Animal Shelter — Who recommends this game?

Lifetime gross spend

$645Kest

grossAtFullPrice $2.22M · promo blend

Net to developer

$415Kest

after Valve / VAT / refunds

Lifetime units

110,817▼ 100.0%

195 / day median · launch

Launch window · 30d

$84K13% of LTD

6K units · $14.39 ASP

Confidence

medium±18%

Based on 3,518 reviews collected over 4.1 years; English-dominant audience; non-Early-Access.

01 Revenue · monthly

Gross consumer spend USD

Gross

02 Lifetime breakdown

Launch window vs tail · units & spend

30 days launch window

Launch · units

5,8595.3%

Tail · units

105K

104,95894.7%

Launch · gross

$84K

$84K13.1%

Tail · gross

$561K

$561K86.9%

Net to dev

$415K

$415K64.4%

01 Like Score

qualityScore = Σ inbound · log₁₀(reviews+1) · positive% · rank-bonus

Tier B · ▲ 0 7d

DCB ●AS

Inbound

113

Σ log₁₀(R+1)

Avg pos%

81%

→ 120

Score history · 30d retention

36 (14d ago)120 (now)

02 Top inbound contributors

Games whose “More Like This” lists rank Animal Shelter · 113 inbound · top 10 shown

qualityScore 120

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+2.6

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+2.4

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+2.2

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+2.1

Water Bears VR181 reviews · 92% pos · Schell Games · 2016

+2.1

Pet Shop Simulator: Prologue407 reviews · 76% pos · Games Incubator · 2024

+2.0

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+2.0

Animal Trainer Simulator: Prologue199 reviews · 80% pos · Games Incubator · 2024

+1.8

Virtual Exhibition88 reviews · 94% pos · Kersten Glaser · 2020

+1.8

Let's Learn Japanese! Hiragana121 reviews · 87% pos · Dr. Cyril Splutterworth · 2019

+1.8

+ 14 more inbound gamesLong tail · ranks across catalog

+21.8

03 Animal Shelter’s “More like this”

Outbound MLT · 30 games

#5American Truck Simulator

97%160K

#6Disney Dreamlight Valley

92%21K

#7House Flipper 2

87%15K

#8Supermarket Simulator

92%77K

Review score

8/ 9

Very Positive

% positive

87.4%cohort 71%

3,148 pos · 452 neg

Total reviews

3.6Ktracked

3,600 crawled

Velocity · 30d

1 / dayest

38 this month

Steam-purchase rate

82.0%flat

18.0% free / EA / key

01 Language distribution

Reviewer interface language · count, share of total, share positive

28 languages · top 12 shown

ENEnglish

66.6%2,39688%

DEGerman

5.5%19881%

RURussian

4.2%15290%

PLPolish

3.5%12693%

ZHSimplified Chinese

3.2%11573%

ESSpanish

2.8%10293%

PTBrazilian Portuguese

2.8%10192%

FRFrench

2.8%10186%

TRTurkish

1.7%6088%

KOKorean

0.9%3269%

CZCzech

0.7%2588%

TWTraditional Chinese

0.6%2282%

02 Reviews by playtime

Hours played at time of review · positive% per bucket

0-1h 190

59%positive

5.3% of reviewsrefund window

1-10h 1,995

88%positive

55.4% of reviews

10-100h 1,355

91%positive

37.6% of reviews

100h+ 60

90%positive

1.7% of reviews

03 Monthly timeline

Reviews per month · positive vs negative stacked · since launch

Positive 3,148Negative 452

232174116580

22·0422·1123·0624·0124·0825·0325·1026·04

04 Breakdowns

Reviews segmented · count, % of total, % positive

3,600 reviews

Free product

184/ 3,600

5.1% of total92% positive

Early access

0/ 3,600

0.0% of total— no data

Key activation

463/ 3,600

12.9% of total89% positive

Steam Deck

9/ 3,600

0.3% of total89% positive

Steam purchase

2,953/ 3,600

82.0% of total87% positive

Recommended

3,148/ 3,600

87.4% of total— votedUp

Not recommended

452/ 3,600

12.6% of total— votedDown

Reviews crawled

3,600/ 3,600

100.0% of total87% positive

3,518 reviews · 87% positive

Detailed reviewer overlap is being computed. Check back soon.