Cowming Home: Herding Game

A storm blew Farmer Isabelle's gate off its latch, and by morning her whole herd had wandered off across the valley. Choose your herder — a border collie, a corgi, a cavoodle, even a cat or a duck — and bring every last animal home before the sun goes down.

HERD, DON'T PUSH
Animals walk away from your dog and bunch up when they are nervous. Drag anywhere on the screen to steer: your thumb never has to cover the field. Circle behind the herd, steer them round ponds and hedges, and woof to wake the sleepy ones.

FIFTY CHAPTERS, ONE STORY
Follow the valley from the home paddock to the old mill, over the moor by lantern light, through Farmer Grimsby's yard, into the County Show — where the prize is a new roof for the barn — and home again through the first frost. Ten parts of the countryside, each with its own weather, animals and trouble.

EVERY ANIMAL HAS ITS OWN IDEA
Calves stay near their mums. Highland cattle will not be hurried. Pigs make for the mud, goats climb the rocks, hens go wherever they please. Apples drop from the trees and a cow will wander off to eat one. Lean on the same cow too long and she digs her heels in — "Shan't!" — until you woof. And the farm cat is asleep in the sun, right up until your dog walks past it.

THINGS TO WIN, THINGS TO FIND
Three stars on every chapter, set by a herding par nobody has beaten easily. Rosettes for a chain of animals penned back to back, for coming home early, for finding every wildflower. Twelve bonus side trips off the road. Flower crowns to weave for the cows you know by name.

WILD FIELDS
Fields nobody has drawn: a new one every round at three difficulties, plus a daily field that is the same for everyone, with a streak to keep.

Gentle to learn, genuinely hard to master. No ads, no timers you cannot beat, no purchases — just a dog, a lot of cows, and a gate.

Recent changes:
Three chapters eased: Market Day, The Grand Parade and The Long Lane, and the late star gates each need two stars fewer.