Animal Shelter
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GeForce GTX 780, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Electrician Simulator - First Shock (free, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats To The Rescue! ($19.99, scores 14).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 376 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
93% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
25 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Animal Shelter scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1239320/animal-shelterReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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