# Ant War (Official) — user reviews > 79 indexed App Store user reviews of Ant War (Official) by Anarchy Enterprises, rated 4.70/5 from 457 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ant-war-official/id817733162/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ant-war-official/id817733162.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 388 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Ant War (Official)? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Nostalgic and fun gameplay - 🕹️ Simple and engaging mechanics - 🕰️ Relaxing and casual experience - 💰 Free-to-play with no ads **Cons** - 🔁 Repetitive gameplay loop - 🔄 Colony resets cause loss of progress - 🤖 Unbalanced enemy scaling - 💰 Purchases not preserved across resets **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent ant production rates - Unreliable battle outcomes **Most requested features** - Ability to save progress and continue colony - More diverse ant specializations and upgrades - Improved enemy balancing and difficulty scaling ## Newest reviews (16 of 79) ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-08-05, version 2.6* A very great game it would be cool if there was a sequel and I’m happy it’s free ### 4/5 — Memories *2023-05-08, version 2.6* Loved this as a kid, my nephew seems to like it too. Perhaps he is just humoring me though haha. ### 4/5 — I beat the game but... *2021-10-25, version 2.6* At 5 million ants if forces you to restart and end them game ### 4/5 — Childhood nostalgia. *2021-09-09* Like many others who have left a review I played this game when they offered the one hour trial as a kid, but I managed to convince my dad to buy me the game and this is ALMOST a perfect replica of those times. There’s been a change to some of the music and the upgrade trees have additional tiers I believe. But the most glaring issue for me is how the enemies you fight scale to your colonies level meaning you’ll DESTROY buster and his dog for them to show up later in the day again but with superior stats that make them invincible to your hive. I assume this was added to the phone app and pc version (I also bought the PC game again) in order to incentivize micro transactions like the purchasing of the gems so you can buy upgrades which was to me one of the most satisfying things to get in the old game where you had to work hard for your upgrades. ### 5/5 — Great Sim *2020-12-30* Like others I played this almost two decades ago as a child. I am glad I re-found it after some searching. ### 5/5 — RIP age of castles *2020-11-15, version 2.6* Would prefer the medieval aesthetic but good game either way ### 5/5 — Super fun simulation game!! *2020-11-01* I played this game during my childhood when they only offered a free trial of 1-hour and then afterwards, you had to buy the game. Sadly, I was just a kid at the time so I had no money. I was just reminded of this game, so then I decided to find it again and buy it— lo and behold, I found out this entire game was free, and not only that, the developers released an app version too! This game is a super fun simulation to past the time. You get to pick 5 types of specializations for your ant colony and then you learn to manage the ant colony from finding food, to building nests, to nursing ants, and even fighting off enemies too. I can admit it does get out of hand when you start fighting the police and the army. I laugh at how unrealistic it is, but I guess that’s what makes the game fun and enjoyable. I’m nearly at 1 million ants right now. You win the game when you get to 5 million ants. What’s also super fun is the locations you get to unlock as you level up including someone’s house, a park, a beach and even a diner. Some of my favorites are the bakery, the diner, and the playground. Download this game. You won’t regret it. Cheers to your ant empire! ### 5/5 — Fun and Nostalgic *2020-10-22, version 2.6* I remember playing this as a kid, glad they put it on Mobil ### 5/5 — Same as before *2020-08-07* I loved this game when my dad was teaching me about pc’s back in the early 2000’s, 2020 has been rough but I found out how to play it again. It’s just the same as back than. I love this game ### 4/5 — Fun, simple game. *2020-07-07, version 2.6* In essence, you go say by day arranging the composition of a work force to try and grow your colony. Simple and fun. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2020-04-30, version 2.6* Played this game all through grade school! ### 5/5 — This game is great *2020-04-23, version 2.6* I suggest this game a lot. If you’re too young or too scared to have an actual ant farm, this is the great game! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2020-04-03, version 2.6* Always played this as a kid! Super fun and nostalgic:) ### 5/5 — One word,AAAMMMAAAZZZIIINNNGGG!!!!!! *2019-10-24* Amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing!!! ### 5/5 — Simple fun *2019-08-12* Great game ### 5/5 — Memories *2019-08-12, version 2.6* I love this game so much. :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t make purchases! You will lose them. *2021-08-09* At first I rated this game 5 stars. But when i got to 5 million ants, the game instantly ends. You can’t continue your saved game, it’s gone. That part was a bit annoying, but I didn’t mind it so much. You can start a new game, but all the upgrades/boosts you bought with gems are reset. That is a huge problem. It’s insanity to just delete all your premium currency upgrades. People paid money for those, and the game just resets them. ### 1/5 — Bad game *2020-10-22, version 2.6* One star more like 0 stars but I had to put one do not get this horrible game ### 1/5 — Asking for reviews too much *2018-05-07, version 2.6* Once is enough ### 1/5 — Used to love this game *2014-05-13, version 1.1* It seems to be a bit broken. It doesn't matter if I have 5% of my ants in the nursery or 100% of my ants in the nursery. I will still only get 5 ants per day (one per tick) before bonuses. Why even bother strategizing how to split up my ants if it does nothing? ### 2/5 — Oh memories. *2026-03-11* If only this wasn’t abandoned. And if only you didn’t lose all your upgrades and purchases on colony reset. I really want to like this but it’s just. That’s mean. ### 2/5 — Do not get this *2021-08-15* This is absolutely the worst things I’ve seen in the App Store. I’ve maxed out my screens for five times and this is about as bad as it gets. Not only is a pay to with even if it was it it would be a best three stars. ### 2/5 — Dissapointed *2014-03-02, version 1.0* While it's a fun game and learning how to maximize efficiency is great, every thing in the game scales with your level. So if you are in a "level 7 area" but you are level 14, everything just scales up or down with your colony size. There's no ability to "become the best" because the game is constantly scaling everything up with you as you level. So you feel like you make absolutely no progress. Sad really. Had so much potential ### 3/5 — Some glitches *2019-05-11, version 2.6* I got the pass port but it did not work why? ### 3/5 — Good game *2018-01-21, version 2.6* Good game ### 3/5 — Needs Bug Fixes *2016-07-31* I love this game but they need to make it so when you get food from a battle that it doesn't vanish the next day, they need to update when you purchase a 10x food that it doesn't vanish the next day, and that auto battle doesn't make you lose every time. The game is pain stakingly slow moving and impossible to beat otherwise. If they make those few small patches, 5 stars no doubt. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Childhood *2026-06-20* Loved this game as a kid glad I can play it again but on my phone ### 5/5 — Ant War is back! *2024-06-10* Loved this game growing up on the browser. Now with new computers and the end of flash, it’s hard to play games like this or Age Of Castles! Great to be able to play this game again, however, I noticed that the nursery ants will produce the same rate of ants regardless of the % allocated as long as it is at 5% or over. Ditto Worker ants. Scouts need over 55% to have positive food flow ### 5/5 — Nostalgic! *2023-10-26* I played this when I was a kid, nostalgic and very relaxing to come back to it! ### 5/5 — Pls *2023-06-21, version 2.6* Can you make it so I don’t loose ants rapidly ### 5/5 — Good game *2023-01-27* Good game ### 5/5 — Simply amazing *2022-07-31, version 2.6* Simply amazing. ### 5/5 — Very good game *2022-07-29, version 2.6* No random adds, good survival, realistic, just good in general ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-12-29* I remember playing this game when I was young and loved it ### 5/5 — Mindless fun *2021-03-26, version 2.6* Just a relaxing game. ### 5/5 — Ant War *2021-01-30* Being a fire ant colony is the best colony ever in the plains hidden from human discovery is the best if spotted little they care about you as humans litter you benefit what they leave behind you gain superiority over the food you claim and cherish from human waste like they always said another mans trash is a another mans treasure or ant if you assume ant to human. --- *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 2026-09-01.*