Stray Dogs
Sprint up an alley crawling with a snarling pack of strays and get as far as you can.
About This Game
Sprint up an alley crawling with a snarling pack of strays and get as far as you can. Every meter is earned step by step in this four-tone retro pixel escape.
The dogs are not mindless — each one has its own two-ring temper: drift into its outer sensing zone and it fixes you with a warning, cross the inner ring and it lunges; back away in time and it settles down again.
The packs arrive in ever-changing formations — loose scatters, tight clusters, diagonal chains, and walls with a single narrow gate — and over the first 500 meters they grow faster, denser, and stingier with escape routes. When a lunge does come, one well-timed shout sends the whole chase bolting, but a single bite ends the run.
The real skill is route-reading: picking your opening and knowing when to sneak, when to sprint, and when to stand your ground. For players who like their arcade runs tense and their pixels chunky.
Game Tips
- ❗ When the exclamation mark pops up, slip a little to the side and the dog calms down.
- 🐕 No matter how many dogs lunge, one "SHOO!" scatters them all.
- 🛤️ A pack lined up in a row always leaves at least one gap.
Controls
- ◀ ▶ : move left and right
- ▲ : move forward
- Threaten (SHOO!) button: scare off a charging dog (always on screen, lights up when one lunges)
- ← → : move left and right
- ↑ : move forward
- Space · Enter : scare it off with a threat
Game info
- Category
- Action
- Players
- 1 player
- Developer
- PLAYMINIT — original game, made in-house
- Released
- 2026.06.07
- Last updated
- 2026.08.10
- Scoring
- m · Higher is better
- Monthly ranking
- Supported
- Controls
- Touch · Keyboard
