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Dog Sled Saga – Roleplaying Game Review
Dog Sled Saga is a Roleplaying/Racing game from Dan FitzGerald, first launched in 22nd September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 407+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dog Sled Saga Stand Out
A game by Dan + Lisa
As a rookie musher, foster a dogsledding team whose skills will grow if they're treated right. Week by week, get to know your dogs' unique traits, and carve your story into the trails of the Mount St. Something region.
Dog Sled Saga has a pick-up-and-play dogsled racing. Each dog's speed is hindered by hunger. Lob a limited supply of food to them to keep at full speed. Hazards on the track await.
By the time you reach the top league, you’ll need to:
- Budget monthly league expenses
- Hire and fire dogs
- Leverage fame to earn sponsorship deals
- Bring on employees for multitasking
- Breed puppies
and more.
Features:
- Pick-up-and-play racing
- Deep team management simulation
- Unique dogs with varying attributes and conditions
- True pixel-grid art style with frame-by-frame animation
- Multi platform save sync via Drive
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dog Sled Saga is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th December 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
-Limited time winter holiday art!
Dec. 13 – Jan. 3
-Several crash fixes
-Improved save error reporting
-Check for save errors before overwriting
Note regarding save issues – now, at worst, you will lose some progress on your save, instead of errors possibly making your save unloadable. Any save errors are now better reported to allow them to be fixed more easily!
Download & Availability
Dog Sled Saga is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dog Sled Saga on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We absolutely love this game and have played it for a long time but now its glitching any second we start playing we hope this gets fixed !!!! Other than that we love the game but please fix it so we can play.
Love this game so much, we play it nearly every week, but if a developer out there reads this PLEASE make a bug fixing update!! Its been forever since this game updated so Im sure you wont but we keep having issues with the game freezing at random moments.
This game is genuinely so fun and it used to work well but they haven't updated it in 7 years and it's super laggy . The game just needs some love again.
We like the game. But recently our dogs are glitching when we do races sometimes. Like they would glitch forward or their mouths would open when Im not throwing the treats.
We have some suggestions to make we love the game but it can get boring sometimes so can you add that you can go outside and train dogs and feed the dogs and their are lots of bugs but its a amazing game and bye.
Hey, listen, this is a great game! But if it keeps freezing on you, just know that it works better on Steam for the PC, Ive had no problems with it there. Again, great game! Just seems to struggle on ios, at least for us.
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We love everything about this game. The designs are super cute, especially the Samoyed. But we do have a few suggestions. One, we think when you breed the dogs, the puppys should be in the kennels. It would be super cute if you had like little puppy races and the puppys grew up over time. Two, please add more dog breeds! We really want a Golden Retriever and some mixed breeds would be cute to. Third, we think it would be cool if you could favorite a save slot so you can remember what one you liked the best. Fourth, we think it would be cool if you could still have the retired dogs, but not race them. Like they could be in a separate kennel that cost money, like maybe 4000? Lastly, we really wish you could interact with your dogs more. For example, it would be really cool if you could give them a bath or play with them outside. If you love dogs and racing, we totally recommend this game.
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Such a good game! We love the animation and the dogs are so cute! We love everything.But theres one glitch we got we paused a race and we couldnt resume it. But other wise this game is great definitely worth it. We feel bad when ever we sell a dog witch is amazing how the game makes you connect with virtual dogs lol. This game is so great it works perfectly no glitches (except for one). Maybe add some customization for the sled it would be cool.And if your reading this and you like dogs buy it its totally worth it best money Ive spent on video games.seriously. Suggestions Geting in to league 6 is so hard (at least for us) maybe have like a option to pay money to get your dogs stats higher because our new dog is just like horrible and is hard to balance with the rest of our other dogs so maybe make it a bit easier but we enjoy a challenge too. Thank you for making a amazing game.
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One of the best especially for being free like we would say 10/10 also one suggestion less expensive for the kennel expansion Dear Wolfslain who we dont know Siri the Pixel Biologist and Stacy Plays Are our favorite YouTubers.
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So, we were going to breed two of our dogs. But when the time came to get our dogs back (and the puppy), nothing happened. The game acted as if it was a normal next day. So now our only wheel dog and our best lead dog is gone! Please fix this.
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We love everything about this game. The designs are super cute, especially the Samoyed. But we do have a few suggestions. One, we think when you breed the dogs, the puppys should be in the kennels. It would be super cute if you had like little puppy races and the puppys grew up over time. Two, please add more dog breeds! We really want a Golden Retriever and some mixed breeds would be cute to. Third, we think it would be cool if you could like, favorite a save slot. Lastly, we think it would be cool if you could still have the retired dogs, but not race them. Like they could be in a separate kennel that cost money, like maybe 4000? If you dont add these we will still keep playing ur amazing game! If you love dogs and racing, we totally recommend this game.
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Hi! We love the game butcan you update the game? Update Idea 1:Minigames You can interact with your dogs in any way! Bathing, playing, and feeding! Update Idea 2:Sled dog running. You can go on a sled whenever you want and see wolves, bears, musk ox, foxes, goats, bighorn sheep, and snowy hares! ;3 Update Idea 3:Gamepage for puppies! When your dog gives birth, they can have multiple pups on a screen when they had pups! Update Idea 4:Puppies will be pups when they are born! When you check a puppys info there will be a growth bar! Update Idea 5:Puppy Minigames. You can play a minigame with There was a bug that leaves us stuck to pay the dues but we cant afford it and im stuck at the dues can you fix it?them! Tap the floor to make the puppy run! Update Idea 6:Snowstorms!!! When a snowstorm comes, you will be notified! You must keep your dogs inside at all times! Hope you enjoyed the update ideas.
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We would like to see more different breeds of dogs or more colors, for example, a black and white husky and a red husky. Or Shepards? Idk we think it could be fun.
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We love this game we were inspired to play because a YouTuber we watch was playing this so we downloaded it. There are a few glitches like when your playing your screen will freeze every once and awhile this is annoying when your in the middle of a race. We would love to see more updates on this game so please add more.
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This game is a star of many peoples childhoods ours included! But coming back to it, its virtually unplayable with it freezing repeatedly in the middle of anything you do having to close out of the game and come back in. We love this game but it needs a little more love with its age as a game.
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We really want to see more breeds and specialties of breeds not just personalities. Maybe make white husky better at the end of a race, and make malamutes better in tight situations. But what we want to see most is the Akita added to the game. Its our favorite dog and we really want to see a black and white one added. We really hope you see this and hopefully add it. And maybe add some more complexity to late game with special breeds? Thank you for the awesome game Devs.
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Ive been playing this game on and off for a few years now and there hasnt been a dull moment. We love the the storyline and different types of races you can compete in and how different each dog is from the other. Though it is pretty outdated so it has some glitches and bugs it has never failed to entertain us.
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We love the game but there is a glitch we hate. And we think it makes the game bad when it happens. This is a glitch Ive had it was our first ever save and it was the best save. But one day we bred our dogs and then somthing happend it kicked us from the game. And when we got back in it kept saying that our new dog was ready to be named but it just kept saying that. This was a few years ago so if its already fixed then thats good but pathetic game we s Still amazing we think it deserves a 100 out of 5.
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So yeah we really do love this game and if your reading this you should get it! But there are some bugs in the game. For example for some reason when we win a race it just freezes then skips to when its over? Of course we still get money but we just dont get it. Also it randomly crashes and sometimes we have to redo races wich is annoying. But still its a really great game and you should try it! But since it havent been updated in a while or it only updates on laptop and computer it may glich. But overall its a generaly a good game! So yeah we hope the creator responds and now go download the game or read more reviews because some people put hard work into both options.
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Originally, we saw this game being played on StacyPlays channel, Ive been watching her for ages so we decided to get the game. It was so so worth it. We love the amount of detail and to be honest just about everything you guys made. A tiny tiny problem is when our screen freezes, it only freezes on this app. Other than that, we think everyone would enjoy this game (even us, a cat person).
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We LOVE THIS GAME! There is one problem...BILLS! We think we can all agree that the bill make people want to stop playing. Please take away the bills we are kids we dont need to pay them till we are 20. Getting rid of dogs really upsets us we had to get rid of a dog the improved our whole to to pay the STUPID bill. We are not trying to offend you but the bill idea is stupid. If you wont get ride of the bills can you at least let us buy money to pay them off. This game is great but it would be the best game Ive ever played if there were no bills. Thanks for reading and please take away the bills.
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Amazing game! Would love to see more dogs.
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We always play this game on road trips because its fun and can pass the time well. The problem is, the game has not been updated in a long time so there are bugs and glitches! Also theres been the same things for a while, like the same dogs, same sponsors, and same storyline. We like the game it just needs some new updates.
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We love Dog Sled Saga, definitely our favorite video game! We highly recommend! There is this glitch though. Whenever we try to rename a dog (example: Lionel Q Puppypuppy to Buddy), it freezes. So that is one of the things. It will also sometimes have a glitch that shows our dues on all the upcoming races. That is all though! We think you should totally buy this and fall in love with your adorable pooches! There are also non running breeds, as in Schnauzers, Saint Bernards, German Shepherds, and Shih-poos. That are all cute! We are a total dog lover so GET THiS GAME!!! We also think when you breed there should be mixed breeds.
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This game has a lot of glitches one is when ever we try to throw our dogs biscuits it freezes or when we try to enter a race it goes very very very slow or when we try to name a dog it freezes and we have to close the game and come back in also it freezes at random moments when we try to hire a new dog its not there but the next IRL day it is Its also very addicting and a few nights agonizing we couldnt fall asleep we were playing the game in our mind we stoped playing for a few days and came back today we recommend this game just make sure to not get to addicted to it and you will be fine also whenever we try to do our school all we can think about is the racing and throwing biscuits so whatever you do dont get addicted Other then that amazing game with great graphics and cute dogs and races we have always wanted to mush irl and now we have a game where we can just whatever u do dont get addicted so u dont have to go threw what we did Sponsors to lets say u wanted a level 3 sled but u dont know how sponsors work same here when we wanted a level 3 food bag we didnt know how to get it so unless u know how sponsors work they just get in the way Also more dog interactions like feeding giving water playing with them etc because all u can do with them is pet them and it doesnt do anything with there happiness even though theres a heart when u pet them Other then a few glitches sponsors and dog interactions this game is great we really recommend Note - also 2 dogs that we dont think should be sled dogs we just cant spell there breeds we recommend! Downloaded this game today! Thanks! Sorry its long but just want the game to keep going - HowlingWolf201.
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Its such a good game its very addicting but theres a MASSIVE bug: The Crashing. When we first got this game it crashed once every 30 minutes or so depending on where we were we thought it was normal considering that its an older game (maybe idk) and it got progressively worse after that from even 5-7 minutes of playing and it crashes, also when we close the app and turn of our phone the music still plays after a couple of seconds it stops its annoying and kinda worrying, any who if any of the games creators see this message please try and fix the crashing its hard to play and very rage worthy Thank you for reading this we wish all the best, -SugarFox.
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This is probably one of our favorite games out there we love it so much.
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So we will play and out of nowhere it will freeze we've messed with the controls and everything Im now trying undownloading and redownloading but we LOST MY PROGRESS Im still mad please fix this.
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We love this game and we just cant stop playing it! Theres one problem though... We got to leave 5 and have been training and racing dogs to get another middle dog to get to leave 6, but even after the new dogs have been fully trained, their exhaustion rate is still dangerous. Im not sure if its just our game or if it is a glitch that happens in everyones game. What should we do.
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It does freeze up and it stops and goes and reacts that pattern please fix that and also add costumes for you dogs that cost the game money that you earn from races so your dogs are stylish and cuter than ever.
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We like the game but it was so sad wen we had to let go of our dog it made a sad cry and it almost made us cry we had to due it to pay our dues.
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Ok we had this game for a long time now but we notice it started to freeze up please fix it we we love this game.
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Im always getting stuck and Im always crashing please FIX this game.
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First of all please fix the lag when in the middle of races (crashing) also we think it would be cool if like after we finish the story the dog in the story should like when you are l.7 come and be the best dog you own and be nautral anywhere with no faults plz plz plz Also sorry if this is bad grammer.
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So after we qualified for league 4, we wasnt able to pay our dues for it, meaning we didnt have enough money, and, it wouldnt let us qualify for any other leagues, and we cant join another one that we already join in the past. And now we dont get to see our favorite team of dogs and we have to play a different team. Please help! We really miss that dog team.
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Awwww we love this its like pixel art stuff.
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We absolutely love playing dog sled saga. You dont need to purchase anything within the game, its all just dog sledding and taking care of dogs. Whats not to love? However, for us, there are infrequent bugs in the game where the screen will just freeze up and ill have to refresh the app and go back into our save. Ive never lost any progress though, so we wouldnt worry about it if youre looking to download this app. The bottom line is that the game is a really fun game to just play, you dont have to constantly grind at something you just play and then you pay your dues and then you play more. We like how you can keep playing even when you reach the final league and such, there is no end point. We recommend this game.
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This game is amazing we love the intensity and the adorable dog and all the new updates, but we have a iPhone 8 its pretty new and it keeps freezing like every 15 minutes and it especially gets annoying when Im racing so please fix this. -Please add mixes and stuff like that -Also you should be able to overrule a natural thing so you can teach them that than the skill they are good at. -Also add more dogs!!! -Also try to make the story better, like will there be a time when we go against our rival in a really hard event and every time we beat him we gain extra cash. -Also we should try and meet the dog aurora we just think itll make the game a lot more popular and you should consider it.
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Okay, this game is amazing, seriously. But we have one problem. So we've already joined league 6, but there's still SOOOO many races with only three dogs! This is really annoying, as we prefer races with 4 or more dogs on this game. Other than that, this game is AWESOME.
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The 8-bit graphics are so fun and cool! The gameplay is amazing, its worth EVERY dollar! It was a little laggy at first, but now its smoother than a babys skin! We do have a suggestion tho, maybe some more dog breeds and more leagues. That will be very cool. No negative output for this app.
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We love this game but after we play for like 25 to 30 minutes it just freezes but overall it is a great game we love dogs and pixel games too so this is a great game for us and other people that like dogs or even dog sledding games and pixel.
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Ok so makers of the game pay attention to the following: This is THE BEST 2D GAME IN THE WORLD also THE BEST DOG SLED GAME IN THE WORLD ok but like really ARE YOU DEAD?!?! You have not updated this game in like 3 YEARS years 3 trips around the sun people so if you are not dead please update the game please it would make us and a lot of other people really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really HAPPYYYYYY so pls update the game like just add being able to feed the dogs. Is that to hard? If its not do it please Help us dog sled saga staff, your middle schoolers to college students only hope.
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To the amazing developers of Dog Sled Saga: we LOVE THIS GAME! ITS SUPER FUN, and plus the doggos are so cuteeeee! We would love to add a few things into this, and point out a few things. ADDITIONS: 1. Could you add in something like if the dogs got loose and bred with surrounding canine packs? 2. Different colors of husky. 3. Cheaper upgrades for the roster THINGS we WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT: 1. Schnauzers are NOT racing dogs. They are little and would get trampled by the bigger dogs. Sorry. 2. Bills are probs not as cheap. 3. We thought there could be two dogs in one kennel.
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We love this game but it needs an iPhone X and newer update.
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Dog Sled Saga is a great game. It has good quality, and we really think you should get it. Only thing, the game freezes sometimes and we have to go back to the main page of our iPad and restart the game. Also, maybe some more dog breeds? Maybe Chiwawa, Pug, etc. Otherwise great game!!!!! Thx.
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Supposedly, if you're children state they are too old for Dog Sled Saga then they are too old for your "Fortnite church rules". While we don't like Fortnite for different reasons, hating Fortnite because it has "weapons and violence" in it is a lame way to think. Fortnite is the best and most appropriate "shooting-game" if anything. We're also confused how they have access to Nerf guns if you dislike that too, unless that's already been "banned". There are many things a million times more disturbing than Fortnite. Give your poor kids a break and stop trying to act "hollier than thou" when in reality you sound like a total nut job and control-freak. Disgusting.
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Hi! This is the best game ever. Our children love it. Tommy and Luca always tell us that they are too old for it, but when we ban them from Fortnite they beg to play this game, we will always live this game. Fortnite is a horrific game that disturbs us. Our Church bans it. So we are banning our children. They already started pretending they are in the game with nerf guns. HOW DISGUSTING.
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This is amazing we really love it, This game is highly recommend for strategy, racing, and adventure! This game has a lot of effort put into it and we love the graphic style. We think this game is a little underrated, although it might not be available to all devices, Theyre will be a gameplay on our YouTube Channel -CrocodileGamming. Theyre has been some data saving problems but overall its something you should download.
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We love this game!!!!!! It tends to freeze like every fifteen seconds when Im away from it which annoys us and we do wish we could get mixed breeds but other than that that the game is flawless! We love our dogs! We have Rory, Striker, Cole, Amber, and Chase if you want name suggestions. Its such an amazing game and we suggest it to anyone who like animals and sports! Thanks to the creator for this awesome game Regards, _GalaxyWolf64_.
_User feedback from Apple App Store_
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**App Details**
- **Version:** 1.0.6
- **Size:** 76.30 MB
- **iOS:** 8.0 or later
- **Languages:** EN
- **Content Advisory:**
- **Developer:** [Dan FitzGerald](http://www.dogsledsaga.com/)
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*Last updated: 14th December 2016* | *Genre: Roleplaying, Racing* | *Developer: Dan FitzGerald*