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Sun Dogs

61% positive of 13 Steam reviews

Released: 2015
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam, itch.io

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About the game

Sun Dogs is about exploring our inner solar system, altering your body, and embracing death. In a distant future, humanity readily alters itself, adapting bodies to new environments. Skim along the Sun's corona, float above the surface of Venus, travel the dusty plains of Mars, and beyond.

Tagged by players

Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Space
Minimalist
Casual

What players say

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Mixed

What players say

Not recommended
SUMMARY: Regretfully, Sun Dogs is a brilliant idea that's well-written and beautifully minimalist, but doesn't hang together very well because of limited options and random events. It's hard for me to not reccomend Sun Dogs as the game is a fantastic idea that almost gets it right - a kind of nonlinear playable novel of a transhuman future, beautifully written, and obviously a labor of love. Had it been free or very…
1.7 h played when written. 84 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Sun Dogs is a text-based science fiction adventure game. That is the extent of how well I can describe it for an opening sentence of a review. You, as an explorer, visit different places within our inner solar system (the terrestrial four and some moons) to collect different items, skills, and body augments to open up new events and new options for events and encounters. Gameplay is presented entirely as text in…
1.2 h played when written. 25 found it helpful.
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