About Big Bad Dogs!

You're a night shift employee at Mad Dog Convenience, a 24/7 establishment operating in the city's shadows. Big Bad Dogs is a psychological horror visual novel with yandere elements, where small decisions in conversations can change your entire fate. Instead of just a normal shift, you'll face mysterious customers, memory loss, and unexplained, terrifying events.

Big Bad Dogs currently has three parts (Shifts) and over 235,000 words of content. Shift 1 is a gentle start (12,000 words), but shifts 2 and 3 expand substantially, providing 10-15 hours of gameplay depending on your reading speed.

Key Clues

From the shop

RJ Hidden patchwork warnings or rules from manager
Details on shelves, packaging, products, or anything you don't recognise
Eavesdropping on the conversations of other patrons
Store cleanliness in different shifts

From the dialogue

Lane’s seemingly innocent words often hide a frightening fact
Biker Boy doesn’t talk much, but when he does, he means something
Red Biker refers to things you can’t recall happening
Cases where characters 'forget' or 'don't want to talk' about a certain topic

Timeline and memory

Randomly occurring fragmented memories related to the present
Your memory and what the characters say are not in agreement
Memory lapses
Gore, violence details unexplained

How to Not Miss Details

Play with all of it

Click every shelf, every corner of the store, checkout counter
Read all sticky notes – apparently unimportant
Compare the same location in other cases for changes
Don’t ignore the secondary customers and the conversations you hear

Observe the behaviour of the characters

Watch for when they change their attitude or go silent
Observe what they say of each other when they are not present.
Take note of physical details: wounds, blood, dirt on clothes
Keep track of times they lie or hide information

Options for Strategic Dialogue

Ask innocent-seeming questions to see reactions
Try other options to unlock secret conversations
Always opt for the “safe” choice. Don’t – risky choices show more

Key Points to Note

Lane: His incendiary remarks are a smokescreen for his true interest. He knows more than he’s telling about the disappearances.
Biker Boy: Quiet does not equal safe. Little details of actions (how he looks, how he touches things) matter. But he does show up sometimes.
Red Biker: The way to understand your past. His mentions of “shared” events may well be actual memories. He might be a friend, or he might be an enemy.
The Missing Persons: All the victims are like you, working the night shift. And your relationship with the victims is key to finding the truth.

How to play Big Bad Dogs

Effective Tracking Tips in Big Bad Dogs

Keep a notebook for recording strange details, suspicious remarks, and changes in character behaviour. Play again and again with different choices – every path will give different clues. Observe the body language; sometimes a character’s silence can speak louder than words.

Big Bad Dogs is made to reward attentive players. Pay attention to every detail, even the smallest ones, as they are pieces of the puzzle that will help you solve the case.