If you are looking for games like Wild Ones, you are looking for turn-based artillery: you set an angle and a power, take the wind into account and fire at opponents on terrain that can be blown away. Well-known relatives include the Worms series, Hedgewars, ShellShock Live, GunBound and the old Scorched Earth. This page compares them by type and explains where Wild Ones Rebirth, the free browser edition of the Playdom Facebook game, fits in.
Here is the game: open it in your browser, create a free account of your own and see how a pet-versus-pet artillery duel feels.
Pick a pet, aim and fire in turns on destructible maps against other players or bots. It plays in the browser and your progress is saved to your account.
In beta: parts of the game may still be missing and errors may appear.
Wild Ones belongs to the turn-based artillery genre. Players take turns, aim by angle and power, and have to compensate for the wind, and the terrain is usually destructible, so each shot changes the battlefield. The genre has three broad families: classic duels between tanks, games where you command a team of characters on a destructible landscape, and cartoon artillery with animals, which is where Wild Ones sits.
Searches for similar games also bring up other titles that merely share the name Wild Ones. They are not similar games, only games with the same name, and we explain the difference on our pages about Wild Ones for mobile and about downloads.
Scorched Earth is a classic from the DOS era in which tanks trade shots across terrain, adjusting angle and power for the wind. GunBound is an online artillery game in which each player picks a vehicle and fires in turn. ShellShock Live is a 2D online artillery game built around tanks.
What these games share with Wild Ones is the core loop of aiming, correcting for wind and watching the terrain change. What differs is the fighter: there you drive a tank, while in Wild Ones you control a cartoon pet with its own health, speed and jump.
The Worms series is a long-running family of turn-based games in which you usually command a whole team of worms on a destructible landscape. Hedgewars is a free, open-source game in the same tradition, played with hedgehogs.
Wild Ones is often compared to Worms with pets, and the comparison is fair: you also fight on terrain that crumbles, with a wide set of weapons and a wind that changes. The difference is that in Wild Ones each player controls a single pet with one life, there are no teams and the last one standing wins.
Wild Ones Rebirth is an independent edition of the Playdom game that used to run on Facebook. It plays in the browser, free and in beta, with nothing to install and an account of your own. Each match has two to six players, 12 maps that you unlock as you level up, a free Missile with unlimited ammo and 39 more weapons in the shop, with water that starts to rise after a set time.
It also has practice against bots, quick matches, private rooms for friends and a power for each pet. The interface is in Spanish today, with some English, and a few maps and one pet were added from later versions of the game. Our guides on how to play Wild Ones, Wild Ones weapons and Wild Ones maps cover the details.
Instead of looking for a perfect match, compare what each game gives you. Do you want to command a team or control one character? Do you want to play online, locally on one machine, or both? Do you want something you install, or something you open in a web page? Is the game free, and what language is it in? Checking the official page of each game for those answers will tell you more than any list.
If your answers are “one pet, online, in the browser, free and in beta”, Wild Ones Rebirth is built for exactly that. If you want a team of characters, a particular tank game or local play, the games above are worth a look on their own pages.
Many people arrive at this page remembering a Facebook game like Worms with animals, which is exactly what Wild Ones was: a Playdom game that launched in late 2009 and closed in August 2013. Many games from that era can no longer be opened, because their servers closed and the Flash plug-in they relied on was retired at the end of 2020.
Wild Ones Rebirth exists so that at least this one can be played again. FB Games has other classic Facebook games in the browser as well, and you can find them on the FB Games home page.
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.
It is a turn-based artillery game with pets. Each player controls one armed pet, aims by angle and power, deals with the wind and fires across terrain that can be destroyed. The last pet standing wins.
They are in the same family of destructible-terrain artillery games, and Wild Ones is often compared to Worms with pets. In Wild Ones each player controls a single pet with one life instead of a team.
Wild Ones is one: the fighters are cartoon pets such as dogs and pandas. Hedgewars, a free, open-source game in the Worms tradition, uses hedgehogs.
Wild Ones was one, and Wild Ones Rebirth lets you play it again in your browser. It is an independent edition, free and in beta, with accounts of its own.
Wild Ones Rebirth is one. For other games, check each game's official page to see which platforms it supports, because that can change.
They share the artillery basics of angle, power and wind. In ShellShock Live and GunBound you play with tanks or vehicles, while in Wild Ones you control a pet with its own speed, jump and power.
They only share the name. They are separate games made by other companies, with their own rules and accounts, and none of them is this edition.
Yes. Wild Ones Rebirth is free to play in the browser, with no mandatory payments.
Yes. Create a private room with a name, and your friends type that exact name to join. A room holds up to six players, and there is no Facebook friends list.
No. Each player controls one pet, has one life, and the last one standing wins, so everybody plays against everybody.
Brand notice: Wild Ones is an original game by Playdom, and Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc. Worms, Hedgewars, ShellShock Live, GunBound, Scorched Earth and any other game named on this page belong to their respective owners and are mentioned only for comparison. FB Games is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Playdom, Facebook, Meta or those owners. This is a browser edition made by fans.
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