I am enjoying this game very much. It is addictive and time flies by, at least at the beginning. Unfotunately as you play longer, you realize there are some issues with the gameplay - if they were changed, it would make the game amazing. It is still worth the money, at least when on sale. Mainly, I have three complaints:

• When you take in a new pet, all it takes for it to be adoptable is letting it eat, drink and petting it (+ potentially clean and treat at the vet's). This means that there is actually no reason for me to adopt more than one pet at a time - when it comes to how fast I can adopt out pets, it makes no difference. In fact, taking in more pets just means you have to occassionally treat them for sickness, keep cleaning enclosures and check in on them constantly. I really wish the pets had to stay longer in the shelter before they can go up for adoption (a quarantine maybe?) - it would actually give me incentive to get more animals and expand the shelter beyond just my own play-pretend!
  
• As it seems, the goal of the game is to expand the shelter, get more stars and reputation. It wants you to buy more land and bigger higher level buildings. But I don't actually want that at all. Bigger space and bigger buildings just mean more time spent running around. A bigger building doesn't do absolutely anything apart from taking up more space! There is no advantage to the gameplay! Even having bigger enclosures and having more cages means little to me, as explained in the point above! If you could play with friends, then sure, but not when I'm the only one doing everything!
  
• When looking for new owners, you first match the traits of the pet to the wants of the candidate, then you pay money to disclose their living situation to match to the needs of the pet. You have to wait 10 seconds for the reveal. Pretty boring and annoying when you have to do it all the time. The time spent just staring at the timer adds up. I really don't know who thought that would make the game better. Additionally, you can look at the traits of one pet at a time as you look through the candidates. To make things efficient, it means you have to remember all traits of all your pets to try match them to the human. It would have been so much better if you only could see the traits of all your pets at once.

There are other, smaller things I am not that pleased about, like the very small variety in dog shapes (it seems there are only two medium sized breeds? with multiple colors for each) and cat shapes. The pets do not have an animation for using beds and pillows, they are purely decorations (I have also yet to see dogs using their toys). Sometimes, there are little bugs - but thankfully nothing too game breaking and they disappear if you restart the game.

Overall, this game feels more like an early access than a fully finished game. There is still room for balancing things out, adding more content and bug-fixing.

I am enjoying this game very much. It is addictive and time flies by, at least at the beginning. Unfotunately as you play longer, you realize there are some issues with the gameplay - if they were changed, it would make the game amazing. It is still worth the money, at least when on sale. Mainly, I have three complaints: [list] [*]When you take in a new pet, all it takes for it to be adoptable is letting it eat, drink and petting it (+ potentially clean and treat at the vet's). This means that there is actually no reason for me to adopt more than one pet at a time - when it comes to how fast I can adopt out pets, it makes no difference. In fact, taking in more pets just means you have to occassionally treat them for sickness, keep cleaning enclosures and check in on them constantly. I really wish the pets had to stay longer in the shelter before they can go up for adoption (a quarantine maybe?) - it would actually give me incentive to get more animals and expand the shelter beyond just my own play-pretend! [*]As it seems, the goal of the game is to expand the shelter, get more stars and reputation. It wants you to buy more land and bigger higher level buildings. But I don't actually want that at all. Bigger space and bigger buildings just mean more time spent running around. A bigger building doesn't do absolutely anything apart from taking up more space! There is no advantage to the gameplay! Even having bigger enclosures and having more cages means little to me, as explained in the point above! If you could play with friends, then sure, but not when I'm the only one doing everything! [*]When looking for new owners, you first match the traits of the pet to the wants of the candidate, then you pay money to disclose their living situation to match to the needs of the pet. You have to wait 10 seconds for the reveal. Pretty boring and annoying when you have to do it all the time. The time spent just staring at the timer adds up. I really don't know who thought that would make the game better. Additionally, you can look at the traits of one pet at a time as you look through the candidates. To make things efficient, it means you have to remember all traits of all your pets to try match them to the human. It would have been so much better if you only could see the traits of all your pets at once. [/list] There are other, smaller things I am not that pleased about, like the very small variety in dog shapes (it seems there are only two medium sized breeds? with multiple colors for each) and cat shapes. The pets do not have an animation for using beds and pillows, they are purely decorations (I have also yet to see dogs using their toys). Sometimes, there are little bugs - but thankfully nothing too game breaking and they disappear if you restart the game. Overall, this game feels more like an early access than a fully finished game. There is still room for balancing things out, adding more content and bug-fixing.