In Shelter you are a mother badger taking care of your cubs, feeding them and defending them from predators. It makes you care so much about your little cubs that you can even think they have very distinguished personalities. Some players have given names to them, and reported interesting emotional responses when one of them died. This game can communicate with a primitive instinct in all of us: the love for the little, the innocent and the frail.

Throughout the game you learn to fear and hate predators as they were monstrously evil. But in the end… They are in the exactly same position you were: trying to feed their loved ones. The threatening predator becomes a loving mother, and vice-versa. And so the game shows how every mother is also a fearsome predator, ready to kill for the most pure and sacred love of all. This alone is powerful.

Conclusion: Great survival game with beautiful graphics and a deep emotional procedural narrative.