Tooth and Tail similar games & best alternatives

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Tooth and Tail

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2017

Should you play it?

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

What works

  • Innovative simplified rts controls
  • Engaging fast-paced multiplayer
  • Unique anthropomorphic revolutionary setting
  • Beautiful pixel art and soundtrack
  • Short matches suitable for casual play

Things to keep in mind

  • Small multiplayer player base
  • Random map generation can cause imbalance
  • Campaign difficulty spikes and trial-and-error
  • Limited unit control and micro
  • Lack of deeper faction differentiation

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Age of Mythology: Retold

  • The Scouring

  • Wargroove

  • Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3

  • Godsworn

  • Zero-K

Less intimate

Games that feels like Tooth and Tail but with less focus on close relationships

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Tooth and Tail but with less imaginative fiction

  • Cossacks 3

  • Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

  • TFC: The Fertile Crescent

  • Cossacks: Back to War

  • Praetorians

  • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

More dominating

Games that feels like Tooth and Tail but with more domination over others

  • Command & Conquer Red Alert™ 2 and Yuri’s Revenge™

  • Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour

  • Age of Empires II (Retired)

  • Total Annihilation

  • Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

  • Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection

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Tooth and Tail: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026