The main trailer. Everything that goes wrong in a shift, in order of how bad it gets.
You and your friends run a dog daycare. It goes badly. Feed them, wash them, walk them, and scoop what they leave behind, before somebody props a gate open and eleven dogs discover the front door. Co-op chaos with very good pups.
Fact sheet
01| Developer | Watashi Games |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Watashi Games |
| Creator | James Dalton Ward |
| Online as | Fraccas / DevFraccas |
| Based in | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| Release | Q2 2027 |
| Demo | Steam Next Fest, October 19-26, 2026 |
| Platform | Windows PC (Steam) |
| Players | 1-8, online co-op (solo works too) |
| Genre | First-person co-op management sim |
| Languages | 103 interface languages |
| Price | To be announced |
| Steam | store.steampowered.com/app/5136890 |
| Website | watashigames.com/kennel-chaos |
| Press contact | support@watashigames.com |
One line
You and your friends run a dog daycare. It goes badly.
Short description
You and your friends run a dog daycare. It goes badly. Feed them, wash them, walk them, and scoop what they leave behind, before somebody props a gate open and eleven dogs discover the front door. Co-op chaos with very good pups.
Name, as written
Kennel Chaos: Daycare Simulator
About the game
02A dog daycare. Your friends. One mop.
Kennel Chaos is a co-op simulator about being the people who actually do the work. No staff menu, no spreadsheet. You're the one holding the scoop. Bring your friends, split the jobs, and watch the plan survive roughly ten minutes.
You can carry one thing
A dog, or a tool. Never both. Tools live on the racks you bought and put somewhere. So "somewhere" turns out to be a decision you'll think about a lot, usually while jogging back across the building holding a wriggling beagle.
Small problems compound
A fresh poop takes two seconds to scoop. Ignore it and somebody walks through it. Now there are paw prints down the corridor. Ignore those and they dry, and dried needs a scrub. This is how a nice afternoon becomes a Code Brown.
Build the place first
Start with an empty building and a small pile of money. Buy runs, tubs, grooming tables, food prep, play equipment. Paint the walls. Hang wallpaper. Put a clock up. Then open the doors and find out which of your decisions were stupid.
Then pay for all of it
Takings in, upkeep out, stars up or down depending on whether every dog actually got what its care card promised. Spend what's left before bed. Do it again tomorrow, but with more dogs.
"I worked as a kennel tech in college and started making games around the same time. This is that job."
James Dalton Ward, creatorThe dogs are the challenge
Twenty-one breeds, and every one of them has a habit:
- The Escape Artist is testing every gate right now. She will find the one you forgot.
- The Sneaky Pooper waits until you're facing the other way, and picks a corner.
- The Shaker waits until it's out of the tub and next to you.
- Zoomies doesn't care what's in the way, including you.
- Rolls In It has already found the mess you were about to clean.
- The Poop Eater solves that problem in the worst possible way.
1-8 player online co-op
Split the jobs, or all chase the same dog. It is significantly funnier with friends.
21 dog breeds
Every dog has traits that genuinely change your day, printed on a care card you are expected to follow.
A mess system with consequences
Fresh, stepped in, tracked down the corridor, dried on. Every stage costs more to fix than the last.
Build and decorate
Lay out your own daycare room by room: runs, tubs, stations, play gear, paint and wallpaper.
Hands-on, first person
No menus doing the work for you. You carry the dog, you hold the hose, you slip on the puddle.
Extremely good dogs
Who are also extremely bad, at the same time, all day.
The developer
03Kennel Chaos is made by James Dalton Ward, known online as Fraccas and DevFraccas, founder of Watashi Games: a professional software engineer by day and a game developer by night, shipping games since 2015.
James's previous games have passed a million downloads and $600K in revenue. The biggest, My Suika: Kyo's Fruit Merge (2023), reached 1M+ downloads across iOS, Android and Steam, with 1,730+ Steam reviews and a 4.6 rating from 2,740+ App Store reviews.
Kennel Chaos comes from an older job. James worked as a kennel tech in college, from about 2013 to 2015, which is where most of the problems in this game were first met in real life.
Away from the keyboard: a published author (Trail Family, a memoir of thru-hiking the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail), based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Trailers
04Previews play here at 720p. The download buttons get the full 1080p masters, mastered to -14 LUFS for YouTube and Steam.
Its own shot list for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, not a crop.
The business side. Build the daycare, open the doors, find out.
No-music cuts
05B-roll
06Short silent gameplay loops with no text, for cutting under a voice-over. Each one downloads directly. All b-roll (zip)
Screenshots
07All 1920x1080, no HUD unless the HUD is the point. Click one to view it large; "Download" saves the full-size JPG. All screenshots, lossless PNG (zip)
Logos & key art
08

Brand
09A cozy purple-and-yellow dog daycare where adorable dogs turn every shift into multiplayer chaos. Purple, amber, cream and a dark outline are the look. Click a colour to copy it.
- Do use the logo as supplied, on any background. It carries its own outline.
- Don't recolour, stretch, crop or redraw the logo, or add effects to it.
- Do write the name as Kennel Chaos. The full title is Kennel Chaos: Daycare Simulator.
- Tone: cozy and funny, never gritty. The dogs are good; the day is not.
Capture tips
10Camera controls in the current build
- F5Switch between first and third person.
- Hold Left AltOrbit the camera around your employee in third person. The mouse wheel zooms.
- CSecurity cameras. Once you have bought some, flick between them for a CCTV angle on the room.
- T (hold)Emote wheel, for reaction shots with friends.
- EscPause. In solo play this freezes the whole shift so you can set up a shot.
These are the defaults. Every key except Esc can be rebound in Settings.
Good footage, fast
- Bring friends. It's co-op for up to 8, and the funniest moments are somebody else's mistakes.
- Leave a mess alone for a minute. Poop gets stepped in, tracked and dried, and dogs roll in it.
- Open a gate and look away. The Escape Artist will do the rest.
- Use the hose on anything wet. Floors, dogs, colleagues.
- Want a clean HUD-free angle or a key? Email us and we'll help.
Streaming & video policy
11- Stream it, record it, monetize it. You don't need to ask us first. That includes YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and anywhere else.
- Everything on this page is yours to use in coverage of Kennel Chaos: thumbnails, articles, reviews, videos.
- A link back is appreciated: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5136890/Kennel_Chaos/
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About Watashi Games
Watashi Games is an independent studio founded by James Dalton Ward, making games, webtoons and creator tools, including My Suika, Damashi Game and Jank Yard. Kennel Chaos is its co-op dog daycare simulator. watashigames.com
















