{"rewrite":{"id":"r_425147973ae256d4a701d0e3","clusterId":"c_76b1da19ccd6502a5b4c7ef2","slug":"joyever-studio-s-horror-sim-adopt-me-please-sets-players-to-screening-mimics-at-a-shelter","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Joyever Studio's Horror Sim Adopt Me Please Sets Players to Screening Mimics at a Shelter","summary":"Joyever Studio is developing Adopt Me Please, a horror simulation game for PC via Steam with Japanese support. Players run Tomoshibi Shelter, housing stray animals and finding adopters by day. Some animals are not animals: mimics hide among the arrivals, and by night the player must verify new intakes and send any mimic to the countermeasure team before it mutates. A trailer and playtest sign-up are live.","whyItMatters":"The hook is bookkeeping as dread: the game asks players to do shelter paperwork and adoption screening while the real task is spotting which animal is not one, which puts the horror in the record-keeping rather than in a chase.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe setting is Tomoshibi Shelter, and the roster of arrivals is where the unease sits: a cat with fully black eyes, a kangaroo-cat hybrid, a rabbit-like creature with octopus legs, a fawn-like animal with something growing from its head. Daytime work is examination, record checks, and vetting prospective adopters. Night is when new arrivals get checked for mimic status.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccepting a mimic is not the end of it. The player then has to route it to the mimic countermeasure team before it mutates that night. Joyever Studio lists PC (Steam) as the platform, with Japanese support, and a playtest sign-up is open alongside the trailer.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Adopt Me Please splits its loop between daytime adoption work and nighttime mimic checks. The horror sits in the intake review, where a wrong judgment sends a shapeshifter home with a family.","twitterPost":"Adopt Me Please puts the scare in the intake form: night checks decide which arrivals reach the countermeasure team, not the kennel.","threadsPost":"Adopt Me Please gives players two shifts. By day, Tomoshibi Shelter places strays with adopters. By night, they screen new arrivals for mimics and route the bad ones to the countermeasure team. The adoption work is what makes a missed check cost something.","newsletterBlurb":"Joyever Studio is working on Adopt Me Please, a horror simulation game for PC via Steam with Japanese support. You run Tomoshibi Shelter, finding homes for strange strays while checking whether each new arrival is a mimic. A mimic taken in has to be sent to the countermeasure team before it mutates at night.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261019j\",\"title\":\"Horror simulation game 'Adopt Me Please,' about sheltering eerie animals, is in development; you screen out \\\"mimics\\\" that disguise themselves as animals and find adoptive homes for the animals\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4327,"outputTokens":625,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792384627,"createdAt":"2026-10-19T04:31:26.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-19T04:36:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T04:36:06.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_76b1da19ccd6502a5b4c7ef2","canonicalTitle":"不気味な動物たちを保護するホラーシミュレーションゲーム『Adopt Me Please』が開発中。動物そっくりな姿に化ける「ミミック」を招き入れないように審査し、動物たちの里親を見つける","representativeArticleId":"a_81959fd311a948c58a06c5a8","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Adopt Me Please\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-19T03:07:23.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-19T03:07:23.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T04:36:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261019j","title":"不気味な動物たちを保護するホラーシミュレーションゲーム『Adopt Me Please』が開発中。動物そっくりな姿に化ける「ミミック」を招き入れないように審査し、動物たちの里親を見つける"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Adopt Me Please"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"announcement","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}