DOGWALK

DOGWALK

Worth it · Short indie · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.3h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
98% positive
Length
0.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
98%
2,954 reviews, as of Sep 26
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5500 / AMD Radeon R5 Graphics, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre.

6 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:47 UTC.

Players

6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
DOGWALK scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 2,954 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3775050/dogwalk
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Details

DeveloperBlender Studio
PublisherBlender Studio
GenreShort indie
Released2025