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We're happy to announce that Russian Subway Dogs for PS4 is getting a physical edition from Limited Run Games! Pre-orders are currently open till May 5th.

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This physical edition from the fine folks at Limited Run features a cover remixing Eric Kim's iconic key art with a retro comic book treatment, as well as some pixel art pawpaganda on the inside flap, featuring the eponymous Subway Dog along with the Proletaricat and her litter of chaotic kittens.

Russian Subway Dogs is on a region-free physical disc for the PlayStation 4. Also works on the PlayStation 5. This is an open pre-order for a limited time.

Supported Languages: English, French (France), German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Mexico)

PRE-ORDERS CLOSE ON SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME.
Estimated ship date Sep 1 – 30

NOTE: This item is currently in manufacturing and artwork is subject to change.

Steam Deck controls should now work out of the box, both for the built in controls and any external controllers. No need to remap keyboard controls. As a result of this fix Windows and Linux versions of the game also now support swapping between multiple plugged in controllers on the fly.

Minor update to fix a bug introduced in the previous update that stopped some Steam achievements from working. All achievements should hopefully be working properly now!

Russian Subway Dogs released on Playstation 4 and Xbox One today and we're bringing all the improvements from those versions (and the previous PS Vita version) to Steam. The biggest addition are three new guest pups but there's also a bunch of polish and quality of life improvements. I've posted the full patch notes below, but first lets introduce these new playable puppers!



Sylvanos from Rivals of Aether by Dan Fornace
Finally answering the question, what if wolf but also plant?


Horror from Nuclear Throne by Vlambeer
Gotta love a character that's 90% mouth!


The dog from Minit by Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman, Jukio Kallio & Dominik Johann
A perfect pixel pup for your subway scavenging!


If you have already reached the Campaign requirements to unlock these characters they will automatically unlock the next time you open the game. Same with the new Kitten doodles and improved ending presentation mentioned below. Just revisit those areas, no need to restart the game from scratch!

So what else is in this update? Here's the full list:

• 3 New Playable Guest Pups previously exclusive to PS Vita.
  
• Improved sound design and additional sound effects. 
  
• New “Random Character” and "Random Station" options. Great for adding variety to marathon sessions of the Endless Arcade mode!
  
• Improved Endless leaderboard experience:
  - Rebalanced online letter ranking.
  - You can now browse up and down the leaderboards.
  - New "Leaderboard News Ticker" on the title screen. 
  
• Additional Kitten doodles in campaign as an extra visual reward for getting all the bones for each line. 
  
• Improvements to the story presentation in the final two levels of Campaign. 
  
• Minor balance tweaks to some Campaign scores and letter ranks.
  
• Lots and lots of additional minor bug fixes and tweaks, fancy lighting effects for a couple stations, unique art when fishes run out of air, etc...
  
• New savegame format (see note below).

A Note on Save Games and Cloud Saving: This update uses a new save format, your old progress will carry over and the original file (campaign.sav) will be preserved. All new progress will be saved to a new file (campaign_v02.sav) this should be seamless and invisible, however if you are using mismatched game versions along with cloud saves you may get some odd behavior. I strongly recommend updating to the newest version on all machines you play on.

MacOS: I'd hopped this update would be an opportunity to release a 64-bit build for newer versions of MacOS. Unfortunately it looks like some incompatibility issues with GameMaker, the game's codebase and MacOS will not make this possible. The existing 32-bit version will remain but won't be getting these updates. Due to the new save format cloud saving between the MacOS version and Linux/Windows builds will no longer work. Though Mac to Mac cloud saves should still function. If you are playing on both Mac and another OS I strongly recommend just turning off cloud saves to avoid confusion.

We're excited to announce that Very OK Vinyl will be releasing Russian Subway Dogs soundtrack on vinyl! Pre-orders are open today with an estimated release date of June 2022.
Each record comes with:
ːhappysubwaydogː24pt Jacket
ːwinksubwaydogːX-Ray printed record sleeve
ːdroolingsubwaydogːX-ray record essay by Jordan McCormack published under "The Daily Reputable"
ːcoolsubwaydogːVinyl exclusive track, "Crunk Canine Rabid Overture"
ːproletaricatːOriginal artwork from Russian Subway Dogs creator, Miguel Steinberg



Two styles to choose from: Metalic Gold/Red Split or Translucent Black.

Both Styles available direct from Very Ok Vinyl (CANADA - $39 CAD)

A limited amount of the split gold/red colour variant are also available at:
Ship to Shore (USA - $32.00 US)
Black Screen Records (EU - €35,00)
Chipfreq (UK - £29.99)

Read more about the vinyl release in our latest Spooky Squid Games Newsletter



We also recently released Russian Subway Dogs on PS VITA, one of the very last games on the system!

Purchasing Vita games is a bit tricky. If you want to pick it up you'll need to either use a gift card or add money to your PSN wallet on the website or a PS4/PS5 then open up the store on your PS Vita and make your purchase. You'll find Russian Subway Dogs permanently listed in the New Releases.

Read more about the PS Vita release in our previous Spooky Squid Games Newsletter

Japanese, German, Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese now supported!

In this update:

• Support for six new languages!
  
• Steam cards and goodies!
  
• Improved English text and fixed some typos.
  
• A few new portraits added to the map dialogue segments.
  
• Various minor bug fixes.

We were recently approved for Steam trading cards and have put together a package of cute emotes, badges and backgrounds for you all to craft! :winksubwaydog:

This also means we now have official Steam avatars for you to reveal your inner subway-dog-sona

New Character! New Scoring FX! Updated Achievements!

We're celebrating Halloween with a spooky new update today that includes:

• ?̷̛͘?̨҉?̴̕͢͠ - an extra secret character who'll unlock on certain days, when the stars align.
  
• Fancier text effects when you score valuable food or enemies.
  
• Several re-balanced achievements.
  
• Some minor bug fixes and tweaks.

The stars will only align for ?̷̛͘?̨҉?̴̕͢͠. a few times a year so be sure to check in often during this particularly spooky month.


List of Re-balanced Achievements

• Pack of Misfits requires you play with 13 different characters, not all of them.
  
• Feline Follower now only requires 5 successful Proletaricat missions in a single Endless run.
  
• The following achievements can now be completed in either game mode, not just Endless: Flock of Bombers, Ra Ra Raspigeon, Toxic Food Chain, Stone Cold Killer, Doggo Rodeo.

Other changes

• Changed text for mission in 3:6 to be less ambiguous.
  
• Minor changes and improvements to other text throughout the game.
  
• Fixed a rare display issue on the map.
  
• You can now back out of the story start screen when beginning the campaign.
  
• Food is slightly easier to eat in specific situations during slow mo.

New Character! New Difficulty Mode! New Prolatericat Pop-up Missions! New OS!

This big update is out today and includes:

• Xiao Hong the Red Panda - a brand new playable ‘pupper’ as voted on by the players!
  
  
• Tourist Mode - a new campaign difficulty mode for players who prefer an easier game with faster progress.
  
  
• Increased variety and replayability with over 20 new pop-up Proletaricat missions added to Endless mode. Obey your feline leader and reap the rewards!
  
  
• Linux Support!

Xiao Hong unlocks at 79 bones. If you’ve already reached that number she’ll unlock on the title screen when you first load the game after updating.

You can switch back and forth between “tourist” and “normal” difficulty at any time from the title screen options menu. The only thing this changes is how many bones are needed to unlock levels, so switching will change what levels are available to you at the moment.

In addition to new content we’ve added some extra polish and refinement:

• You can now re-watch map conversations in campaign to re-live your favorite Kitten quips (“1” on the keyboard,” Y/Triangle on controller.)
  
• Pause screen now works in the campaign map so you can quick exit or change options.
  
• Pausing now pauses music and sound.
  
• Steam integrated screen capture quality improved for Mac OS.
  
• New sound effects for Ratcoon and various fish interactions.
  
• Turning music off in the options is now saved between play sessions.
  
• The same Proletaricat pop-up mission will never appear twice in a row when playing endless. However, you still may get similar missions.
  
• More difficult Proletaricat pop-up missions will happen less often in Endless.
  
• If you complete a Proletaricat pop-up mission it will switch back to the generic spawning pattern right away instead of waiting for that mission’s queued spawns to complete.
  
• Tweaks to some existing pop up missions, such as adding more burgers to missions involving cat toys.
  
• Improved logic for determining when the game automatically moves you to the next map area when unlocking levels in later lines.
  
• Controller will no longer infinitely rumble when the game ends mid vibration.
  
• Sound errors caused by exiting a level at key times no longer happen.
  
• Patched a few potential memory leaks related to both of the above.
  
• Some subtle tweaks to minor game interactions.

Hope you all enjoy this first update! If you want to see what other improvements we have planned and make suggestions, we have an ongoing thread in the forums here. Also if you’ve been enjoying the game so far, please leave a review and help spread the word. We’re only a handful of reviews away from being able to add Steam trading cards, emotes, etc!

Keep barking!

Major fix to Endless mode pop-up missions.
This bug was causing a 1 train delay before mission critical elements were spawning from the train. This also meant there was less potential time to complete missions. Pop up missions should be significantly easier to complete now!

Eating food worth 10k or more will no longer freeze the score display.

Fixed the rare crash that sometimes happened while completing the final level.
Let us know if this happens to you in case there were multiple causes.

Minor fixes to level timer starting and stopping on final level
Completing the level in under 2:30 minutes should be easier now.

Improved Steam F12 screencaping support on Mac.
This is a work around due to a bug in the underlying GameMaker engine, so there are colour and visual artifact issues in some situations. We recommend using the built in Mac OS screenshot capture instead.
PC capture should still work flawlessly.

Russian Subway Dogs is out and we're celebrating by donating to a worthy cause and launching at a discount!

We're donating $1 from every sale of Russian Subway Dogs during launch to Save our Scruff a rescue charity that saves dogs around the world!

We're also selling Russian Subway Dogs at a 10% discount with additional deals if you own our previous game They Bleed Pixels, buy it with the soundtrack, or want to pick up all our games and soundtracks at once!.

The launch discount and charity event end this Thursday (August 9th) so now is a great time to pick up Russian Subway Dogs, save some cash and donate to a worthy cause!