This game is just so ridiculous and so funny to look at. The dogs don’t really have any interesting interactions with toys and furniture, which is a big drawback for a virtual pet game, but watching these physics-driven freaks of nature teeter around and trip over each other is an absolutely transcendent experience.
Wobbledogs is a terrible delight of mad science and pet care. In this sandbox world of canine containment bays, you embrace the whims of “what happens if I breed this dog with a comically small head?” right alongside “what if I only fed this dog onion rings for its entire life?” The act of wildly irresponsible animal husbandry is richly rewarded with every generation as your dogs reckon with their own anatomy. I zoom the camera out and view my multi-room compound from afar. I zoom the camera in and focus on a room full of stumbling idiots biting each other, neon body parts from a fallen companion left uneaten, and wet stains from a dubious emergence scattered about the astroturf. I love each and every one of my profoundly incompetent Wobbledogs and I am not open to criticisms.
My biggest issue with this game is that I played it on Switch. It works well enough but the controls are pretty awful. Rather than being able to mouse over anything, there is a reticle in the center of the screen that must be lined up with whatever it is you want to click. Anything that walks or rolls away might take one or two attempts to “catch.” It takes some getting used to and the best it gets is mildly annoying. The port is pretty bad, so if you have the option then you should play it on PC.
My biggest issue with this game is that I played it on Switch. It works well enough but the controls are pretty awful. Rather than being able to mouse over anything, there is a reticle in the center of the screen that must be lined up with whatever it is you want to click. Anything that walks or rolls away might take one or two attempts to “catch.” It takes some getting used to and the best it gets is mildly annoying. The port is pretty bad, so if you have the option then you should play it on PC.
This feels like a fake game you'd see in the background of like. A 2000s Nickelodeon show. Not in that "oh its generic and just what a guy who doesn't play video games thinks video games are" and more like "the team behind the show wanted to take the piss out of a game their kids play and added as much weird shit as possible"
I do like a lot how all the weird pupation mutation stuff is played somewhat straight and not like "ooooh this game is FUCKED... this cutesy game just went FUCKO MODE." because thats way more common in every indie game than people want to recognize
I do like a lot how all the weird pupation mutation stuff is played somewhat straight and not like "ooooh this game is FUCKED... this cutesy game just went FUCKO MODE." because thats way more common in every indie game than people want to recognize