
In The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows, play as a dog defending your family from paranormal creatures. Explore the world and solve environmental puzzles to save your loved ones and uncover the mystery.
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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.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Its a good game for sure but id wish the robo dog was faster, you rely on it to have extra storage but its so slow that its no point in using it.
This game has potential, so I'm giving it a thumbs up. Currently the game is in a buggy state but its to be expected from being released not long ago, the sniffing trails can be wonky at times. Threat audio from an anomaly tends to be permanently playing once you defeat one. Banshee screams though it was defeated so may confuse you if its been banished or not. The game does lack content and the XP given for getting supplies and defeating enemy's doesn't feel rewarding enough compared to completing the game session, so its more like get you're objectives done fast and go onto the next game for big XP gain. Compare it like this for XP gain, you complete a session and you gain like 100 or so XP or 150 XP, you need like 1000 XP for level 2. But for the other mechanics for gaining XP like defeating anomalies you only really gain so much, we defeated like 3 or 4 and only gained 18XP which doesn't feel that rewarding, getting supplies i believe only rewards 1xp per supply. So yeah XP gain on the game doesn't feel rewarding enough. Again this game has potential but it lacks XP balancing and content, plus needs a good amount of bugs to be fixed.
still hope to see more updates but honestly it is a blast to play with friends but kinda boring when playing alone
Bark bark, woof woof, dog good. Can't wait for the customization to be as in-depth as the Sims ♥
been following the game for a bit and I'm excited to see what it can become! The first week or so of me playing there were a lot of things bugged and such but the developer has been working hard to fix everything that has been brought up by the community; for this being an early game it has so much potential <3
still has some work to be done obviously but for a solo dev its actually pretty good in my opinion, i hope to see the game grows not only in content but player count as well. dev actually listens to their players unlike most so that fact alone makes me happy.
A game with great potential! Cant wait to see what the dev does further on down the line.
I really do like this game, I do hope that in time same of the bug well be fit because it is a good idea for a game
So while it is an early access game, I do like the concept, I like the numerous dogs, and I do indeed like playing, but some things to address. So First off, Alpine level, very laggy, and Robo-Dog (Or as I've been lovingly calling him, Larry) has been getting stuck on the snow, When I went to the far off radio tower, he was just following from INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE!! I had to run all the way back, get the fuse, and run back to the radio tower then run home again with a can of tuna, lol. Another thing, if you're going to make a game, please make it stream friendly, I have friendos that like to watch it and I don't know if its the game or me (I don't think its me, I have a pretty decent computer, both space and ram wise and even spec wise). Three buddies of mine have been saying they can't watch the game because its been flashing really bad. And last thing? Alpine is VERY lag heavy, like it does sort itself out, but I thought I'd put that out there. It is a great game, just, the occasional not being able to interact with items sometimes, the flashing, the lag, and Larry getting stuck is kinda detrimental. Can't wait to see what other content comes out though.
loving the game definitely fun and the atmosphere is good bugs need to be fixed but overhaul i love it Alpine map needs optimizing but still enjoyable got jump scared by the swarm entity many times, entities with different weakness is a plus for me, need more dogs and coats... accessibility needs more colour changes and more options... keep it up i look forward to more of the game in the future... more emotes like sleep, sit, etc more likes a hospital or airfield, full scrap yard.. whatever you fancy i support it, oh need more levels up to 100+ or anything even small tasks for extra exp love the exp bar keep that.
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