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The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows

The Good Dog: Chasing Shadows

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.

Released May 5, 2026 Developer Poultry Party Games Platforms Windows Early AccessHorrorDogsExplorationSupernatural
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-10-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.

84.0%positive94 reviews
Recommended · 18 found this helpful

“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…”

— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played
Recommended · 3 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 99999”

— a player, Steam review · 84 hrs played
Not recommended · 35 found this helpful

“This is a good idea for a game, but it isn't worth buying into at this point in time. Sometimes things are released too early for even early access and this is one of those times. Most of the positive reviews appear to be based on "I can run around as a dog yay". The truth is…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-22.

15achievements
3.0%median completion
0.2%rarest: Burning Down the House
44.8% of players 13.9% of players 7.6% of players 6.8% of players 4.3% of players 3.6% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.7% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 44.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
44.8%Boop — Hidden achievement
13.9%Hot Dog — Hidden achievement
7.6%Lap Dog — Travel 25km in total.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Burning Down the House — Kill 250 spiders total, alone or in a pack.
0.3%Best in Show — Reach Player Level 50.
0.6%Hushpuppies — Complete an Expedition without any dog alerting the Entities. (Difficulty III and up)

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-28. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$14.99current · sampled 2026-10-25 20:53 UTC
$11.99lowest since tracking began2026-10-01
US14.99 USD
EU15.49 EUR
UK13.75 GBP
Australia20.95 AUD
Canada17.99 CAD
Japan1,900 JPY
Brazil53.49 BRL
China59.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$8.8 Brazil Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$18

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-26). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 09-28 10-03 10-08 10-14 10-19 10-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 26, 2026
Early Access Patch 1.2.2 - Halloween!

Hello again, everyone! Patch 1.2.2 begins a celebration of The Good Dog's favorite holiday—Halloween! The update includes a new free Progression Pass with skins for dog breeds, ROV-R, the drone, and m

Oct 15, 2026
Early Access Patch 1.2.1

Hello again, everyone! After about a week on the test server, Early Access Patch 1.2.1 is finally stable enough for testing on the default branch. As with the last patch, the Entities have grown stron

Sep 25, 2026
Early Access Patch 1.2.0

Hello again, everyone! Patch 1.2.0 releases on the default branch today, and kicks off a series of updates that aim to improve the game's Entities. In universe, the Entities have started to evolve in

Aug 17, 2026
Early Access Patch 1.1.4

Hello again, everyone! We've got another small bug-fixing patch today. The main fix included in this patch is a fix for the Fallen Dog evidence spawning system. Before, there was a rare chance that ev

Aug 15, 2026
Early Access Patch 1.1.3

Hello again, everyone! Today's patch is a smaller one that comes with some much needed fixes and changes. The main focus of this patch was a rework of the tutorial level. This has been an ongoing chan

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.

GenresAction, Adventure, Early Access
Player tagsEarly Access · Horror · Dogs · Exploration · Supernatural · Mystery · Survival Horror · Puzzle · PvE · Action-Adventure · 3D · Third Person (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements15
Official sitehttps://www.poultrypartygames.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10