By My Side

You wash up alone in the wilderness with nothing but your hands and what the land gives you. Chop wood, raise a shelter, and fight to stay alive as the seasons turn toward a merciless winter. Then a stray dog crosses your path. Feed it, earn its trust, and watch it grow into a loyal companion.

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game about staying alive, building a home with your own hands, and the bond that grows between you and your dog.

Your Dog, Your Story: Find a stray and raise it from a pup. Each run brings a different breed with its own look and talent. Teach it tricks and put it to work guarding, hunting, or hauling a sled. It follows your commands, watches your back, and warns you when danger approaches.

Build & Power a Home: Grow from a first campfire to a fenced homestead with a glass greenhouse and an upper floor. Assemble foundations, walls, stairs, and roofs, then add your own power and water networks. Solar panels, batteries, pumps, heaters, sprinklers, smelters, and smart-relay automation keep the base working while you explore.

Craft & Refine: Over 90 recipes across the workbench, furnace, campfire, and powered machines. Gather raw materials and work through production chains: ore into iron into steel, fibre into cloth into cable. Make tools, equipment, and the machines that run your home.

Survive the Seasons: Stay warm, fed, and dry as spring, summer, and autumn give way to a demanding winter. Food spoils, so salt and preserve it and stock the larder before the cold. Droughts, animal migrations, wolf packs, and aurora-lit nights make every year unpredictable.

Live Off the Land: Till fields, grow crops, and keep them alive year-round in a heated greenhouse. Raise animals, trade with a wandering merchant, and automate the daily work so your homestead works for you.

Two Ways to Play: Survival offers a hardcore challenge with one life and permadeath. In Story, your home and world endure when you fall.

Arrive with nothing. Leave a legacy, with your dog by your side.

PLAY TOGETHER
Explore and build alone or join friends in online co-op across Android and Steam using simple join codes.

ANDROID EDITION
Contains ads and optional in-app purchases. Interstitial ads may appear after sleeping. Optional rewarded videos can activate a temporary boost that doubles gathered items. Purchased coins can be exchanged for clearly marked material bundles in the shop; prices are shown before each purchase. You can progress without buying coins.

Recent changes:
Materials now stack to 50, with more stacks as needed. Improved crafting, storage transfers, world loading and save protection. Campfire panels fit better on phone and tablet screens. Vehicle workbenches now display a proper model.