Animal Simulator

Once again we see a game with a genuinely great idea that is completely massacred by its execution, [i]even considering that the game is in early access[/i]. To what degree are we going to pay for unfinished games based on their potential alone, when the game itself is nearly unplayable? The trailers on the steam page are misleading to say the least. Some things to consider before buying: * Every single loading screen within the game (down to switching animals or opening options) takes at least five minutes without exaggeration. I found myself walking away every time I needed to load a new screen ([i]this will cause Steam to second guess any refunds as a natural playtime around the loading screens becomes bloated[/i]). There's also only one song that plays on these loading screens which gets annoying very quickly. This may be fixed as the game continues to update but I wanted the refund issues to be apparent. * The animal models aren't terrible but the [i]gameplay[/i] is painful. Controls are strange and janky and most things each animal is meant to do, they can't seem to do it right. This includes soft-blocking issues with skills and activities. You can hope the devs will fix this issue as time goes on but much of this is the crux of the whole experience and right now, it's just not there. * A lot of the game is somehow focused on the human element despite being a supposed animal simulator. You must play the human to accomplish most of the basic tasks which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of the game. * If you are someone who has played any animal simulator games on mobile platforms, sadly this is no different. It operates, runs, looks, and plays exactly like a badly executed mobile game. The environment is empty and boring, the minimap is hard to use and is very similar to mobile minimap styles, and it operates on achievement alone (as in it gives you no real or lasting reward for completing the quests). * The quest system, though I appreciate its implementation, needs a lot of work. Many quests are chosen at random and either don't match with your animal at all, or are at such a level that makes it impossible to complete. Some decent aspects I wanted to mention: * The animal models and animations are actually pretty decent. There aren't many animals but all of them have a realistic look and movement that is pleasant despite the janky controls. The horse could use a little work, often moving too fast for how the camera operates but this could change. * Being able to choose different maps with different climates is very cool and I would hope they could expand on those. This game pushes the idea of what constitutes "Early Access" and what is viable as purchasable content. Perhaps if the devs keep updating, it can turn into not only a playable game, but one that could be quite enjoyable. Until then, it is a $20 half-baked mobile game. I'd actually recommend WolfQuest instead as that's still the leader for animal-sim survival type games. Thanks for reading.

This game has a great concept. There's 8 animals and 15 maps. I spent 10 months stalking this game for updates. PROS + Varying amount of maps + Good concept of your animal and person working together. CONS - Pausing doesn't pause the game. - Developer hasn't released a single gameplay video since Day 1 release. Only hype trailers about some features and animals. - Developer moved on to a different game, 4 months after release, because this one didn't gain popularity. - Developer has stopped checking in on this and hasn't given an update for our feedback. - Human can die. Quests will revive him. Animal can't die or it's game over. - Swapping Maps and/or animals will keep the meters at the same value. - Unlimited Maps don't generate enemies and water sources outside the initial map area. - Aiming a ranged weapon has the scope in 2nd person. It's to the left of the person and isn't lined up when trying to shoot anything. Haven't played long enough for the following features > Year cycle > Nesting > Buying buildings and building something > Driving vehicles

Honestly I was having fun with the game. but it clearly isn't done by any means. i'd like to see the game under go farther development personally. I'm just happy runnin' around as a wolf XD but other then that there isn't much to do and almost every human on the maps hates you unless it's your human friend. I cant recommend the game at its current price. wait for a sale. I hope this game doesn't become abandonware I wanna see it go somewhere. Still very early.

This game is fun! however, it is not at all what I expected. Keep in mind it is still in early access but it has a long way to go. Things that need to be fixed that are not necessarily a big issue are: - The dying noises most of the time do not match the animal/person. A boar can sound like a dying woman - You can still die in the loading screen, and then when you die it stops loading you to wherever you wanted to be. - When you die, it will not let you press main menu, only reload. - When switching animals, this did not happen every time but only once, my animal family from the last game switched over to my new animal. I was an elephant and I switched to an alligator. I was an alligator with an elephant family. - Sometimes the eat does not work. This is problematic because you get hungry and thirsty fast. - Switching to animal and human is not ideal. I want to zoom in and out of my animal but if you do, you switch to the human. Things I wish this game had or was: - I wish this game had a natural random. When you walk around, there will be randomly goats and wolves running around and coexisting. There is no natural biomes or places you go to expect the animals, they are just everywhere except for the farm animals kept in a fence. I was hoping for biomes and less random placement and spawning. - Everyone and everything wants to kill you despite what animal you are or what you have done. I feel like depending on the animal and what actions you have shown, then maybe you should be killed but otherwise, you have no chance. It takes out the fun and mystery of it. If you spawn as a crow, you will be shot by a person with no question. A dog? You will be hit. I wish this would only happen if you were perhaps caught stealing chicken eggs, rather than you just are an enemy to everyone. The one thing I did like in this same category is there is spawning points where you can spawn a fight. - I do not like that you have a spawned home and can not change it. I would like there to be more survival aspects, like picking your own home. - I was wishing the birth of children to be more real. Not visually, but time wise. If you have a child, they spawn and grow up in three days. I want there to be wait time before they spawn and I wan there to be a wait time before you can just have another. - The option to have your friends/family to follow you does not work half the time. They will not follow you. - I do not like that you spawn with your animal friend and immediately get to have help and kids. I think you should have to find them. Overall, I think the game is too chaotic random and it doesn't have enough realistic additions. There is not enough struggle that an animal has in the wild.

I've enjoyed messing with this game....I will continue to mess with it especially when that dragon comes out but right now it's not good. It's really rather bad and that's a shame because fun concept and technically there's lots of stuff to do. Maybe it's just singleplayer (which is the only mode I have played) or something but....here we go. 1. Bad hitboxes. Stuff can hit you easily but you have to be super on point as an animal to defend yourself. This is especially true if you are the horse but while you can hunt stuff enough to survive, any combat mission is a pain. 2. Everyone wants to kill you. Unless you are the horse or the human EVERYONE wants to kill you. I get why folks might be alarmed by some of the animals but....why can you not walk down the suberb town or the city sidewalk as a dog and NOT have totally weaponless random humans chase you around trying to punch you to death? Why does everyone hate the bird? What did that bird do to get every human who spots them wanting to kill them when they also are the friend of apparently the town's protector? Oh and...this isn't just gun holding humans....again. Almost every NPC exept your human character's personal family. Random people walking down the street. Like I said...people who try to punch or kick your character to death when you have done nothing to them. 3. The crocadillian's ability is to dive...and it can't see anything down there. The water is too blue to do any real water exploration. It can't attack or eat while swimming either. Oh and if you get a snake on you, good luck turning around in a way where you can get at its hitbox. 4. You can not see your friend of animal friend's stats even as animal. They just have a health bar that slowly goes down and there's no way to know which need they need. Are they hungry? Sleepy? Thirsty? You can't tell so guess they're just gonna die. Granted...you can get them back but like....they basically become a temp buff really. Or sometimes just a hinderance as the wolf occationally attacks people. 5. The game is buggy. Pick up meat as the raven, try to fly and see what happens. Real slow walking with it to to the point of nearly unusuable. 6. Spawning with too much stuff. I actually would prefer not to spawn in with my animal's animal friend right there ready. I would prefer to earn them and the human doesn't need to spawn with farm animals either. Some maps just give you those and I'm like....why? 7. Can we loose the human sleep bar loss on singleplayer please? The intended multiplayer is one thing but farming on singleplayer would be nuts because you have to take care of both these charicters. The result? Mostly ignore the human completly to run around and explore the maps with the animal. 8. Racoon can't outrun much so if anything agros onto you that you can't take then you're screwed and as stated above everything wants you dead. Including the people you are suppose to be helping protect....including the ones who don't have weapons. Racoons aren't big animals and not well liked but who chases after a racoon to punch and kick it when it was minding its business? 9. Swapping your human friend is bugged right now. The face changes but nothing else does. Want a black guy with white hands? Well this bug is for you. 10. Unnessisary limitations on level selection. Why are the maps restricted when you pick some species? Why can't I take the dog to MOST of them? For some of the ones with less limits you can go with one animal and swap on the map to have that animal anyway but the dog is always exluded. Just let us use all the maps regaurdless. This is an unnessisary restriction and there's not even a visible patturn to it. For example....the croc is not blocked from some regions with barely any water but some creatures are blocked from very random scenic areas. 11. Your inhabitants pay you to protect them. This pops up at the bottom of the screen a lot. In one of the populated arid maps the airplane is parked where driving cars sometimes hit it and some of these warnings seem to be related to that. Uuuuuh....exuse me but you guys crashing into the obveeus airplane there is not my fault. I haven't even moved it. That's where it spawns. Lots of those warnings have nothing to do with anything you're anywhere near either. Somebody somewhere on the map ran off to attack something and then decided to get mad at YOU that they got a scratch so they sent you a snarky Email because you didn't come rescue them. It doesn't seem to HURT much thank goodness but with everything else including the general agression to almost any pet this protector guy has it does have me kind of snickering with a "Really? Do they though?"

This game is very clunky and hard to control thus far.. not my best experience in gaming so far.. The graphics are cute though, and the sourced animations are good ones.. For now, I think it's a bit too janky for me to enjoy, but if the controls were a bit less floaty and finnicky, I think I'd genuinely enjoy the game quite a bit :)

This game has a lot of work to do remember it's only Early Access it is still being worked on other than that this game is really good and I do recommend playing it because the Creator is working on more features for it until then we have this to work with and I am very pleased to be playing it

Animal simulator has some potential, but its so glitchy, and only has had 1 update since release. The hitbox is so stupid, you have to be at an exact angle, to land a hit and the AI is bad, not to mention the fact that you could be a harmless rabbit, and humans try to kill you for no reason, and you run out of stamina like 5 seconds after running, and some enemies are to hard to kill...How does a dog kill a pack of wolves? I get this game is early access, but just by playing in, it seems like it shouldn't even be out yet 1/10

game crashed before even loaded, don't know why can load games like gta and rdr2 but not this if someone can help on why this is happening that would be good thanks.

dont know if its a bug or something but i tried launching this game multiple times and it kept freezing at 90% loading, then said it was unresponsive i understand its early access and there are going to be bugs but if its fixed in updates then i will change the review Edit: it finally loaded just took a while and it crashed again while trying to return to the main menu i was able to play for a short time and enjoyed the time i played it looks like a great game and im sure if my pc met the system requirements it would run better cant wait to see where this game goes

Game has a good potential. Needs to be worked on a lot. Most of my "gameplay" consisted of either: the loading screen being stuck at 90% for ages, my wife getting killed by a wild hog for no reason, my wolf getting killed by my "allies", me trying to load wood into my truck and falling out of the map, me trying to complete quests to revive my master and my master never coming back from the dead. Even after completing the tutorial, the game was still unclear to me. Couldnt change my skin or game difficulty after pressing "b". Getting water source in the village map was impossible. Playing as a dog gets you only 3 maps you can play on. Everybody wants to kill you for no reason, even if you play as a dude who is allied with them. 2/10, wouldnt get killed by an angry deer buck again. Props to the developer though, polishing such a game will take a lot of effort. Even after 3 hours, I didnt get myself to enjoy it though.

I have been waiting for this game a long. I just got it yesterday! I want to support this game, there is no other animal simulator out there except the stupid goat simulator but that lost the plot! I am a avid gamer and i want to get my wife into games. I am hoping this game turns into something we can play together. She isnt big into Early access and has a hard time getting into the game. She said, "Its lacking in feeling." I explained its an early access game and wont be ready for at least 3 years and now is the time to show support! GOOD JOB WITH THE CONCEPT! NOT TOO MANY FAMILY FRIENDLY GAMES I AM WAITING FOR LIKE THIS GAME. It is forcing me to decide if i want to recommend this game yes or no! Its not ready yet, im going to click yes but idk if i like the final product so this review may be changed later.

It is a complete and utter scam. Super buggy, ugly, and unbelievably boring. I tried to give it a chance, but you are better off playing a Roblox game than this junk. I have made better games in a webpage coder in 30 minutes.

Split screen don't work, along side being over priced for what it is. The graphics are a lot worst than in the video, crashes way to much. Could't even play it to start with had to go though and do the crash fix 3 times not worth the time and effort. cool concept though maybe in the future it could be better but now its need a lot more touch ups before i would put it out to the public to play.

the game was not that bad i started as a wolf and played the tutorial the one for animals was helpful but not for the human it would say things like "equip up the axe" but not tell you how (unless i didn't see that) i didn't finish it because i starved to death and just started playing the game. the game can be fun but you do run into a lot of bugs like i was playing on the city map and the cars back wheels kept going into the ground, and sometimes when i tried to eat as a horse it wouldn't give me food the game was fun and i would recommend to get it when there's more bug fixes or if its on sale

It is a wonderful concept. Absolutely beautiful. However, the controls are a bit... eh. To eat, drink, or fight (whether it be for food or self-defense,) you have to be lined up in a VERY particular way. If you're even just a slight hair off, it won't work. Playing as a horse, if you square up against a hunter, or any predator, you have to be facing them directly, right up against them, before any damage is inflicted. If you're even just a pinch off to the side or half an inch away from them, you won't inflict any damage. Makes it very difficult to defend yourself, to hunt, or to protect your group. The game has an amazing concept, but the controls need some serious work... but the reason I'm not sure that work is going to happen is because I've seen some posts on the Discussions page that indicate that the dev team might've abandoned this project, which is very sad.

There are many games for free on roblox that have better gameplay and graphics than this game. I wish I could get my money back.

...Graphics could be better If you want me to go further, be my guest. 1: It's been awhile since I last played, but I'm postive this was like the animal mobile games, bad and boring. Dispite being on a pc, this is still garbage to be blunt. Don't waste your money, go play wolfquest or animalia instead. Trust me, animalia might be buggy. But it has good gameplay (Just don't go on solo mode, it's boring as heck with almost zero ai) And wolfquest is epic and really realistic. So do yourself a favor and go play Animalia, Wolfquest or something else like those. They should please you.

Brilliant concept and love the music, just really hope they polish out the bugs and refine the mechanics...

Do not buy! Controls suck (esp human), companions randomly stop following, attacks don't register half the time. Jumping is also buggy, if you hold down jump you'll just keep going up into the sky? Great way to escape enemies but uhh I don't think raccoons can jump midair. Also I do not understand the point of the playable human character basically being the main thing. Someone mentioned the bad mobile animal sims... this is MUCH worse. The only positive I can see is that the models aren't too bad, I guess?

this game is cool and wene you start turn you graphics up then its realistic

EARLY ACCESS= CONTINUOUS WORK I've attempted twice now in the tutorial, died from starvation (Due to thinking pause actually paused the game...), as well as not knowing both your human and animal lose health so drastically due to controlling the other for longer periods of time, rinsed, repeated Meh. I played the lake map thinking "Hey, just maybe I can do this." I was wrong.. my what seemed to be pre-built settlement (trader, a few different AI humans, as well as my playable Human) was attacked by a wild boar and wiped out. Leaving me with my wolfie companion. Sprinting to the settlement as my wolf its pup and "Lover" with a random horse I didn't know I apparently had... I found the boar and was victories. but wait it gets better..... A random pack of other wolves made there way into the camp and killed me.... lol GAME OVER! -throws computer mouse at the wall- I am not the type to refund with what I see has potential so I will be patiently waiting for bigger updates hoping my $20 purchase will assist in further creation. If your going to purchase just to refund I suggest waiting for future work, or invest in a game that has a great idea and amazing potential. A few notes, 1,) I personally found the controlling mechanics to be rather over the top/difficult to handle, (Dealing with the tractor especially!) Being unable to move my screen while crafting (As Human). Not to say I dislike a new challenging game, but not a game that makes me want to throw my computer out the window attempting to cut down a tree in a simple tutorial. 2.) It is stressful knowing that the playable characters do not move unless they are controlled. (Being unable to fend for themselves it seems while you attempt game-play as the other. (Animal/Human) I will most likely add more to this review down the road (Or when I attempt it further after my frustrations simmer) but as of right now Animal Simulator will remain in my lobby until further updates. Been waiting for base release/Early access and hope it gets the type of clout it deserves in the long run!..... Update: Paid 21.09 at start up... 4.49 now. would say it isn't even worth being free since august of last year. I'm not mad, just strongly disappointed. Best wishes on the other projects dev takes on, but just hope there's more focus put towards them then this :3.

realy bugy but is on early acsess

This game is incredibly bad and confusional! It's full of bugs and often unplayble, when you die without being able to do anything. Controls and dynamics are bad and you end up to become frustrated because you obviously are unable to play properly and take advantage of your skils and the game becomes boring as well, when you are not able to perform even simple tasks. Fighting as a horse against a dog is basically impossible and you always die. The price is incredibly high compared to the current status and the number of bugs. I really can't recommend it. The programmers are working on adding new contents instead of working only on the main game and making it better. This doesn't bode well. I think that this will be another bad game that will always remain as it is, just like "Wilderness".

i did not liked the gameplay nor graphics

Can't stand the controls nor the graphics.

Not to be rude but PLEASE add a setting to turn off blood!

tbh i don't really like this game the looks of the game is really bad :/

its not good