It needs only:

- different animal for each player

- safe home for the babies to be put in (so there is a basic goal)

and it would be P E R F E C T for this.

There is really no competiton on Steam in this field: a game for 4 family members to play on one full screen, with a basic unpunishing goal so children can just learn how a controller works.

I only found:

- Bluey, too difficult for starters and the cutscenes are interrupting all the time

- two shepherding games: one low budget early access game "Too Many Sheep", though already a dead project; and a more expensive one "Sheepherds!" and it seems to be the only winner here - although i think it would still work better as a 2nd game AFTER playing "The Great Hide n Seek Expawdition"