Tooth and Tail 2017

Is it still worth playing?

Pocketwatch Games' 2017 real time strategy game, set in a 19th century society of anthropomorphic animals facing chronic food shortages. Every match starts with a commitment. You pick a commander from four factions and draft six units from a pool of twenty, fifteen offensive and five defensive, and those choices cannot change during the match. Food runs the rest. Farms gather it, most structures have to be placed near gristmills, and units produced at warrens cost food, which is limited, while campfires act as both gristmills and farms. Then, to build, commanders burrow into building mode. You win by destroying the enemy's gristmills and campfires, on a procedurally generated map, alone or with up to four players in split screen or online. Six units chosen before the match still make each game a bet on one plan today.