How do you send units in Turf Rush?

Tap one of your regions to select it, then tap an adjacent region to send a wave there. Into an enemy region it attacks; into your own it reinforces.

Where do new units come from?

Every region you hold generates them over time, so holding territory is productive in itself and expanding early compounds.

No. It runs in real time and the rival factions act continuously, so hesitating has a cost.

Can I play Turf Rush on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?

Yes on a Chromebook. Turf Rush draws to a plain 2D canvas, so it runs on just about anything with a browser. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It is touch-first and plays upright on a phone.

Turf Rush: Paper.io-Style Territory Game 3D

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Paper.io-style territory game: claim the map in 3D

Tap your region, tap a neighbor, take the map.

Real-time territory conquest on a procedural map: every region you hold grows its own army, and a tap sends a wave of units flowing to swallow a neighbor or reinforce your line. Rival factions are doing the same thing at the same time. Outgrow them, outpace them, and paint the whole map your colour before they corner you.

Free to play, no download, no sign-up. Hosted with ❤ by GamerX.

How to play Turf Rush

A map is divided into regions, and every region you hold slowly grows its own army. Tap one of your regions to select it, then tap a neighbour to send a wave of units there. Send them into an enemy region and they fight whatever is defending; send them into your own and they reinforce it. Rival factions are doing exactly the same thing continuously, so this is real time and there is no turn to wait for. Because armies grow where they sit, holding a region is itself productive, and the central tension is between spending units to expand and leaving them to accumulate. Take the whole map and you win.

Tips

Attack with a clear surplus. A wave that only just loses is worse than not attacking, because it feeds the defender's next attack.
Expand toward chokepoints. A region with two neighbours is far cheaper to hold than one with five.
Watch the AI's build-up, not its borders. A quiet region with a growing number is the one about to come at you.
Reinforcing is a real move. Pushing units into a threatened border region often wins more than a speculative attack elsewhere.
Early game, grab neutral regions before contesting held ones. Free growth compounds for the rest of the match.

About Turf Rush

Turf Rush is the real-time territory game in the tradition of Galcon and its many descendants, on a procedurally generated map so no two matches share an opening. What makes the format durable is that the whole game is one decision - where to send units - repeated under time pressure, with the strategy emerging from the growth rates rather than from any rules you have to learn. There are no unit types, no tech tree and no resources beyond the armies themselves. It is also one of only two games on this site drawn with 2D canvas rather than WebGL, which suits it: a strategy map wants clarity and instant readability far more than it wants lighting.

What you need

Graphics: 2D canvas — it will run on almost anything
Controls: Touchscreen, or a mouse
On a phone: Yes
Install: Nothing. It runs in this tab.

Turf Rush vs paper.io

The rule is the one you know: leave a trail, close the loop, and the ground inside it is yours - but your trail is the one thing that can kill you until you get home. Turf Rush runs it in 3D with a camera low behind you, which changes the game more than it sounds: in a top-down paper.io you can see the whole board and plan a long cut, and here you cannot, so a big grab is a genuine gamble rather than an arithmetic one.

paper.iois someone else’s game and not affiliated with GamerX. It is named here because it is the clearest way to describe what Turf Rush is.

Questions

How do you send units in Turf Rush?: Tap one of your regions to select it, then tap an adjacent region to send a wave there. Into an enemy region it attacks; into your own it reinforces.
Where do new units come from?: Every region you hold generates them over time, so holding territory is productive in itself and expanding early compounds.
Is it turn-based?: No. It runs in real time and the rival factions act continuously, so hesitating has a cost.
Can I play Turf Rush on a Chromebook, at school, or on a phone?: Yes on a Chromebook. Turf Rush draws to a plain 2D canvas, so it runs on just about anything with a browser. On a school or office network there is nothing here for a filter to object to on the usual grounds: no download, no installer, no browser plugin, no account, no chat and no user-generated content. Whether your particular filter lets it through is its decision and not something any site can promise. It is touch-first and plays upright on a phone.