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Shephy
Developer Arc System Works
1000 adorable sheep!The popular single-player card game Shephy, is now available on Steam. From the Steam store page
50 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Apr 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
66
Fresh
25 positive · 13 negative
95% range 50–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 25 | 13 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
29 of 43 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 26 yes, 13 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 39 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (156 of 211 positive).
Several posters criticize the awkward interface and small card text. [1][2][3]
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- [1]
Challenging mathematical card game that looks nice but suffers from a very awkward interface. The cards have English and Japanese? writing on them. That's fine but neither is big enough to be read. You have to press buttons to move a selector onto the card you wish to read, then press a button to enlarge the card to read it , then press the button to make the card small again to play it (by pressing another button …
- [12]
Cool concept but poor execution. The rules on how some of the cards work is pretty unclear at first. Most games lead to the player simply getting screwed by RNG. This is partially due to the fact that the deck doesn't reshuffle until you use every card in your hand. Since most of the deck is "bad event" cards, being forced to use your whole hand when the deck runs out usually leads to the player being forced to kill …
- [7]
Strangely addictive card game at first with weird humor and artwork. Ported from physical cards, Android, and Switch. Much more difficult than it appears to be due to the luck of the draw. Strategy is about managing how to take the bad cards and duplicate/combine the good ones to reach 1000 sheep. Seems impossible at first but try Practice Mode 2 and see how to work with the 300 sheep cards to win the the other …
- [5]
SHEEP!!!!! This somewhat complicated card game is a must play for anyone looking for a challenge! Your decisions will affect the fate of your herd, so be careful! One wrong move will cost you the game in some cases... From its charming art style to its impossible story mode, there is no wonder of why this game is so fun! PROTECT THE SHEEP!!!!!!!
- [4]
It's a nice little bit of Solitaire +Cute art +As many modes (3 plus practice) as a game of this type really needs. +Basic mode can be tough, but it teaches itself quickly. -I dislike the mouse controls, the flicking motion is a bit awkward. (a D-pad works best I have found for this game, if you can believe it)
Summarised from 34 of the 51 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Shephy sits at 66% positive across 38 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
50 of 50 · most liked firstStrangely addictive card game at first with weird humor and artwork. Ported from physical cards, Android, and Switch. Much more difficult than it appears to be due to the luck of the draw. Strategy is about managing how to take the bad cards and duplicate/combine the good ones to reach 1000 sheep. Seems impossible at first but try Practice Mode 2 and see how to work with the 300 sheep cards to win the the other modes. Recommend this for a quick diversion, especially if you into card games…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Challenging mathematical card game that looks nice but suffers from a very awkward interface. The cards have English and Japanese? writing on them. That's fine but neither is big enough to be read. You have to press buttons to move a selector onto the card you wish to read, then press a button to enlarge the card to read it , then press the button to make the card small again to play it (by pressing another button twice). Why not just make the card readable in the first place? Hey it's 2018,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a nice little bit of Solitaire +Cute art +As many modes (3 plus practice) as a game of this type really needs. +Basic mode can be tough, but it teaches itself quickly. -I dislike the mouse controls, the flicking motion is a bit awkward. (a D-pad works best I have found for this game, if you can believe it)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool concept but poor execution. The rules on how some of the cards work is pretty unclear at first. Most games lead to the player simply getting screwed by RNG. This is partially due to the fact that the deck doesn't reshuffle until you use every card in your hand. Since most of the deck is "bad event" cards, being forced to use your whole hand when the deck runs out usually leads to the player being forced to kill all their own sheep and lose.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just don't get it. Maybe I'm an idiot maybe I just don't have the patience I don't know. But I do know that I don't have fun trying to understand this. Behind a dozen UX issues lies the fact that half the deck is bad events and every round ends with me having no sheep and no fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a pleasantly simple game. However: 1) The strategy to win is patently obvious and in the end random chance can cripple a run. 2) The graphics and controls are pretty poor making this very likely less fun to play than the physical card game, when it would have been possible to do a much better job (in my opinion). As a card game this is limited, and as a computer version of the card game this is bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sure this could be a fun game to casually pass a little time, but the learning curve seems rather steep for what's meant to be a casual card game. The illustrations on the card are cute, but they and the non-English text leave precious little room to read what the card actually does, and the user interface is so poorly designed that it takes actual work just to select each card, view each card, stop viewing each card, and then eventually make your choice. This game held my attention for a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm sure there's a trick to this but I don't know what it is. This feels like a game with one solution, but that solution is combined with a randomised deck that could just as easily kill you on the first turn without you having a say in it. The event deck is so mean. Cute sheep tho.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought this game because it was on sale for $1. It is so hard to even read the cards. Every time I try to, the game thinks I want to play the card when all I want to do is read it. Why couldn’t they just allow players to read the cards by right-clicking with the mouse? The developers should have allowed players to change the keybinds in this game, instead of the awful keyboard button choices they went with. For example, I wish the “Escape” key would be the default “close” and/or “go back” key…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SHEEP!!!!! This somewhat complicated card game is a must play for anyone looking for a challenge! Your decisions will affect the fate of your herd, so be careful! One wrong move will cost you the game in some cases... From its charming art style to its impossible story mode, there is no wonder of why this game is so fun! PROTECT THE SHEEP!!!!!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is good, but the interface was created by an alien for aliens.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Found this game when Watame played it, honestly pretty dang fun. It's more of a randomly generated puzzle game. You have a deck with a set amount of bad event cards that you have to play around in order to win. Big problem with this kind of game is how sometimes RNG just screws you over and gives you a 0% chance of winning. The chances of that are about once out of 5 or 6 games, and since you can try an infinite amount of times, it's not that bad in my opinion. What I'm most annoyed about is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look at something like Shephy and tell me you can't make a card game without resorting to AI art lmao And its art is a whole lot more memorable than this too
positive · AI labelView post →Oh yah! For sure. I think Shephy is iconic game from them. There used to be a digital edition somewhere... not sure if it still lives.
positive · AI labelView post →Shephy is one of my favorite card games of all time and the art looks like napkin drawings (and I mean this in a good way it's extremely endearing and memorable)
positive · AI labelView post →What a disappointment. I really LOVE Solitaire games but this one just ain't it. I can tolerate a lot of RNG but this one does not give you options to redeem yourself if you even get a bad hand. And the entire formula of this game is simply not fun. Not even worth 1 dollar, Onirim is free to play on Steam and is beyond better. I'm sorry. Pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Achievement Hunter Review: Difficulty: Normal (but last one relies entirely on chance... a slim chance) Playability: Fun until the last one Normal Review: Fun, not really a speed game and it's only a one player.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cried about sheep dying. 10/10 game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We are born to this world only to die. Why were we all born to this place? -SHEPHY, a card game about sheep
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New video up today! This time I took a look at the classic Japanese solo card game, Shephy , in preparation for coverage of its new spiritual successor, Quant! youtu.be/CzeJNt3pfh8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →hehe the more i play the better it gets :3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good brain teaser. Just chill and take your time to plan your moves. Relax, MASASHI SUPER DRYYYY!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shephy, developed and published by Arc System Works, is a small-scale card game that disguises a surprisingly intricate puzzle system beneath an intentionally simple and whimsical premise. At a glance, it appears almost lighthearted to a fault, asking players to grow a flock of sheep to an absurdly large number, but once the mechanics unfold, it becomes clear that this is a tightly designed and often unforgiving experience built around careful planning and efficient use of limited resources.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you forget to use your doe-eyed border collie to deter the lingering, Northwestern wolf eyeing up your lonesome new born lamb with the survival instincts of a potato wedge, well you may have just been made responsible for single handedly leading the entirety of earth's sheep population to extinction. Great game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →17. Shephy A very weird, very japanese single player card game about accumulating large amounts sheep without killing too many along the way.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's "One step Forward, Two steps Back" The Game. The art is charming, but the game proper is anything but. Half your deck is just straight penalty cards (it sure feels that way if it isn't). The game is all too happy to ask to get rid of half of your active cards in play (or more). How do you deal with these cards? Only roughly a sixth of your deck can help manage the penalty cards with discards or remove from deck (the other third is for growing your herd). It's automatically game over if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the cute art outweighs losing 6 times in a row and who would've known there was a story mode with unique modifiers!?!?!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New video up on the channel! This week I took a look at the Japanese solo kaiju crisis management game, Quant, from designer Pawn and Arclight Games , a mechanical follow up to his previous small card game, Shephy! youtu.be/fZL61FEFI4Y
neutral · AI labelView post →Shephy! A small solo card game out of Japan, back on the table in preparation for a video before then also doing a video of Quant, a new twist on the mechanism for a larger kaiju game from the same designer!
neutral · AI labelView post →After playing a bunch of Quant the other day, I decided to get Shephy back out again in preparation for a video to compare Quant to. Still enjoy this little solo card game quite a bit. Was only one 100 sheep card away from a win...
positive · AI labelView post →Finally got Quant to the table. Have only played 1/3 of a game so far, but I'm really digging the simple card based crisis management gameplay, and it's definitely got Pawn's touch on it. It sort of feels like battle Shephy, with how the enemies combine it level up into more powerful enemies.
positive · AI labelView post →I may be too dumb for this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute little card game. But do yourself the favor and disable the audio. I have never heard such an annoying soundtrack in my life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought it on sale for a dollar and it was worth every penny. 10/10, would crush sheep with a Meteor again. About to 100% the game, was a fun challenge while not particularly unfair. Only had 1 achievement I really needed to grind for.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A wonderful Solitare like Japanese card game about sheep. Story mode is dark. Works on Steam Deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a fun card game that's a challenge. Like any card game, there's a chance that randomness will bite you in the wool and make you lose a run. This is especially true in the "Post Loves" mode. These challenges are more difficult than the standard game. The length of the runs in challenge mode isn't too long, especially once you get used to the cards. The interface isn't terrible but it's got some quirks in it that can be annoying, but nothing that should likely stop you from playing the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard to comment on the card game aspect when the UI is so utterly garbage. Game itself is meh. Simple, very heavily influenced by random chance, ok beginner solitaire game but nothing special.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game's certainly a one trick sheep, but it's fun enough while it lasts. Worth a dollar or two on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a digital implementation of a physical single-player card game. The game itself is light but seems like it could be decent enough fun. The port is of atrocious quality, being cumbersome to play with awkward controls and cards that are difficult to read and distinguish the artwork of.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a gimmick. Cute artwork and theme, but the gameplay is very linear. Keyboard and mouse controls are atrocious. There's no resolution settings. And that dumb kindergarten song that's in the trailer keeps repeating throughout the game. Seriously, ♥♥♥♥ that song.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i spent 59 minutes to complete the basic mode of the game, and the challenge mode and more are waiting for me. the graphic and BGM of the game are exactly same as sheep: nice, cute, and soft. the difficulty of the game is well tuned, you will face challenges while playing, but eventually, you can win the game after a few trials. and there are a few tips for newcomers: 1. you win the game by having one 1000-sheep card, not by having a total of 1000 or more sheep 2. to win the game, the last…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this is just a casual game to pass time, but the frustrating control coupled with the nigh impossible chance to win makes the game absolutely no fun at all. Like half the deck is "increase 1 with condition" while the other half of the deck is "decease multiples freely". You start at 1, get to 1000. Throughout the entire game, your hand has 5 cards, but 3 of them instantly make you lose while 2 does little to nothing. Just simple math can tell how impossible this game is, regardless of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a cute little card game where you have to get your sheep population up to 1,000 to win, which is in no way an easy task. While I do think the game is fun it's also really hard to win a game. There's so many event cards that kill your sheep that it's difficult to get anywhere near the winning goal in the 3 times it lets you go though your deck. You have to really learn the cards and then hope that RNG doesn't ruin your game. You can't reshuffle your deck until you've used every card in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nicely designed game, cute cards, some interesting challenges. Short, but it doesn't need to be longer. Would recommend, though I would advise turning the sound off. Only problem is there is an occasional bug with the inspiration card where I can't select anything and I have to restart the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MUST PROTECT SHEEP!!!! and they all died again... Sad/10 would play again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hours and hours of playing end up with the void feelings for sheeps
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is #Shephy just a board game, or is it available for #Switch / #PS4 ? GameStop had not heard of it.
neutral · AI labelView post →@tekk I'm going to look for #shephy for the #Switch
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't even had #shephy for 20 minutes and I can tell this is going to eat up way too much of my time, as any good solitaire game should (@lnxw48a1 I guess because it's a really cheap #switch game?)
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