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Tooth and Tail

Real-time strategy with quick battles between warring animal factions

Pocketwatch Games · Released Sep 12, 2017

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Reviews
Very Positive
82% of 3,056
Recent reviews
Not enough recent
Players
7
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
1 month ago
Sep 11, 2026
Minimum PC
HD 2400
2 GB RAM · 2 GB disk
Full requirements

Metacritic: 80/100 (critic reviews)

What is Tooth and Tail?

Set amid an animal civil war over who gets to eat and who becomes food, this 2D real-time strategy game has you build bases and command units on procedurally generated maps. It has a single-player campaign, online competitive play, and split-screen matches.

For you if...

  • +you want split-screen strategy matches with friends
  • +you enjoy dark humor in a war story
  • +you prefer controls designed around a gamepad

Not for you if...

  • −you want precise orders for individual units
  • −you prefer fixed maps over randomized battlegrounds

What players say

82% of 3,056 reviews are positive

Players praise the pixel art and music. They criticize frustrating campaign missions, and some report difficulty finding online opponents.

How many players finish Tooth and Tail?

2.8% of Steam players have unlocked «We Feast», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

Screenshots and trailer

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Tooth and Tail system requirements

Minimum: HD 2400, 2 GB RAM, 2 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS
Windows 7 or later
Processor
2 GHz Processor
Graphics
1.5gb video card required to play. nVidia 320M, Radeon HD 2400, Intel HD 3000 or better
Memory
2 GB RAM
Storage
2 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

Does Tooth and Tail have co-op or multiplayer?

Yes: PvP online and split-screen. It also has a single-player mode. With Remote Play Together, one copy is enough to play the local modes online with friends.

Does Tooth and Tail run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
  • Shows Steam Deck controller icons
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
  • External controllers are not supported for the primary player

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Full controller support
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements
38
Steam features
Workshop, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, French, Dutch, Ukrainian, Polish.

Does Tooth and Tail use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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Recent updates

1 DLC available.

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