Animal Shelter — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Steam Summer Sale is here! | 2026-06-25 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 We are part of the Steam Summer Sale 2026! On this occasion, we have special discounts for you! 🥳 One of the biggest events on Steam every year, the Summer Sale brings amazing deals on games across all genres, giving players the perfect chance to expand their libraries and discover new favorites. ☀️🎮 This year we celebrate the Steam Summer Sale 2026, and Animal Shelter is part of this special time on Steam! 🐶 During the Summer Sale, Animal Shelter is available with a 85% discount! 🤯 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239320/Animal_Shelter/ This is a great opportunity to start your adventure with an animal shelter |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Hunting Dogs Pack OUT RIGHT NOW! | 2026-04-29 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 The wait is finally over - it’s time to welcome a brand new group of energetic companions to your shelter! 🐕✨ We’re happy to announce that the Hunting Dogs Pack is now available for Animal Shelter 2! 🎉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4613570/Animal_Shelter_2__Hunting_Dogs_Pack/ Prepare your shelter for the arrival of some of the most loyal, intelligent and active dogs out there. Hunting dogs are known for their energy and sharp minds and now they’re ready to become part of your daily routine. 💛 You’ll get the chance to meet almost all of the included breeds at different stages of life - from adorable puppies, thr |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Hunting Dogs DLC Announcement! | 2026-04-22 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 We’re excited to announce that the Hunting Dogs DLC for Animal Shelter 2 will launch on April 29, 2026! 🐾 Get ready to welcome some of the most loyal, intelligent and energetic dogs into your shelter. Don’t forget to add the DLC to your Steam Wishlist so you’re ready for the premiere! 🤗👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4613570/Animal_Shelter_2__Hunting_Dogs_DLC/ In this DLC, your shelter will welcome 9 unique hunting dog breeds. Known for their intelligence and energy, these dogs will bring a whole new level of liveliness and character to your shelter. You’ll get to meet almost all of them at different stages of |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Vet Clinic DLC OUT RIGHT NOW! | 2026-03-06 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 The doors are open, the equipment brand fresh and shining! There are plenty of animals waiting for your help! It is time to open the Vet Clinic! 🏥 We are excited to announce that the Vet Clinic DLC is now available to play! 😻 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247800/Animal_Shelter_2__Vet_Clinic_DLC/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3fzWGP_GI New additions and interactions to your shelter with Vet Clinic DLC: 🏥 Professional facilities Patients with complex cases need complex tools to diagnose and treat them. Unlock new rooms and equipment to take in animals that need your care the most. Expand your vet clinic with |
| 🐎 LUNAR NEW YEAR EVENT! 🐎 | 2026-02-16 | 🐉 Happy Chinese New Year to our players celebrating around the world! 🥂 2026 marks the Year of the Horse 🐎 - so get ready for a celebration full of energy, good fortune and of course… adorable pets! To celebrate, we’ve prepared a special Chinese New Year Event in Animal Shelter! 🥳 Just like before, event items will be marked in the shop with a special ribbon 🎀 And yes, just like last time, some items will stay with you after the event ends! 🎊 Items to pick up 🐟 Lucky Fish - for prosperity and good vibes (sadly, still doesn’t reduce cleaning duty). 🦁 Guardian Lion Statue – because your shelter deserves royal protection. 🌳 Money Tree - |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Vet Clinic DLC Announcement! | 2026-02-12 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 Completely new ways of taking care of your animals are coming at your doorstep with the new upcoming DLC! 🐶 We are happy to announce that the Animal Shelter 2 family will expand with a new DLC - Vet Clinic! 🏥 But wait, wait... because the premiere is next month! 👇 🤯 Vet Clicnic DLC premiere March 6, 2026! 🎉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247800/Animal_Shelter_2__Vet_Clinic_DLC/ Waiting for you will be plenty of new additions and interactions to your shelter with Vet Clinic DLC: 🏥 Professional facilities Patients with complex cases need complex tools to diagnose and treat them. Unlock new rooms and equipment |
| 💘 Valentine’s Event 💘 | 2026-02-12 | 💘 Valentine’s Event Has Arrived to Animal Shelter! 🐾 The most heartwarming time of the year is here! 💕 Our Valentine’s Event returns once again, bringing a fresh wave of romantic decorations, adorable themed pet accessories, and charming furniture to your shelter. From now until February 16th, you can transform your space into the coziest love-filled haven! 😻 As in previous editions, all Valentine’s items in the shop are marked with a special festive ribbon 🎀 And yes, some of them will remain in your shelter permanently even after the event ends! So don’t miss the chance to give your shelter a truly heartwarming makeover. 🐾 Sweet Valent |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Little Friends DLC is out! | 2026-01-12 | Hello there Animal Shelter Players! 👋 Another milestone has been achieved and we want to celebrate it with you! 🥳 Animal Shelter 2 - Little Friends DLC is now available on Steam! 🎉 You can now go and check out the game! 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4119650/Animal_Shelter_2__Little_Friends_DLC/ For all the people who are interested in trying out Animal Shelter and didn’t have a chance to buy it yet we are giving a bundle so it is more accessible to you than ever with lowered prices! 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/66163/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56927/ Waiting for you are: 🦦 Ferrets 🐁 Mice 🐹 Hamsters 🐭 Ger |
| New Year Event with Animal Shelter! | 2025-12-29 | Greatest New Year to all the owners of Animal Shelter! 🥂 With the end of the Christmas event, we are bringing you a New Years one!🥳 New Years items will be marked (just like in the previous event) in the shop with a special ribbon🎀 Here are all the things you can expect during the event and just like in the last one you get to keep some of them after it!😮🎆 Items to pick up🎊 Couldn’t do without it, a disco ball will make the place pop. Animals want to dance too🕺 A new year billboard billboard with balloons 🤔 Oh well, might as well take it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We also have a new years cup🍺 There was also a cake 🥮 and plates 🍽️ so that each gues |
| Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎇 | 2025-12-24 | Dear Animal Lovers! 🎅 Christmas and New Year are in front of us, so we'd like to wish you and your greatest four legged friends best food, the tastiest snacks and a lot of cozy blankets this winter and all the following season! ❤️ May your time during those holidays be full of joyful barks and meows filled with love! 😻 Thank you for being with us throughout another year of Animal Shelter 🎆🎇 Yours sincerely, Animal Shelter Team |
| Christmas Event is here! | 2025-12-19 | Ho ho ho, Dear Animal Lovers! 🎄 The holidays are coming, and so is the Animal Shelter Christmas Update! 🤩 Here’s everything you can expect in this festive season. Winter Wonderland 🥰 Our map is now fully covered in snow ❄️ — yes, snow everywhere! ⛄ We’ve also added a festive tune 🎵 and updated the UI to match the holiday spirit, making your gameplay extra cozy. Festive Fun & Decorations 🎁 A chilly breeze 🥶 brings back a familiar friend — a cute penguin 🐧, waiting in a comfy spot just for you! 💝 You’ll also find gingerbread houses, snowballs, and plenty of candy 🍬 scattered around to make your adventures sweeter. Holiday Outfits for Y |
| Nominated for the Steam Awards! 🏆 | 2025-11-24 | Hello Animal Lovers! 👋 Big news! Our game has been nominated for the Labor of Love award in this year’s Steam Awards 2025 - thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way! 🎉 This nomination is incredibly special to us. We worked tirelessly to create a game where you can truly indulge into the works of having your own animal shelter! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239320/Animal_Shelter If you think Animal Shelter deserves this award, you can vote for us now! 😊 Let's make this happen together! 💪 Thank you! Animal Shelter Team |
| Animal Shelter is part of Steam Animal Fest! | 2025-11-10 | Greetings Animal Shelter Players! 👋 We're happy to announce that Animal Shelter 1 is part of Steam Animal Fest! Steam Animal Fest is here, where you can play thousands of games made for all the fans of animals! 🔥 In Animal Shelter 1 our goal is simple: make every furry friend feel loved! 🐶🐱 Give pets, treats, and toys, and earn their trust in return. Learn their personalities to find them the perfect forever home. Don’t wait — it’s time to open your shelter and start spreading happiness! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1239320/Animal_Shelter If you want to know more, ask questions, be a part of the community, we invite you to our offic |
| Scariest Update! 💀 | 2025-10-29 | You come back to your shelter like you do everyday, but something feels wrong. Fog is everywhere, red eyes flashing in the corridors. And is that.... a Skeleton!? 👻 Halloween is back, and Animal Shelter is now spookier than ever! It is an opportunity for all of you that didn't play before during the event to get all the costumes and decorations! 🎃 We will remind you what will appear for a week period (October 31 - November 7) in our game and what rules will accompany it: 🎃 New, thematic clothes for your pupils 🎃 Changed sky and atmosphere 🎃 Gargoyles by the main entrance to the shelter and the stable from the Horse DLC 🎃 New Halloween d |
| Animal Shelter 2 - ROADMAP 🐾 | 2025-08-14 | Hey Animal Lovers! 🐾 We’re excited to share that 4 big updates are coming to Animal Shelter 2! 🎉 And share our ROADMAP with you 🛣️ 🥰 These updates are packed with new features, quality-of-life improvements, and fun surprises to make your shelter experience even more heartwarming! 💖 Check out all the details and what’s coming next here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2658510/view/515218419125059778 Stay tuned, cuddle your pets, and get ready for some exciting updates! 🐶🐱 See you soon, Animal Shelter Team |
| Animal Shelter 2 is OUT! | 2025-07-23 | Hello there Animal Shelter Players! 👋 Another milestone has been achieved and we want to celebrate it with you! 🥳 Animal Shelter 2 is now available on Steam! 🎉 You can now go and check out the game! 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2658510/Animal_Shelter_2 We improved every aspect, with more mechanics, more variety, smoother and more fun to play. Now you won’t have to play alone, as Animal Shelter 2 is coming with a CO-OP mode! Up to 6 players, you and your friends can join together in handling challenges by taking care of animal shelter! We really hope you can give it a try and see how it is for yourself! 😍 We also want to say thank |
| NEW PATCH | 2025-07-16 | 🐾 Update Time – Shelter Closure Bug Fixed! 🐾 After several weeks of digging through code and thanks to all the save files and reports you sent us, we finally managed to fix the bug that caused some shelters to close unexpectedly when entering the park! 💛 Thank you so much for your patience, support, and incredible help during this process. We couldn’t have done it without you! 💛 Patch Notes: Fixed a bug that would sometime lead to shelter closure when entering the park Lowered the chance for animals getting sick while in the shelter See you soon, Animal Shelter Team |
| Donations for Real Animal Shelters! | 2025-07-08 | Hello Animal Lovers! 😍 The premiere of Animal Shelter 2 is in two weeks! We can't wait to show you what we have prepared for you in the full version of the game. 😊 But in the meantime... we will donate real animal shelters! And you can choose which one! 🫵 You can submit your shelters' applications only via the link below, read the whole entry carefully ⤵️ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2658510/view/546739082808528558 With the premiere of Animal Shelter 2, we want to continue what we started during the premiere of the first part of the game - supporting real animal shelters around the world, which you 🫵 our players, will choose! ❤ |
| My PET - OFFICIAL CONTEST AS2! 🐾 | 2025-06-30 | Join the "My Pet" contest and win amazing prizes! A poster of your pet featured in the Animal Shelter game! ✏️ A key for the full version of Animal Shelter 2 🔑 Curious? Check out the contest rules on the Animal Shelter 2 Steam page 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2658510/view/546739082808526230?l=english Animal Shelter 2 Team |
| Animal Shelter 2 - Release Date is here! | 2025-06-26 | Animal Lovers! 🎊 Finally, after all this time we're incredibly excited to announce something that you waited for a long time! 🔥 Throughout the first Playtest, Demo, Prologue, hard work of our team, polishing, implementing months of your feedback, requests, ideas and now we have a game that is ready for the launch! 🤩 🗓️ The release date for Animal Shelter 2 is: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2658510/Animal_Shelter_2/ We remember about Animal Shelter 1 community and every player who has Animal Shelter 1 on their Steam account can count on a massive discount for the release of the Animal Shelter 2 🤝 Those were crazy 537 DAYS since our a |