If the internet loves one thing, it’s cats. Cat memes, cat rescue stories, cat vids. Cats have taken over people’s lives, real and virtual, and are quietly dominating the games space. Surely you’ve played a great cat game in recent years, like Stray, Little Kitty, Big City, or the Cat Quest trilogy. I’m not much of a cat person myself, yet even I fell in love with Stray and its orange, single-brain-celled feline. Still, I can’t help but lament the dearth of games starring cats’ mortal enemy: dogs.

Unfortunately, dogs are frequently featured in games as enemies destined to be killed by the player, whether we’re talking military dogs in first-person shooters or Bloodborne’s grotesque hounds. Let’s reverse that trend.

A dog game could be a very simple thing. Taking inspiration from Little Kitty, Big City, we could control a wayward hound searching for a way home. Naturally, hijinks would........

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