Critters vs. Predators

Critters vs. Predators is a squad-based game about small garden animals joining forces against the foxes, snakes, hawks and barn cats that hunt them. You collect and develop critters, then lead them through battles against predators and other players’ squads.

Collect and train critters

You can collect 33 critters, including healers, mages, hunters, rogues, berserkers and tanks. Each has its own attack and special ability. Earn a critter’s portraits to unlock it, promote it up to five stars, level it up, fill its six gear slots per tier and craft better parts from those you find.

Fight your way

Battles can play automatically, or you can switch to manual control to attack, defend, taunt with tanks or use abilities. A timer keeps manual fights moving. You can click an enemy to focus your squad on it, while predators choose targets of their own.

Squad choices and abilities can counter predator attacks: a hedgehog at the front can stop a fox’s pounce, a guinea pig’s squeal can snap allies out of a weasel’s trance, and a frog’s tongue can pull a stalking barn cat out of its pounce.

Chapters and bosses

The story has 10 chapters, each with 10 nodes of three stages, available on normal and hard. The chapters move through the barnyard, garden, wheat field, tool shed, cornfield, orchard, meadow, riverbank, night forest and badger’s sett.

Each chapter ends with a boss. In the first five chapters, you face a young predator on normal and its grown-up parent on hard. From the orchard onward, the boss is a grown-up predator with a pack of up to nine.

Arena and guilds

The Colosseum has 20 floors of difficult predator squads and resets every week. Old Red is on floor 10, and Big Grizz the bear is on floor 20. In the PvP arena, you set a defence squad and climb the ranks against other players’ critters.

You can also join a guild to chat and raid. During a three-day raid, the guild works together to defeat barn cats. Gold, badges and gear from the prize pool are shared according to the damage each member dealt. Events arrive every few days, each featuring one critter and paying out its badges.

Earning critters

Every critter can be earned by playing, and nothing that makes a critter stronger is for sale.