Haunted Paws Co-op

Player one needs a different coat

The setup screen has a player-one puppy and a second puppy. Change the breed there. On October 19, 2026, LazyFlock named seven breeds: German Shepherd, Great Dane, Jack Russell, Mastiff, Retriever, Rottweiler, Shiba Inu. The same note lists nine accessories and a kitten-in-disguise fur. A name that is not on that list stays Unverified until the swatch is on your screen. A guess such as Beagle is not that list.

Fur, ears, tail, and voice change how you spot your puppy in a split view. They do not change how far a sniff reaches. There is no verified stat block, so do not pick a breed to "win" the couch. The write-up of hats and the kitten coat is the breeds page.

Couch is one machine

Shared/split-screen means the game is running once. Remote Play Together is a stream of that session to someone who is not at the keyboard. Online co-op is two clients. If you mix the words, you will tell a friend to install a second copy they do not need, or you will wait for a local second input that never arrives because they are in another house.

Apartment order after the party is in is the beginner guide. Stay on this page until the second puppy is actually in the session. A door prompt will not replace them.

Make the guest readable

On a shared screen the failure mode is grabbing the wrong puppy. The kitten-in-disguise fur is still one of the two puppies, and it reads as a cat, which is an easy callout. In one demo session that coat did not offer a black-cat recolor, so do not promise a black kitten until the swatch is on the guest's screen. A black cat as the cause of the kidnapping is a media claim and stays Unverified. It is not a coat the guest must wear to join.

Nine accessories were in the October 19 drop. Pick one you can see past in a dark room. Hats identify a puppy. They are not keys. If the guest's breed list does not match the seven names above, trust the picker and check the LazyFlock Discord only for what the studio posted. The swatch wins.

Send the pass again if the host drops

Friend's Pass follows the host session. If the host closes the demo, the guest drops with it. Relaunch Demo 4992280 and send a fresh invite. Do not reinstall the full app 2861080 to fix a demo party. What a closed window means, separate from a chase, is on the demo page.

A guest who is not on PC stops here. Console dates are Unverified. The check is the platform page, and the next section is only for a second person who can reach the host's Steam session.

The stream is not the split

Shared/split-screen draws two views because two local inputs are in one process. Remote Play Together sends the host's picture and takes input back through Steam. Do not describe that stream as "couch co-op on their TV" unless they are looking at your PC's screen in the room. A living-room console is a different product, and this store page is PC.

Online still means two puppies

Online co-op does not add a third character, a spectator slot with a puzzle job, or a solo toggle. You still have two puppies, two coats, and prompts that wait for both holds. The network only changes where the second player sits. Role splits for doors, fish, and the car are the next section. Set the party row first so you are not debugging a door that is simply missing a puppy.

Bark is a callout with a volume problem

You will see a bark happen while the other player is still asking how. Use the prompt on your own screen. This page does not print a bark key, because a readable bind is not part of the verified listing. Agree a word before anyone presses it.

Bark at an object when the room is quiet. The fridge in the apartment is the example: that bark can surface the snack ad the clue board uses. Do not bark to signal "I am over here" during a chase. Sound pulls the creature with both of you. Sniff, dig, and the board are the clue page. The run itself is the next section.

Same coat, swapped job

The car prompt splits the work. Use the words on screen for pedal and direction, and do not memorize a side from a story. If both puppies wear the same breed and the same hat, you will take each other's job. Fix the coats on the breeds page before you retry the car. The fish trade is the same idea: one fish is not the keys. The cat detective wants two. Split the search instead of stacking both errands on one puppy while the other waits on the wrong curb.

Call the door before you grab

The co-op habit that saves the chase is a sentence on the way in: which door you will use on the way out. Player one does not get a private exit. If your hold on that door did nothing earlier, it was the two-puppy door from the couch section, and you should have opened it before the object was in a mouth.

A hit is a retry, not a new party type

Getting caught means run the same route again with the door already open. It does not unlock a solo retry, a harder breed, or a weapon. There is no verified combat loadout on this page. When the room is empty again, go back to the clue you were holding and pin it on the clue board. If the session itself closed, fix the app first, then send Friend's Pass again. Do not change the party type in the middle of a relaunch and expect the guest to still be inside.

What to do when the second chair is empty

Send Friend's Pass to someone on PC, or wait. Walking into a two-sided door alone and tapping it is how a night stalls. The beginner guide assumes the second puppy is already in the session before the broken window. Read it when a partner exists. Until then, the useful work is coats, the spider option, and knowing which party row you will use.

Do not invent a solo ruleset

There is no verified way to mark a puzzle as optional because you are alone, and there is no code that turns co-op off. If a later patch adds a one-player clear, it will be on the Steam page or on lazyflock.com. Until that sentence exists, "play alone" stays Unverified. The next section is the short list of ways pairs waste the session they did manage to start.

One sentence before the first door

Say which row you are on, shared/split-screen, online, Friend's Pass, or Remote Play Together, and which coat is player one. Two seconds there prevents the rest of this table. Then split the actual prompts on the puzzle page.