The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows
Poultry Party Games · 2026 · Horror, Dogs, Exploration, Supernatural, Mystery
PC
Very Positive86% · 69
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About The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows
Has your dog ever stared into the darkness, barking at something you couldn't see? Maybe they've growled at a quiet hallway in the dead of night or watched an empty corner of your ceiling, tracking something invisible with eerie focus. As the family dog, it's your job to protect your loved ones from danger—especially from the kind they can't see. In The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows, step into the paws of a loyal dog defending its owners from paranormal entities.
In the Fetch game mode, you're tasked with venturing out into a desolate world to retrieve supplies your family needs to survive. Explore abandoned towns and decaying buildings while avoiding the terrifying entities that haunt the places you once called home. As the days pass, your job will become harder. Resources will spawn less often and farther apart, and your daily resource target will become more demanding, all while the dangers outside grow stronger.Explore three large maps at launch, each with a unique selection of landmarks and weather conditions. Use your keen sense of smell to search the area for tools. Dig up hidden items to help fight back against the paranormal. Bark at certain immaterial entities to disperse them, or at physical entities to draw their attention away from your family.And if all else fails, use your teeth.In the world of the Entities, however, even dogs need a helping hand. Utilize technology repurposed by your human companions to get the job done: flashlights to see better in the dark, a portable speaker to distract enemies, and even a robot dog companion to help you carry supplies. With over twenty breeds to choose from, you can tailor your gameplay to your preferred style. Will you play as a small breed, perfect for slipping into tight spaces and evading danger, or a larger breed with more health and attack power to take on threats head-on? Will you prioritize a breed with high stamina, tracking capabilities, stealth, or something else entirely? Whatever your approach, there will be a breed that suits your playstyle.
In the Fetch game mode, you're tasked with venturing out into a desolate world to retrieve supplies your family needs to survive. Explore abandoned towns and decaying buildings while avoiding the terrifying entities that haunt the places you once called home. As the days pass, your job will become harder. Resources will spawn less often and farther apart, and your daily resource target will become more demanding, all while the dangers outside grow stronger.Explore three large maps at launch, each with a unique selection of landmarks and weather conditions. Use your keen sense of smell to search the area for tools. Dig up hidden items to help fight back against the paranormal. Bark at certain immaterial entities to disperse them, or at physical entities to draw their attention away from your family.And if all else fails, use your teeth.In the world of the Entities, however, even dogs need a helping hand. Utilize technology repurposed by your human companions to get the job done: flashlights to see better in the dark, a portable speaker to distract enemies, and even a robot dog companion to help you carry supplies. With over twenty breeds to choose from, you can tailor your gameplay to your preferred style. Will you play as a small breed, perfect for slipping into tight spaces and evading danger, or a larger breed with more health and attack power to take on threats head-on? Will you prioritize a breed with high stamina, tracking capabilities, stealth, or something else entirely? Whatever your approach, there will be a breed that suits your playstyle.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise the game's creative and fun core concept of playing as dogs fighting ghosts, with engaging progression systems and cosmetics that keep them invested. They appreciate the solo developer's responsiveness to feedback and willingness to improve the game, though many acknowledge it's still in development with bugs and rough edges that need addressing as the game grows.
I'm very happy I stumbled onto this game, I love it! It's also a very fun co-op game. The concept is perfect to me. Be a dog, fight entities, bring back goods, I like it. What I'd like to see is more lore because it'd be really cool to know wtf happened to this world. Also, I'm begging for a greyhound to be added, i'd *pay* for a greyhound, to be able to be my irl puppers (alive and passed </3) would be lovely. But if not then that's okay too, the games great and I hope to see it get ironed out more. (There have been some crashing problems on my partners side, which can be a pain when you're playing on max difficulty and you're almost finished then *boom* crash. So like I said, really hope things get ironed out, because I see potential in this game! <38 found this helpful
very cool game heaps of fun to stream with a trustworthy friend only downfall is after a few runs the torches break in the dogs mouith and sometimes the health bar refuses to refill when eating & server pings way to high at 999992 found this helpful
Good game. However I think there needs to be work done on it. I will give it a thumbs as it is in early access. THE GAME IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION DESPITE MY CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM. First off, The graphics and atmosphere are well done, but the enemies are inconsistent, and I've ended up with a few runs where I came across no entities, whereas other times I'm just swarmed by different types. I didnt feel as much fear as I would like in a horror game, and the objectives are very straightforward, leaving with very little to do. I would recommend adding a mini-game to the fuse boxes, perhaps even entities defending different areas. Perhaps even entity killing requirements. The game doesnt offer much for the amount of grind, and the difficulty isn't solidly consistent, as mentioned before. However I recommend this game because I'm seeing potential in this game as a co-op survival. It plays very similar to nuclear nightmare without the imposter mode, with a smaller map and less to do.1 found this helpful
still hope to see more updates but honestly it is a blast to play with friends but kinda boring when playing alone1 found this helpful
very cool game heaps of fun to stream with a trustworthy friend only downfall is after a few runs the torches break in the dogs mouith
Having done the tutorial, run around in Explore mode, and dipped my toes into a few Fetch games, I think it's okay. I was actually shocked that it ran well on my laptop. It will probably sit next to [i]Picayune Dreams[/i] as a game I enjoy for a little while longer and then shelf (until an update catches my attention). It is still quite early in development and will not be done for another ~10 months (at least) according to the dev, and as such it's missing things like enemy variety and more game modes. To be clear, this game has good bones, it's just lacking in features. There isn't much to do. The glitches I've encountered so far have been annoying as opposed to catastrophic, and usually fix themselves with a bit of finagling. So far there are only three enemy types (plus the worms that kill you for going out-of-bounds). They're all pretty simple once you figure out how to counter them, more so if you have packmates to coordinate attacks with. Banshees are the most interesting because on top of their teleporting behavior, you have to [i]bark[/i] to kill them. This can draw other enemies to your location. It's a neat bit of risk-reward! That said, I'm not sure how I feel about t…
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