Dog-a-Boo

Dog-a-Boo is a roguelike game about digging through underground catacombs to uncover a story. You encounter three underground races and decide whether to befriend or rob them; your actions toward one side affect the others. As you explore, you can investigate the truth about the ancient emperors’ deaths amid deception and conflicting accounts.

Explore the catacombs

Each underground run is generated randomly, and the catacombs offer 15 ways to play. Digging can reveal quests, events, monsters and landmarks. Landmarks show a route to the tomb and may also lead to a boss room. When you uncover a monster, you can fight it or look for another way to avoid the encounter. You can also move the mouse to investigate frogs.

The game includes over 100 random quests and events, over 100 kinds of catacomb last words, over 27 truths, over 50 monsters and more than nine bosses. Its story is told through 500 plot illustrations, and the game includes more than 1,500 lines of dialogue and 30,000 words voiced by 14 seiyuus. The three races have their own dialogue scripts, voices and artwork, and the nine bosses are connected to them.

Prepare between runs

At the tent, you craft equipment from drawings discovered underground; upgrading the tent lets you make more kinds of equipment. Underground exploration produces CO2, which makes the elder tree bear fruit containing equipment and items. Its roots also grow with the CO2, letting you return to the surface. A safe box stores items for use in later runs, while a gravestone records the bosses you have defeated. Shovels can be purchased to provide more benefits.

Equipment and companions

The game has over 50 pieces of equipment, as well as more than 50 drops, scrolls and skills. It also includes 12 pets.