Is the game meant to be this hard?

[enobongukpong73]

I came into it thinking it was a cute casual game, but it is way too hard to take care of the dogs. Their hunger and thirst needs deplete way too quickly, so when visitors come they never adopt them and i lose money quite quickly. I feel like I'm missing something and it's really annoying.

[w0lfs0ng233]

It's hard for me too, especially without the ability to hire people since the breakroom is locked. Nevermind the constant bugs makes the game both unplayable or more harder than it needs to be but the charm of it captures how fast-paced shelter environments are.

[Kalako]

If you go into settings there is an option to adjust the speed of time in the game. That made it way more manageable for me to make it the slowest possible.

As for the breakroom, you can unlock it, you just have to spend your skillpoints in the way that leads to it in the skill tree. I'm not sure if the workers are actually beneficial or not now, because when the demo first came out, I hired a worker and they just stood there and did nothing. The team has done a lot of patches since then though, so hopefully they actually do their job now ;)

[goldenkitten533]

Personally, I find the game way too hard. It's very chaotic. You have barely any time in the morning to feed/water dogs. It's a pain in the butt holding/moving 2 dogs at once because of how you have to scroll. More dogs are coming in while you're trying to deal with adopters and moving dogs while still feeding/watering/caring for the ones you have. Maybe if you could turn off more dogs coming in or slow it down... I keep loading the game up because it's cute and I've been waiting for a game like this but there's just too much to do and not enough time. It's not fun, it's just a constant struggle.

[Lhama_galopante]

I guess it also has to do with the controls, I find it clunky to scroll through the "held itens" with 'q' and 'e', meanwhile scrolling through dogs and itens with the mouse scroll, I don't know, sometimes I'd forget about 'q' and 'e' and waste a while there - and in that while 3 dogs arrived, 2 visitors are waiting and 5 dogs have either scaped the kennels or stoped eating/drinking while filling the kennels with messes. I managed to enjoy the game, when the bugs didn't put me off it, and I didn't know you could slow the game down, maybe that helps (but not when everyone decides walls don't exist, the dogs pull on the leash while there are 3 others needing baths and then collectively start a hunger strike).


Also, I think we should be able to skip or speed up the adoption cutscene to the result - 5 times a day, with some you KNOW aren't gonna happen gets old fast.