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Beasts of the Field
Press kit · last updated 17 July 2026
The pitch
Beasts of the Field is an iOS creature-collection RPG where the creatures are your photographs. Photograph a dog, a fern, a Jeep, or a very committed boulder; the app identifies it, lifts it off its background, and it becomes a fighter with stats, moves, and a type. There is no authored roster: the first player ever to photograph a subject mints its species for everyone, with their name on the discovery forever. Then the photographs fight: turn-based battles against a bot host, gym-leader style Beast Masters, a solo campaign, and asynchronous matches against friends. The whole game is styled as a nineteenth-century naturalist's field journal.
Fact sheet
| Developer | A solo developer |
| Platform | iOS (iPhone), iOS 17+ |
| Status | Released on the App Store 17 July 2026; Android planned |
| Price | Free with a daily develop; optional supply packs and membership tiers |
| Engine | React Native + Expo, with native Swift modules (Apple Vision subject lifting, ReplayKit) |
| Recognition | Claude vision identifies each photo server-side; iNaturalist's open data scores the find's rarity for where it was taken |
| Website | beastsofthefield.com |
| Public bestiary | beastsofthefield.com/bestiary — the live worldwide register |
| Contact | contact@beastsofthefield.com |
What makes it different
- The bestiary has no last page. Species are minted by players' first-ever photographs at real, breed-level names ("Pug", "Canary"), and rarity comes from real-world observation data. The register grows as the world gets photographed.
- Discovery is credited. Every species page, in the app and on the public web bestiary, names its discoverer. "New to Science" is the game's most coveted stamp.
- Your photo is the art. Apple Vision lifts the subject clean off its background; that cutout is the creature everywhere, including in your friends' battles against you.
- Real battle depth. Ten types in a beats-two web, six stats, status conditions, priority, stat stages, 300+ moves with Gen-3-era balance, five-plus-five Beast Masters, and a ten-zone solo campaign on a hand-drawn living map.
- A committed aesthetic. Warm paper, wax seals, typewriter stamps, engraved avatars, and an in-fiction host, Lord Beastmont, inventor of the beast-capturing field camera.
In Lord Beastmont's words
"Photograph a beast properly and it takes more than a likeness. It takes the BEAST. And what does one DO with a journal full of beasts? Ha! The finest thing of all. They fight."
Screenshots
Straight off the device, unretouched. The creatures shown are the developer's real captures. Click to open full size.
A Wilds bout
The Paddock
A practice bout
A specimen's page
The Field AtlasKey art
App icon
The journal
Lord Beastmont
The first Red FoxUsage
All assets on this page may be used freely in coverage of Beasts of the Field. Player photographs shown in screenshots are the developer's own test captures.
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