Make your four-legged friend happy.
Animal Shelter Simulator is a combination Space-Management Game and Virtual Pet Simulation Game released on PC and consoles on March 23, 2022. In the game, the player takes on the role of an animal caretaker that has just gotten a job at a local animal shelter. Their job is to care for new animals that have been taken in until their eventual adoption. This includes keeping the animals healthy and happy as well as continuously maintaining the shelter and making improvement all while making sure it will be financially able to keep operating.The game has the following tropes:
- Acceptable Breaks from Reality: In-game items are delivered via flying drones instead of delivery trucks. This is done so that the animals at the shelter aren't bothered by excessive noise.
- An Entrepreneur Is You: Running the shelter as a business is a goal and you must keep it running in a profitable nature so you can afford to buy the needs for your animals as well as your needs to improve the shelter.
- Space-Management Game: One of the game's goals is to continuously grow and expand the shelter to add new areas for animals as well as for your human workers.
- Virtual Pet: Caring for the sheltered animals is a central element to the game. The player must feed and bathe them as well as playing with them on a daily basis.
