The city’s four packs fight over every hydrant, across fourteen districts, from frozen flats and a volcano to the docks and the beach. Mark the streets to claim them, hold 22% of the map to rule it, and watch for traffic. Keep peeing on your own turf to build walls (the border thickens and turns white, and a tile at 100% wall raises a real barrier ring that rival dogs cannot cross; stand still and empty your bladder on one spot to get there), rivals must wear a wall down before they can take the tile, and hydrant zones hold the strongest walls. Barriers have health: bite one to knock a gap in it (rival dogs will gnaw through yours too, so defend it and pee on cracked sections to patch them).
Desktop W A S D move, T dog shop, Shift run, Space pee, click or F bite (three hits make a combo), Q dash, B bark, G wag at humans, C call pack, V order pack, H have puppies (level 3+), R take a car (lure the driver out first: wag, bark or pee near it), drag or arrow keys to look, Esc pause.
Touch tap an item icon to select it and tap again to use it, call your pack from the full map (tap the minimap), tap the cart for the shop, push the stick to its edge to run, tap the buttons, drag the screen to look.
Chain bites, pickups and kills to build a score multiplier. Pick a game mode (Classic, Survival, Time Attack or Chill) before you start. Take timed contracts for bonus bones. Every human carries an item (see the icon over their head). Knock them down and they may drop it: wallet, phone, water pistol, car keys, knife, gun, slingshot, firecrackers, pepper spray or a med kit. You can also buy most of them in the dog shop (T), under Items. 1, 2, 3 pick an item slot (press again to use it), X uses what you hold, Z swaps between up to 3 carried items (grenades blow up crowds and props). Traffic brakes for people, and crowds panic at gunfire, barks and bad driving. Bite or run over people and the dogcatcher hunts you: sprint away, dash his net, or knock him out. Rival packs raid you now and then: beat them for a bonus. Dash through an attack to dodge it. Rivals rear back and flash orange before they bite, so that is your cue.
New in the city: Garage in the dog shop (T): bicycle, scooter, motorbike, plane, helicopter, tank, robot dog and a 10,000-bone fighter jet! find landmarks (Ferris wheel, clock tower, golden dog statue, fountain, agility hoops) for bones, dig up buried treasure by standing still on dirt mounds, scare pigeons, grab hot dogs, visit the Pet Shop, Vet and Pay-N-Spray, and enter the white beam in a car for a street race. Cars now take damage and explode, Shift is nitro and Space is handbrake. Motorbikes are parked around town: stand next to one and press R to ride. Rarely, a helicopter or a small plane touches down somewhere in the city (watch the minimap): hold Space to climb, release to descend. At 2+ wanted stars the dogcatcher van hunts you.