Charlie

You are Charlie. The hoomans are… a lot.

The Mini Aussie of Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Monday · 7:00 AM

Charlie and Fluffy, fast asleep.

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Meet the Cast

How Charlie came home

Player Guides

Learn

More ways to play

Bonus extras

Scrapbook Wardrobe Overheard The story so far Places The real Charlie Charlie’s rules

Game Settings

Sound

Look

Off: in Free Roam Mode only what Charlie touches or looks at lights up and talks. On: everything, everywhere, at once.

Play

Lose a mission and your next try is easier; lose it twice and Charlie can’t lose it. A win sets it back to normal.

Play together

See other players’ dogs in Free Roam Mode and chat with them: a public room of up to 16, or a private room for friends with its code.

About

What’s newNew Accessibility Privacy Give to the Rouben Malian Memorial Foundation

Opens the Foundation’s page on PayPal Giving Fund in a new tab. A gift there is made to PayPal Giving Fund, which grants it to the Foundation. Nothing is paid inside the game.

Get the app: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Chill Mode

Charlie’s week is a lot. Chill Mode is here so everyone gets to see how it ends: little pups, grown-up pups, first-timers, and anyone who’d just like a calmer walk. Turn on as much or as little as you like. It’s still the whole story.

Chill ModeTurns on the assists below

Extra heartsCharlie has twice the health: 200 instead of 100. Slower hoomansEveryone else walks at three-quarter speed. Charlie doesn’t. Quicker abilitiesZoomies, Puppy Eyes and Bark recharge twice as fast. More timeEvery clock or meter that can lose a mission gives Charlie half as long again: buyers are slower to walk out, and Fluffy is slower to lose his patience. Just a WalkIn Free Roam Mode nothing hurts Charlie: he hops out of the way and carries on with his day.

Stars count the same. Survival runs with Chill Mode on stay off Top Dogs and Game Center, so the boards compare like with like. Changes start with the next mission. Auto Play Mode plays itself, so it doesn’t need any of this.

Controls

Play the way that suits your hands: tap to keep Charlie walking instead of holding a key down, and put every action on the key or button you like.

Seeing and hearing

Sound captionsShort captions for the sounds that matter, like [smoke alarm], [honk] or [sirens], next to where they come from, or at the edge of the screen with an arrow. Danger patternsDanger zones get hatching and an outline as well as their color: a thin dashed outline and a warning mark while one is about to go off, thick cross-hatching while it hurts, dashes on puddles and oil. On by default if your device asks for more contrast. Audio GuidePlay by ear, in stereo (headphones help): a beacon blips from the way to the next toy, stop or door (higher and faster as you get close; its second note rises if it’s up the screen, falls if it’s down), a warning from where trouble is about to land, a buzz while you’re standing in it, each character’s own sound, a thud at walls and a chime when an ability is ready. Press G (or a controller’s View / Create button) for “Where am I?”. Describe Auto Play ModeWith a screen reader: between the voices, hear the narrator, who’s talking, where Charlie is and each highlight.

Moving with keys or a controller Hold to move Tap to toggle

Keyboard

Pick an action, then press its new key. Esc cancels.

Always: the arrow keys and W A S D move, Esc pauses and goes back, and the number pad’s − and + zoom.

Controller

Always: the left stick and the d-pad move, Menu / Options pauses, A / ✕ presses and B / ○ goes back on menus.

Mission Mode

Paws

Help: Charlie’s Guide

Go to…

Anywhere, any time. It’s .

Carnegie Hill

Pick a place: a waypoint to walk to, or Go. Across town and out of town:

Odd jobs

Photo Mode

How to be Charlie

Every hooman in Charlie’s life is unstable, unreliable or just plain unpredictable. Luckily, Charlie is a mini Australian Shepherd, one of the smartest dogs there is.

The job

Grab Charlie’s things (Lamb Lamb, Chicken, his squeaky duck…) before the hoomans ruin them. When you have them all, Fluffy shows up for walkies (Aunty and Puppy tag along). Get to the glowing door to escape.

Moving

Phone: put your thumb down anywhere and drag. Keyboard: arrow keys or WASD.

Can’t hold a key down? → Tap to toggle: tap a direction and Charlie keeps walking. Every key and controller button can be changed there too.

Seeing more

Zoom out to see the room, or the whole place: tap the Wider button (Close, Room, Whole), pinch with two fingers, scroll or pinch on a trackpad, press − and +, or L1/LB and R1/RB on a controller. Charlie remembers your choice. In Auto Play Mode the camera also pulls back by itself when something happens across the room.

Auto Play Mode by ear

With a screen reader, Auto Play Mode describes itself between the voices: the narrator, who’s talking, where Charlie is and each highlight. Pause and pick Today so far to go over the day. Turn it off in (Describe Auto Play Mode).

Charlie’s smarts

Zoomies (Space): a burst of speed. Nothing can touch Charlie mid-zoom, so zoom through fire.
Puppy Eyes (E): melts every hooman nearby. Cools Fluffy right down and makes Grandpa pick up his pills.
Herd Bark (Q): Aussies herd. Shoves hoomans away and cancels what they were about to do. But the Super hears it.
Danger sense: Charlie sees trouble coming. Red zones on the floor are about to go bad. Get out of them.

In the car

Aunty drives like a maniac. When a sign flashes, Charlie is about to be thrown the way the arrow points: push the other way (or zoom) so he doesn’t slam into the doors or seats.

At the beach

Some toys are buried: a mound with a DIG tag. Stop right on it and hold still while Charlie digs (walking over it isn’t enough). Stay above the foam line when a wave comes in, and watch the sky for seagulls.

Pick-ups

Charlie’s health bar: every hit takes a chunk. Everything he picks up tops it back up: his things (Lamb Lamb, Chicken, his squeaky duck), treats, Evian (only Evian) and Grandpa’s half-eaten soup heal the most.

Stand still next to someone friendly and they’ll pet Charlie: points, and a little health.

The diamond over Fluffy and Grandpa is their mood, like in The Sims: green is happy, red is about to blow. Grandpa gets angrier every time Fluffy ignores him for his phone.

Watch out for

Grandpa’s pills (toxic!), forgotten potatoes, wet floors (slippery), the vacuum, violation notices, and the fallout when Fluffy’s face goes red (he’s raging at everyone else, never Charlie, but fire is fire).

Stuck?

Charlie’s Guide: every hooman and how to handle them, tips and stars for every mission, and the modes explained. Something not working? See the FAQ.

Top Dogs

Best scores in Survival: Park Avenue Panic.

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Survival

Survive as long as you can. Pick a place: Park Avenue is the one on Top Dogs; the others keep your own best in this browser.

Daily Walk

One counted walk a day in this browser: the same streets, the same hoomans and the same luck for every player, on the website and in the app. Then see who walked furthest.