Love Doge: Draw to Connect is a physics-based skill game similar to popular underground ball-and-cup games like Dig This, Dunk Digger and Sandy Balls, as well as Doge meme pet games like Doge Blocks and the Protect My Dog series. The player helps Shiba Inu dogs and other animals, including other types of dogs, cats and even capybaras, escape oubliettes to reunite with their loved ones.
Each animal is represented by a head that rolls like a ball. The player uses their deductive reasoning skills and knowledge of gravity and science to dig tunnels through soft soil from the male head to his bow-wearing counterpart located in a separate oubliette somewhere to the side or below him. When the player reunites the couples, the eyes of the animals become hearts, and additional hearts burst onto the screen.
Love Doge: Draw to Connect presents the player with plenty of obstacles, including stationary platforms, wood crates and boulders that nearly block all potential paths through the soil. They might also need to direct a head away from spikes, bombs and other types of traps.
The game often forces the player to reunite more than one couple per level. When this happens, the player must draw each tunnel carefully to prevent the head of one animal from rolling into the head of a different type of animal. If the player reunites the wrong animals, both heads cry profusely, and the player must start the level again.
