Shelter (Furry Visual Novel)
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
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We have Chinese language option now available in the options too!
现已提供中文选项！
Awoo~
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Development log
- Shelter v44 - Night of Fate10 days ago
- Crossover with Demons Within coming soon!26 days ago
- Shelter Flowchart77 days ago
- Shelter v43 - Porn Break (bottom Burry)81 days ago
- Shelter v42 - Kidnapping OrderFeb 08, 2025
- Shelter v41 - The Most Tragic BarkstoryDec 06, 2024
- Shelter v40 - Nothing HappensSep 11, 2024
- Shelter v39 - Shagging Bareback With ShagbarkAug 10, 2024
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Will there be a sprite of General Gunner later on, or is the black shadow of him a permanent thing?
Okay so i dont know how to say this so ill just send it out and go from there
TW:breef mention of suicide
I first found this visual novel when I was around age fourteen (im still ashamed dont drag me in the replies) and stopped reading it when I was sixteen about to turn seventeen i original found this visual novel while looking for furry vns to well trash them in front of my twin sibling because they are a furry to make it clear I think furries are cool i just wantedto make fun of my sibling (this is probably wrong but its been long any my memory isnt that great) to my surprise it was a VERRY well written story that had me invested I found shelter during a difficult time in my life where my immediate family was starting to fall apart and shelter became one of the few things that kept me going i was suicidal at the time and this visual novel gave me something to look forward to every month and a half (id be a little upset when it took longer but I understood a project like this took time it also helped me come to terms with my Sexuality I had thought i was bi but the characters helped me realize that i was a raging homo surprising enough I didn't well find the 18+ sections verry hot back then idk how I would vew them now since I now simp for blaidd and vander but im getting off track I stopped reading it when I was around late sixteen early 17 since I realized that I shouldn't be interacting with adult spaces until I am of age I turned 18 slightly over a month ago and it made me remember this project so I made an acount and decided to leave a message here
Thank you for making this visual novel shelter became my shelter aswell and helped me relise who I wanted to be and now you can promote your vn as "proven to prevent suicide" so thank you from the the bottom of my heart for bringing me shelter and i hope you have a successful future in all your endeavors
PS: I dont know if i will start reading this visual novel again but if i do it will be when I have a stable job and can support the patreon because for being one of the mane things that saved my life proving a little money is the least I can do
Horny? Hot? Silly? Shorty? Moustached OLD man? YES PLEASE!!!!!11 Gimme one NOW! Best "Daddy" boy, hope for more content with Thistle![❤]()
Wish ya strenght and endless inspiration man thx for what u doing
woah... I understand now what this conversation between Thistle and Rune was really about... old fella have some ARGUMENTS
I love Runes route, I cried so much, and now I'm laughing my pants off after getting to see Rune be true to himself and sing the song of his people.
Hello! Just wanted to point out one thing i had noticed, but is the android build updated with the other ones? When i went to download it, the other versions were at v44 already, but when i opened up the game in the android version, it shows that the current version is the v36. I wanted to know if that's a bug or if the current android version doesn't match the current version of the other platforms.
I just checked myself and it updates to v44 on my ohone. Nobody else reported this problem. This may be something specific to your device.
Hello! I have a problem, when opening a novel, a shortcut appears in the taskbar for a couple of seconds, after which it disappears and the novel does not open, I opened the game log, but I do not understand anything, it seems the game cannot find steam_api?....
an important clarification is that all visual novels stopped running in the same way, but there was nothing about steam_api in the logs anymore, and I couldn't solve the problem with them either...
I also want to add that I tried reinstalling the game, updating the drivers (both Nvidia and Visual C++/DirectX), even clearing the Renpy folder, presumably losing progress in all visual novels, there is no change, they still do not work :(
From quick googling I see steam_api.dll is used for running pirated Steam games (bypassing the connection with the client or something) so that seems unrelated. Shelter isn't even on Steam. Either way, this seems like a problem very specific to your device and it's unlikely anyone will be able to help you here. If you need more help, you're welcome to join the discord server.
so uh, I've seem to have encountered an infinite loop?
Spoilers ahead...
so I'm currently at the point where Alon is telling his story, where he says "Oh so you have read peregrination of --" than the Rat yells "Bloody Hell! seriously? Not even ten seconds?!" and end with a "......" From Alon before looping. holding skip just repeats that ininitly--
-- and as soon as i reclicked onto this textbox to finish typing ,it fineally jumped to the next line, Ima still leave this here, because i have no clue what happaned or why, will say aswell, I fully laughed after alon tried asking a second time, cause like, that's perfect for a child- only to get confused by it repeating word for word for multiple times.
Read previous comments, someone had the same question
There was a problem with the windows build so I removed it temporarily.
(22 minutes later): Fixed! If you got a weird crash on startup earlier, try redownloading and it should bork now. o.o/
God the writing in alon’s flashback is so good. The CGs are stunning and the music really made me emotional. Thank you for the update.
Okay, that definitely explained a bit more about ablaze and mana, especially from a different species. And holy shit is this VN getting better with each update.
Spoilers:
Can't wait for the Mossmane reveal
I think I've met a bug.When the story reaches this point, the game start to repeat these two scene indefinitely.
It's actually three repeating screens, and you're supposed to stay quiet for ten seconds on the one where none of them speaks.
Ohhh……I get it,so basically Alon need to be a good boy and stay quiet for 10s.
Exactly! Did you do it? :D
Yeah,thanks for the tip.
hello, i love your game and got kinda curious, do copper have a route, or going to have one? kind sad that IT happens to him and he seens lovely(and obviously like the human)
no one knows if he is going to have his own route but, there is going to be a cooperation with another VN called Demons Within. And you might have more interactions with Cooper
So I gotta ask, after Rune's route...does the game go straight into Max's route or does it depends on whoever's route? I am getting confused.
yep after you finish rune route you can max route and then alon
Now idk if its just me but my mouse is insivisble? Like i cant see it what so ever
Idk if this a game bug or me bug so im just asking
Seems like something on your end. I've never had anything like that with this game, but your best bet at avoiding that (if just repeatedly clicking the screen doesn't work) is just to not play in fullscreen.
我真的很喜欢 Alon。可以为他创作更多的 CG 或成人内容吗？
he is having his own route these days, so in the future he MUST have nsfw cg
Excellent！I will always look forward to it！
I want to save Rune´s class, but I can´t figure it out !!
Just keep progressing the story :)
Hiya!
Just wanted to say that on the page of the game the link to your personal twitter account is outdated! Not sure if thats intentional or not but i just wanted to inform you, thank you for the amazing game! :D
Oh yeah you're right! I fixed it. Thanks :)
I have a small question: for the pc(windows) version, how can I restart the game completely after I missed the chance given by Alon? I really have the urge to replay the game from the beginning. Thx : )
iirc, progress is stored as cookies in itch, so deleting those deletes ur progress the next time you download. (not sure how to single out just the ones from shelter tho)
alternatively just replay on a different platform. Replaying on android, for example, did not save my progress.
That really helps. Thanks for your explanation! I'll try restarting on my android now. Wish you a nice day!
Hey there, just let you know that I might just find the save files on pc(windows): C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\
To Raus:
I don't know if revealing this is harmful to the overall build of this game. If so, please feel free to delete this reply. Sorry for my curiosity.
Lol it's okay! I just hope your deal with Alon will be worth it for you 🐶👍
It has to be ^_^ , can't wait to see what this charming guy offers. Awoo!
Maybe my question is a little silly.
But I want to know, after Rune finishes his end,Is there any new content about him in the future?Purr，This makes me afraid to reach the end.Rune is really cute and can make people feel company.
So I finished Burry's route, and there's one thing that kept bothering me. What exactly happens when someome goes "Ablaze"? Since Burry can forcefully invoke Ablaze through putting someone through extreme stress, what exactly does that mean for the person?
One thing that bothered me was when Luke supposedly went into Ablaze during one of the flashbacks in Max's route, human mana crystals started popping up around him. Are the crystals a byproduct of Ablaze? And ever since then (I Think), Luke lost his memories of everything.
What I'm currently assuming is that when a person experiences extreme stress or trauma, they undergo Ablaze, and lose their memories (?) in the process as their mana starts to crystalize around them. This might explain the crystals that appeared in Alon's backstory. So if mana is your life experiences and memories (?), then the crystals that have a person's mana is their memories that a person going into Ablaze expelled?
Sorry, I'm trying to write a fanfic about Shelter and I need clarification :'(
This is just what I think happens so take it with a grain of salt!
I think mana is just memories taking physical forms, they stay in the air when they form, so when you use magic, the cost it has is that you're burning those memories, even the ones that aren't yours, (mostly the ones that are floating in the air and present around you), the stronger the memories are, the stronger they burn. So going ablaze is just burning throught the memories that surround you so quickly that you also start burning the ones inside you too, I believe that inside your body and inside the creatures in general, mana is present in the blood (and saliva, mostly fluids I assume). In times of need a creature concentrates it on a liquid like blood, and if there happens to be a lot of mana on it (like going ablaze), the moment that liquid touches the air the reaction happens so quickly it cristalizes instead of burning.
We see this as Alon bites the hand of that guy, or when Luke is stabbed on the past sequence, etc.
[SPOILERS] btw
I believe Luke is the only one (who we know of) that has lost memories when going through ablaze. This is because instead of the typical components for an ember (multiple charges of mana across different species), Luke burned his core memories to grant the necessary mana to perform miracles like...purifying monsters, or granting all-seeing eyes.
How he does this? We don't know, just as Luke probably doesn't anymore. Maybe that'll be expanded on more in Alon's route. The crystals sprouting from Ablaze also seem to be unique to Luke (even if other crystals exist) but take that with a grain of salt since I honestly don't remember Alon's route all that well.
I can't remember if Ablaze itself was ever fully explained, other than just being the "level" above racial abilities. From what we know, it seems to be a state of heightened mana burning activated through significant life events, which culminates in an Ember: an ultimate move whose composition and effects stem from the life experience that activated ablaze. And from Cooper, we know that this is not something all magic users experience, even living a life of battle.
Not sure if Ablaze must be activated through significant trauma either, or if it can be done through significant emotion of any kind, like joy or love...though I'd imagine the Ember based off of an emotion like that would be more support based than offensive.
But either way, for others, it seems that particularly strong core memories unlock a person's Ablaze, but don't get used up themselves as the fuel for it is provided by external mana.
Hope this helps!
Alright! So fyi, we get info on Ablaze in the latest update.
I was very wrong: Albaze is above Embers in terms of the casting hierarchy. And the crystals are not unique to Luke, Alon uses them as well. I suppose we've just never seen another character go ablaze..?
But anyway. The newest update is HEAVY on the worldbuilding, so, don't miss it!
I think Burry, Alon, Luke, and Rune all went through Ablaze. Don't know about Max though.
Considering it seems like an ember is a product of a person's Ablaze -- usually their first, except for Alon who didn't have the necessary mana for an ember at the time -- that would seem to be correct.
So spoilers
I finished rune route but like I really wanted there to be romance between them like yk
Pretty sure Rune dislikes monogamous relationships and prefers polygamous relationships.
Omg i did the code 6969 it works so well beacuse he said that's second thing after 1234 those perverts are going to try lmao.
Guys, can someone tell me where all Mysterious Figures located?
you can ask this in the discord server, where there is a section called (shelter spoilers) :P
I dont know why, but one of Alon's lines in the barkest corner reminds me of the song the villain i appear to be
I'm assuming that line is a reference to some of the lyrics of the song, as I noticed it when playing as well.
wtf why max route doesnt work? Or only i am have what porblem???
you need to do some things in burry and rune routes, you can see them in the flowchart
oh okay but im anyway not sure to 100%. I mean i cant go with max afternoon then i try to do this game just ending like where is no more content
if you want to make sure there is nothing you need to do try finishing burry and rune routes. I am 100% sure this going to fix the problem. Because the story is kind of connected with every route, so try at first burry and then go to rune and you can then continue with max.
oh u understand now thx for a help <3
You are welcome :D
how do you zoom out on the Paths Menu? I saw it was do-able in the youtube video but I havent found out how to do it yet ;-;
I think you need to not interrupt Rune and Alon fight.... Maybe :/ You can make sure by seeing the shelter Fowchart
Hey! The full Paths with all its features is a Patreon build's perk. The itch build has a sample of it.
I love it but can someone help me with my phone crashing? Is there something i can do or its just going to happen??
I see it keeps crashing on other games for you too, so that doesn't seem like any game's fault. Maybe try playing on PC or try a different phone.
Gotta ask—
Spoilers
Is this game gonna pull a PASSWORD with the whole "Everything is canon" thing? Because as it stands, every time Luke dies, he meets Alon, who gives us more possibilities/choices with every playthrough. If this was the case, then how is Luke able to retain some form of Alon's advice as knowledge from his previous iterations? Does he remember like Dave did in PASSWORD, or is this just a game thing? Or is it something with human mana regarding different possibilities and realities? Because the human in the crimson grove gave Alon "Visions" where he could see different events that branch off of his choices. It could also explain why Luke could "partake" in said different realities after he dies. Basically a "What if I did this instead of this?" scenario.
Luke's conversations with him are stated to be non-canon...so I assume this is a gameplay mechanic, and all the endings are merely prerequisites for the player to get the "true ending" (which doesn't exist yet).
Time travel has never explicitly been related to the main plot (other than shattering I suppose, if that counts) so I wouldn't assume this game has the same meta aspects of Password. But, I could be proven wrong with all the content still to go...
I happen to notice that the word "loading" on the first loading screen is spelt "loadong"
Is that intentional?
That is, almost certainly, a pun.
Wow, thank you so much for officially adding the Russian language! Now even more people will be able to enjoy this amazing story. And the dog puns were translated perfectly!
Holy shit i did not expect that Rune story be that tragic desperate and dark.... perfect but sad still
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Have bears in this world? What kind of mana they use?
Ursids do not exist in this world, though I could imagine their mana being similar to Ungulate and Feline, given their nature.
I loved the update so much! Burry is such a beautiful doggo and i'm happy i can give him some sexy love in his route after everything that happened <33
But i wanna ask if there's a way you can unban me from the server cause i misclicked the verification thing TmT
Спасибо за добавление Русского языка. Дал возможность играть без переводчика через скриншот хD
You're welcome! I think the translation covers the content up to the Late Afternoon. Let me know if you like it 🐶
With the new update, are the paths still suppose to stop at late morning for free users?
Yes, it'll remain as one of Patreon perks. It'll be a part of finished Shelter game too 🐺
That reminds me of a bug I fixed at one point. I'll post a new public build on Friday 25th April. See if that issue will still persist on the new build. If it does, join the discord server so we can discuss it there.
Shelter's discord server just disappeared from me :( Is there anyone had the same problem ?
Hey! It shows me you're not on the server anymore. Try rejoining. Maybe you somehow left by accident. I just confirmed you're not banned or anything so you should be able to join no problem
I tried again but the problem still same, and yeah I think it's from me. I going to the problem in Saturday. I'm going to holiday :P
Enjoy your holiday! And try joining from another device, that often helps 🐺👍
how do i get burry bottom s*x scene? When i get to the part after the blast, it doesn't show anything (not even the normal s*x scene). Please help
The bottom version for burry is 43 so make sure you are not in 42. and for the normal CG scene try to start from the start because maybe you were playing a save in a previous version before Raus change the type of the files
That scene will be posted here for the public on 25 April, the same day the next Patreon build gets posted
there is a hint here, sometimes you're so used to go to the safest path that you might not realise you might have to leave a certain item for later!
SPOILERS
don't use the bomb in the afternoon scene, wait until the end to use it, so Burry won't be hurt and he will be able to have sex haha
I re-read Rune route and now I have questions.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Rune: *I let the fury inside me guide me, as I press the human to the floor. I flips him onto his back, and drop on top of him, growling. Dripping saliva. "This time... I'm on top...I'm...!"*
A flash of vision.
Dad: Next time you talk back...
Flash back to reality, Rune yells.
Rune: I'LL KILL YOU, RUNE!!!
Is this scene just general abuse from the parents or it is the 4 words R?