[PC][2000-2010] 3D Boat Battle Game with Animal-Themed Ships from Miniclip or Wild Tangent
I for the life of me either can't describe this game properly, or its existence has been erased from the internet entirely.
I'm fairly certain it was an internet game, not necessarily distributed.
The general premise was you chose a ship and progressed through levels where you had to destroy enemy ships and bases on a series of islands with the occasional boss level.
The ships were animal-inspired. The smallest was a duck that had high speed but low health and armor while the largest was a hippo with low speed but high damage and armor. The boss ships were also animal-themed, one being a huge alligator(?) where you had to maneuver around it and destroy all the turrets to win.
The overall design was bright and cartoony. Each boat had only one seat and I vaguely recall the characters being egg-shaped or something close to it.
I actually came across this post on r/tipofmytongue that describes the exact same thing but nobody replied to the thread, unfortunately.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/pntpk4/tomtpc_game_20002010/
I looked through lists of Miniclip and Wild Tangent games but none of them matched. For some reason "Cannonballs!" keeps coming up but its nothing at all like the game I'm thinking of. Any insight would be appreciated!