# Lead Wars — user reviews > 453 indexed App Store user reviews of Lead Wars by DemonStudios, rated 4.30/5 from 48 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lead-wars/id393340337/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lead-wars/id393340337.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 34 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Lead Wars? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great game! - 👍 Reminds me of my childhood - 👍 Fantastic strategy game with a twist - 👍 Awesome little game - 👍 Excellent in-depth game - 👍 Extremely fun **Cons** - 🐛 Absolutely Impossible - 🐛 AI is too good. Unfair - 🐛 Horrid controls - 🐛 Waste of money - 🐛 The way you move units and shoot is just bad - 🐛 Bad Control Input - 🐛 Frustration Defined - 🐛 Poorly designed - 🐛 Terrible controls **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezes on second shot - Game often crashes when restarting a level - Inconsistent behavior when moving over water - Occasional crashes - Incompatible with older devices **Most requested features** - Add more stuff like people - Add boats, cargo planes, soldiers, and helicopters - Add a random map option for multiplayer - Add more units like ships and helicopters - Add ability to resize sprites in map editor - Add stats screen showing wins/losses, total units destroyed, etc. - Add a full map view and the ability to instant replay the last turn of action - Add more game types (Capture The Flag, destroy enemy HQ, etc.) - Add asynchronous online play - Add ability to flip in-game menu buttons upside down for hotseat play ## Newest reviews (14 of 453) ### 3/5 — AI is too good. Unfair. *2019-02-11, version 2.1.1* Neat concept, but AI never misses. For a human the controls are not easy to master. It’s not like playing against a human, it’s like playing against that robot girl in Ex Machina that killed everyone. ### 2/5 — lehetne jobb *2016-01-03, version 1.9* Adtam neki eleg sok eselyt hogy megbaratkozzak vele, de valahogy nem jott ossze neki.. ### 5/5 — Awesome but.... *2015-12-16, version 1.9* Y'all need to add more stuff like people ### 5/5 — Reminds me of my childhood *2015-11-29, version 1.9* Great game all around. Simple and challenging at the same time. If you played as a kid, you'll love this game. No more erasing and re-drawing, no more arguing if it was actually a "hit" or not. The only thing I can say bad about it, is that it is sometimes inconsistent about whether or not your tanks are destroyed due to moving over water. Sometimes it only takes a sliver and boom, other times you can get away with half your tank riding in the water! Other than that small complaint, this game is a steal for 99 cents! ### 5/5 — Very nice game! *2015-06-29, version 1.9* Was looking for something like this! You guys gave me hours of fun gameplay.. It's a blast! Thank you! :-) ### 5/5 — Controls are actually pretty good *2015-05-15, version 1.9* Okay, a lot of reviews complain about the controls. And yes, the controls are hard. And they're hard for the AI, too. I have seen the AI drive tanks into rivers and flub what should have been easy shots. The thing here is, if you ever actually played the paper version of this game, yes, it really is sort of hard to control a skittering pencil. That's what the game is trying to simulate. And it absolutely is sort of hard to control, but that turns out to be fun once you get a bit better at it. I think there's some quirks (collision detection seems to have a consistent bias in one direction, but it's paper-direction, neither for nor against the human player), but overall this is really nicely done and has a lot of fun and depth. ### 5/5 — So fun!!! *2015-04-02, version 1.9* Amazing game ### 5/5 — Macht Spaß *2015-02-27, version 1.9* Das Spiel macht Spaß und erfordert Geschick. Top! Leider warte ich jedoch schon länger auf die versprochenen weiteren Level... :-( ### 5/5 — Love it *2015-02-17, version 1.9* Really fun due to the simplicity ### 5/5 — Richtig geil *2015-01-21, version 1.9* richtiger suchtfaktor ### 5/5 — Best Game ever *2015-01-09, version 1.9* I love that game!! Brings back all the childhood memories when we used to play that game in school, drawing our own maps!!!!! Can't wait for updates!!! ### 5/5 — Top Game *2014-12-13, version 1.9* Wenn man sowas früher schon mit nen Bleistift gespielt hat. ### 5/5 — Schöne App mit Suchtpotential *2014-11-26, version 1.9* App mit Spassfaktor; super Zeitvertreib auf Reisen. ### 5/5 — Отличная игра *2014-11-13, version 1.9* Хорошая задумка и реализация. К управлению конечно нужно принаровиться. Хорошо если уровень интеллекта компьютера был выше, или даже лучше выбор уровня сложности. По сети не всегда находятся соперники. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Absolutely Impossible. *2019-03-16, version 2.1.1* Beyond frustrating to play. Can’t get passed the airplane tutorial. The most unfun gaming experience I’ve ever had. ### 1/5 — Loading... *2018-04-01, version 2.1.1* Multiplayer funktioniert nicht mehr. Spiel lädt einfach unendlich lang ### 1/5 — Horrid controls. *2017-06-08, version 1.9* Just don't. Controls never work the way you want them to. Very inaccurate with how it reads what your intended shots were. It's more of a frustrating game than anything else. There's so much better on the app store that you can spend your money on. Just a trash game trying to appeal to your youth, apparently. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2016-04-04, version 1.9* Doesn't make any sense. Way too much work and way too difficult to use. ### 1/5 — Фууу!!! *2015-05-04, version 1.9* Не советую скачивать! Управление непонятное и лаганутое, вообще ничего не понятно в общем игра не достойна даже одной звезды!!! ### 1/5 — Hate this game *2015-03-12, version 1.9* The way you move units and shoot is just bad DO NOT BUY THIS ### 1/5 — Stranissimo gioco *2014-10-18, version 1.8* Non c'ho capito un arcavolo ### 1/5 — Bad Control Input *2014-10-17, version 1.8* I downloaded this game, expecting some simple 'draw the line to where you want to move', but instead, I got a 'game' made for, I'm not sure. The 'think: touch-slide-move-touch', or whatever it was is far too tedious. I move much faster on folding a piece of paper and using a pencil. With that said, even though I played it only for 45 seconds in training, I loved the graphics and music and animation FIVE thumbs up which is what got me download it. If the Dev's can't give me 'draw path to move', at least give me onscreen controls like UP = LEFT and DOWN = RIGHT, then PRESS BUTTOM. To MOVE FOWARD or BACKWARDS. If you can, check out ATARI 2600's COMBAT the tank levels. Yes, I'm an old gamer. I'll check back in February 2015, I hope control input is better. I'd LOVE to share this game then, if so. ### 1/5 — Great concept ! *2014-10-15, version 1.8* Great concept ! But the controls are so complicated and poorly designed that it just killed it for me. I like the simple graphics and turn based gameplay and I really wanted to like this game. :/ ### 1/5 — Ужасно *2014-10-15, version 1.8* Давно не встречал настолько отвратительное управление! Заметно что авторы постарались сделать самую дерьмовую игру 2014. И когда же вы идиоты добавите эту чертову клавишу рестарта?!?!?! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — O Sí o sí *2024-05-26, version 2.1.2* Juego divertido *Tengo que agarrar un lápiz y un papel para el juego* ### 5/5 — Great game! *2020-11-28, version 2.1.1* I used to play pencil flick games at school (I’m quite old) and this takes me right back there. I can hardly fault this game - the flickyness works brilliantly, the courses are varied, there’s enough variety to keep it interesting. If there was one thing I’d say that the CPU opponent is both deadly and rubbish at the same time: if it’s lining you up and there’s no gap in the wall to shoot through then it’s pretty much curtains 100%. But, on the other hand, it spends ages making daft moves back and forth for no reason. I’d make a few changes to those things, add on a few levels of CPU skill (it’s not great, even at its highest level) then - bingo - a six star game! ### 5/5 — ОТЛИЧНО!!! *2019-08-27, version 2.1.1* В конце 80-х играли в живую на листочках))) ...как только вы разберётесь в управлении, игра очень понравиться!!! Посмотрите пару видосиков и сделайте скрины обучения и переведите в переводчике! А потом наслаждайтесь игрой! Не знаю как на телефоне, но на iPad идеально!!! ### 5/5 — Sweet Game! One thing I think could make map creator better tho. *2019-02-01, version 2.1.1* I love this game so much! Me and my friend would play this irl all the time but you can’t carry a big enough piece of paper wherever you go. That’s why I especially love the pass n’ play feature. You just need one phone! However, we always have some new ideas for maps, but the map creator is kind of hard to use. I have an idea that might make it easier. I think that the buttons at the top that change the type of sprite should be removed altogether. I think that pressing the sprite button should select whatever type is default, then tap it again to open a list of the types of sprites. Then when you select the desired type, you can then place and maneuver as desired. So, tap once to select sprite, then tap again to open the list of sprite types. It would also be nice if it were that way for units as well, just for simplicity’s sake. ### 5/5 — My favorite game *2018-06-05, version 2.1.1* This game offers a fun challenge every time. It is my favorite game app and it always transports me to my childhood when I used to play this with paper and pencil ### 5/5 — Stealth iPhone X Update! *2018-02-09, version 2.1.1* This excellent and completely unique game now supports the iPhone X’s native resolution. Nice!!! ### 5/5 — Bellissimo!!!!! *2018-01-19, version 2.1* Divertente!! Lo consiglio. ### 5/5 — Absolutely love the game! *2017-12-06, version 1.9* This game is great! I've had it for quite a while, and it's one I consistently go back to to play. PvP is really enjoyable, campaign as well. The controls aren't hard to use at all, once you figure out what you're doing. Developer is also really responsive if ever you have issues. Would absolutely recommend; and have so for several friends. ### 5/5 — Great game *2017-09-27, version 2.0* This is a staple on my iPhone and iPad. Fun with friends and against the computer. If a game is easy, is it really any fun to play? Highly recommend ### 5/5 — Best game *2017-06-12, version 1.9* This is the best game in the world! I even play it in real paper with my friends --- *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 2026-09-06.*