The Verge (Andrew Webster, 12 Jul 2025). "Perhaps my favorite game is also arguably the strangest… it's almost like a spiritual successor to Noby Noby Boy."
https://www.theverge.com/games-review/705348/playdate-season-2-reviewGames / Season Two / Long Puppy
OverviewSeason Two
Long Puppy
Adventure / ActionCrank: yes (precision)$5
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What it is
Long Puppy is a game of fetch with a very long dog. Your owner throws the ball somewhere ridiculous: up a tree, inside a house, into a freshly dug grave. You steer the dachshund's head with the crank and push to stretch its body in that direction, and the back half catches up when the front finds footing. Eating food makes you longer, so you can cross bigger gaps. Take too long and a jealous ghost dog shows up to steal the ball. Your snout identifies creatures and sniffs out hidden food (and a journal of different pees). At the end of each level you crank out a poop, and its height tells you whether you found everything.
There are 13 levels. It's a solo project by indiana-jonas, whose next game, Bonkhope, is part of Season Three. Simberg notes that the timer and the ghost dog's bites can both be switched off for a relaxed run.
Long Puppy came out in Week 3 of Playdate Season Two (12 June 2025) alongside Otto's Galactic Groove!!, and now sells for $5 in the Catalog and on itch.io. It was a finalist for Outstanding Use of Crank at the 2025 Playdate Community Awards and appears in the Catalog's "The Cranky Award" collection.
Who made it
What others are saying
Engadget (Cheyenne MacDonald, 14 Jun 2025). "Absurdity aside, the mechanics of this game are really interesting… I am, as they say, a big fan of whatever the hell this is."
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-long-puppy-and-ottos-galactic-groove-130025012.htmlPlaydate: The Unofficial Website (Nick Simberg, Jun 2025). "It's a sort of high-stress yet low-stakes tug o' war."
https://www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/long-puppyCallout (?): No review yet. We haven't reviewed Long Puppy yet. This page is an overview built from official and press sources.
Sources
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
- Official Catalog page (description, credits, size, dates, content/AI/accessibility notes). https://play.date/games/long-puppy/
- Season Two page. https://play.date/games/seasons/two/
- 2025 Playdate Community Awards results (Playdate Squad). https://playdate-wiki.com/wiki/The_2025_Playdate_Community_Awards
- The Verge, Andrew Webster, 12 Jul 2025. https://www.theverge.com/games-review/705348/playdate-season-2-review
- Engadget, Cheyenne MacDonald, "Playdate Season 2 review: Long Puppy and Otto's Galactic Groove!!", 14 Jun 2025. https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playdate-season-2-review-long-puppy-and-ottos-galactic-groove-130025012.html
- Playdate: The Unofficial Website, Nick Simberg. https://www.playdateunofficial.com/the-games/long-puppy
- Playdate Podcast transcript: research/gamepages/sources/long-puppy/podcast.txt.
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On the card
Your owner has terrible aim. Steer a dachshund's head with the crank, eat to grow longer, and stretch to the ball before the ghost dog arrives.
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