Animal Shelter

Single-player shelter sim about caring for pets and finding homes

Games Incubator · Published by Games Incubator, PlayWay S.A. · Released Mar 23, 2022

Reviews: Very Positive; 88% of 4,164
Recent reviews: Very Positive; 91% of 23 in 30 days
Playing now: 7; peak 24h 14
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 2 months ago; Jul 20, 2026

Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.

What is Animal Shelter?

In this shelter simulation, you care for dogs and cats, monitor their needs, treat them, and match them with adoptive owners. You can take photos of the animals and expand or rearrange the shelter.

For you if...

+you like a relaxed routine of caring for animals
+you enjoy arranging buildings in a shelter

Not for you if...

−you want varied tasks instead of a repeated care routine
−you prefer multiplayer to managing a shelter alone

What players say

88% of 4,164 reviews are positive · 91% of 23 in the last 30 days

Players praise caring for the animals and finding them homes. Common complaints are repetition and bugs, including disappearing objects and tutorial problems.

Screenshots and trailer

Animal Shelter system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 7 64 Bit / Windows 8 64 Bit / Windows 10 64 Bit
Processor: Intel Core i3 3.0 GHz
Graphics: NVidia GeForce GTX 780
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Storage: 6 GB available space
DirectX: Version 11

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 125
Steam features: Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese.