Games like the dog island

The Dog Island (often stylized as THE DOG Island), known in Japan as The Dog Island: Hitotsu no Hana no Monogatari (THE DOG ISLAND ひとつの花の物語, Za Dogu Airando Hitotsu no Hana no Monogatari, lit. "The Dog Island: The Story of the One Flower"), is a 2008 adventure video game for the Wii and PlayStation 2 consoles in which players control a dog and must go on a journey to search for a special flower to aid their sick sibling, which can only be found by achieving their goal to become a "sniff master". The player interacts with various other animals in the game that give hints and information to aid on the quest. The video game is based on The Dog and Friends franchise.

The Dog Island is a role-playing game wherein the player controls a dog in exploring and navigating through different environments while completing tasks. The player can walk, run, crawl, and bark, the last of which is used as defense against the hostile enemies populating the area. In the game, several types of enemies are found, including snakes, gorillas, bears, and bats, all of which, except for bats, are able to be stunned by barking behind them; holding the button used to bark eventually produces a howl, which stuns the enemy indefinitely until the player exits the area. Failure to contain an enemy will cause them to attack the player, depleting their HP or causing a poisonous status, which depletes HP overtime, or shock, which slows movement. The player starts out with 3 HP, which gets upgraded up to 8 at certain points in the game; losing them all forces the player to start over from the last save point.