Best Free Animal Games Online: Vets, Beavers and Animal Puzzles

Animal games cover a wide range: you can be a vet, a beaver, a mouse in a backyard, a farmer sorting sheep or a penguin pushing rivals off the ice. What they share is a friendly feel. Here is a guide to the animal games on PlayKovo, grouped by what you do.

Care for animals

Animal Care Tycoon asks you to diagnose, treat and heal a steady stream of animal patients, with a mouse click or tap. It is the most played animal game on the site. Animal Hospital: Unlock All Anomalies! is a merge-and-tap game with an animal hospital theme: combine patients and staff to unlock every anomaly. If you like building up a place step by step, see our tycoon games list.

Be the animal

Beaver Simulator lets you play as a woodland beaver: collect resources, build a lodge and protect your family from wolves. On PC you walk and swim with WASD or the arrow keys and look with the mouse. Midnight Paws sends a tiny mouse sneaking through rain-soaked backyards after dark, darting between bushes. It is desktop-only, with the arrow keys or WASD. Knockout: Push Penguins on Ice! has you choose the direction and force of your push and knock rival penguins off the ice platform. On PC, Q and E set the push power.

Sort and match

Farm: Clear the Jam asks you to swipe cows, sheep and chickens out of a crowded pen in the right order, using a mouse drag or touch swipe. Onet Animals is a connect-the-tile puzzle: click or tap two matching animal tiles to clear them. Watermelon: Falling Animals drops and merges matching animals into bigger, rarer ones without overfilling the container; tap or click to drop the current animal.

A warning about scary animals

Not all animal games are gentle. IT LURKS has you survive eight nights alone at home while infected animals prowl outside, and it is a horror game. If you are choosing for a child, check the title and description first. Our horror games guide sorts the frightening ones by how intense they are.

Tips for each style

• Care games: treat the most urgent patient first, and spend your money on speed upgrades.
• Merge games: keep the biggest animal in a corner and build your chain next to it. See also our merge games guide.
• Sorting games: look at which animal is blocked by which, and free the blocking animal first. It is the same idea as in our line puzzle guide.
• Push games: a bigger push is not always better. Aim first, then adjust the power.

Quick picks

Browse the whole catalogue in the casual games category for more relaxed titles.