Play Backyard Monsters online: build your yard and raise your army

What is Backyard Monsters

Backyard Monsters is a strategy game that Kixeye released in 2010. You start with a small yard and make it grow: you build buildings that produce resources, defenses and walls, and you upgrade every piece over time.

With those resources you raise monsters in the Hatchery, house them in your housing buildings and send them against other yards to take their loot. It started out as a Facebook game, and in 2026 you can play it again on this server, without Facebook: all you need is an account of your own.

How to play

Everything is done with the mouse. The tutorial teaches you the basics: you open Buildings and build resource producers, defenses and decorations; every building takes time to build and can be upgraded.

In the Hatchery you choose which monster to raise and spend Goo. With the Flinger you send your monsters against the enemy yard: they destroy defenses and buildings and you take the loot. The Map Room opens the world map, where every wild tribe has its own level, distance and defenses.

Backyard Monsters with no Flash

This edition of Backyard Monsters runs directly in the browser, with no Flash. There's nothing to install, no plugins and no program to download: you open the page, log in with your account and play.

A server of its own, in beta

Backyard Monsters runs on a FB Games server of its own, with an account that is independent of the other games. Your yard, your resources and your monsters are saved on the server, tied to your account, and the server decides prices, rewards and timings, the same for everyone.

We're in beta. Today you can follow the tutorial, build and upgrade buildings, produce resources, raise monsters and attack the tribes on the map. The Inferno, outposts, alliances, mail and gifts between players haven't been tested yet. If something breaks, open a ticket from Support.