Dirt Dog: a gentle building game for ages 3 to 7

Pippa the dog in a hard hat in front of a pink cottage, neighbors nearby, on Dirt Dog Island

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Build like the big kids

Big friendly blocks, one-tap stamp buildings, a preview cube that shows where the next block lands, and an undo button for every oops. Steps climb themselves.

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A whole island

A pastel city, a neighborhood, a park, a forest, a lake, a river, a snowy mountain, beaches, and an ocean you can swim all the way around.

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Every animal is a friend

Feed the birds, pet the squirrels, race a rabbit, play tag with a smiling shark, and follow it to buried treasure. Nothing can ever be hurt.

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Real estate, kid-sized

Plant your flag, build a house, and a neighbor moves in and pays bones every morning. Houses near the park earn more. Take care of things and they take care of you.

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The Game House

Ten little arcade games inside one bright building: Snake, Bone Catch, Memory, Gophers, Shark Tag, Block Stack, Dog Says, Colors, Fishing, and Dress-up.

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No reading needed

Every message is spoken out loud with a picture. A helper walks new players through the first steps. Early readers can turn on a helper that sounds out words.

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Buy once, play on everything, anywhere

Every purchase comes with a family code. On any iPad, Android tablet or phone, open dirtdogkids.com/play, type the code once, and add it to the home screen: it opens like an app, keeps its own island, and works offline in the car or on a plane. On a Windows PC or Mac, install the download. Nothing else to buy, no accounts to make. If you would rather wait for the App Store or Google Play versions, they are in review; everything here will still work.

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Made for parents too

No internet during play. No accounts, no chat, no strangers, ever. No ads, no purchases, no data collection: one price, the whole game. A built-in break timer with a sleepy-dog countdown and a grown-up unlock. Parent mode shows the numbers and holds every setting. Little Pup mode (3 to 5) keeps things simple; Big Dog mode (5 to 7) adds gentle loans, a tax day, and selling lots.

Peek at the island

The park with paths, a pond, and flower beds — Take care of the park and it takes care of you.

Underwater with a smiling shark — Play tag with a shark. Every animal is a friend.

The stamp picker with prices in bones — Whole buildings in one tap. Stamps cost bones; blocks are always free.

The Game House, a big lilac arcade building — Ten little games inside the Game House.

The view from the snowy mountain top over the whole island — A whole island: city, neighborhood, park, forest, lake, river, mountain, beaches, and an ocean you can swim around.

The neighborhood at night with glowing lanterns — Nothing scary ever comes out at night.

The island map with round place buttons — Tap the map to go anywhere.

The no-permit warning dialog — Kid-sized rules: permits, a polite crew, and an ask-first warning.

The parent panel — Parent mode: break timer, ledger, every setting.

📖 Read the full how-to-play guide and FAQ

"We made Dirt Dog because everything 'for kids' had strangers, fighting, or nothing at all behind it. So we built the game we wished existed."