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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

AdventureCasualIndieSimulation

Reviews
Very Positive
86% of 3,928
Recent reviews
Mostly Positive
72% of 33 in 30 days
Players
11
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
3 months ago
Jul 20, 2026
Minimum PC
GeForce GTX 780
8 GB RAM · 6 GB disk
Full requirements

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

86% of 3,928 reviews are positive · 72% of 33 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.

Players over time

▼ -56% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 34 players on Oct 18, 2026.

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Screenshots and trailer

Animal Shelter screenshot 1

Animal Shelter system requirements

Minimum: GeForce GTX 780, 8 GB RAM, 6 GB of disk space.

As published by the developer.

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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

Recommended

OS
Windows 7 64 Bit / Windows 8 64 Bit / Windows 10 64 Bit
Processor
Intel Core i5 3.4 GHz
Graphics
NVidia GeForce GTX 970
Memory
12 GB RAM
Storage
12 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Does Animal Shelter have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Animal Shelter run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • 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

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
125
Steam features
Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese.

Does Animal Shelter use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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Recent updates

4 DLC available.

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