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Survive in a massive city filled with dangerous dogs and feisty cats! Build your dog pack, dig up buried bones, and battle for your life against German Shepherds, Huskies, and Labradors!\n\nDownload the Stray Dog Simulator today while it's 50% OFF for a very limited time!\n\nGame Features\nREALISTIC SIMULATOR\nYou'll need to maintain your health, hunger, thirst, and energy if you're going to survive the harsh life of a wild dog on the street!\n\nEPIC BATTLES\nUse your powerful bite to defend your territory and fight your enemies! Cause too much trouble and the city will call the dog catcher to steal a dog from your pack!\n\nBUILD YOUR PACK\nDominate other dogs and recruit them to your pack! With up to 5 additional dogs, 9 breeds, and 3 alternate colors, every pack will be unique!\n\nPLAY ANY BREED\nFor the first time you can choose the breed of your starting dog. Even better you can switch and play as any dog in your pack and level them up individually!\n\nLEVEL UP YOUR DOGS\nGain experience by defeating dangerous enemies, eating food from the trash, and completing missions. Level up your dogs to increase their health and attack damage, and increase the size of your pack!\n\nMISSIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS\nIntroducing two new mission types, \"Mark your Territory\" and \"Can You Dig It?”, to the unlimited missions and over two dozen achievements to give you a boost of experience! With the level cap increased to 200, you’ll need all the help you can get!\n\nDYNAMIC WEATHER AND DAY/NIGHT CYCLE\nIntroducing a brand new procedural weather system with unique storms, clouds, and celestial movement. Realistic storms will bring a downpour of rain, flashes of lightning and booms of thunder!\n\nHUGE 3D CITY ENVIRONMENT\nYour dog is free to roam a massive open-world environment that is more than triple the size of the previous simulators! Busy city streets, wide-open parks, white-fenced neighborhoods, and beachfront fairgrounds!\n\nNEW TOUCH-BASED CONTROLS\nBrand new intuitive controls let you navigate your animal like never before! Pinch to zoom and play from your dog's perspective or get a bird's eye view of the action!\n\n9 UNIQUE DOG BREEDS\nPick your favorite breed! Customize your dog pack with any dogs you’d like from the vast selection: Bulldog, Dalmatian, Doberman, German Shepherd, Jack Russell Terrier, Labrador, Greyhound, Dachshund and Husky!\n\nSTRAY SURVIVAL GUIDE\nLook to your handy survival guide for information on breeds, a map of the world, achievement progress, and much more!\n\nHD GRAPHICS\nStunning High Definition graphics bring a bustling city to life! New Graphics Quality options allow you to customize the game to look amazing and perform great on any device!\n\nGLUTEN-FREE PROMISE\nWith all of our games you will always get the full game with no ads or additional purchases!\n\nDownload the Stray Dog Simulator to experience the exciting life of a stray dog surviving on the streets!\n\nIf you liked living as a Stray Dog then you'll love our other animal simulators! Download our Eagle Simulator and soar through the skies, check out the Snow Leopard Simulator and pounce on your prey from high mountaintops, or slither around a tropical rainforest with the Snake Simulator!\n\nFollow us on Facebook for more awesome animal games and simulators!\nfacebook.com/glutenfreegames\ntwitter.com/glutenfreegames","facts":{"developer_id":698937431,"developer_url":null,"first_released":"2015-02-11T05:00:32Z","support_url":"http://www.glutenfreegaming.com/","privacy_url":"http://www.glutenfreegaming.com/privacypolicy","website_url":null,"app_version":"1.2","release_notes":"+ HD Realistic Textures Added\n+ Realistic Water\n+ iOS 11 Optimized: 64-Bit Support Added","rating_current_version":4.272,"rating_count_current_version":3272,"star_counts":[244,128,241,540,2119],"genres":["Games","Roleplaying","Entertainment","Simulation"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":["Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence"],"device_families":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-18T13:49:11.699Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-18T13:49:11.699Z","reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-12T13:06:57.514Z","placed_at":"2026-10-09T09:48:03.524Z","scored_at":"2026-10-20T17:28:13.749Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"A game where you play as a stray dog, surviving a city, building a dog pack, and battling other dogs.","what_is":"Stray Dog Simulator is a game where you choose a dog breed and survive as a stray in a large open-world city. 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