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Unherd Of, LLC · Published by Unherd Of, LLC · Official site ↗
3 user reviews — 100% positive (3 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Lead a small herd of sheep through the desert. Ensure their survival by managing their needs. Protect and save them from various environmental hazards, as well as their own silly decisions. Bond with them over the course of your journey by fulfilling their wishes, and be their Shepherd.
Early AccessDJCTQ 10
£4.29
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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £4.29 · Highest: £4.297 Oct 2026
Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access, Casual · 2023 · More under £5 games
Guide your flock through desert challenges, fulfilling their wishes to keep them safe and happy. Experience Shepherd's unique blend of simulation and indie adventure.
About this game
In Shepherd, take up the enchanted crook of your ancestors to lead your small herd of 7 unique sheep from your remote village, through the beautiful desert environment, and onwards to civilization. The village is relying on you! As you navigate the environment, your sheep will, for the most part, travel alongside you in the direction you are traveling. However, the sheep can have minds of their own and decide to go against the grain, wandering off on their own! Each of the seven sheep has its own unique quirks which may present themselves when they engage in this sort of misbehavior, so try to pay attention! It's up to you to round up any sheep that wander off on you!
Care for your sheep! Make sure they are well-fed and hydrated. Keep track of their hunger and thirst meters, and be on the lookout for the various sources of food and water in the environment. if you notice your sheep getting hungry or thirsty, find the nearest source of sustenance for them, or risk both their trust and their lives!
Protect your sheep from an assortment of environmental hazards such as thorny brambles, snakes, poisonous flora, and even a prowling coyote. These hazards can range from minor inconveniences to serious threats to the health of your sheep! With dangers such as these lurking in the desert, it is important you keep track of them and save them from any obstacles they may encounter!
Bond with them through your gameplay; continuously fulfilling your promise and duty to your sheep as their caretaker will increase the trust and friendship your sheep place in you, making them less likely to misbehave for you in the future!
The desert, and more importantly, your sheep await you! It is time to become their Shepherd.
Care for your sheep! Make sure they are well-fed and hydrated. Keep track of their hunger and thirst meters, and be on the lookout for the various sources of food and water in the environment. if you notice your sheep getting hungry or thirsty, find the nearest source of sustenance for them, or risk both their trust and their lives!
Protect your sheep from an assortment of environmental hazards such as thorny brambles, snakes, poisonous flora, and even a prowling coyote. These hazards can range from minor inconveniences to serious threats to the health of your sheep! With dangers such as these lurking in the desert, it is important you keep track of them and save them from any obstacles they may encounter!
Bond with them through your gameplay; continuously fulfilling your promise and duty to your sheep as their caretaker will increase the trust and friendship your sheep place in you, making them less likely to misbehave for you in the future!
The desert, and more importantly, your sheep await you! It is time to become their Shepherd.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS *: Windows 7, CentOS7, High Sierra 10.13+, Ubuntu 18.04
- Processor: 1 core, x86
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
English*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Shepherd 0.1.2
Shepherd 0.1.2 comes with an asssortment of bugfixes and tweaks that improve the game experience. There are a number of bugs we are still working on with fixes coming in the next several weeks! Shepherd Model no longer sinks into the ground during camping Shepherd Model no longer dissappears after camping Added more decorations to starting area Added an all new loading screen Adjusted skybox colors Adjusted UI colors to be more intuitive Fixed strange rifts in the map Added barriers across the map to prevent the player from getting outside the playable level Fixed several bugs related to tutorials Fixed several bugs related to the menu UI (several more still to come with the next update!) Other minor fixesRead full article on Community Announcements (shepherd.game.iu)AnnouncementsOfficial
Shepherd Development Roadmap
Hello Shepherds! Today we would like to bring you our development roadmap, so that you all know what's coming up, and so that you know we are hard at work making improvements and new content for Shepherd! Firstly we would like to thank all of you who have taken an interest in Shepherd thus far! We here on the dev team are excited to keep working on it! On March 17th, last month, we released Early Access version 0.1.0 for you all to enjoy, and on April 3rd we released version 0.1.1 with a variety of bugfixes and new content that you can read about here. But this is just the beginning of what we have in store for you! How about the future? In addition to minor updates, our next major update will be Shepherd 0.2.0, which we are dubbing with the name 'Clarity'. It is aptly named, as one of the biggest challenges we need to tackle first is increasing the clarity of the game as a whole. This includes adding new tutorials, explaining mechanics and UI elements, improving the clarity of the UI elements themselves, adding prompts for the player, and general quality-of-life changes to make the gameplay as clear as possible to the player. After that, we will bring you Shepherd 0.3.0: 'Respite'. The highlight of this update is an overhaul of the current camping system. Some things in the plans for this include the ability to rename your sheep, pet them, and even play music for them, as well as changes to how the player experiences this segment of the game in order to make things more intuitive. Once we have achieved our goals with camping, the next update we plan to release will be titled Shepherd 0.4.0: 'Warbeast'. The name is a little more foreboding, and this update is too, as this update will bring a dangerous new area to the game. The highlights of this update include a sizable extension to the map, featuring a new canyon in which things start to get more intense than previous areas. The addition of new obstacles will force the player to keep a closer watch on their sheep, ...Read full article on Community Announcements (shepherd.game.iu)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 0.1.1
Bugfixes and tweaks: Sheep drinking unreliability fixed Barriers to stop players from walking off the map Tweaked animation on the introduction text Tweaks to the locations of tutorials so that they are more intuitive Reconfiguration of obstacle locations Fixed several instances of floating objects Fixed several issues that arose when players interacted with the camping system Small updates to some of the music tracks Assortment of other minor fixes Updates to the credits New Content: All new menu system with graphical, audio, and controls/keybinds settings Fade out once the end of the currently playable level is reached New face cameras for sheep Updated decorations across various points of the map. Magical footprint tracking enabledRead full article on Community Announcements (shepherd.game.iu)
