A two-against-two tower defense for four friends. In each team, one player runs the backyard from above and the other defends it in first person with a water blaster.

Install notes and system requirements

Screenshots

Top-down view of the backyard: moles in red hard hats and a ride-on mower march along a dirt path past sprinklers and a flamingo tower.
First-person view of a garden gnome spraying water across the lawn at an enemy tower.

Moles in hard hats, a mower nobody is driving, and the sprinklers you planted to stop them.

Two seats per team

The commander

Sees the whole yard from above. Plants sprinklers, flamingo mortars and kiddie pools along your lane, upgrades them, and decides when to spend gold on sending creeps at the other house. Every creep you send raises your income for the rest of the match.

The commander's top-down view of both lanes.

The hero

A garden gnome with a water blaster, played in first person. Soak creeps before they reach your front door, duel the other gnome, or sneak through the gate in the fence and hose down their towers.

The hero's first-person view with the water blaster.

What's in the yard

Your towers

What you send at the neighbors

Play together

Online
Choose Play online, create a yard and tell your friends its name. Up to 32 yards run at once.
On your network
One of you hosts a LAN game, the others join with that computer's address.
Fewer than four?
Bots take every empty seat, so two or even one of you can play.

Get the game

In your browser

Nothing to install. Works in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari with a mouse and keyboard. Online games only.

Play in your browser

For Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Unzip and run LawnWar.exe. If SmartScreen warns you, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Download for Windows

For macOS

macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. The app isn't notarized by Apple, so the first time, right-click Lawn War and choose Open.

Download for macOS

Controls

Commander

WASDMove the camera
WheelZoom
123Pick a tower, then click to plant it
ShiftHold to plant several
ZXCSend a squirrel, mole or mower
U DeleteUpgrade or sell the selected tower
Right clickPing your hero

Hero

WASDWalk
MouseAim
Left clickSquirt
Space ShiftJump and sprint
QPing where you look
EscFree the mouse
MMusic on or off