About Animal Hospital
Animal Hospital drops you behind the reception window of a clinic where the queue outside isn't quite what it seems. After midnight, not every patient is a real animal — some are only pretending to be a cat, a dog, or a rabbit, betraying themselves through an extra eye, the wrong coat color, a smile that's a little too human, a shadow that shouldn't be there, or a voice that's subtly wrong. Your task is to sort genuine patients from anomalies using nothing but a photo and their paperwork, then manage everything else the clinic demands while the night grows steadily more dangerous.
One scene inside the clinic shows two grey metal-barred enclosures sitting on a dark floor in a dimly lit room.
The game runs solo or in co-op with up to four players, and every shift gets darker as the anomalies grow more numerous — and something that was only pretending to be a patient begins to roam the corridors.
How to Play Animal Hospital
At the reception window, study each patient's photo and paperwork to decide whether it's a genuine animal or an anomaly. Admit your own kind and lead them to a ward, where mini-games handle their treatment. Between admissions, keep the generator running, check the cages, and monitor the security cameras by walking up to the surveillance tablet. Staying alert — and knowing where not to look — is part of surviving to dawn.
Controls
PC
- WASD: Move
- Mouse: Look
- E: Interact / admit
- R: Refuse
- F: Patient chart
- G: Records log
- Q: Flashlight
- C: Coffee to go
- RMB (hold): Zoom in
- 1–6: Quick phrases in co-op
- Esc: Pause
- E (at surveillance tablet): Access cameras
Smartphone
- Left stick: Move
- Swipe on the right: Look
- Round buttons on the right: Flashlight, magnifier, and coffee
- Tap buttons and prompts on screen: Decisions and all other actions
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Animal Hospital sits squarely in the world of management games, where keeping systems running under pressure is the core challenge. If the survival tension appeals to you, Dead Land: Survival delivers multiplayer survival against relentless threats in a post-apocalyptic world. For a darker management angle, Dungeon Master - Cult & Craft has you running an underground operation and managing resources in a 3D simulator. If you prefer a lighter management loop, Gas Station Simulator puts you in charge of growing a fuel station from the ground up. My Arcade Center offers a similarly hands-on tycoon experience as you build and run your own arcade business.
Animal Hospital also connects naturally to fans of horror games that build dread through observation and decision-making, and to anyone who enjoys animals games with an unexpected twist on the genre.