Pet Shop Simulator

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Pet 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.

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Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

+14

68%

Audience ScoreBased on 210 reviews

gameplay8 positive mentions

stability14 negative mentions

The game offers a relaxing experience with cute animal designs and a variety of products to sell.
It is easy to learn and has a straightforward gameplay loop, making it accessible for casual gamers.
The developers are responsive to feedback and are actively working on updates to improve the game.

The game suffers from numerous bugs and performance issues, especially when loading many NPCs, leading to lag and crashes.
There is a lack of content and variety, particularly in the types of animals available, which makes the gameplay feel repetitive and lacking depth.
The tutorial is overly long and restrictive, and the user interface is cumbersome, making it difficult to navigate and manage the store effectively.

gameplay
32 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
63%
13%
The gameplay has been described as having interesting mechanics, but overall lacks depth and engagement, leading to boredom after a few hours. Players have noted issues with a cumbersome user interface and a poorly designed interaction mechanic that detracts from the experience. While some find the gameplay loop enjoyable, significant bugs and design flaws hinder progression and 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 what they are responding to because if there are multiple, 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 such a poor design; it's un-intuitive, pointless, and to be honest, a waste of time.”
- “The gameplay is so boring that it becomes tedious after just a few hours.”
graphics
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38%
50%
13%
The game's graphics are generally praised for their charming art style and cute animal designs, creating an appealing environment. However, some players experience significant frame rate drops during high-load scenarios, even on capable hardware like the RTX 3060, which detracts from the overall 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, and I have a 3060 RTX graphics card.”
- “I'm the type of player who prioritizes gameplay over graphics, and this game epitomizes that mindset.”
stability
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game is generally enjoyable, but players report significant stability issues, including frequent bugs, crashes, and game-breaking glitches that hinder progress. Many users have experienced problems such as freezing during loading and persistent non-responsive characters, which detracts from the overall experience. Despite its fun mechanics, the game's current state is marred by these stability concerns.
- “The game is also super buggy at its current state.”
- “Yes, the game is fun and enjoyable; however, sadly the game freezes on load and then crashes.”
- “A really unique and fun game with simple mechanics, but I have one issue with this game: it's really buggy. In my gameplay, the customer never leaves the stores even when it's past the time when the store closes. This completely breaks the game, and you cannot progress further without removing that bugged customer standing like a stone statue in the corner.”
music
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is limited and requires players to set up speakers after retrieving songs from storage, but the tracks are generally considered unappealing, leading many to prefer their own music. Additionally, the overall sound design lacks ambient noise, making the environment feel lifeless, with only minimal sound effects present.
- “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.”
- “[b]Sounds:[/b] 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.”
grinding
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious and frustrating, particularly due to the repetitive nature of restocking and ordering stock without a clear goal. The lack of meaningful progression makes the grinding feel aimless, and technical issues like crashes further detract from the 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.”