# Alienum: The Strategy War Game — RTS - Defend and battle aliens

> Real-time strategy war game with alien factions, resource management, and army building. (iPhone/iPad app by Christopher Lawson.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alienum-the-strategy-war-game/id1188431281 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Christopher Lawson](https://appshunter.io/developer/1188431280)
- Category: Games, Board, Strategy
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 74 App Store ratings · 73 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 70 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2017-02-02
- Data updated: 2026-07-04
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alienum-the-strategy-war-game/id1188431281/reviews.md

## What is Alienum?

Discover the weird world of Alienum, where a species of aliens are all in conflict to takeover the land for their warlord king. In this strategy war game, you are put in charge to collect resources, build up your army, battle with your martian enemies, take new battle zone locations, build up your little empire and conquer all of the alien planet. All the while, protecting your own land from other alien invasion and preventing the defeat of your king.

* RTS Game - Real time strategy, split into battles, constructing, amassing your army and building up your alien defense. 
* Alien world - Multiple alien world maps to progress through to command and conquer all the campaign.
* Campaign - Main and secondary goals. Complete the campaign, operations, the objectives given by your warlord and collect all the stars!
* Battle - Randomized A.I. decisions and battles makes each playthrough different on each of the continents in the game.
* Infantry - Variety of infantry to recruit for engagement in conflict to skirmish with your beastly enemies. Each with different health, weapons (swords, shields, spears, slime and bows), critical hit, attack, alien defense and block chances. All to be used on the battlefield with hordes of warriors in an epic battle simulator at one time!
* Upgrades - Collect bonus cards for use on your infantry before a battle to further improve your chances of winning the conflict engagement and the war.
* Construct - Multiple buildings and defense structures to construct to use to defend your towns including towers and castle walls to garrison your infantry. All buildings have unique benefits and uses to help to command and conquer the alien planet.
* Strategy - Move your army around the map to set up your alien defense, ready your next attack, plan your military stratagems and defeat all the other beastly martians. Watch out for hidden dangers when moving your infantry to avoid encountering an alien hive or slime.
* Features - New maps and features to be added in the future!

Alienum is a strategy war game with martians! Released in 2017, in this new RTS game you will construct, battle, contend for resources with other clan warmongers and conquer the extrinsic alien planet with your little empire! Build up your alien defense to protect your warlord king in the civil war, defend your towns from other beastie martians who are on a warpath to ploy against you, take new battle zone locations and above all else, rise against your enemies in engagement and epic battle simulator fights to win the alien war in this strategy war game!

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## Key features

- Real-time strategy gameplay
- Resource collection and army building
- Conquer alien territories
- Defend your empire
- Variety of infantry units
- Unit upgrades and bonus cards
- Construct buildings and defenses

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock Conquest Mode | $1.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Alienum?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Addictive gameplay
- 💡 Innovative concept
- 🚀 Smooth performance
- 🎮 Great strategy gameplay
- ✨ Good art style
- 🤩 Fun and challenging
- 💯 Good for passing time
- 🌟 Reminds of Total War
- 📶 Works offline

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 💸 Pay-to-play restrictions
- 😩 Confusing UI/icons
- ⏳ Long levels
- 📉 AI not aggressive enough
- ⚠️ Ads after everything
- 🔄 Progress lost on exit

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes when starting battles
- Fatal error on continuing levels
- Game crashes when trying to load save file
- Progress lost on exit/minimizing app
- Towns trading gets backed up
- Game crashes frequently
- iPhone 5 kicks out of game during battle
- Crashes every time a battle is about to start

**Most requested features**

- More campaign levels
- Sandbox mode
- Create-a-map
- Free style mode
- More units
- New unit types (legionary, slime catapult, tank, berserker, alien animals)
- Extend campaign
- Update more often
- Merge armies
- Unlimited resource sites with increasing difficulty
- Custom map maker
- Different difficulty settings
- More competition
- Zoom function
- Make own islands and campaigns
- Set AI difficulty
- More cunning AI
- Multiplayer mode (up to 4 players)
- Different civilizations
- Level up walls and defense turrets
- Random world game mode
- More aggressive enemies
- Upgrade resources/buildings
- Fixed AI archers
- Settings for sound and zoom
- Mode with random island and enemies
- Duel army/soldier battle mode
- Editor
- Tutorial for economy and fighting
- Deeper explanation of mechanics
- Save mid-level functionality
- Choose troop colors
- Difficulty modes (easy, medium, hard)
- Custom games
- More missions
- Bait traveling system
- Tribes to ally and trade
- Tutorial review option
- World 2 and subsequent worlds
- More maps

## Recent user reviews (10 of 73)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alienum-the-strategy-war-game/id1188431281/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Callager

*2025-12-09, version 1.1.4*

This game is so AWSOME🔥🔥it remind me of playing total warhammer but I want like a lot of campaign that I can enjoy playing the game and maybe like 150 units that you can get but this is awsome keep it up👍

### 5/5 — Needs more modes

*2024-03-31, version 1.1.4*

Again I rate this game as my favorite. Yet it still needs more to it like; free style, sandbox, create-a-map, aaannd…  that’s about it.

### 5/5 — Nice

*2022-05-30, version 1.1.4*

Really good, I think you should update it more though, I’d like to see the campaign extended.

### 1/5 — I can’t play

*2022-03-21, version 1.1.4*

It only say pay to play one of the game modes and u can’t play with out paying

### 5/5 — Some suggestions for warriors

*2022-01-10, version 1.1.4*

So great game especially when their is a lack of internet. The game is still in development I know. It still will receive updates most likely and this is like in beta practically. Only one one update that was not bug fixes, so my points are probably irrational because you have already thought of them and just not added yet. So skipping to the chase, I have some suggestions for units. 1: I saw when sitting on the title screen with all the units running across, one of these units had a SWORD(more like a dagger though XD) will this unit be added to the game? if so can it also get a shield, i was thinking that if It got the big square shield, it would be like a real life Roman warrior called a legionary (give cost 4-5). Then then then, the person with a sword would be stronger, soooooooo to even things up you increase Hp of the person with shield and spear. 2: You already have a giant alien, I was thinking that their are 4 melee solders and 3 range… What if you where to build a slime catapult/giant it would be a powerful range unit. Or a giant with armor and a person on top that shoots arrows.  3: A tank unit, not a 💥KABOOM💥 type, but a unit that has HIGH Hp. You already have a unit with a round shield and nothing else… but does that make sense? Like a person with a shield is kinda useless in all ways (in real life to). So compromise, if we were to instead build a unit to replace. This unit having a good amount of health, but low attack speed and slightly lowered damage it would make sense. This unit will have health slightly higher health than a person with the BIG, red, square shield, but again it would have far less attack. Another option is to give the person with round shield a spear. This might unbalance things, so it would be important to increase the unit with the square shield and spear’s health. Like I mentioned above. 4: A Berserker, this unit would have a good amount of health and a fairly quick attack that would increase in power the more damage he takes. Awesomesauce game keep it up. Keep the updates coming!!!!!!! P.s Can you maybe add some sort of alimal (alien animal) this includes alien creatures that will assist you, or your enemies! (They can be found by training or maybe cards, or BOTH! They would be like green scorpions, slime bears, six eyed blue wolves i don’t really know. But I know it would be very interesting.

### 1/5 — Can’t play without purchase

*2021-12-24, version 1.1.4*

Can’t play this game without purchase so no point downloading it

### 5/5 — Great

*2020-08-06, version 1.1.4*

I just wrote the most helpful review that took about half an hour to write and it just deleted.. Jesus Christ..🤬😆
This game is great brand new idea one of my favorite games of all time, I just wish the developer could’ve seen my review😩

### 5/5 — Good games

*2020-06-19, version 1.1.4*

Very fun and challenging!

### 5/5 — Really great fun

*2020-05-22, version 1.1.4*

Spent all day on this, super addictive. Great during lockdown!

### 2/5 — Fun-sorta

*2020-05-18, version 1.1.4*

After a small amount of time in game my iPhone 5 will kick me out of the game when I start a battle, and it will happen no matter what you do

## Frequently asked questions about Alienum

### What is Alienum: The Strategy War Game?

Alienum is a real-time strategy war game where players command an alien faction to conquer a planet. You will collect resources, build armies, construct defenses, and battle against other alien species to expand your empire and protect your warlord king.

### What are the key features of this strategy game?

Key features include real-time strategy gameplay, resource management, army building with diverse infantry units, constructing defensive structures like towers and castle walls, and conquering new battle zones. The game also offers a campaign with main and secondary objectives.

### Is Alienum free to play?

The game is free to download and play, but it does offer in-app purchases. These purchases can be used to enhance your gameplay experience, such as collecting bonus cards for your infantry before battles.

### What kind of units can I use in battles?

You can recruit a variety of infantry units, each with different stats and weapons like swords, shields, spears, slime, and bows. These units can be upgraded with bonus cards to improve their effectiveness in combat.

### How does combat and strategy work in Alienum?

Combat involves moving your army around the map to set up defenses and plan attacks. Randomized AI decisions ensure each battle is different. You'll need to strategically deploy your units and utilize their unique abilities to defeat your beastly Martian enemies.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.4 — 2019-05-24

A new Conquest game mode has been added! Choose the size of the island and the amount of starting enemy clans to play on a randomly generated island!

### 1.1.3 — 2017-09-19

- Title Change
- Bug Fixes

Enjoy this game? I would love to hear feedback for future updates and world maps!

### 1.1.2 — 2017-08-28

- Bug fixes

Enjoy this game? I would love to get as much feedback for future updates and levels!

### 1.1.1 — 2017-06-05

- Performance improvements

A massive thanks to everyone who has given feedback so far! Any further suggestions and comments are much welcome. :D

### 1.1.0 — 2017-05-30

- Performance improvements

A massive thanks to everyone who has given feedback so far! Any further suggestions and comments are much welcome. :D

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