Shifts 1-2
Ignore fancy plays and lock in one intake order: desk, photo, CCTV when needed, then a clean admit or reject. The goal is fewer bad patients, not speed records.
Walkthrough
Animal Hospital walkthrough for your first 10 shifts
This page is for the point where the game already makes sense, but your clears still feel unstable. Instead of treating every mechanic equally, this walkthrough breaks the first 10 shifts into the order most players actually learn them.
The idea is simple: first clean the intake, then protect sanity, then stop room and rescue pressure from snowballing. If you try to master everything at once, the run keeps feeling louder than it is.
Shifts 3-4
Start noticing sanity before it drops too low. Coffee works best when it stays inside the route instead of becoming a last-second rescue after panic starts.
Shifts 5-7
This is when room discipline and recovery pressure matter more. If the hospital starts feeling noisy, the real problem is usually route order, not raw reflexes.
Shifts 8-10
By now your focus should be cleaner buys, cleaner rescue priority, and fewer wasted walks between Desk, Office, treatment rooms, and recovery.
Desk, photo, CCTV order
Open this if your first 10 shifts still fail because intake never feels automatic.
Coffee route
Open this if sanity starts crashing right around the point your early route should feel settled.
Ambulance prep guide
Open this if your first real wall comes when the patient wave arrives.
Related pages
Beginner guide
Open this if you want the shorter first-shift version before the longer 10-shift walkthrough.
How to detect anomalies
Best next page when your early shifts still die at the front desk.
What to buy first
Best next page when your route is improving and the next question is how to spend coins cleanly.
What a good early run should feel like
- • You reject more bad patients before they ever reach a room.
- • Coffee happens before desperation instead of after panic.
- • The next buy solves the current bottleneck instead of sounding flashy.
- • Rescue pressure feels readable instead of random.