A Summer with the Shiba Inu
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…
A Summer with the Shiba Inu is an adventure developed by Quill Studios, released 23 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What A Summer with the Shiba Inu is
A Summer with the Shiba Inu is an adventure game developed by Quill Studios and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are drama, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
A Summer with the Shiba Inu launched on 23 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and Gears 5. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, Gears 5.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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