I consider myself a fan of the shelter series, and other Might and Delight games and I had absolutely amazing time with the first game and great time with the second. Sadly, this third game came short of both, but it was still emotionally impactful.

Where as the first shelter game was quite linear, the second expanded upon it and made the series into an actual survival game, with an open world to explore and you were to make sure your offspring survived to adulthood, this third game takes away what the second game brought to the table and even more of it.

It brings in dialogue, which was not needed for animals, and it takes away the open world aspect. There was limiting amounts of predators to watch out for and those that you did watch out for were fairly easy to dodge. The game makes you follow a certain path to your destination, without really guiding you on that path, so getting lost is fairly easy and when you do, you might as well be done with as your herd runs out of food.

However, it felt like they improved on with certain aspects, like the artstyle seemed to look more detailed, the way they made the atmospheres of different areas feel was also amazing. The ending was emotional and sad, something I did not see coming.

In the end though, I feel strongly that they could've done so much better with this game and it was fairly lacking. I wouldn't really recommend this game. You should rather go play Shelter 1 and Shelter 2.