Dial in angle and power, read the wind, and arc a shot over the hills to blow your opponent off their perch, terrain and all.
Two sides take turns firing across a lumpy, destructible landscape. On your turn you aim by setting the launch angle and power, factoring in wind that nudges the shell mid-flight. A direct hit damages the enemy; misses tear chunks out of the terrain, reshaping the next shot. Whittle the other side down to win.
Lobbers belongs to the turn-based artillery game, one of the oldest forms in computing — versions were circulating as type-in BASIC listings in the 1970s, before most people had seen a graphical game at all. Scorched Earth in 1991 and the Worms series from 1995 are the best-known descendants.
The design has barely changed because it does not need to. You set an angle and a power, allow for the wind, and watch; then your opponent does the same having watched you. Every shot is public information, so a duel is really a conversation in which both players are correcting toward the same answer, and the terrain deforms as you go, meaning the solution you found last turn is no longer the solution.
Lobbers is an original free browser take on turn-based artillery duels, with destructible terrain, wind, and CPU, local and online play. No install required.