![]() Reviewers praised the game for its emotion provoking nature, with the death of a cub "causing a genuine feeling of loss" for Ben Textor of Hardcore Gamer and the game's ending leaving Simon Parkin of Eurogamer "reeling with grief and bewilderment." In GameSpot's review Kevin VanOrd said that when a cub dies "there's a gnawing sense of failure, not as a game player, but as a parent with a duty to shield your young." Shelter received mostly positive reviews, scoring 68.79% and 69% on review aggregators GameRankings and Metacritic respectively. In December 2013 Might and Delight released a free add-on for Shelter in which the player must feed their cubs once a day for a month to keep them from dying. The game was announced and listed on Steam Greenlight in April, accepted in July, and released on 28 August of the same year. Might and Delight began development on Shelter in January 2013 following the release of Pid. The goal of the game becomes to have as many cubs as possible survive the journey to shelter. Another requires the player to escort the cubs up an overflowing river. ![]() In a later section, the player must travel through a wildfire, keeping the cubs safe from the spreading blaze. In this section, cubs will occasionally be scared by noises and will run away from the player, requiring them to chase the cubs until they are within a safe radius of the mother. One section of the game takes place at night, giving the player limited vision of their surroundings. In the first and latter sections of the game, there are areas that contain circling birds of prey which can fly down and pick off a cub if it is out in the open for too long. Threats to the cubs come in different forms in each section of the game. ![]() Along the journey the cubs will gradually get hungry and require food which the player must provide for them by either catching prey, such as foxes, or finding fruit and vegetables. In Shelter, players control a mother badger who is escorting her five cubs from their burrow to a new home and must protect them from danger. In Shelter the player controls a mother badger looking after her cubs ![]()
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