Shelter 3 is the fifth in a series of games, which put the player in the position of an animal having to care for their young in a hostile, stylized natural environment.
From the game’s website: “Shelter 3 returns the player to the natural landscapes of Shelter, this time as an elephant mother in charge of her herd. In this majestic incarnation, players will experience the trials and tribulations of life on the plains, steering their herd in search of new pasture and being careful to keep calves away from tigers and crocodiles. Shelter 3 takes herding as its spirit and heritage as its soul.
Where Shelter 2 centred on a lone lynx mother and her cubs as they found and killed prey, Shelter 3 is a chance to explore a much more sociable kind of animal existence, where motherhood, social harmony and inheritance are the keys to prosperity. […] Shelter 3 invites you to detach yourself from human concerns and inhabit the spirit of an animal. Real world savannas are rendered in mesmerising patterns and scored with an enchanting soundtrack by Retro Family, conjuring a magical, parallel world to lose yourself in. The game distinguishes itself from the previous games by exploring how animals work together, as well as their social and hierarchical behaviours.
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