Jump in as a sheep
Jump in as a wolfBuild before the den opens.
Every round starts quiet. You get 15 gold and earn more every second, and the wolves wait in their den for the first 40 seconds. Spend them. Everything you build on land blocks movement, so every farm is a piece of wall.
The field guide
Press 1 to 9 and 0, the same keys you build with in the game.
Swipe the card or tap a name.
Hay Block
- Cost
- 2 gold
- Health
- 80
- Size
- 1 by 1
A single bale. Blocks a chaser in a tight lane.
- Hay Block
- A single bale. Blocks a chaser in a tight lane.
- Straw House
- A cheap 2 by 2 house of bound straw bales. The backbone of every maze.
- Stick House
- A lashed timber frame, nearly twice as tough as straw. Build one, or upgrade a Straw House in place.
- Brick House
- Red brick under a tiled roof, three times as tough as straw and slow to lay. Wolves hate these.
- Hedgerow
- Planted thin, grows thick. Weak at first, four times as tough a minute later.
- Big Barn
- A 3 by 3 barn, the toughest farm: nearly three Brick Houses of health for the price of two. Slow to raise: the anchor of a fort.
- Windmill
- Fragile, but it grinds 0.3 gold every second. Hide it inside your walls.
- Beehive
- Bees chase any wolf that comes close and slow it by 45 percent.
- Shadow Shed
- Wolves can't see it unless they place a ward nearby or bump into it.
- Scarecrow
- Wolves see a sheep until they get close. Use it to pull them away from your fort.
Farms upgrade in place and keep their damage: Straw House to Stick House to Brick House, and Windmill to Grain Mill. Shear your fleece for a free Wool Wall. Every farm, ability and key, with the numbers, is on How to play, and the rest of the guides are on Guides.
Build one tile apart.
Sheep fit through a 1-tile gap. Wolves don't. Put your houses one tile apart and every lane between them is yours: you slip through while the pack goes round or stops to chew. Straw goes down in a couple of bites, so a lane slows a wolf, it doesn't stop one.
You build where you stand, so a maze goes up as you walk its lanes. While you build, tiles turn green where no wolf can get in, counting the farm you are about to place.
Then the pack comes.
The den opens and the wolves are out, a little faster than you and happy to bite straight through a wall. Touch a sheep and it's tagged.
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Fast.
- Sprint to close a gap
- Huff and Puff to blow a wall down
- Howl to reveal every sheep on the map
- Drop a Watcher Ward to see what you're hiding
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Slower, hits farms harder.
- The Torch sets a whole corner of your fort burning at once
Both buy gear with gold, for speed, damage and breaking farms faster, and the gear shows on them, so you can see who bought what. Fewer wolves bite harder, so a small pack still has a chance against a big flock. You can play either side.
Survive the last minute.
A tagged sheep loses every farm it built and becomes a spirit in the pen at the middle of the map. Touch a spirit and it's back in the game.
The last minute is night. Wolves get faster, everyone sees less, and your farms light their lanterns. If one sheep is still standing when the clock hits zero, the flock wins.
You're not alone out there.
- A sheepdog joins after the release and barks wolves back.
- Sheep run faster when they stick together.
- A bush will hide you for a moment. It rustles, though, and a sharp wolf will notice.
Where it came from
We grew up playing Sheep Tag in internet cafes. A room full of us, yelling across the rows when a wolf broke through a wall or someone got rescued from the pen with a second to spare. Warcraft III custom games are hard to get running today, so we rebuilt it to run in a browser, on any computer or phone, with nothing to install.
Sheep Tag was a Warcraft III custom map. The community credits Star (Star[MD]) with inventing it, and it grew through many versions after that, including Sheep Tag ReVoLuTiOn by GosuSheep and Chakra (now kept up by verit), versions by XXXandBEER, and Return of the Shepherds by CowardlyShoe. The tag genre goes back to StarCraft's Cat and Mouse maps. This version keeps the rules everyone remembers and adds its own homestead: hedges that grow, beehives, windmills, scarecrows, wool, a sheepdog and nightfall. The full history, and the other Warcraft 3 custom maps you can still play.
Questions
Is Sheep Tag Online free?
Yes. It runs in your browser with nothing to install and no account.
Can I play on my phone?
Yes. Drag anywhere on the field to walk, tap to move or attack, and drag a farm out of the build tray onto the field to place it. Pinch to zoom.
How do I play with friends?
Choose Online, create a room and send the invite link. Up to 12 people fit in a room, and bots fill any empty seats.
Can I play alone?
Yes. Play against bots on Easy, Normal or Hard, as a sheep or on the hunting side, or start with the two-minute tutorial. Bot sheep build a maze of houses one tile apart and come out to rescue you, and every bot has its own temper.
Why does my sheep walk off when I place a farm?
Sheep build right next to where they stand. Place a farm further away and your sheep walks over and builds it when it arrives. Place several and it builds them in order. Long Reach, 20 gold, lets you build from up to five tiles away.
How long is a round?
Eight minutes by default. Custom games run 5, 8, 12 or 20 minutes, or Auto, which sets the length for the team sizes.
Can I turn the sound down?
Yes. The speaker button in the top right of the game's screens sets the volume or mutes all sound. Effects and music each have their own slider in Settings.
Can I turn down the motion?
Yes. In Settings, set Motion to Reduced. The camera stops shaking and swooping, and flashing and blinking calm down, in the game and on this site. Auto follows your device's reduce motion setting.
Is this the original Warcraft III map?
No. It's a new game built from scratch for the browser, inspired by the Warcraft III custom map. It's a fan project and isn't affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.
Getting a group together? Play with friends covers the invite link, phones and laptops in one room, and the lineups that play best.
Find people to play with
The Sheep Tag Online Discord is where to find a game, round up friends for a room, and tell us what to build next.
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