Animal Hospital (Anomaly)

Starter Guide

How to survive your first Animal Hospital shifts

This page is built for the phase where the game still feels louder than it actually is. The goal is not to memorize everything at once. It is to create one stable order for intake, sanity, rooms, and the first few buys.

First Route

The cleanest first-run order

1

Use three layers on every uncertain patient

Check the desk view, print the photo, and rotate through CCTV. New players lose most often by trusting only one layer.

2

Treat coffee like maintenance, not panic medicine

One coffee restores 15 total sanity. If you wait until the run already feels doomed, the value drops because mistakes start stacking too fast.

3

Buy throughput before comfort

Recovery speed, DNA speed, and reliable sanity tools fix more runs than random novelty buys.

4

Leave harder threats for the second learning phase

Your first stable goal is not mastering every enemy. It is creating a repeatable intake and treatment rhythm.

Beginner Notes

Rules worth keeping even after your first clears

  • • Secretary, Doctor, and later Surgeon are safer beginner progression lines than mobility-first picks.
  • • Do not stare at dangerous enemies like Stalker and do not keep checking cursed photos after the warning is already clear.
  • • A wrong reject hurts less than admitting a patient that becomes a later disaster.
  • • Stable clears usually come from pace and discipline, not from reacting faster in panic.
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Want a faster sanity safety net while you learn?

New players who finish this page usually need one thing next: a simpler way to judge whether coffee, chocolate, and class passives are enough to recover the run.

Open Sanity Planner