Pet Shop Simulator
- June 21, 2024
- Games Incubator
- 2h median play time
Get on SteamPet Shop Simulator allows you to run your own pet shop, finding homes for various animals and ensuring their well-being with proper accessories. Interact with diverse customers, understanding their preferences to fulfill their pet desires. Properly equip your pets with suitable supplies, creating a thriving pet shop community.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game offers a relaxing and enjoyable experience, allowing players to manage their own pet shop with a variety of products.
- The graphics and art style are cute, making the game visually appealing.
- There is potential for future updates to expand content and improve gameplay mechanics.
- The game suffers from numerous bugs and performance issues, particularly with lag and unresponsive NPCs.
- Gameplay can become repetitive quickly, with a lack of meaningful progression or end goals.
- Limited variety of pets and items, along with a poorly designed employee management system, detracts from the overall experience.
- gameplay16 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 56 % neutral mentions
- 19 % negative mentions
The gameplay has been described as having interesting mechanics, but overall lacks depth and engagement, leading to boredom after a few hours. While the tutorial is straightforward and some mechanics become easier with practice, issues such as a cumbersome UI and a poorly designed interaction mechanic detract from the experience. Additionally, bugs can significantly hinder progress, indicating that while the game has potential, it requires improvements to enhance player enjoyment.
“I plan to play more in the future, but from the time I did play, the tutorial was pretty straightforward. Some of the mechanics take a moment to get used to, but once you get it, it's easy.”
“Overall, I really enjoy this game and have been hooked on it because I like the gameplay loop.”
“I'm the type of player who prioritizes gameplay over graphics, and this game epitomizes that mindset.”
“The UI is huge, which is an understatement. Maybe it's meant to be marketed at people with partial blindness, I'm not sure, but it's so big that it actually interferes with how the game is meant to be played. If you have 2-3 customers standing next to each other and you use the interaction mechanic, you cannot see how they are responding because they cover each other.”
“The interaction mechanic is so bad that I'm just not even using it if I can help it. It's poorly designed, un-intuitive, pointless, and honestly a waste of time.”
“The gameplay is so boring that it becomes tedious after just a few hours.”
- graphics8 mentions
- 38 % positive mentions
- 38 % neutral mentions
- 25 % negative mentions
The game's graphics receive mixed feedback; while many players appreciate the art style, environment, and cute animal designs, some experience significant frame rate drops during high-load scenarios, even on capable hardware like the RTX 3060. Overall, the visuals are generally well-received, but performance issues can detract from the experience.
“Love the art style and environment, and the animal designs are super cute.”
“Good graphics and design.”
“The animals are adorable & I love the art style.”
“Whenever the game is trying to load a lot of people, it drops my FPS from 140 to 30, and I can't get it to improve even if I turn everything down to low. I have a 3060 RTX graphics card.”
“I'm the type of player who prioritizes gameplay over graphics, and this game epitomizes that mindset.”
- stability7 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability is a significant concern, with multiple users reporting frequent bugs, crashes, and freezing issues that hinder gameplay. While players find the game enjoyable and unique, these technical problems, particularly at later stages, detract from the overall experience and can even halt progress.
“Once I got to the third upgrade, the game became very buggy.”
“The game is also super buggy in its current state.”
“In my gameplay, the customer never leaves the stores even when it's past closing time, which completely breaks the game and prevents further progress.”
- music5 mentions
- 20 % positive mentions
- 20 % neutral mentions
- 60 % negative mentions
The music aspect of the game allows players to add their own tracks by interacting with an item in the storage room, but the provided songs are generally considered lackluster. Additionally, the overall sound design is criticized for being sparse and unengaging, with minimal ambient sounds and only a few inconsequential sound effects, leading to a lifeless atmosphere.
“You can add music.”
“The music is an item in the storage room that you need to interact with and then set up speakers in the store.”
“There's a door sound (nobody cares), there's a sound when you gain or lose XP (nobody cares), you can sometimes hear a dog bark +1 for that. There's no ambient sound in the store, no music, no customers chatting... it just sounds dead most of the time, except for sound effects for things nobody cares about.”
“We have one potted plant, some vents for the ceiling, and speakers for music.”
- grinding4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious and frustrating, particularly due to the repetitive nature of restocking and managing inventory. Many feel that the lack of clear goals exacerbates the grind, suggesting that increasing upgrade costs could provide a more meaningful incentive to engage in grinding activities. Additionally, technical issues such as crashes further detract from the overall experience.
“Yes, many of the other criticisms are valid (especially how tedious restocking and ordering stock is - there are about 4 kinds of the same food and constantly having to check which flavor of that particular kind you're currently selling and then finding it in the shop again is extremely annoying) but for me the biggest problem is that there is no goal.”
“- Ordering stock is a really tedious and annoying thing.”
“Maybe even make each building upgrade more expensive from the last just to have a tiny grinding goal.”
