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DOGWALK

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.

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July 11, 2025
1 year and 21 days ago
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Overwhelmingly Positive2,878 reviews98.2%

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About the Game

Blender Studio's official game project is a short casual interactive story.
Play a big, adorable dog traversing through winter woods and help out a little kid decorate a snowman with colorful items hidden in the environment.

Explore

You are let loose to roam camping grounds, forest paths, idyllic creeks and a frozen pond in this miniature open world.

Bound together

Guide or drag around your little kid owner that you have in tow. Help each other out, be a menace or be a good boy.

Play your way

Dive straight in and have the game react to your play-style and choices.
There are no fail states. Only player driven moments.

A paper craft world

Traverse an environment made of real-life paper crafted models, scanned and recreated to be played with.

Free for everyone

Brought to you by the Blender Studio as the new free and creative commons "Open Project".
Made with, and available as free and open-source software.

The project was used to test and improve both Blender and the Godot Game Engine.

Find out more or support our work on the Blender Studio website!