Personality becomes playstyle.
Choose a named rascal with a distinct role, resource and identity. The roster is designed around melee pressure, ranged control and teammates worth protecting.
An animal-fantasy arena game
Forest Rascals
Big personalities.
Every fight is personal.
A world worth fighting for
Updated September 5, 2026
Choose your rascal.
Make the arena yours.
A badger who refuses to back down. A lizard with fire in its fingertips. An otter who turns the tide. Forest Rascals is a competitive arena game built around named animal heroes, expressive abilities and fights decided together.
15Named rascals
225Active ability designs
8Arena layouts
Our production target. Character exploration and a first combat showcase are available in the development build; full kits and matches are being built.
Position is a decision.
Pillars break sightlines. Ramps change an approach. Open lanes invite a coordinated push. Arena geometry should be readable before a fight turns on it.
The look is yours. The rules are shared.
Toon is our first skin. Detailed is another look for the same character. Switching appearances preserves abilities, resources and gameplay collision.
The roster
Meet your next main.
Toon comes first. Detailed stays.
Fifteen characters with a point of view.
Pick a rascal
Swipe or use arrow keys to browse all 15
Actual model studyToon
Badger / Melee
Cinderpaw
A stubborn frontline bruiser who turns pressure into Rage. Commit to the fight, chase down an opening, and make the other team deal with you.
Traversal available · 28 animation studies
Same rascal. Same abilities and collision. A different look.
Explore all 15 ability designs
These are design entries. Full shared combat kits are being built; descriptions and tuning may change.
01Bloodwrath
The break: for 12 seconds Cinderpaw deals 30% more damage and cannot be crowd-controlled, but NO healing may touch it. Get the kill or die trying.
02Dig
Burrows forward 15 meters in a spray of earth, surfacing with a strike. Usable while rooted (the badger goes UNDER the problem).
03Execute
Spends 30 Rage to finish it: nearly triple damage against prey below 35% health.
04Hamstring
Tears the tendon: 50% slow for 6 seconds.
05Intimidating Snarl
Spends 10 Rage on a snarl that freezes the blood: 3 second stun.
06Last Stand
Refuses to fall: absorbs the next 30% of max health in damage over 10 seconds and surges 30 Rage.
07Maul
The basic mauling. Builds 10 Rage. (The bible's below-half cleave needs a caster-HP condition clause the DSL lacks; the missing-HP identity rides the Honey Badger scaling instead.)
08Musk Bomb
An eye-watering burst that disorients everything nearby for 4 seconds (breaks on damage).
09Overpower
A cheap, mean follow-up. Builds 5 Rage.
10Raking Claws
Spends 15 Rage on a raking tear that bleeds for 8 seconds, and hits a quarter harder into an already-bleeding wound.
11Rampage
Spends 40 Rage on a frenzy of blows. (Authored as one summed hit; a 3-hit sequence runtime is deferred with design.)
12Skull Crack
Spends 25 Rage to crack the skull: heavy damage, healing on the victim reduced by 25%, and a 4 second daze (30% slow).
13Snarl Down
A bark straight into the cast: interrupts and locks the school for 3 seconds.
14Thick Skin
The hide does the arguing: 25% less damage taken and immune to roots for 8 seconds.
15Territorial Rush
Dash up to 12 m toward facing; swept collision stops at cover. Generates 10 Rage only when an enemy is reached.
Model studies show our current assets. Final materials, locomotion and full combat performances are still in production.
The animation workshop
Get a feel for
every rascal.
Walk, weave, strike and cast.
Watch the complete motion set, from any angle.
28 motions per rig
15 rascals · 29 animated skins
Cinderpaw in motion.
Explore every movement, attack and cast. Drag to look around.
IdleMovement · 2.00 s
Made to connect. Short crossfades soften the change between motions. Movement cycles share a stride phase in the development build, so changing direction keeps the legs in rhythm.
A foundation to refine. These are in-place animation studies on the actual character rigs. Combat and casting previews show body motion; ability effects, final foot placement and individual combat performances are still in development.
The arenas
The ground changes
the game.
Eight places to learn by heart.
Cover, crossings and a different way in.
Current arena model renderAncient cedar commons
Oathgrove Court
Three-pillar court with readable rotations and an exposed center.
- Playable footprint
- 73.2 × 73.2 m
- Elevation
- Level arena
- Current access
- Traversal preview
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All eight layouts can be explored in the development build. Navigation, complete movement routes and competitive fairness are still being validated.
Playable now
A first taste of
the fight.
Emberscale’s separate showcase.
Five moves. A training arena. Plenty to try.
Actual development build · Detailed skinFire. Water. A little chaos.
Throw a volley of fireballs, ride a growing wave, turn Fire Blood toward an ally or an enemy, call down Fire Storm, or keep Finger Guns firing. Training targets and a resettable arena make room to experiment.
This showcase uses its existing Detailed combat rig. Toon combat animation is a separate production step.
In the current development build
- 15 selectable characters
- 14 Toon + 15 Detailed traversal skins
- Eight explorable arena layouts
- Five-move Emberscale combat showcase
The road ahead
Built one good
fight at a time.
A living development overview.
Capability milestones, not release promises.
Available in the development build
A roster you can explore
Choose among all fifteen named characters, walk the eight arena layouts, and browse every hero's fifteen active ability designs. Fourteen Toon skins and all fifteen Detailed skins support traversal.
Available in the development build
A first taste of combat
Emberscale's separate showcase has five working abilities, training targets, resources, cover interactions and a resettable practice space. It currently uses the Detailed combat rig.
Current production focus
Three complete combat kits
Bring Cinderpaw, Emberscale and Pebblebrook into one shared combat system. Finish targeting, resources, casting, ability interactions and useful practice opponents.
In progress
A world that holds up in play
Refine Toon materials, rigs, locomotion and combat performances. Test character routes, arena boundaries, navigation and both teams' access to every map.
Next milestone
Private matches, start to finish
Build complete rounds, results and rematches, then expand through the full roster. Duel and team formats are part of the intended game; a complete match flow is not available yet.
Later milestone
A game ready to share and ship
Validate packaged builds outside the editor, test Windows, profile performance and finish release services. No public game download or release date has been announced.
Latest from the build
Every rascal gets a motion library
Explore 28 movement, combat and casting studies on each of 29 rigged skins. The animation workshop plays the complete set with camera, pause and slow-motion controls. A new foot-contact pass adds knee bending, ankle compensation and toe motion.
Toon becomes the first skin
The same rascal can now switch between accepted Toon and Detailed appearances while keeping gameplay state intact. Mosswell's Toon model still needs its animation rig.
A stronger combat foundation
Shared combat now uses a server-controlled 1.5-second global cooldown. The existing Emberscale showcase also passes expanded projectile and cover checks.
Eight arenas under the microscope
A fresh geometry audit collected 6,703 samples. The next work includes Oathgrove's gate containment, navigation and actual character movement through the layouts.
A few useful answers
Before you
jump in.
Follow a world taking shape.