To The Rescue! on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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To The Rescue! is a charming dog shelter simulator. Take care of unique dogs and find the right homes for as many of them as you can. Upgrade your shelter, control disease outbreaks, learn each dog's preferences, and make tough decisions, all while helping support real-world animal shelters!
To The Rescue! is a dog, management and immersive sim game
developed by Little Rock Games and indie.io
and published by indie.io.
Released on November 02nd 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 2,040 reviews of which 1,374 were positive and 666 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 8.32€ on Steam with a 55% discount, but you can find it for 1.73€ on Instant Gaming.
The Steam community has classified To The Rescue! into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: 2.2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
- Processor: 2011 or newer Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia or ATi GPU with 1GB Memory
- Storage: 6 GB available space
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I really love this game, despite the bugs it's so addicting! HOWEVER you end up standing around alllllllllllllll damn day waiting for dogs. I've gone days now. I really really wish they'd just at least fix that.
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I played this game a while ago I think when it first came out and it was really awkward to play so I decided to wait until they updated it to give it another go again. I was going through my steam games and found it and decided to try it again and it's waaaaay easier to play now, and really fun! If you like casual/time management games you'll probably really enjoy it
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Very buggy, but a charming and fun game. Most bugs will go away if you close the game and open it again. I think it's still worth playing! That being said, I have A LOT of ideas for things that could really really make this game even more engaging! Some improvements/features I would love to see would be: - Ability to rearrange things once placed. Seriously, why is this not already in game? I'd love if I could fully rearrange the shelter or at least move the medical/supplies rooms around as the shelter gets bigger and bigger (or at LEAST let me add an additional medical room so I don't have to travel what feels like miles just to bring a dog from the complete other side of the building) - Making the foster network/dog log, leashed in/staff management, and barkbook/events their own tabs on the computer. There's room for more tabs down at the bottom, so I don't see why they can't have their own tabs. - The ability to encourage good traits to develop by playing with the dogs or something like that - Some kind of training minigame - More floor/wallpaper options (I would adore a little bone-themed wallpaper fr) - Allow metal upgrades to the run kennels - Ability to choose the playtime minigame maybe? There could be a tugging toy or in the play pens and maybe if you just click on the dog without anything while loose, it would start the petting game. I think this would pair well with giving each dog/breed their own favorite game (favorite would give the most happiness while others would give 2/3 or half, I imagine) - More player speed upgrades (that could just be a me thing though, since I like to play at the fast tick speed lol) - Treats to give dogs to increase happiness (or start the aforementioned training minigame) - there could even be a consequence of making a dog sick if you give them more than 1 in a day or something like that - 7 hours in, I'm rolling in cash and would love to have some money sinks! Decor for outside kennels, toy upgrades, cute beds or fancier bowls, cute uniforms for employees, front desk/entry furniture upgrades. This could come from another sales NPC or shop even that you can unlock on leashedin - I'd love to be able to buy advertisements rather than just waiting for a pop-up asking if I'd like to promote fosters/adoptions - Ability to send an employee or the player character to a timed rabbit hole up to once a day/3 days/week to perform a rescue event to bring back 1 or more injured/sick dogs. Being a rescue could be its own trait as well. Sometimes the shelter is lacking and I'd love to have more control to intentionally find dogs if I'm low (although I've been lacking less since I expanded to 60+ slots and now have around 30ish at a time) - Search bar in the dog log for traits (or anything, but especially traits. It's not that bad, but it'd be great not to have to scroll through 3-4 pages of dogs to find which ones are intelligent, lol It's a lot of suggestions, but I also don't think any of these are NEEDS (except maybe rearranging things...), just more things that I really think would make this good game a great one.
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I bought this game on discount for 60% off. I knew it would be buggy. I'm happy to say I was still able to have a good experience, despite the many glitches. Some things I experienced include: dogs getting stuck in outdoor run kennels, dogs not getting adopted in adoption events, helpers getting stuck, helpers getting stuck while holding a dog, a syringe floating in the air, door opening into a wall (that one wasn't fun, had to delete the whole room and remake it so the door would link properly), getting stuck behind the food station, being unable to pick up the prize ribbon, accidentally adopting out a lost dog, grant interface scrolling off the edge of the screen, wallpaper always reverts to default after exiting the game, play areas glitching out, dogs escaping play areas and being unwilling to relocate to their kennels (started flying around). So, needless to say, it's got some rough edges. But if you're like me and you love animal shelter games, I think it's worth a spin. The ending of story mode made me cry happy tears. Maybe I'm just a sentimental sap for a happy ending. I'm not sure what the point of the foster system is. I'd like it if helper tasks were a bit more streamlined, as it's difficult to work with and gets confusing really fast. I wish there was a faster way to vaccinate all the dogs - and it took a while for me to realize that was a thing I could even do. I'd love it if there were more customization options and events, too. Stuff like getting a whole litter of puppies was quite fun to manage. I also think the art and UI are extremely cute and well-designed. I love all the dogs and finding out there's so many breeds was a pleasant surprise. Kudos to the team for making a sweet game! Just needs some bug-b-gone doggy shampoo and some more reasons to grind, and I'd probably be playing it for weeks. I'll be looking forward to more bug fixes in the future. <3
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It's a shame how buggy this game is. Not worth it for its current full price of $20. I would recommend you buy it when its heavily on sale solely because of how bad the bugs can be. I bought it for around $10 and don't regret it though. The game itself is great--super fun and addicting with a very cute art style. I've dumped about 6-7 hours into one save and have had a lot of fun with it. Most bugs you encounter are little and fixable. If a dog is refusing to drink, you can move it to a different kennel and it might fix itself. After playing for awhile, however, you may encounter a bug that can completely break your save and force you to restart. Like when every dog is broken, refuses to eat or drink, and you cannot fix it by moving them around. This is frustrating because getting back to where you were before is not quick--especially with the cap on how many upgrade points you can earn per day. It seems that progress is being made about bugs though. The devs are clearly aware and trying to fix things; several patches have come out. Hopefully will be less broken in the near future. As for the actual game, it's good. It's easy to get stuck playing this for several hours straight. There's a lot of interesting mechanics, like how a dog's traits may affect how you house them or their chances of getting adopted. Taking care of the dogs can be a challenge at first, but becomes easier once you learn the groove of the game or hire helpers. There's a ton of different dogs to see as well, as well as several ways of interacting with them. I'd love to see more improvements such as more customizations and room types, or the ability to fix certain traits that are currently permanent (ex. mange or separation anxiety). My only complaints are the cap on upgrade points and how room/hall dimensions can be weird and difficult to format nicely sometimes.
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Developer
Little Rock Games,
indie.io
Publisher
indie.io
Release
02 Nov 2021
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