Steam
Store data
- UK price
- £15.99
- US price
- $14.39
- Positive reviews
- 100%
- Total reviews
- 63
- Release date
- 29 September 2026
Activity briefingSummary of recorded signals
Steam player data · App 4613180
Dog in the Machine
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Cloud
- Family Sharing
Concurrent players4Most recent successful sample
Today's peak786/144 samples
Tracked peak25Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating100%63 reviews
Steam metadata
Game information
Details supplied by the Steam store
- App ID
- 4613180
- App type
- Game
- Developer
- Studio Chahut ↗
- Publisher
- Goblinz Publishing
- Supported systems
- Windows · macOS
- Genres
- Indie, Strategy
- Release date
- 29 September 2026
- Last player update
- 22 Oct · 14:20 UTC
Steam store data
System requirements
Supplied by the developer on Steam
Windows
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 or equivalent
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Quad-core 3.0 GHz
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or equivalent
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
macOS
Minimum
- OS
- macOS 11.0
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 or Apple M1
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Metal-compatible GPU
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
Recommended
- OS
- macOS 13.0
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 or Apple M2
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Metal-compatible GPU
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
Launch window
Released 29 September 2026 · Tracking from 29 September 2026
SteamWatch’s first observed day and week; tracking can begin after release. Top Sellers is Steam’s revenue ranking, not a sales estimate.
- Player peak
- 20
- Steam reviews
- 0Rating not recorded
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £12.79
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
1 player-data day recorded in this window.
- Player peak
- 25
- Steam reviews
- 32100% positive
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £12.79
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
6 player-data days recorded in this window.
Peak 7Average 4Latest 4
24-hour and 7-day views use hourly peaks from ten-minute samples. Longer views use retained daily peaks. Up to 24 recent event markers are shown per layer.
Twitch
Twitch stats
Awaiting the first Twitch sample.
Long-term history
Monthly players breakdown
Calculated from SteamWatch samples
| Month | Peak | Gain | % gain | Average | Avg % gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 25 | — | — | 6 | — |
| October 2026 | 25 | +5 | +25.0% | 5 | -52.7% |
| September 2026 | 20 | — | — | 11 | — |
Store price Regular price
Daily regional sweep
Regional prices
3 regions checked
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| United KingdomGBP · GB | GBP | £15.99 | £12.79 | 20% | £12.79 | No change recorded |
| United StatesUSD · US | USD | US$17.99 | $14.39 | 20% | $14.39 | No change recorded |
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| PolandPLN · PL | PLN | PLN 76.99 | 61,59 zł | 20% | 61,59 zł | No change recorded |
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Positive rating100.0%
Positive reviews63
Negative reviews0
Positive reviews Negative reviews
Recent views use Steam's daily review activity. Longer views use weekly totals, retained by SteamWatch.
About this game
Description
Supplied by the Steam store
Dog in the Machine is a tactical roguelite where you help an AutoDog escape a dystopian mecha-city and reunite with its exiled humans. Battle through a series of encounters on compact grids filled with reactive elements, enemy guardians, and environmental hazards. Preview your actions, experiment with different strategies, and trigger the most satisfying chain reactions. Between fights, meet quirky characters and craft a modular arsenal of attacks built around your favorite synergies.
Play as 8 different dog breeds across an infinite number of procedurally generated levels. Between runs, unlock permanent upgrades and features, and try to conquer every difficulty level!
💥 MASTER THE DOMINO EFFECT
Every battlefield is generated to be a chain-reaction playground . Domino effect collision systems, reactive enemies, conveyor belts, interactive buttons, explosive obstacles...
No boring fights : All these elements give players the opportunity to crack the perfect solution in each battle, destroying waves of enemies in a spectacular way.
🧠 DEEP TACTICS, ZERO FRUSTRATION
Thanks to a real-time preview system , you can see exactly how your instruction sequence will play out before committing. Smoothly try, cancel, retry , and build a solution without cognitive overload, experimenting freely until you find your favorite outcome.
If you lose, it will be due to a flaw in your strategy, not a careless mistake.
🦴 COMBINE YOUR TRICKS
After each battle, your AutoDog learns a new Trick . But more importantly, you will be able to train it to perform more complex Tricks , which you can create freely by combining two others .
You can follow blueprints or invent your own combinations . So by the end of the run, you will have created your own unique playstyle, based on powerful synergies .
👺 EXPAND YOUR ARSENAL
Between fights, meet a cast of quirky characters who reveal the story of the city-machine, each offering their own deck-building choices. Buy, exchange, loot, upgrade, steal… every encounter is a new opportunity to expand your Trick Library and shape a build that's entirely your own.
Steam gallery
Screenshots
10 available
Observed momentum
Moving similarly
Compared with the latest two retained daily readings
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Steam store extras
Downloadable content
1 available
Steam global stats
Achievements
42 achievements
| # | ||
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Achiev Tuto | 90.0% |
| 02 | Achiev No Alarm Lose | 83.0% |
| 03 | Achiev Enemy Friendly Fire | 81.1% |
| 04 | Achiev No Hp Lose | 80.1% |
| 05 | Achiev 1st District | 76.0% |
| 06 | Achiev Boss Industry | 75.0% |
| 07 | Achiev 4 Kill 1 Turn | 57.7% |
| 08 | Achiev Upgrade | 56.5% |
| 09 | Achiev 2nd District | 53.4% |
| 10 | Achiev Boss Blueheights | 46.2% |
| 11 | Achiev Boss Old Auto | 45.0% |
| 12 | Achiev Boss Commercial | 44.0% |
| 13 | Achiev 4 Collisions | 41.0% |
| 14 | Achiev Wrecker Win | 37.8% |
| 15 | Achiev 4 Enmy Attack Wrecker | 37.5% |
| 16 | Achiev 15 Hunted | 33.0% |
| 17 | Achiev Mie 20 Kill | 33.0% |
| 18 | Achiev 3 Enmy Attack Shover | 32.1% |
| 19 | Achiev Train Custom | 31.8% |
| 20 | Achiev 15 Corroded | 29.9% |
| 21 | Achiev Pet Dog 5 Test | 27.2% |
| 22 | Achiev Move 250 | 26.5% |
| 23 | Achiev Tp 100 | 23.9% |
| 24 | Achiev Shover Win | 23.8% |
| 25 | Achiev Difficulty Doggo | 22.7% |
| 26 | Achiev 30 Toys | 16.6% |
| 27 | Achiev 30 Trav | 16.2% |
| 28 | Achiev Destroy 500 Enmy | 14.7% |
| 29 | Achiev Difficulty Elite | 14.5% |
| 30 | Achiev Unlock Nexus | 12.5% |
| 31 | Achiev Boss Nexus | 10.7% |
| 32 | Achiev Destroy 25 Boss | 10.2% |
| 33 | Achiev Credits | 9.0% |
| 34 | Achiev All Pnj | 6.8% |
| 35 | Achiev All Wrecker Win | 5.6% |
| 36 | Achiev All Shover Win | 5.3% |
| 37 | Achiev Move In Custom | 3.9% |
| 38 | Achiev All Dogs Win | 3.4% |
| 39 | Achiev Not Steal 3 | 3.2% |
| 40 | Achiev Difficulty Elite 6 | 2.2% |
| 41 | Achiev Iron Dog | 2.0% |
| 42 | Achiev Difficulty Elite Max | 1.0% |
Saved from Steam
Patches
2 tracked updates
Dog in the Machine — Second Patch!
Hello everyone!One week after the first patch, here is the second one.What do we have on the menu?Killing a boss will now give you full Mechabones, even if you don't kill its minions.The autoDog selection screen will let you know with which breeds you've already finished the game with.Supervisors increase Alarm less on lower difficulty settings.Modifiers linked to difficulty are displayed in a better way.Fixed a bug that caused the speedrun timer to break at the start of a game.Mechabones are now given at the right time at the end of a battle, allowing you to use the reward reroll feature properly.Fixed a bug where the Nodemap button was not available in Training Stations.Fixed a save bug that occurred when two Steam accounts owning the game were used on the same computer.We hope you will like it!We are still trying to make our community grow. Don’t hesitate to share the game, review...
Read full update on Steam ↗Dog in the Machine — First Patch!
Hello everyone!9 days after the release, here is the first patch.What do we have on the menu?Fixed an issue with macOS launch.Fixed an issue where Records were duplicated in the Control Station.Fixed a bug with a weird game over happening after beating a boss.Fixed a crash caused by the Rebound Borders chipset causing infinite movements.Fixed an infinite loop situation caused by the Portal Borders chipset.Added an option to keep the detailed view between battles (asked for by several players).Fixed some text typos in several languages.We hope you will like it!We are still trying to make our community grow. Don’t hesitate to share the game, review it, join our Discord, or follow us on another social media channel.Have fun!
Read full update on Steam ↗
Game activity
Recent changes
Steam events and SteamWatch observations
- SteamReview activity
1 new Steam review
1 positive · 0 negative.
- SteamReview activity
6 new Steam reviews
6 positive · 0 negative.
- SteamPatch
Dog in the Machine — Second Patch! ↗
Hello everyone!One week after the first patch, here is the second one.What do we have on the menu?Killing a boss will now give you full Mechabones, even if you don't kill its minions.The autoDog selection screen will…
- SteamReview activity
2 new Steam reviews
2 positive · 0 negative.
- SteamWatchPrice data
Price changed to £15.99
£12.79 → £15.99.
- SteamReview activity
3 new Steam reviews
3 positive · 0 negative.