Play Dotso Online

Dotso is one of those weird little MS-DOS games that somehow sticks with you. At first glance, it's just colored dots moving around a grid—but give it five minutes, and suddenly you're hunched over your keyboard, muttering at the screen as the puzzles get sneakier. The controls are dead simple (arrow keys, naturally), but figuring out how to navigate each level without trapping yourself? That's the real challenge.

It's got that perfect balance of "easy to learn, tough to master" that makes you keep retrying levels even when you swear you're done. The later stages introduce these devious mechanics where dots split or merge, and suddenly your carefully planned route falls apart. No tutorials, no hand-holding—just you and a maze of neon-lit frustration. If you miss the days when games didn't over-explain everything, Dotso feels like coming home.

Also, the soundtrack is an unironic banger—beeping synths that somehow make losing fun. Play it in DOSBox with CRT shaders for maximum nostalgia.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".