WarCritters · Turbulent Danny Studios

Screenshots

From in-development builds, debug overlays and all. Tap a shot to open it full size and pinch to zoom — scroll sideways for more →

Red and blue armies in a mass melee on the Dunes arena among sandbags and barrels — **Mass melee on the Dunes**Two armies collide in the middle of the Dunes arena, fighting around sandbags, barrels, crates and rock outcrops. The arcs over each unit are its health gauge: orange for red, blue for blue.

First-person view down an assault rifle over the Dunes, with a stag, geese and a penguin on the dunes — **Possess a critter**Drop into a unit and play in first person. Here an assault rifle looks out over the Dunes at a stag, geese, a penguin and more.

Battle Setup screen over the Meadow arena, with species cards priced in gold and a row each of buildings and mid-field items — **Draft your army**In Battle Setup each side drafts species, buildings for its own half and items for mid-field, all priced in gold. This draft is over the Meadow arena.

Battle Setup over the Classic arena, red units on the left and blue polar bears and anacondas on the right — **Setting the field**Both armies line up on the Classic arena before the fight, red on the left and blue's polar bears and anacondas on the right. Power-ups such as Haste, Growth, Shrink and Rage can be placed mid-field.

Debug view of the Dunes arena showing navigation-mesh tile outlines and yellow lines from the red army to blue targets, score 0-0 — **Behind the scenes: pathfinding**A debug view of the Dunes arena with the score at 0-0. The outlined tiles are the navigation mesh, and each yellow line runs from a red critter to its target on the blue side.

Debug view of a skirmish in a dune hollow with yellow target lines and wireframe marker spheres drawn over the units — **Pathfinding under fire**The pathfinding debug view mid-skirmish, as red and blue meet in a dune hollow with target lines and marker spheres drawn over the fight.

The ArmoryThe Armory firing range in third person. Your avatar walks toward armoured knights and cattle, with all ten weapons in the hotbar below.

Sprinting the rangeRunning the Armory with the assault rifle. Knights, cattle and rabbits stand in as targets, and spare weapons lie on the ground to pick up.

Third-person view behind a pink fish with a rifle, facing polar bears, knights, ninjas, a Mosasaurus and a Spinosaurus on a flat arena — **A fish with a rifle**Third person behind a pink fish armed with an assault rifle, facing a blue team of polar bears, knights, ninjas, a Mosasaurus and a Spinosaurus.

Debug view of a battle on the Classic arena with navigation-mesh tiles, target lines and floating health gauges, plus developer panels — **Reading the AI**A pathfinding debug view of a battle on the Classic arena: navigation-mesh tiles plus the target and waypoint lines the critters are following.

Blue mannequin crouched with a rifle in the Armory near antlered deer, power-up orbs and a row of floating weapons — **Crouched on the range**Crouched with a rifle in the Armory beside a group of antlered deer and power-up orbs, with spare weapons floating in a row at the edge of the range.

About

WarCritters is an animal battle simulator built in Bevy/Rust. Draft two armies from a roster of dozens of species, set them loose in an arena, and watch the fight play out — or drop into any critter on your side and fight alongside it in first or third person.

It is a physics game first. Every unit is a real body with a real hitbox: it climbs terrain, gets shoved, flinches from hits, topples when it dies, and piles up where it falls.

What is in it

A large roster — wolves, bears, horses, sharks, dinosaurs, and armoured humanoids, each with its own size, health, speed and pair of special abilities.
Possess anything — take direct control of any unit in your army, in first or third person, and hand it back to the AI when you are done.
Real weapons — a ten-weapon arsenal from assault rifles to bolt-action snipers and a katana, each with its own iron sights, ballistics and recoil.
Commander mode — pull back to an RTS camera, give stance orders, place buildings and scatter power-ups before the fight.
The Armory — a dedicated firing range with every weapon and modifier on hand, for players who want to learn the guns properly.

Gameplay footage

Unedited captures from in-development builds, played back at the speed the game ran. The panels in the corners are developer tools, not part of the game's interface. Use the full-screen button on any clip to see it big; on a phone, turn it sideways.

A whole match, start to finish — both armies line up in Battle Setup, charge across the Classic arena, meet in the middle and fight it out until one side wins.

Where to play

Wishlist on Steam (coming soon) Devlog on Substack YouTube Press kit

WarCritters is in active development. Follow the Substack or YouTube for development updates, and the Steam page will be announced there first.

Factsheet

Developer	Turbulent Danny Studios LLC · D.C. Sale
Based in	Colorado, USA
Engine	Bevy (Rust) + avian3d physics
Genre	Animal battle simulator (RTS + possess-a-unit action)
Platforms	Windows, Linux (web/local multiplayer planned)
Stores	Steam (coming soon)
Status	In development
Release date	TBA

Built alongside Rad Winds

WarCritters shares its Bevy/Rust + avian3d foundations with Rad Winds, the studio's wind-energy physics sandbox. Both come out of D.C. Sale's work on real physics and simulation tooling. More about the studio →