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Animal Shelter Simulator

Take care of cats and dogs

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Family

Languages

English

In Animal Shelter Simulator, you are the manager of a dedicated rescue center. Your mission is to provide care, shelter, and love to abandoned and injured animals. The game requires you to manage various tasks, including cleaning pens, providing medical treatment, and playing with your residents to keep their spirits high. You'll also need to expand your facilities and carefully vet potential adopters to ensure your animals go to the best possible homes. It's a management game with a purpose.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

79/100

Animal Shelter Simulator does a great job of capturing the emotional and logistical weight of running a rescue. It’s not just about petting cute dogs; you have to manage cleaning, feeding, and medical care while balancing a tight budget. The loop of rehabilitating an animal and finding it a 'forever home' is genuinely heartwarming.

The UI can be a bit cluttered on smaller phone screens, and some of the maintenance tasks can feel repetitive after a few hours. However, for fans of management sims who want something with a bit more heart, this is a solid choice. The focus on the well-being of the animals over pure profit is a refreshing change of pace for the tycoon genre.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Realistic animal care mechanics

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Detailed health and mood systems

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Facility expansion and customization

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Rewarding adoption mechanics

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

You primarily start with dogs and cats, but as you expand, you can help a wider variety of animals.

Ratings & Reviews

Great game but….
Tue Apr 09 2024 elowen13

I love this game! This is a entertaining game that you can play for hours. I played this game about everyday but realized a glitch that I hate! The first glitch is when you train your pet they go in the training center in the middle of the map. But the problem is when you go to the pet and press adoption and it says pet not ready to get adopted, and you press take care of it. It starts glitching a lot like once you press it you go inside the pet. This might just be for me but it’s so annoying! You have to leave the game and get back in to fix it. I still have pets that are stuck in that training place! There’s also 1 more when you go into exploration, and bring a pet to the cleaning area I would put the pet down wash it but it would not let me pick the pet back up! You would have to get out of exploration and teleport it back to its cage. Otherwise the game is so fun and will entertain you for hours. There’s not to many adds that rarely pop up. I think you should get this game and maybe one day they will fix these glitches!

Great game! I love the update, and just have a few suggestions
Thu Mar 16 2023 categg16

First of all, this is a great game full of a diverse group of animals, not just dogs and cats, and the new updates are amazing! All I have is a few suggestions. 1. There should be a few more injuries than cuts and scratches. Like, and illness or even support for extremely nervous dogs. I just thought that it would be more interesting than putting bandages on cuts. 2. Maybe, animals could have backstories that you learn about more and more as you take care of them. And the adopters could have more information, like how much experience they’ve had, what breed or kind of animal they want. That would be really cool. 3. This isn’t really that important, but I saw that the shelter is on a road with nothing on the other side. Maybe there could be houses that you don’t see the people but you see animals playing outside, and once in a while, you could see wild animals strolling around in the field. That could add a more charming element to the setting. That’s all I have for now! Thanks for reading, and I hope you take these suggestions into consideration!

Good job but need some work…
Sat Jul 06 2024 Elarah millson

The app runs super well! However, there’s a few things that I feel are needed to improve the game to make it more enjoyable. Future updates to consider Improved graphics and animal models The models of the animals are not only not really realistic, but they’re also very stiff. I noticed this, especially when you’re walking the animals… It would be great if you could make their walking animations more fluid and introduce things like the animals vocalizations being here such as a dog barking occasionally in the shelter. I also feel that it would be a cool idea to add Weather to the game not only would it make it more diverse, but it would introduce new environments and new challenges… Audio. As a person with low vision who plays this game, I feel that having an immersion immersive audio experience is a must not only does it give the games aesthetic better, but it also shows what the developers can do. I would push to include things like nature sounds into the game. Music… The game literally only has two songs! That’s really bad. It needs to have at least two more. Not only would it make it more experience worthy, but it would also encourage players to understand the aesthetics just a little bit better. could you please please please update this? I’m sure many players would greatly appreciate it, including myself.

AMAZING
Thu May 26 2022 pippirat2

I think this game is a very amazing activity it does not have any ads and I I feel like it’s like amazing and it’s like perfect for me and other people who like pets (LOL)because it really suits me and stuff and I’ve always wanted to have a pet it’s like you get to rescue all these different animals and buy different stuff for them and it’s very fun because you get to like help them and you get to open up a vet and take care of them it’s like they were your own and they are very like active and they just need you to pick them up and bring them around and then the drone drops off different stuff that you buy and you get it you just get to imagine like you’re a vet and it’s just so fun I feel like it really suits me and my family because we are a very animal liking family I hope you enjoy this game because it is really an amazing game

Fun but definitely needs some fine-tuning
Tue Feb 07 2023 -a19

This game is a super great mobile take on animal shelter simulator (I have no idea if there’s any affiliation but this is definitely inspired by it). That being said, there’s a few things that make the experience of playing a bit obnoxious at times 1) the constant pop-ups are hard to deal with, not just for the ads but pop-up notifications about building and tournaments etc. are unnecessary and super annoying. 2) the animal status bars decline pretty rapidly, if you have more than five animals it feels like you’re constantly tending to them because as soon as you finish one, another one is back in the orange. I feel like the shelter upgrades having more of an effect on how quickly these bars decline could be a good way to incentivize progress and expansion, or just decreasing the rate at which these bars drop overall. 3)the tool select screen is wonky and just another hassle, the option to upgrade your tools should be located in the store, not something you see every time you go to select a tool to complete a care task. 4) the fact that the wait times for potential adopters is so high is another thing I don’t understand? What’s the point of expanding and bringing in more animals if the rate at which you can adopt them out is super slow and impossible to upgrade. Give us like, an advertising mechanic to upgrade or something cause 5+ hours is way too long. 5) some of the tasks like washing and petting are a bit wonky and can take forever, but that’s a much more minor complaint of mine cause overall it’s not awful, it’s just annoying that it takes long enough to wash a cat that by the time I’m done the rest of my animals all have unmet needs.

Great game but I have a few ideas
Mon Aug 21 2023 Wings of fire fan is also moon

I love the game and the variety of animals but it wold be fun if there were baby versions of the animals as well and if the animals had traits like if a cat was bossy it would show up on perhaps on the clipboard on the animals pens and more specific traits the owners whant in a pet not just name age and animals maybe like specific breeds they whant and also many you could add more animals like a fox also not have a other section like geese should have there own category or for the crocodile’s and more potential lizards a reptile category and maybe players could rename the animals for fun because I had a lab named spot but it had no spots and it tickt me of so much but that’s it. Ps, please and more reptiles

Game bug?
Mon Apr 01 2024 KVsBloom

I remember I used to play this game a lot but got rid of it because it took up to much space but I recently downloaded it again and I think I found a bug because I was playing the game from the start and I made some progress and I logged off. idk if there is a save or something but the next day my progress isnt there and my money is at 0 and I can't do anything at ALL because I can't buy anything I did a few tasks on the explore tab but when I went to feed the cat my game froze I could still move the camera around the cat but my buttons where gone so I reopened the game and my progress reset like I said before, and I can't play it anymore idk if it's a bug but I'm redownloading this because I really loved this game I hope it was a small bug and it will be fixed when I redownload it!

I want the old ways!!
Sat Jul 16 2022 08Allie08

So I downloaded this game bc I watch kindly Keyin and it looked real fun. I mean comparing to how it used to be compared to now it completely different. Ex. in the old version, you had to take a picture, then upload it. Then you could choose who you want to pick. You could send an employee to have an inspection of the family and figure out what the owner wants out of their dream pet. But now, you pay coins to make an “add”. There is nothing you have to do just a click of a button! And you don’t get a lot of information when trying to find an owner. And one I really want back is walking. I really want to feel it. You pick it up! And now you can’t do any of those things. I know you may had tried to make it easier, but in my opinion, this wasn’t an update. Please change!!

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