By My Side

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game about surviving in the wilderness, building a home and forming a bond with a dog. You begin alone with only your hands and what the land provides. Gather materials, build shelter and stay alive as the seasons turn toward winter; when you meet a stray dog, you can feed it, earn its trust and raise it into a companion.

Raise your dog

Each run brings a different breed, with its own appearance and talent. Teach your dog tricks and assign it to guard, hunt or haul a sled. It follows your commands, watches your back and warns you of danger.

Build a working home

Expand from a campfire to a fenced homestead with a glass greenhouse and an upper floor. Assemble foundations, walls, stairs and roofs, then set up power and water networks. Solar panels, batteries, pumps, heaters, sprinklers, smelters and smart relays can keep the base running while you explore.

Craft and gather

The game has over 90 recipes spread across the workbench, furnace, campfire and powered machines. Gather raw materials and refine them through production chains, such as ore into iron and then steel, or fibre into cloth and then cable. Craft tools, equipment and machines for your home.

Survive the seasons

Keep warm, fed and dry as spring, summer and autumn give way to a demanding winter. Food spoils, so salt and preserve it and stock your larder before the cold. Droughts, animal migrations, wolf packs and aurora-lit nights make each year unpredictable. You can grow crops in fields or keep them alive year-round in a heated greenhouse, raise animals and trade with a wandering merchant. Automating daily work lets your homestead run while you are away.

Defend your homestead

The wilderness grows more threatening the longer you survive. Wolves pose a danger from the early nights, while harsher winters and pack attacks test you as you progress. Read the danger, fortify your home and hold the line beside your dog.

Scenarios and modes

Each run starts in a fresh scenario, and you can choose from a dozen origins, each with a meaningful strength and weakness that shapes your survival. Climb the homestead ranks toward endgame goals.

Survival is a hardcore mode with one life and permadeath. In Story mode, your home and world endure when you fall.