# Alienum: The Strategy War Game — user reviews > 73 indexed App Store user reviews of Alienum by Christopher Lawson, rated 4.60/5 from 74 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alienum-the-strategy-war-game/id1188431281/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alienum-the-strategy-war-game/id1188431281.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 57 · 4★ 11 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## 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 ## Newest reviews (14 of 73) ### 5/5 — Very good *2020-02-24, version 1.1.4* I love this game, I saw an ad on reddit for it and it looked amazing! I was not disappointed it’s a great game and will recommend it to all my friends, only thing I will say is that I think you should Add a zoom function overall great game 5 stars!! ### 5/5 — Absolutely great *2020-02-22, version 1.1.4* I love this game I just saw it on an ad on reddit and thought why not and now I’ve played it I just can’t stop ### 5/5 — Sandbox mode *2019-10-16, version 1.1.4* Maybe y’all can make a sandbox mode where we make are own islands and make campaigns of our own ### 5/5 — Update *2019-08-10, version 1.1.4* I just want to know if this game will get updated from time to time cuz it’s really fun 😁 ### 5/5 — Good game *2019-07-29, version 1.1.4* Simple yet fun great to pass the time ### 4/5 — Really fun but crashes often *2019-07-27, version 1.1.4* Yea just read the title ### 5/5 — Game *2019-07-13, version 1.1.4* Hey to anyone that sees this this game is really fun to play and is like a mini Warhammer if you know what I mean. I would like to say that even though the game I wanted to put some ideas out for future updates. 1. Resource sites should be unlimited but with time gain the trees or mine minerals back in return the enemy players or ai difficulty should increase due to the fact that you are able to make more troops faster. 2. Converge and what I mean by that is say if you have two different armies and you want to make them into one army if your singular army can hold both there should be a button where you can converge them. Love the game hope someone reads this also if someone does reads this and find it useful if I get comeback I will write more stuff out ### 5/5 — Great *2019-07-12, version 1.1.4* It’s a great game you should add some more campaign levels or maybe some variety to conquest because it’s very square right now ### 5/5 — Very good *2019-07-11, version 1.1.4* I really like this game but I do agree should I add a few more features🙂 ### 4/5 — Game mode *2019-06-28, version 1.1.4* Can we get a game mode where it’s a sandbox where you can pick you troops and the enemy troops, I would love to see that ### 5/5 — Great game must have imo *2019-05-25, version 1.1.4* It’s excellent that we got that conquest mode with randomly generated maps! I would like to see updates in the future were we could set AI difficulty and maybe a more cunning AI. Keep up the good work! ### 4/5 — Right up my ally *2019-05-12, version 1.1.3* I love this game. I can play little bits at a time and not have to think too hard. Just want something fun that fills a few gaps in the day. My only difficulty is that some of the icons are just slightly too small for my eyes to identify, but that’s my problem as I am not ready to get glasses yet 😝 ### 5/5 — Still waiting for the update *2018-11-14, version 1.1.3* This is a really cool game, i actually play this when I travel because I can play it without internet. I like the concept and everything about it. I’m still waiting for the other maps. Great work! ### 5/5 — Honestly one of the best Games *2018-10-24, version 1.1.3* I mean what I say in the title, this game is honestly one of the best. I keep coming back to it and it is so addictive. Its such a good concept, runs smoothly and is just plain fun. I think with a few tweaks, updated graphics/visuals and ironing out a few minor bugs, that this game could be in the top charts of the Appstore. I cant wait for future updates, rest assured i’ll still be playing. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 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 ### 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 ### 1/5 — Could have been great *2018-05-07, version 1.1.3* It has so much potential but it was completely impossible to play as the game would just crash all the time. I couldn't even progress past the second stage as the game just crashes every time you start a fight. ### 1/5 — Absolute garbage *2017-05-21, version 1.0.8* I deleted this game before the tutorial was done. I hated it. ### 1/5 — Okay game (meh) *2017-05-04, version 1.0.6* This game is fun and really cool but every time I leave it, even for a minute it erases everything and freezes making me have to start over !! It makes me mad and wants to give up on this game ### 1/5 — Ok?? *2017-02-26, version 1.0.2* Crashes every time a battle is about to start and makes the player start again. Otherwise it would be a good game, a fix would be great ASAP ### 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 ### 3/5 — Interesting but frustrating with crashes *2020-03-13, version 1.1.4* It’s a neat concept and the gameplay seems pretty fun though the game is full of glitches and constantly crashes when trying to load a save file forcing you to restart the entire scenario which is extremely frustrating I would like to see an update ### 3/5 — It looked cool at first but *2019-08-06, version 1.1.4* It was fun at first but then the ads just kept coming and I know a lot of games have a lot of ads but this game had ads after everything you did,but over all the game was pretty cool ### 3/5 — Alright *2019-06-30, version 1.1.4* Had trouble trying to find how to start the game. Not a bad game tho ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 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. ### 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. ### 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! ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-03-15, version 1.1.4* It’s a super fun game, and there are some things I would like you to add if you have the time. The first thing is a custom map maker, the second thing is being able to have more competition and maybe having different difficulty’s so one could be easy the other one could be expert. ### 5/5 — Love it *2020-03-05, version 1.1.4* Found this game on reddit, absolutely love it. You should be able to merge army’s though.Awesome game, keep up the good work. ### 5/5 — Why not just charge £1.99 in App Store *2020-02-29, version 1.1.4* Why advertise a game for “free” that you cannot play unless paying 2 bucks in game? Edit: changed review to 5/5. UI was a little tricky to navigate, but got there in the end. Time to have some fun 😊 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-04.*