A Summer with the Shiba Inu
A Summer with the Shiba Inu
Description (IGDB)
The demo of a free to play visual novel set in a world populated with dogs. You play as a Shiba Inu called Syd who comes back to her home Shiba Island after being gone for more than ten years. She meets old friends and new challenges. Features: - Included dog bark button in preference menu - Random facts about dogs in menus - Some other stuff where the game will notice how long you take to make a decision - Dogs galore!
Histoire (IGDB)
When Syd the Shiba Inu returns to Shiba Island after a ten year absence, she sets off a chain of events that overturns the lives of all the dogs she had left behind. She gets back in touch with her old friend, Max, and along the way meets a mysterious Labrador retriever named Quei-Li. (What’s a Lab doing on the Island, anyway?) They are her only remaining allies as she tries to survive the past that made her leave the Island in the first place.
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À propos du jeu
A Summer with the Shiba Inu is a visual novel with interactive, meaningful choices.
When Syd the Shiba Inu returns to Shiba Island after a ten year absence, she sets off a chain of events that overturns the lives of all the dogs she had left behind. She gets back in touch with her old friend, Max, and along the way meets a mysterious Labrador retriever named Quei-Li. (What’s a Lab doing on the Island, anyway?) They are her only remaining allies as she tries to survive the past that made her leave the Island in the first place.
- 3 main endings for Syd, with 10+ endings for other dogs depending on your actions!
- Visual novel with story wordcount of ~70,000
- Random facts about dogs in menus
- 30 Steam achievements
- Dog bark button in preference menu
Demo available - please see our website.
An emulated instance made so that Reality can be reallocated amongst the dogs of the Island.
This allocation is based on ranking, and therefore how good a dog is.
It could be said that the ranking based on these ARInas maintains the social order.
And it is in my best interests to ensure that I have the highest ranking possible. I will fight tooth and claw for it, because only then can I gain freedom...
Streaming / Recording
Streaming and recording the game is permitted.
- In order to record or stream, you must link to this Steam store page in the description.
- We'd love to see the content you recorded: Tweet us @quill_studios!
Éditions et prix Steam
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Avis des joueurs Steam
Mises à jour et Actualités
50% off Summer with the Shiba to celebrate next game in series release!
Hi all, we're excited to share Autumn with the Shiba Inu with the world! Featuring:⚡sci-fi world where dogs rule🐶multiple endings💻hacking mini-gameprice: 20% launch discount; $7.99/regional Valve pricingGet it today:There is a launch bundle to get both A Summer with the Shiba Inu and Autumn with the Shiba Inu in one - 10% off extra savings! If you own one of the two games, the discount is still available to help you complete the collection!In addition, A Summer with the Shiba Inu is on 50% off, for an extra deal. Save additional with the bundle!
Autumn with the Shiba Inu releasing August 14!
Autumn with the Shiba Inu is releasing on August 14! We're stoked to be able to create another game in the Shiba Inu universe, and hope you will enjoy it just as much as we do! You can wishlist the game to be notified when it releases.We aim to have a launch bundle where if you have one game already, you'll get a discount! It will be available on launch day.In the meanwhile, why not play/re-play A Summer with the Shiba Inu?
Second game in A Summer with the Shiba Inu series is back
Hello everyone, this is Quill Studios, developer of Autumn with the Shiba Inu and A Summer with the Shiba Inu. Thank you so much for believing in Autumn with the Shiba Inu when we ran our Kickstarter in 2023. Unfortunately, we had to cancel the crowdfunding, as it was clear that we were not able to reach our goal.We made the difficult decision to pay out of pocket to ensure the release of this game. This unfortunately meant that we had to cut most of the staff: while their contracts concluded, we were unable to renew them. As a result, progress has been slow, as our core team's day jobs and financial responsibilities come first, and the game second.Despite these setbacks, our team has been working part-time to make progress on the game, and the game is very close to release! We are committed to releasing in August, 2025. This is shorter notice than we'd like, as we're losing out on precious time to further market and promote the game to recoup the costs of development and finish paying our staff. However, this is the most feasible date for our skeleton crew as they juggle other life obligations to pay bills.With this, we have a plea: While we don't have the bandwidth to do another Kickstarter, purchasing Autumn with the Shiba Inu would help so much with recouping the costs and finish paying our staff, which allows us to continue to make more games in the future!Please, wishlist the game on Steam which helps us with visibility and will notify you of the release date when announced!
Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Syd’s journey to find her brother honestly feels more like a journey to find herself. And with the help of her two friends Max and Quei-Li, A Summer with the Shiba Inu was a journey I found myself wanting to go through multiple times. »
« A Summer with the Shiba Inu is a lovely little game that offers real catharsis. It draws you in with cute characters and holds you with its rather fascinating story. Whilst it does drag occasionally, it is well worth making your way through. There’s a clear level of love and dedication felt throughout Shiba Inu, from the phone interface, to the backgrounds, to the 70000 words it advertises on its page. If you watch the trailer for this and it interests you, it’s hard to go wrong with a purchase. »
« A Summer with the Shibu Inu will intrigue you with its various endings and cute character models, but its visual offerings and replay value are extremely limited overall. If you enjoy choose-your-own-adventure games, love dogs, and have a few hours to kill, this is worth playing, but prepare to be bewildered by the stranger, more ambiguous endings. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« A Summer with the Shiba Inu is a Visual Interactive Novel. The story's name and the splash art for the game left me expecting something completely different than Quill Game Studios and Ratalaika delivers. I'll try to avoid spoilers as much as I can. The story is about a Shiba Inu named Syd. Syd left her home island to experience the world, but has returned to see her home Ans old friends. What she finds is that much has remained the same, even her rivalries. The society on the Island is controlled by the ARI, and social status is controlled by an alternate reality death match know as the ARInas. Syd was the best of the best, the "top dog" in the ARInas, and this gained her a powerful asset, and many bitter enemies. After reuniting with her friend Max, a series of event ls unfold, reminding Syd why she left 10 years ago. The story is twisted, and goes to darker places than I expected it could. There are also three main endings for Syd as well as ten more endings for other characters you meet along the way. The art is beautiful, though there are a few things that made me raise an eyebrow, like human chairs in the Offices where pillows or matts would have made more sense. The music is fairly generic, but keeps the mood for the most part. If you like crazy twisted Matrix/ Back to the Future like story lines A Summer with the Shiba Inu is one to read, a few times at least. »
