"Hogs of War" is a turn-based tactics game, where players take turns controlling individual members of their squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition, similar to the "Worms" video game series. Each level is made up of two or more teams of 5, loosely based on nations competing in the First World War. Each turn, a player takes control of a single squad member in a third-person perspective to move around the map, including jumping over terrain and swimming over bodies of water, yet can only engage in combat when stationary.