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Everything you need to cover Sheep Tag 2: factsheet, history, features, trailer, screenshots, key art, and logos. All materials on this page may be used for editorial and promotional coverage of the game.

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Description

The classic cat-and-mouse game! It's Sheep vs. Wolves in a unique blend of real-time strategy and survival. Party with up to 16 players online.

Sheep Tag 2 is the classic cat-and-mouse game reborn as an asymmetric, free-to-play multiplayer showdown where quick-thinking Sheep race to build sprawling mazes of farms while a coordinated pack of Wolves tears through every wall between them and their prey. Survive the clock as the flock, or capture every last Sheep as the pack. Either way, your reflexes are in for a workout.

Every match is a duel of wits. Sheep weave defenses from more than twenty farm types, from the humble Straw Farm to Illusion and Invisible trickery, while Wolves upgrade, buy items, and unleash abilities like Pack Wolves, Lunar Strike, Phase Shift, and Snare Trap to corner Sheep one by one. Captured Sheep aren't out of the fight. They linger as Spirits in the central Pen, waiting for a daring teammate to pull off a rescue that can turn a lost round on its head.

Born from the beloved Warcraft III mod that a devoted community has kept alive for more than two decades, Sheep Tag 2 is a from-the-ground-up standalone successor with five game modes, a built-in level editor, a free community terrain library, bot matches for solo practice, and a 17-track original soundtrack. It's free-to-play and never pay-to-win.

History

Sheep Tag's story spans a quarter-century of custom-game history. Its DNA traces back to the classic Cat and Mouse custom games of StarCraft, but it found its true home in the early 2000s as Sheep Tag, a fan-made mod for Warcraft III. Simple to learn and endlessly deep, the mod built a devoted competitive community that has kept it alive and actively played for over twenty years.

Jeff, co-founder of Luna Wolf Studios, has been part of that story almost from the beginning. A Sheep Tag player since the earliest days of Warcraft III, he went on to help develop and maintain the original mod alongside devoted community members GosuSheep and Chakra. That experience made it clear that Sheep Tag deserved to grow beyond its humble beginnings as a mod, just as Dota 2 and Legion TD 2 grew beyond theirs.

The first standalone prototypes date to August 2015. Production ramped up in 2017 when Quaternius, one of the most recognizable low-poly 3D artists working in games, came aboard to shape the game's bright, readable world. Illustrator Nik Hagialas joined in 2019, creating all of the game's concept art, cover art, and UI illustration, and in 2020 composers Baelex Metcalf, Lazerwolph, and M set to work on what would become the complete 17-track original soundtrack.

In November 2021 the community put its money where its heart is. The Sheep Tag 2 Kickstarter funded successfully, raising $10,072 from 65 backers. The closed beta launched in December 2022 with every backer reward delivered on time, exactly as promised. The game has been in continuous development ever since, on the road to a free-to-play launch on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Through it all, Sheep Tag 2 has remained a genuine solo project. Jeff is the game's sole core developer, its designer, programmer, and producer. He deliberately keeps the team small, bringing in hand-picked specialists exactly where their craft can take the game further than any one person could alone.

  1. Early 2000sSheep Tag is born as a Warcraft III mod, descended from StarCraft's Cat and Mouse.
  2. Aug 2015Jeff builds the first standalone Sheep Tag 2 prototypes.
  3. 2017Production ramps up and 3D artist Quaternius joins.
  4. 2019Illustrator Nik Hagialas joins for concept, cover, and UI art.
  5. 2020Baelex Metcalf, Lazerwolph, and M begin the original soundtrack.
  6. Nov 2021Kickstarter funds with $10,072 pledged by 65 backers.
  7. Dec 2022Closed beta launches and every Kickstarter reward is delivered on time.
  8. TodayIn active development toward a free-to-play launch on Steam.

Features

  • Asymmetric online multiplayer for up to 16 players, one flock of Sheep against a pack of Wolves.
  • Build to survive: raise mazes from 20+ farm types, from the humble Straw Farm to Illusion and Invisible trickery.
  • Hunt as a pack: Wolf abilities like Pack Wolves, Lunar Strike, Phase Shift, and Snare Trap, plus gold, items, and upgrades.
  • Dramatic comebacks: captured Sheep become Spirits in the central Pen, and every rescue can swing the match.
  • A day/night cycle that hands the advantage back and forth between flock and pack.
  • Five game modes: Classic, Switch, Vamp, VIP, and Practice.
  • Built-in level editor with multiple biomes, plus a free community terrain library on the website.
  • Play solo against bots across five difficulty levels.
  • Complete 17-track original soundtrack, available on Steam.
  • Free-to-play and never pay-to-win, with cosmetics only. (Yes, there are hats.)
  • Native on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Videos

Sheep Tag 2 - Cinematic Teaser Trailer (watch on YouTube)

Images

Screenshots are captured in-engine at 2560×1440. Click any image for the untouched original, or grab everything at once.

All screenshots, key art & logo (.zip)
A Sheep builds a dense grid of farms across a green pasture, right up against the fenced Wolf pen.Playing as a Wolf at night, the pack sweeps across an open field toward a Sheep's farms.A Wolf slips between the farms of a half-finished maze on a dark grassland map.A huge colourful maze of farms covers a sunlit desert canyon map, with Wolves gathering by the pen.A kill feed reads that a Wolf has captured a Sheep while the pack swarms the farms below.A Sheep heads for the fenced pen where captured team-mates drift as glowing spirits, its maze of farms left behind.Wolves prowl a snow-covered map beside open water while scattered farms dot the ice.Rows of golden farms are packed along a river of lava on a volcanic map.A night-time volcanic map where lava and water cut through the farms as a Wolf closes in.

Key art

Sheep Tag 2 key art: a Sheep flees a pack of Wolves across a bright green pasture.
Key art - 2560×1440
Sheep Tag 2 key art with the game logo across the pasture.
Key art (with logo) - 2560×1440
Square Sheep Tag 2 key art with the game logo.
Key art (with logo) - 1024×1024
Sheep Tag 2 key art cropped for social cards.
Key art (social) - 1200×630
Sheep Tag 2 vertical key art with the game logo.
Key art (vertical) - 600×900

Selected Coverage

Monetization Permission

Luna Wolf Studios grants permission for the contents of Sheep Tag 2 to be published through video broadcasting services and monetized. Let's Plays, streams, reviews, and similar content are welcome and encouraged on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch. We'd love it if you linked to sheeptag2.com alongside your content.

About Luna Wolf Studios

Luna Wolf Studios is an independent game studio based in Delaware, USA, and the home of Sheep Tag 2, the standalone successor to the beloved Warcraft III mod. The studio builds community-first multiplayer games that are free-to-play, never pay-to-win, and shaped in the open alongside the players who love them.

Sheep Tag 2 is solo-developed by co-founder Jeff, who partners with a hand-picked roster of specialist artists and musicians to bring the game's world to life.

Team

Jeff

Creator - Design, Programming & Production

Co-founder of Luna Wolf Studios and the game's sole core developer, part of the Sheep Tag community since the earliest days of Warcraft III.

Quaternius

3D Art & Animation

Renowned low-poly 3D artist whose stylized models and animations define Sheep Tag 2's bright, readable world.

quaternius.com

Nik Hagialas

Illustration, Concept & UI Art

Exceptionally talented illustrator behind all of the game's concept art, cover art, and UI illustration.

nikhagialasart.com

Lazerwolph

Original Soundtrack

Composer of Canis Lupus, Prowl, New Frontier, and The Sheep Or The Wolf.

M

Original Soundtrack

Composer of The Great Escape.

Sara Sherlock

Sound Effects

Sound designer behind the game's sound effects.

…and the Sheep Tag community, whose terrains, feedback, and twenty-plus years of play shaped everything above.

Contact

Press & business inquiries
support@lunawolfstudios.com
Beta access
The closed beta is open on request, first come, first served, while spots last. Email us or ask in Discord.
Community
Discord
Web
sheeptag2.com

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