
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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Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Esperei bastante por esse jogo, mas infelizmente as expectativas foram maiores do que a entrega. A idéia era boa, mas a jogabilidade é muito ruim, e não foi divertido... realmente uma pena, estava empolgada com esse co-op.
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 the tutorial section not mentioning the method used to defeat the wraith. 🤔 One small problem specific to me, I'm not reliably able to detect enemies before they detect me. I have tinnitus / hearing damage in one ear, which makes soft sounds like footsteps hard to decipher at times. Also, to be fair, I was getting caught a lot because I was running a lot. It's very easy to run right into an enemy's path and not realize until it's too late. You want to run because you're on a timer in Fetch mode, but the best way to stay safe is to crouch around everywhere, which is [i]SO[/i] SLOW. Not a problem on Difficulty 1 where you only have a handful (pawful?) of tasks, but the higher the Dif, the less time you can waste. I think this is purposeful to ensure that players will encounter enemies more often, but I wonder if at the highest level, this ends up forcing you to just run past or kill everything? The most glaring problem so far: Glitchy hitboxes. For example, the robot dog is a walking backpack that helps you stockpile supplies. Sometimes the targets that let you place items in its back disappear, and you have to take it on a walk to make them come back. This is mildly annoying if you're in the clear, but if an enemy is lurking it's a hassle.
Fun, I get to be dog and kill ghosts
Приобрели игру с мужем. В целом, игра неплохая и необычная, к некоторым механикам нужно привыкать, и естественно есть какие-то недочёты - о которых просто нужно сообщить в bugreport, чтобы это исправили. Игра свежая и только сделала свой первый старт. Будем следить за обновлениями. В одного жутко, вдвоём, кайф :з
This game's concept is very interesting and intriguing. As a dog lover, this game is really fun. I've always enjoyed animal role-play and/or survival games, and this takes it to the next level. The game still needs improvements and bug fixes, but as a new game, that is expected. It is really good for being so fresh! I'm excited to see where this goes.
I enjoyed playing the game, though me and friends had some difficulties figuring it out at first. the invite feature was buggy, my friend tried to invite me and another friend, but neither of us got the invite. we were able join by going to steam and manually joining off our friend. the third map had a glitch where one of our friends would glitch out and could not play that map. even though we ran into some issues it was pretty fun to play. I look forward to more content in this game.
its gooood!!
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
Dont Bother Buying this game Until the DEV fixes all the bugs and gets the game servers to have australia and other regions instead of having a ping of 9,999 that ridiculous having it that high are the wraiths , spiders meant to run past a bright fire and into the dogs safe house the drone needs fixing all the dogs need fixing the torches the robot bag carrier needs to have unlimited item storage on single player and multiplayer mode and the achievements need fixing as they are not picking up that you have completed them the game price is to much for a fully bugged out game seems to me the game has no one playing it due to this game been neglected as the games has to much bugs in it
World feels very empty and enemies are scarce. I was able to run around for quite some time without running into anything or feeling pressured. Played on mouse and keyboard and it feels clunky, especially when trying to pick up items and put them in your bag. It's just a very mid Lethal Company clone but with dogs, nothing special really.
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