Shelter
Shelter is a survival video game developed by Might and Delight for Windows and Mac. It was released on 28 August 2013 after being accepted through Steam Greenlight. In the game players control a mother badger…
Shelter is an adventure developed by Might and Delight, released 28 August 2013 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 2.3 hrs to finish.
What Shelter is
Shelter is an adventure game developed by Might and Delight and released in 2013. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Experience the wild as a mother badger sheltering her cubs from harm. On their journey they get stalked by a bird of prey, encounter perils of the night, river rapids crossings, big forest fires and the looming threat of death by starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are drama, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shelter holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.6 GHz single core, 1 GB RAM and GeForce 400 series, ATI Radeon HD 2xxx. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Shelter launched on 28 August 2013, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please and Rayman Legends. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto V, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shelter yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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