them matters. You right click, aim for red prey, bite, eat/feed, repeat. And on the way, you find collectibles, seemingly meaningless. And if they have a meaning, you failed to communicate it in a meaningful way before the end of the playthrough was reached. As much as I loved Shelter 1, Shelter 2 failed to encapsule the greatness of the predecessor. I don't really regret having put off the game for 10 years. I haven't missed much. Which is a shame, as some fine tuning, a bit more content and an adjusted price tag easily could turn this review into a positive recommendation. Edit after second playthrough: The second playthrough was just little over 1h and all 4 survived. It's just VERY repetitive and doesn't give you time to roam. Hunt a little over one animal per minute gets you there. Five different animals, all just tiny bit different from each other. Plus two other types of food sources (nest on the ground plus nest in the tree). Which gives you a grand total of 3 methods getting to food. But then there are the mountains, locked behind a DLC... So much about "needs more content". Seems they have more content, but locked behind another paywall, which makes the game even more expensive calculated by playtime and even less worth to buy. The existence of the DLC dropped the game from a 3.5/10 to a 2.5/10. There are also different biomes, one even with actual danger when a pack of wolves roam, but there is no reason to go beyond your starting area. With strongly adjusted price tag, more content, a bit more variation in gameplay, less of a bulemia simulator and natural purpose to roam (don't just artificially force the player, make it a desirable option, so don't just force the player out of one biome by a catastrophe or food scarcity, make other biomes more bountiful, maybe depending on the season), this game could easily rise to a 7/10.

I don't know if I've ever been so stressed playing a game in my life then I was when my babies almost died on the hardest difficulty. Some of the collectables are a little broken but there are some very good guides that show you workarounds to get them.

amazing

It is a greatly made game, my only issue was how there is nothing interesting to do, i mean feed cubs, let them grow, and restart. I saw people's reviews with 203.4 hours on record and though that there was more then what see's the eye but if you love a short well made game then give it a try.

Jag gillade spelet eftersom det var väldigt mysigt och avslappnande att spela, framför allt om man är stressad. Inte jättemycket action, men passar utmärkt om man är fascinerad av djur och bara vill ha en lugn rolig stund