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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!

Animal Shelter is a dog, life sim and cats game developed by Games Incubator and published by Games Incubator and PlayWay S.A..
Released on March 23rd 2022 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 3,495 reviews of which 3,058 were positive and 437 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.92€ on Steam with a 85% discount, but you can find it for 0.62€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Animal Shelter into these genres:

Dog Life Sim Cats Education Casual Singleplayer Simulation Adventure Family Friendly Realistic Cute Indie Immersive Sim Management Atmospheric First-Person Relaxing Building Experience Modern

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit / Windows 8 64 Bit / Windows 10 64 Bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 780
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 6 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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3 hours played
Feb. 2026
i'm a grown ass man , doing it for the achivement hunting but boy do i feel sad when animals go away , taking care of them is the best thing ever - it has repetation but i cannot stop taking care of my beautiful babies
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12 hours played
Dec. 2025
Nice simple gameplay. Meh graphics but it's helping me live out my Nintendogs dreams all over again.
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117 hours played
Nov. 2025
Love this game! Highly recommend it! This game is amazing. It's visually beautiful. The animals, buildings and scenery all look amazing. Absolutely loving the sky in the spooky update! The dlc are all great and really add to the game. The vet clinic is my favourite, love healing the animals then re-homing, it's satisfying. Only negatives I've found are a couple of bugs here and there; - Furniture being invisible. eg. Wide cupboard. minor/not game breaking - Feed and water troughs being invisible and not letting the horses use them which then makes them ill/get taken away - Bright white flash when washing the horses now and again - Animals getting stuck and not being able to interact or move them - Medicines and testing equipment disappear/move from the cupboards when going to the park/horse yard. Creating a mess when you get back - Not sure if it's a bug but the horses get dirty really quickly when housed in the vet clinic even the level 3 clinic Possible suggestions to add to the game: - Foals - new medical things to treat - Other shelters eg. Farm animals, Rodents, Reptiles - Grass field for horses to roam in Cannot recommend this game enough!
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118 hours played
Sept. 2025
Managing a shelter, caring for animals, and finding loving homes for them is so relaxing and heartwarming. I love this game! ❤️
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4 hours played
July 2025
Mixed review. The basegame is genuinely well done and fun -- it progresses you slowly through the basics, the animals are very cute, and the mechanics are very intuitive. The matchmaking aspect of adoption is one of my favorite elements -- not only do you take photos of the animals to post their adoption ads, you have to match personality traits of the animals to the traits of the people applying for adoption. It's intuitive and REALLY rewarding to get an animal adopted out to the right home and know that the match is a good match. The customization of the lot in Build Mode is simple and fun -- you can place buildings and even furniture where you want them, and it does make you think about how to make the right decisions about what to purchase when. The Build Mode is simple and clear. The only drawback to Build Mode is that it doesn't seem to pause the simulation at all when you're in it. I spent a lot of time in Build Mode trying to get my buildings in the right place -- and because I spent so much time, two of my animals got taken away for neglect because their needs decayed. It definitely felt unfair and frustrating HOWEVER -- there is one MAJOR drawback, which is in the Vets DLC. The microscope mini-game is one of the worst mini-game I've ever played. It's boring, it's not-intuitive, barely explained, and even moving the mouse slightly causes the indicators to change colors and the blur to shift in a way that makes it feel chaotic, confusing, and totally incoherent and random. You can slightly avoid this mini-game by sending in lab samples in the mail, but the catch is you can only send in one sample at a time, and it takes minutes for each one to process. I'll probably try to play the Vet DLC more but only if I can completely avoid the microscope mini-game: it's confusing, distracting, and boring. The Analyzer (bacteria) mini-game isn't as jenky, but it's also not very interesting or fun. It's more fun to focus on the animals and I wish they would expand out working on the animals directly instead I would recommend the Base Game for a rewarding experience with adorable art and sincere, cute writing, but not the Vet DLC and the broken microscope experience
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Frequently Asked Questions

Animal Shelter is currently priced at 2.92€ on Steam.

Yes, Animal Shelter is currently available at a 85% discount. You can purchase it for 2.92€ on Steam.

Yes, Animal Shelter received 3,058 positive votes out of a total of 3,495 achieving a rating of 8.43.
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Animal Shelter was developed by Games Incubator and published by Games Incubator and PlayWay S.A..

Yes, Animal Shelter is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Animal Shelter is not playable on MacOS.

No, Animal Shelter is not playable on Linux.

Animal Shelter is a single-player game.

Yes, there are 4 DLCs available for Animal Shelter. Explore additional content available for Animal Shelter on Steam.

No, Animal Shelter does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Animal Shelter does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Animal Shelter is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Animal Shelter.

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Animal Shelter
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3,058
437
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Games Incubator
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Games Incubator, PlayWay S.A.
Release 23 Mar 2022
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