ANIMAL WELL on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

ANIMAL WELL is a metroidvania, exploration and puzzle game developed by Billy Basso and published by Bigmode.
Released on May 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Ukrainian and Korean.

It has received 20,046 reviews of which 19,261 were positive and 785 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: 1 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 35 MB available space

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June 2024
Dragging the game window around your desktop will cause vines and lanterns to sway. This pleases me.
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May 2024
I really, really don't care for platforming. Generally I've never felt like I had the dexterity or timing to make it work, even in my younger years before I hit the decrepit stage. And Animal Well, as such, annoys the hell out of me. It's so fiddly with these jumping puzzles, and all the timing, and trying to work it all out. And yet I do keep starting it up. One by one, I do manage to get through a puzzle here and there and move on to the next very, very weird set-piece. It's compelling in ways I can't adequately describe, and so in spite of feeling so frustrated I just keep going with it. And that's probably the best endorsement these aging fingers can manage to type out.
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May 2024
Review after achievements completed: Animal Well All the reviews I've seen about this game are either hyperbolically positive or straight-up memes, so let me be a joyless nerd and provide a more nuanced take. Animal Well is a solid metroidvania with more than its fair share of puzzles and mysteries, none more baffling than how Billy Basso managed to cram all of it into a mere 40 MB. As with many modern puzzle games, there's a sort of exponential difficulty curve; the majority of the puzzles - certainly all that are required to beat the game - are pretty straightforward. Beyond that, truly completing the game, without resorting to a guide, will require an unreasonable amount of hours triple- and quadruple-checking every room on the map for something you missed, and comparing notes with at minimum several dozen of your friends to work out some ARG-level esoterically vague hints. Mercifully, the truly capricious requirements - the speedruns, the deathless runs, what have you - do not have achievements tied to them. Still, this is a game that you should walk into with the expectation that you will eventually need a guide if you want to keep your sanity. "A traveler's guide to Animal Well" is great, with excellent use of spoiler tags. I ding'd all of the achievements for Animal Well in a little under 16 hours - which is not to say I completed it. I resorted to the use of the aforementioned guide once I only had a handful of late-game collectibles left, because re-combing the whole labyrinth for where to use my third(!!!) incredibly situational niche item didn't strike me as a good way to spend my time. If this doesn't strike you as a glowing review, that's because it isn't. Animal Well is definitely good! The thumbs-up is right there; don't come at me. I do like the novel takes on how your character's abilities improve; I recommend Supraland if you want more of those unexpected spins on familiar mechanics. I just didn't walk away from it with the ecstatic euphoria that seems commonplace in its reviews, whether because of the fiddly platforming or because of the aforementioned niche items. Still, all that said - recommended.
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May 2024
This game made me understand why my husband likes Metroid so much. It's not my usual type of game (I stick to things like Sims, Rimworld, and Stardew Valley) but I am very invested. The atmosphere, the feelings of discovery, the visuals! I'm glad I gave it a chance.
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May 2024
An exceptionally captivating game, and a very polished one at that. I'm playing on Linux using a DualSense controller, and the LEDs change colors depending on what item I have equipped. The fact that this tiny detail has been added reflects on the quality of the rest of the game.
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ANIMAL WELL
9.4
19,261
785
Online players
150
Developer
Billy Basso
Publisher
Bigmode
Release 09 May 2024
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