Backyard Monsters is a strategy game that launched on Facebook in 2010. You build a yard with buildings, walls and towers, produce resources, raise monsters and send them against enemy yards to take their loot. You can play it today in this independent browser edition from FB Games: it is free, it needs neither Flash nor Facebook, and it is in beta. Here is what the game is, where it comes from and what this edition is and is not.
Here is the game: create a free account of your own, open your yard and see for yourself what raising monsters and flinging them at wild tribes feels like.
Build your yard with buildings and towers, raise monsters with Goo and send them against the wild tribes on the map in this classic Facebook game.
In beta: some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs.
Backyard Monsters is a strategy game in which you grow a small yard into a fortified base. You build structures that produce resources, add walls and towers to protect them, and raise an army of monsters to attack with. Four resources keep it moving: twigs, pebbles, putty and goo. A special currency called Shiny sits beside them and speeds up waiting times and buys some extras.
It is bigger than it first looks. The guide on the game's website lists 21 buildings, from the Town Hall to cannon, sniper, laser and Tesla towers, and 15 monsters, from the small Pokey to big ones such as Eye-ra and D.A.V.E. Most of them can be upgraded through several levels.
Backyard Monsters launched on Facebook in 2010 from the studio Casual Collective and later came under Kixeye. Kixeye also made Battle Pirates, a Facebook real-time strategy game from May 2011.
The original was built on Flash, which current browsers no longer run. This edition does not use Flash, so it opens straight in the page. This page speaks only for the edition you can open today.
Yes, in this edition. FB Games runs Backyard Monsters in the browser on a server of its own, with accounts that are separate from those of its other games. Creating an account and playing is free. You do not need Facebook: you register with a username and a password, and the email is optional.
Registering creates a brand-new yard. Nothing from your old Facebook yard is imported, so everyone starts with the tutorial.
Produce: the Twig Snapper, Pebble Shiner, Putty Squisher and Goo Factory make your four resources and hold them until you collect them, and Silos raise how much you can store. Raise: in the Hatchery you spend Goo on monsters, which live in your Housing.
Attack: from the Map you pick a wild tribe, load monsters into the Flinger and fling them into its yard to loot its resource producers. Defend: walls, towers and a trap protect your own yard, and monsters kept in a bunker help when you are attacked. Quests: each one pays a reward, and the list tells you what to do next.
It is not the official game and not a Kixeye site: FB Games is an independent project with no affiliation to Kixeye, Facebook or Meta. It is also not a way to get your old yard back, because progress from the Facebook game cannot be imported.
And there is nothing to install: no app, no APK and no launcher, only the page at backyardmonsters.fbgamesweb.com.
Yes. Some parts of the original game are not complete yet and you may run into bugs. Today you can follow the tutorial, build and upgrade, produce resources, raise monsters and attack the wild tribes on the map. Other players show up on the map, but they are always protected, so combat between players is not available.
Also not available today: the Inferno, outposts, alliances, mail and gifts between players. The game has no chat either.
The art has gaps too. It comes from the original game by Kixeye, but part of the artwork for quests, events and windows could not be recovered and is replaced by neutral markers of our own, such as a wooden background with a simple star on quest icons. Five event-window videos show an empty frame instead. So this is not the original's complete artwork.
To start playing, the how-to-play guide walks through sign-up, the tutorial, the first builds and your first attack.
If you are wondering about Flash, phones or downloads, each has its own page. The private server guide explains accounts, rules, support and donations, and the games-like page compares Backyard Monsters with other strategy games.
Three steps and you're in.
From this home page. Each game opens at its own address, with its own start screen.
A quick sign-up inside the game. Your progress is saved on the server, not in your browser.
You play in your browser, with no Flash and no downloads, on a computer and, depending on the game, on your phone too.
Backyard Monsters is a strategy game that launched on Facebook in 2010. You build a yard with buildings, walls and towers, produce resources, raise monsters in a Hatchery and send them against enemy yards for loot. In this FB Games browser edition you attack wild monster tribes on the map, and you can play for free with no Flash.
Backyard Monsters was released on Facebook in 2010 by Casual Collective and later came under Kixeye. The browser edition described here is run by FB Games, an independent project with no affiliation to Kixeye, Facebook or Meta, so it is not the official game and does not speak for the studio.
You can play this independent browser edition of Backyard Monsters today. It is free, opens in the browser without Flash and needs an account of your own. It is a beta, so some parts of the original game are not complete and bugs can appear. This answer is only about this edition, not about any other version.
Yes. Creating an account and playing Backyard Monsters on FB Games is free. Donating is optional and is handled through a support ticket: there is no purchase inside the game and the website shows no price list. Be wary of anyone selling Shiny or an installer, because that has nothing to do with this project.
You do not need Facebook to play Backyard Monsters here. You sign up with a username and a password, and the email is optional. Progress from the Facebook game is not imported: registering creates a new yard, and the tutorial starts from the beginning for everyone.
Not at the moment. In this edition of Backyard Monsters you attack wild monster tribes: Legionnaire, Kozu, Abunakki and Dreadnaut. Other players appear on the map but are always protected, so combat between players is not available. Alliances, mail and gifts between players are not available either.
The Backyard Monsters game itself comes in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Turkish. You change the language on your account page and reload the game afterwards. The FB Games website for Backyard Monsters exists only in Spanish and English, and there is no Russian or Chinese version of the game.
No. Backyard Monsters is an original game by Kixeye, and this is an independent browser edition by FB Games, with no affiliation to Kixeye, Facebook or Meta. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. Use the address backyardmonsters.fbgamesweb.com, and never give your password to anyone offering Backyard Monsters downloads.
Brand notice: Backyard Monsters is an original game by Kixeye. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. All other game and company names mentioned belong to their respective owners. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kixeye, Facebook or Meta. This is a browser edition.
Creating an account takes a minute, and you play straight from your browser.