
Survive the wild with a loyal dog at your side. Wash up with nothing, tame a stray and raise it as your companion — build and power a home, outlast brutal winters, and face a world that fights back.
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You wash up alone in the wilderness — nothing but your hands and what the land gives you. You chop wood, raise a shelter, and fight to stay alive as the seasons turn toward a merciless winter. Then one day, a stray dog crosses your path. Feed it. Earn its trust. Watch it grow — and it never leaves your side.
By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game about raw survival, a home you build with your own hands, and the bond that grows between you and your dog.
🐕 Your Dog, Your Story — Find a stray and raise it from a pup. Each run it's a different breed with its own look and talent. Teach it tricks, put it to work — guard, hunt, or haul a sled — and it follows your commands, watches your back, and warns you the moment danger closes in.
🏡 Build & Power a Home — From a first campfire to a walled homestead with a glass greenhouse and an upper floor. Place every foundation, wall, stair and roof freely — then bring it to life with your own power-and-water grid: solar, batteries, pumps, heaters, sprinklers, smelters and smart-relay automation that keeps the base running while you're away.
🔨 Craft Everything — Over 90 recipes across workbench, furnace, campfire and powered machines. Gather raw materials and refine them through real crafting trees — ore into iron into steel, fibre into cloth into cable — into tools, gear and the machines that run your home.
❄️ Survive the Seasons — Stay warm, fed and dry as spring, summer and autumn give way to a winter that wants you dead. Food spoils — salt it, preserve it, stock the larder before the cold. Droughts, animal migrations, wolf packs and aurora-lit nights keep every year unpredictable.
🌾 Live Off the Land — Till fields and grow crops, keep them alive year-round in a heated greenhouse, raise animals, trade with a wandering merchant, and automate the grind so your homestead works for you.
🐺 Defend What's Yours — The wild fights back, and it escalates the longer you last: harsher winters and pack sieges that strike from the first night. Read the danger, fortify your home, and hold the line beside your dog.
🧭 Every Run Is Different — Start from a fresh scenario, then take on one of a dozen origins — each a real strength and a weakness that shape how you survive. Climb the homestead ranks toward an endgame worth chasing.
🎮 Two Ways to Play — Survival (hardcore: one life, permadeath) or Story (your home and world endure when you fall).
Arrive with nothing. Leave a legacy — with your dog by your side.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian
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A survival game with real heart! I've played a lot of co-op survival games, but By My Side does something most of them don't: it makes your dog feel like an actual companion, not just a mechanic. Your Dog follows you, helps you, and honestly makes the lonely moments in the wild feel a lot less lonely. The core loop is solid — gathering, crafting, and slowly building up your setup is satisfying, and the vehicle and salvage systems add a nice layer of depth. It's Early Access, so a few things still feel a bit rough around the edges... If you like survival games with an emotional core, this one's worth watching.
Ich bin eher zufällig über die Demo gestolpert, die mir letzte Woche vorgeschlagen wurde. Nach einer halben Stunde war für mich klar: Das Spiel landet auf meiner Wunschliste. Zum Start des Early Access habe ich dann direkt zugeschlagen. Ich finde das Spiel einfach unglaublich süß. ❤️ Der Grafikstil gefällt mir gut und die Idee, ein Survival-Spiel gemeinsam mit einem Hund als treuem Begleiter zu erleben, hat mich sofort begeistert. Der Einstieg ist anfangs etwas knifflig, da nur wenig erklärt wird. Man muss vieles selbst herausfinden. Ich persönlich empfinde das nicht als Nachteil – im Gegenteil, ich mag es, wenn ein Spiel einem nicht alles sofort vorgibt. (Ich war eine Weile unterwegs, um Erz im Gebirge zu suchen 😄). Wer allerdings lieber Schritt für Schritt an die Hand genommen wird, könnte den Anfang etwas anspruchsvoll finden. Besonders positiv hervorheben möchte ich auch den Entwickler. Einen Bug, den ich im Forum gemeldet hatte, wurde innerhalb kürzester Zeit behoben. So eine schnelle Reaktion zeigt, dass Feedback ernst genommen wird und mit viel Engagement am Spiel gearbeitet wird. Natürlich merkt man an einigen Stellen noch, dass sich das Spiel im Early Access befindet. Aber genau dafür ist Early Access schließlich da. Was ich bisher gesehen habe, macht auf jeden Fall Lust auf mehr. Von mir gibt es definitiv eine Empfehlung. Ich freue mich schon darauf, die weitere Entwicklung von By My Side mitzuerleben. 🐶
I want to be able to play it, but without invert mouse option, it is a no go for me.
Ich finde das Spiel sehr gelungen, es macht bisher wirklich Spaß. Auch die/der Entwickler sind jederzeit erreichbar, wenn man Hilfe braucht. Eine absolute Kaufempfehlung von mir. Ein wirklich großes Lob und Danke an die/den Entwickler für die tolle Arbeit.
Für mich im Gesamten nur furchtbar und den Preis nicht wert. Schade.
非常值得推荐的一个游戏,节奏比较慢,但是代入感很强,很喜欢和小狗一起慢慢探索和打造属于自己的荒野小屋,之前是玩了测试版的,测试版bug很多,提示也不全,才来买个正式版的玩,绝对值59块!!!感觉最希望能改进的就是把每个物件的作用,以及材料来源要有提示,新手引导尽量多一些,目前很多东西都得慢慢摸索,还要就是要有暂停,每次接个电话都得存盘退出,挖掘完最好能慢慢自动填满,不然坑坑挖挖的,下去填泥还容易卡着,希望厂家能尽快改进。
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