# Red Fire - Cold War Strategy — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Red Fire by Geoffrey Ayre, rated 4.80/5 from 90 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/red-fire-cold-war-strategy/id6474898517/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/red-fire-cold-war-strategy/id6474898517.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 80 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Red Fire? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging and addictive gameplay mechanics - ⚖️ Good balance between difficulty and accessibility - 📊 Detailed historical accuracy and unit variety - 🎯 Excellent replay value with multiple campaigns - 🎬 Action camera sequences for battle visualization - 🏆 Strong series with consistent quality across games - 📚 Educational value for history learning - 🎨 Well-designed maps and scenarios **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and performance issues - ❄️ Game freezes during conflict resolution - 🎮 Aircraft auto-renew orders system glitched - 🏝️ Guam deployment units cannot leave island - ⚔️ Unrealistic AI combat balance (communist faction disadvantage) - 📱 Notch compatibility issues on modern phones - 🔧 Limited unit management capabilities - ⚠️ Nuclear war notifications trigger incorrectly **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes frequently - Freezes on resolving conflicts preventing turn progression - Aircraft auto-renew orders system malfunction - Naval and land forces stuck on Guam island - Ships unable to find routes from Guam - AI captures areas behind player lines unrealistically - Carrier planes launch from destroyers instead of carriers - Notch display compatibility issue - Campaign Red Fire ends prematurely at March 26, 1969 - Nuclear war notifications trigger without player action - Game lag with large unit concentrations (6.7M+ troops) **Most requested features** - European theatre/Cold War Europe map - Middle East and North Africa campaigns - South America and Central America scenarios - Modern era (1970s-2020s) game version - Group land and air units like naval units - Artillery units with ranged mechanics - Individual aircraft selection from squadrons - WWI and Gulf War scenarios - India and Pakistan as playable nations - Mission editor for campaign customization - Ability to disband units and ships - Force allied AI to move troops - More save slots - PC/desktop port - Star Wars version - American Civil War scenario - Cuban Missile Crisis campaign - Diplomacy complexity improvements - Vehicle variants expansion - Reduced AA missile quantities ## Newest reviews (12 of 77) ### 5/5 — Add India *2025-08-11, version 1.4.1* I really love the game but I really want India or even Pakistan in the game too. This can really help out on making another scenario against China and India, which will be really cool! ### 5/5 — Very good game *2025-08-02, version 1.4.1* Yall should make a 1970s to 2020s ### 5/5 — MacArthur was right *2025-07-10, version 1.4.1* Game is very fun and good replay value. Just an fyi: if you put 6.7 million men in one city the game will lag (not from personal experience or anything) ### 5/5 — MESSAGE TO DEVS! *2025-07-08* It would be amazing if you guys added a European theatre because I was playing Korea 2000 and it said British and Turkish aircraft had been available but there is no turkey…..please add European maps like France Germany just Europe in general. ### 5/5 — WW1 *2025-07-05, version 1.4.1* Son buenísimos estos juegos, hagan uno de la gran guerra, medievales o napoleonicos ### 5/5 — Add on *2025-05-05* It’s an amazing game like very good but it should have another part of the game or just a whole new game completely of the same time period or even more modern but in Europe.. if that ever happened you could have my money ### 5/5 — Red fire *2025-04-17* J’aimerais bien avoir une campagne sur le moyen orient avec l’Irak et tout comme c’est de la même époque et j’aimerais voir la map s’agrandir jusqu’en Europe et le moyen orient sinon rien a dire super jeux ### 5/5 — Awesome game- just one request. *2025-04-16, version 1.4.1* This game has great potential, but is a bit limited. It’s a wargame strategy, but it’s got the potential to become a world strategy game with the right advancements - if this happened, it would definitely be the MOST advanced world strategy game in the entire appstore. I’d love to see it turn into that. Nonetheless, it’s a great strategy game, and I do enjoy it. I just also wish you could force allied AI to move troops. ### 5/5 — It’s fun *2025-04-09* I love all of these games. I wish they would come up with a modern era version. ### 5/5 — Great game, some suggestions *2025-03-31* Hi! I think this an amazing game but I would appreciate if you changed a few things. First off, you know how you can group naval units? I would like the ability to group land and air units into wings and corps just to make it easier to move them. I would also like the ability to edit the campaigns with the mission editor. Could you also make a new game that’s like this but for the 1970s to 2020s Middle East? Desert fire? Just some suggestions but all together an amazing one of a kind game. Could you also add an option to disband units and ships? ### 4/5 — Group land and air units *2025-03-29* Amazing game but it would be a lot easier to play if your able to group land and air units like navel ### 5/5 — How do you make units? *2025-03-18, version 1.4.0* The game is amazing and I love it but I just can’t figure out how to make units can someone help please? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Guam Ruins Game *2025-03-28, version 1.4.0* New US units deploy to Guam. However Naval and Land forces have a glitch and can’t leave the island. Completely ruins the game. I’ve seen this complaint elsewhere so clearly there is not plan to fix the fatal error. ### 1/5 — This game is poop *2024-08-31* If you pick a communist nation you lose like 100K troops to Allies 90Troops makes no Sence also Defence for communist nation is also garbage 1K ally troops can kill 60K troops defending make the game better I want a refund also I put easy mode and I still get beaten idk what’s wrong with this game ### 2/5 — Campaign, Red Fire 1965 *2025-04-13, version 1.4.1* The game does not go past March 26, 1969 ### 3/5 — Fun Experience *2025-07-15, version 1.4.1* A very fun and detailed game i hope To see more updates in the future ### 3/5 — Great potential with major problems *2025-04-17* This game has the potential to be the best in the series, but it has a major drawback; the auto renew orders system for aircraft is still glitched, it doesn’t make the game unplayable but it gets annoying very quickly to have to make new orders for aircraft. Other than that the game is brilliant and imo the best of the trilogy, but that simple glitch makes it hard to do long term games in one sitting. ### 3/5 — Maybe I am missing something or the game is glitching *2025-03-16* Okay, so I have only played 2 missions so far and the first was great, but I decided to move onto Vietnam 1967 and thats when I ran into problems. My first issue was when i couldn’t get my troops and ships out of Guam, it’s glitched and there is no point to sea transport the troops too. And the ships just say no route found every time I try to move them. Second, I’m not sure if I am doing something wrong or if I’m missing something but it’s so annoying that the AI can just take areas behind my lines every, SINGLE, TURN. Even when there are troops stationed there, they all the sudden get captured and the area is lost. It makes no sense, hopefully you see my review and give me some sort of feedback to help. ### 4/5 — deeply addicted *2026-04-05* Fun Game to play and a good mix of not being to simple or to difficult to understand I would love to see a new updated or different location South America or the Middle East. Would happily pay for more content ### 4/5 — Love the game *2025-11-19* I would really appreciate if you added artillery units for all nations and instead of having them attack with the ground troops, have them stay in the back lines with an effective range and be able to fire from far away, also making the guns and arty pieces more accurate would be much appreciated ### 4/5 — . *2025-09-07* Please fix the glitch where it doesn’t allow you to take the next turn as it freezes on the resolving conflicts ### 4/5 — Army’s and corps *2025-04-14, version 1.4.1* There comes a point in some games for me it’s really hard to manage my land and air units. The feature to combine navel units I’d love if you add it to land and air. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 面白い *2026-08-19* 中ソ対立がテーマのマップも追加して欲しい。 あと冷戦期のヨーロッパをテーマにしたゲームも作って欲しい！ ### 5/5 — Fantastic Strategy Game *2026-06-24* This is my favorite Strategy game on IOS by a long shot. My only request would be to maybe add a new map or a time slider for modern conflict. As well as new vehicles and troop icons for such. Love the game very much and think maybe a Modern installment would be sick!! ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-06-17* Love the Cold War setting, and I love that you’re able to go so far passed the 80s the F-22 is introduced. I would really love to see a modern game that could include the American-Iranian conflict, Russo-Ukrainian conflict, or obviously just fictional conflicts set in the lates 90s-modern day, or as someone else mentioned, a gulf war version. ### 5/5 — Amazing quality *2026-05-13* This game is phenomenal. The escalation system adds so much complexity and realism and the game is very detailed. Would love to see more! I could easily spend hours on this. ### 5/5 — Best Game on IPhone *2026-05-05* I love all 3 games yall have released but this is my favorite! Can someone point me in the right direction for a guide or website where folks discuss tactics for game? And can you please do one of these for Iraq 🫡 ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-04-03* great game and i also love blitzkreig fire but please add europe in this version and make diplomacy more complex ### 5/5 — Genuinely fun *2026-03-25* Its well built, not very phone intensive and simple enough for you to realise there’s layers to it. Worth it! ### 5/5 — MESSAGE TO DEVS! *2026-02-22* It would be amazing if you guys added a European theatre because I was playing Korea 2000 and it said British and Turkish aircraft had been available but there is no Turkey, in the game it would be so fun if you guys added a European theatre ### 5/5 — Supporter *2025-12-23* Want to see more variants of vehicles added and mabye add an option to chose a couple jets out the squadron into areas instead of a whole squadron of 20 and less AA missles it’s a ton sometimes ### 5/5 — Super Great Game *2025-10-02, version 1.4.1* Great game but its crashes a lot, it has a lot of potential. --- *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 2026-09-12.*