How much fear and horror?

[Times New Roman]

i'm considering Animal Well as a gift for my teen. Puzzles and novel worlds are definitely her thing. Fear and horror are definitely not her thing. Wondering, since it is 2D and only regarding animals, how much horror and fear can this game really generate? Yet, it is tagged that way. I am not a gamer. Advice?

[Goblin]

There's two things that are "scary" I'd say. I'll put them in spoiler tags for good measure:
First a large ghost dog will chase you if you pick up a certain item near the start, floating after you and doing damage on contact.
Secondly The endings of the game have you chased by a shadowy mystery animal(?) that shoots lasers from its eyes.

Neither is really jumpscary horror type stuff, there's zero blood or gore, and I'm pretty sure I'd have been fine with it when I was a kid. They're both more about introducing a bit of time pressure and stress, and both can be made rather easy with some thinking.

Oh and occasionally a very large kangaroo can appear, which is more of a "jumpscare" but not particularly... horrory? It's just surprising.

[[TBG] Mai]

Not a fan of horror either.

There are ghosts but they're more an obstacle than a threat.
There are few instances that go a bit more into the "fear" factor which are the chase scenarios by different animals. But they're normally done just once.
Just to name some, the Dachshund and Ostrich made me jump the first time.
That and the final area being dark and creepy alltogether for story reasons.

But overall it's pretty tame compared to other games tagged as horror.

[Times New Roman]

This is very helpful. Thank you, both.

[NixXxoN]

It's so interesting how this game manages to make what are normally very friend-shaped, cuddly animals be so menacing. Even a freaking wiener dog.

[Banan]

It's fine for a teen. There are some big animals that make spooky noises and chase you sometimes but they're framed more like puzzles than monsters.