{"id":2311,"date":"2026-04-12T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2125354"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:30:10","slug":"raise-rapidly-mutating-dogs-in-ex-sims-4-devs-gloriously-weird-pet-sim-wobbledogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/raise-rapidly-mutating-dogs-in-ex-sims-4-devs-gloriously-weird-pet-sim-wobbledogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise rapidly mutating dogs in ex-Sims 4 dev’s gloriously weird pet sim Wobbledogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is a dog but a wobble with infinite potential? That’s the question Wobbledogs – a wonderfully odd pet sim of rapidly mutating proportions – is possibly pondering as it prepares to wobble its weird pet sim self into Steam early access next year.<\/p>\n

Wobbledogs is the work of Tom Astle, a former gameplay engineer on The Sims 4, and lets players loose in a world of physically simulated – but crucially, and slightly terrifyingly – rapidly mutating dogs. As such, while dogs start out in a broadly familiar form, they’ll quickly take on strange new shapes and behaviours as their evolutionary lines advance.<\/p>\n

“Dogs have highly variable bodies controlled by a simulated genetics system,” explains Wobbledogs’ newly launched Steam page<\/a>, “As they age, they periodically enter a pupal state and physically mutate. The foods they eat fill their guts with different flora [that] influence the dogs’ mutations, letting you craft and mold them to fit your own idea of canine (im)perfection!”.<\/p>\n

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