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My favorite of Bandai Namco's trio of experiments. It's concentrated cute chaos and easy to imagine how this could be expanded into something larger, somewhere between Katamari Damacy and Splatoon.

Cute little game about wrecking house. It’s fun, low stakes, and doesn’t overstay its welcome—one of my favorite kinds of games.

Thirty minutes or so to splat paint around a wealthy home as a pomeranian. That is the basis and entire gameplay loop of the game... and it's fun! Cute, free, and short... what's not to enjoy?

Short and sweet, the dog's cute, and the game is free so there's no reason not to play it

Cute but gets boring after about 10 minutes

At least its free


A great little time with a silly, mucky dog.

Spent less than an hour to see the credits but I'm going to go back and get the badges because it's just nice.

It's simple fun, controlling a Pomeranian wondering around a new house trying to make the most mess you can spreading muck and interacting with a whole host of things to make your mark.

A simple game, but so much so that I hadn't changed the language to English and had no problems with it.
I was tempted to say I did this to further immerse myself as a dog, getting the gist of basic commands but not understanding language.

Free and fun for all the family... or something.

Very cute, easy recommend especially considering it's free! You could be playing Doronko Wanko instead of reading this review! My only legitimate gripe is it's a bit hard to tell where the game wants to you splash muck for the hidden pictures.

It basically feels like a tech demo where the team was asked to recreate the Splatoon paint effect, but I got a little whale that sprayed blue paint automatically, so it's okay.

I have played games with thoughtfully-crafted narratives where I must make difficult decisions. Ones that lead to war, death, and all sorts of terrible things that would haunt someone forever. And in doing those I did not feel even half as bad as I did when I ruined the cute drawing of the happy family with this dog.

Sooooooo cute. When I started I was aimless, and I had more fun when I was just messing up the house. But later when I learned I had to fill in 12 spots around the house, it kind of became a chore. I just wanted to mess up the house.
I played using Nintendo Joy Cons, and the use button did not match with the default layout, so I was confused at first.
Towards the end of the game, some of the new stains started to become completely black, I'm not sure if that was intentional. It didn't look very fun.
I wish the doggy could move better and faster and rely less on tools to mess up the house!

C'est rigolo pour ce que c'est, j'aurais juste aimé pouvoir pisser sur le parquet

Pudiese parecer que Doronko Wanko es una especie de juego pequeño al estilo Katamari sobre crear el caos y liarla en un pequeño espacio de tiempo. Pero no, Doronko Wanko es sosegado y aburrido. Si no fuera porque el juego es gratuito sería bastante infumable, das mil vueltas por la misma casa y pasan un par de cosas explosivas con gracia pero al final va sobre buscar unos puntos concretos por el mapa que tienes que manchar y ya, se acabó, no hay más. No contentos con la jugabilidad calmada también la música es suave, cool jazz que diría alguno, metiéndote en un estado de aburrimiento cuando te queda una o dos marcas por encontrar para cruzar una puerta con una luz al fondo y que salten los créditos.
Si estás muy aburrido y no tienes absolutamente nada que jugar pues tienes entre media hora y una hora de algo pero, vamos, nada realmente interesante que ver.

Very cute, adorable dog game. If you've got nothing better to do and wanna quickly have a good time doing the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do irl, the game is for you. There's not a ton of game here, but there doesn't have to be. It's a cute little game for cute little guys and gals and nonbinary pals who just want to be a mischievous lil doggo.

What else is there to say? It's free, you can beat it in like an hour, why are you even reading reviews? Just get it.

Just be warned the controller controls are a little finicky and you're probably going to have to figure out how to change the language settings.

Cute little dog-themed platformer/hunting game where you need to find all the specific spots to get dirty. A little more signposting would have been nice but it's nice and short and, of course, free!

Splatoon, but singleplayer, and you're a cute Pomeranian instead of a squid!
Doronko Wanko was a really fun but short game, good way to blow off steam. You get mud all over your owner's house and destroy stuff, and as the house gets dirtier you unlock more items to increase your efficiency. It's a blast! There are basic achievements too, and they are pretty easy to get while still being fun to hunt for.

Oh, and you can get a mud machine gun for maximum destruction.
Enough said. Go play this. It's free.

Cute, but not as chaotic as I was expecting. Didn't feel particularly mischievous like a certain goose.

Very cute, very short, obviously very rough around the edges but the vibes are great. Feels good to just obliterate this house and get a million achievements along the way.

Single player doggy Splatoon. Super short, but worth the 30minutes of your time.

"Now I am become Pomeranian, the Destroyer of Households."

Short and cute game where you play as a fluffy puppy on a mission to unlock the "Good Smell" room and to realize the prize held within. The gameplay is pretty simple, you get dirty, run around, make a mess, repeat. It's a FREE game and worth your time. You can change the language through the settings (press the first small text in main menu -> press E to change column -> go down 2 rows -> press right). Just relax and enjoy this casual game.

Very cute and very short game where you play as a muddy puppy trying to get the house as messy as possible! Think of untimed, noncompetitive Splatoon. Takes only like 30 minutes to play and is free, so why not check it out?

3/5

profound air sucking DOOOOOOOOOOG!! That's my dog, except it's not the same breed, and huuh it's not my dog BUT he gets away with chicaneries as easily. So, the massive dad takes his kids to Belize, I think that's the story I can't read japanese (trial & error to find the language settings goes hard) and mom is in an highly comative state. That's a recipe for disaster. Here come dat boi, literal mud sponge marking his territory in the filthiest of ways. Press Reload button to reload and press Fire button to fire that's the gameplay loop, which actually is great foreshadowing of the minigun hat- what?? Psalm 37:13 - But the lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.

Little thing gets pampered with collectibles every 5 seconds, I know he's cute but that is a bit excessive. Dogs have that TikTok attention span tho and he can't get outside so he needs to be rewarded for doing tricks, which is more of a prank gone wrong in this case, which moreso went as planned, anyways there are a few environmental puzzles mostly for the sake of it, this game is very short it clocks in below an hour but in dog years its like 7 hours, I don't know why I said that when I was talking about the puzzles, they're pretty fun and obvious, that's about it.

Okay I don't know how high Pomeranians can jump, clearly this one is weighed down by all the mud so I cut him some slack, but he can barely go above a chair. I don't think I've seen a dog jump straight onto a table so that's probably for the best, my own dog cant even climb chairs but he does jump on beds. Closing parenthesis it's cool to see what the new employees could do as a quick project, it really feels like a game made by japanese devs, not so sure abt the Namco identity, unless the 300 pomerillions in damage property are a subtle reference to Blue Protocol. Bravo!

Embrace the dog and put a rich family into homelessness.

Doronko Wanko means Muddy Dog for those who were wondering.

Loved this little game, i wish there was just more of it since it was great fun to play through.


Be small. Make a mess. Enjoy life.

neat little destruction game in the vein of stuff like catlateral damage or katamari. short, free, does exactly what it says on the tin. easy recommendation

Family returns to find that their dog has caused multi-million dollars worth of damage to their high class home:

"Oh you're such a little stinker!"