How to play
Stack. Wait. Regret.
The whole game fits in a sentence: drop sheep onto a plateau, and the height of the highest settled sheep is your score. Everything else is what goes wrong.
Controls
Mouse
Move to aim, click and release to drop. A misplaced click can be dragged off before you let go.
Touch
Finger down aims, drag adjusts, lift drops. Nothing commits until you let go.
Keyboard
Arrows aim, space drops, R restarts, Esc opens the menu.
The rules
- A sheep that falls off the plateau is an escapee. Three end the run - though the counter keeps climbing while the tower rains, because watching it hit 11 / 3 is funnier than a clamp.
- Drop the very first sheep off the edge and the run ends instantly, with a comment.
- Click as fast as you like. What is capped is two sheep airborne at once.
- Settled sheep fall asleep. Sheep deep in the pile freeze into wool bedrock, so a collapse takes the top off the tower rather than the whole run.
- Wind always announces itself: seeds stream for a second and a half before any force lands. A gust you can see coming is a decision, not a punishment. It grows stronger the taller you build.
- A sheep tilted too far panics: wide eyes, a wobble, a bleat. It is mostly theatre. Mostly.
The flock
| Sheep | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sheep | The reliable brick. Most of the bag. |
| Lamb | Small and light. A gap filler with an adorable scream. |
| Chonk | Big and heavy. Compresses the pile; catastrophic if it rolls. |
| Longsheep | Plank-proportioned. Bridges gaps. Six legs. Do not ask. |
| Ram | Round, with horns. Wants to roll. High risk, high reward. |
| Sleepy sheep | Falls asleep almost at once. The pile's anchor, if you can land it. |
The leaderboard
Every day has a board. From the game-over screen, choose Submit score. The first time, you claim a username and are shown a recovery code - write it down or download the text file. That code is the only way to use your name on another device or after clearing your browser: there is no password and no email, on purpose. After that, submitting is one tap, with a switch user option for shared computers.