Dogpile news & patch notes

Hello my canine loving friends,

Just a quick one to make sure you know that Steam's Deckbuilders Fest is live RIGHT NOW so you can pick up a bunch of rad games for cheap. Dogpile is included with a 35% discount, so tell everyone you've ever met!

It's also worth noting that we've added a bunch of bundles to our Steam page over the months, they have all been curated, the devs are all lovely people and they deserve your support, so check out games like Ballionaire, Luck be a Landlord, Dungeon Clawler, Dog Witch, Bento Blocks and more. Also... we have been hard at work with Dogpile related things and we're circling around the point where we can talk more about it. Please keep your eyes peeled here and maybe the Discord if that's your cup of tea. Hmmmm what the hell is this???

<3 Darcy from Foot

HELLO DOG NATION Is your steam profile completely dogless? I'm talking Dog-free from edge to edge? The nightmare is over. While we are hard at work on future pupdates, today we bring you a little treat:

Sensational Steam Trading cards

Prestigious Profile Backgrounds

Edifying Emoticons

And uhhh... salacious? Stickers?

You can earn the trading cards any time, just from playing dogpile, and pick up the points shop items at our page here. I am looking for a rare foil King card, If anyone has one.

Lots of love to you all. Never stop merging dogs no matter what anyone says.

FIRSTLY thank you SO much for such a fun launch week, the support and positivity means so much to us. We're reading all the reviews, the threads, the comments and chatting to people in Discord, we're just happy you dig our silly game.

We've been hard at work on more fixes for you before we're a little less present for a few weeks, but we'll be back in the new year with plans for MORE DOGPILE STUFF!!! Excited to get stuck into it, excited to share it all with you. From the Dogpile team, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays— hope you all get to kick it and relax with your loved ones. Eat, drink, be merry! That's enough out of me, here are the deets of the patch that just went live. v1.04b

• Added 'click to drag' buttons or "toggle to pickup" buttons for controller. Right bumper and west face button, when pressed once will pick up a card, press again to drop a card.

• Removed Pedigree from Exceptional Dogpiler Achievement (Pedigree isn't intended to necessarily be super balanced, but we've heard your feedback and are making a few light adjustments)

• Pedigree deck now draws 3 cards every hand (instead of 1 at a time)

• Pedigree now does not have difficulty selection (Clever is redundant, Turbo is likely legitimately impossible)

• Fixed a crash with the Obedience Tag

• Obedience Tag now shows current discount on its Tooltip

• Tennis Ball Tag now shows current lifetime in the tooltip and is now tracked correctly between saves

• Specialist Tag will now show the targeted trait in the shop, BEFORE you buy it

• Glossary will now reveal cards you have 'seen', instead of only cards you have played

• Fixed a few issues with the Yard peek "Eyeball" disappearing

• Money and Bones UI now accounts for BILLIONS (that was fast, you broke our game)

• Fixed some temporary cards repositioning when you alt tab

• Shop discounts now apply to Trainer Cards (Applies to Obedience and Games as a Service)

• Fixed an issue with save files crashing if you loaded them after exiting a previous match

• Fixed a missing image on an ace card in the Pauper deck

• Stopped the Settle Down Tag from functioning behind the Pet Shop and other similar UI takeovers

• Fixed an issue where Timid wasn't correctly repelling Dogs

• Fixed UI Collar changing when you scroll with right stick

P.S Our friends at Massive Monster (any Lamb heads here???) got us a Dogpile cake for launch

Hello! Hope you're all well, thank you so much for a huge few days. We're stoked that so many of you have found our game and are digging it, and thank you so much to everyone who have submitted bug reports, shared feedback and given us a nice review- it genuinely helps us out massively. We're just a small team and we need all the support we can get. Feel free to join the Dogpile Discord to share pictures of your dog AND/OR cool Tag combos, sick wins etc. Would love to chat to you all about what we should be working on next >:)

We've cooked up a few little fixes and changes so here they are

• Lowered some of the later bone goals on Chill mode. Hopefully this takes a bit of the hardcore edge off the later game.

• There's a bug where cards can get stuck on screen in an unplayable state, we're not 100% sure of all the reasons this occurs, but now pressing escape/start will reset UI interaction, which will solve this weird state. We will have a more comprehensive fix for this issue later!!

• The "Continue" function has been a little unruly, we've added numerous improvements to this system in this patch, thank you for your patience if you encounter any weirdness with it for the time being.

• Fixed a bug where decks were not reliably unlocking even when players met the criteria

• Added info to the deck choice screen about unlocking decks, and how to win a game

• Fixed some performance issues with Friendly and Timid, your machines won't chug AS hard when you have 50 dogs with Timid / Friendly

• Updated Rock Description (the wording implied that certain tags would DROP a rock into your Yard when they didn't)

• Fixed the Stuck Inside Discipline Card "Complete the next Goal or Lose the game" (it was just ending games even if you completed the Goal, we are very sorry.)

Happy Piling!!

You may not have expected it so soon, but here we are!!! In case you missed it, watch the new developer feature aired during today’s Day of the Dev’s showcase 👇

So yeah… go play Dogpile! Right now!

🃏 A unique deck of dogs every time you play

🐩 13 x good dogs with unique traits

🦴 179 x Dog Tag modifiers (Kinda like our Balatro Jokers)

💥 14 Decks with unique mechanics (Including a stripped back suika-esque mode)

🏆 3 x Difficulties, stack, merge, and upgrade your pups your own way

🐶 It's cute, chaotic + also remarkably addictive

From the Foot team, thank you so much for your support!

HEY!! So cool news….

We just shared a brand new trailer for Dogpile during the PC Gaming Show today, and announced that our roguelike deck builder about merging dogs into bigger dogs….. is coming to PC and Mac in 2025!? (How is this possible? It's December...)

Watch our new trailer here 👇

BUT YES! It’s true! This is happening! Soon you’ll be able to…

🃏 Build your deck of dogs 🐩 Collect dogs with unique traits 🦴 Experiment with Dog Tag modifiers 💥 Create wild synergies 🏆 Stack, merge, and upgrade your pups 🐶 It's cute, chaotic + remarkably addictive

Hi I’m Jess, one of the devs on Dogpile! Just wanted to pop in for a mo to show you some of the latest art / features / cool bits we’ve been adding for full release.

A GLOSSARY!

Still torn on if we should keep it classic or give it a more flavourful name, what do you reckon?

TAG COLLECTION

It’s particularly satisfying seeing all the tags you’ve collected.

COLLECTABLE PALETTES & COLLARS?

We’re still deciding if we’ll make palettes & collars collectable vs just auto unlocked. Scope creep comes for us all.

NEW BONES THAT DON’T YELL AT YOU

We’ve noticed from our testers that the bones are getting a little out of hand lol. There has to be a better wayyy.

BONE CURRENCY

It felt time to split up the bones into different denominations. A cute touch is we’re using the same colours as we do for the tag rarities. Will this be visually confusing? We’ll find out soon!

STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS

Very cute, very satisfying for the completionists out there.

POSTCARD END SCREEN

One of the signatures of our games is a funky bespoke postcard that communicates how well you’ve done. The Gubbins ones were a far more extensive feature, where the game let you make hilarious postcards with the words you made, while the Real Bird Fake Bird ones were more simple and centred around your score. The Dogpile on feels somewhere in between, with the context of your biggest dogs, your most recent tags, your deck, your bones collected among other stats AND it even shows it on the palette you were playing in.

Anyway excited for you all to get to play this stuff! Let us know if you have any feedback on our additions or if there’s anything you really wanna see in the game? 

Love to you all x

Hello I'm VERY excited to spoil more Dogpile stuff for you here today. Dogpile is such a treat to design for, it's very fun to come up with different gameplay effects that push players to explore new corners of the game, and change their perspective on different mechanics. For the decks, holistically we wanted them to act as a starter-culture for the yoghurt your deck becomes (???). They are a slight nudge, or set up to take advantage of synergies. AND, primarily, they are just meant to be a bit of fun. They aren't 100% balanced, but they are made with 100% farm-to-table love. I don't know exactly how many we will launch with, but safe to say it's well over 10. OKAY first up we have a weird one. The Pedigree deck is actually going to start unlocked, and is going to be a "pure" stripped back version of Dogpile. It's our "Suika Mode" where you can just get in the flow, play Dogs and not worry about all the hubub of Bones, Money, Shops and Goals. Just some good old fashioned Dog Merging. This is the mode my mum and nephew will play.

Misfits randomly gives you a bunch of bad Dogs, but sets you up to grab a few expensive Tags for free. In the full launch of the game we have a bunch of tags that synergise with Bad Traits, like Crated and Timid so this Deck is a great place to see those archetypes soar.

No more passive money gain, but Showdogs are massively buffed. Get the money flowing, lock in an econ-deck and go to the moon.

We were playing this deck yesterday and it's wild, basically you get sprees of chain drawing your whole deck and it's very fun, but sometimes you just play a single Dog and your Hand is over.

Thanks again for reading, I'll try and be back next week for more spoilers. Plz tell everyone you've ever met to wishlist our game. Love you all xxxx

Hello explicitly to the Pilers of Dogs and nobody else.

We've been working very hard on a bunch of cool stuff including a Glossary, Controller Support, Trailers, the filthy flea... and some Press Beats and more. BUT today we want to talk to you about Tags. In an upcoming update Tags will be getting a shiny new treatment, we hope you like it.

Tags make the world go round, they are the synergies that make the Dogs do what they do best.. merge. A thing we love about Dogpile is this suite of Tags like Jupiter and Roll Over that are almost more fun than helpful. In a similar vein, introducing... CHASE TAIL! Chase Tail is a simple Tag that helps you jostle your Dogs around.

If you were craving more Barky synergy, we got you. Chit Chat with Supersonic and go to the moon.

If you're a high performing businessperson (like us) then perhaps the CEO tag is for you. CEO synergises with all Yard-Promotion Tags so you can skip whole ranks and maybe even steal out an early win...

Raise the power level of your whole deck with Over K-9000. \

Outlaw is a high risk high reward card that can yield serious payoffs and also is a bit of a Crated enabler, which is a synergy that might be getting some more love soon...

And finally, SEVEN DID WHAT??? Helps you manage the clutter. Keep in mind that the resulting Merge is always from the highest ranked Dog, so a 7 Merging with an 8 will provide a 9.

That's it folks! I hope you like what we've been cooking up. We have about 40+ more Tags working internally that we're hype to show you soon. In the meantime if you have any balance thoughts on the current suite please let us know. Is anything OP? Is anything unusable? Bring your hot takes to the forums OR bring it to our Discord. Oh and also tell everyone you've ever met to wishlist Dogpile, we need the clicks so badly, the data overlords are going to claim our souls.

It’s been about three weeks since we announced Dogpile and released our demo here on Steam.

While our numbers are still small and we’ve only just begun, we wanted to say a massive thank you for all the bug reports, feedback, and, most importantly, the dog pictures on our Discord (well mostly dog pictures).

We also wanted to share a little behind the scenes. So, what is Dogpile? It’s a weird mix of Sukia and Balatro — a funny, addictive roguelike deck-builder where you merge cute dogs into even bigger dogs.

Fun fact of the week (we’re hoping to make this a weekly devlog — but don’t blame us if we don’t!): one of our color palettes was directly inspired by Berghain. One of our friends went there (for those who don’t know, it’s a popular club in Berlin where you stand in line way too long), and we asked her what the colors looked like inside. She described them, and we turned that into an actual palette for the game.

Game dev inspiration can come from anywhere.

We’ve actually only been working on Dogpile for about five months. If you’re a fellow dev, you know that’s not a lot of time to announce a demo, release it, and already be part of Steam Next Fest. Let’s just say we’re on an insane quest to make Dogpile your most-wanted game.

For now, please keep posting those bugs and feedback, it’s incredibly helpful for us.

Hello I'm Darcy Smith, one of the people behind Dogpile!

I'm so glad you're here. We've been working hard on this silly game and we're excited for you to play it. Earlier this year we set out to make a game that was like the Suika Watermelon game, but a roguelike deckbuilder with dogs and I think we did a good job.

When I say we, I should clarify that Dogpile is a collaboration between two studios in Melbourne, Studio Folly (Gubbins, Real Bird Fake Bird) and Toot Games (My Arms are Longer Now). We have this sick sound team from Vancouver on board called A Shell in the Pit and a phenomenal team is helping co-publish, WINGS. Huge thank you to the core team who I'm lucky to work with every day, Jessica Shipard, Matthew Jackson, Matthew Horton, Georgia Kriss and Mickie Rubock. You'll defo hear from some of them as we go!

We've had a blast making this thing and we're hype to actually show you, and chat it out. We would absolutely love to hear what you think, if you have any questions, if anything is unclear, if you have any feedback, if you have funky Tag ideas or cool mechanical ideas please just reach out! If you find any bugs that's 100% your fault and not our fault (please report them, thank you kindly for your patience).

We will be keeping an eye on the Steam Forums here but we've also set up a Discord Server

We're going to be posting a bunch of stuff on the Folly Tiktok, Insta and Bluesky, and Matthew from Toot will keep you updated from the Toot Tiktok and Insta! Happy merging, friends!