# War Mongrels — user reviews > 23 indexed App Store user reviews of War Mongrels by Virtual Programming Ltd, rated 2.82/5 from 11 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/war-mongrels/id1636645821/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/war-mongrels/id1636645821.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (3 of 23) ### 5/5 — Beautiful game design *2023-06-14, version 1.1* Runs effortlessly on my m1 Macbook Pro. So good to see a Isometric strategy game on the Mac after a long time. ### 5/5 — Great game! *2023-06-12* The game is buttery smooth on an iPad Pro 11 (M2). No hitches or lags, whatsoever, and the graphics are nonpareil. This game is one of the rare examples of a top shelf, console-like game on your device with a comparatively small footprint compared to others of this quality. ### 4/5 — It works *2023-05-11* 👍 **Developer response:** Apologies for this situation. This should now be resolved with a fix in version 1.3 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-03-04, version 1.3* Game kept crashing at first pocket watch distraction task. Tried reloading and starting a fresh game - game gets stuck. ### 1/5 — iPad mini 7 *2024-12-20* Why won’t this work on iPad mini 7?? ### 1/5 — Bugs glitches and headaches *2024-09-04* Started the campaign and uninstalled during the first chapter or segment. It's GUI reminds me of diablo but it might as well be a linear point and click as there isn't any other way to do anything in game other than exactly how the game wants you to do it. This makes it frustrating to complete and I wasn't impressed. ### 1/5 — Bugs glitches and headaches *2024-08-31* Started the campaign and uninstalled during the first chapter or segment. It's GUI is basically diablo but it might as well be a point and click as there isn't any other way to do anything in game other than exactly how the game wants you to do it. This makes it frustrating to complete and I wasn't impressed. ### 1/5 — Does not work with my ipad pro 2021 *2023-05-05, version 1.2* The game crashes every time I open it up, right after the title sequence begins. I have a 2021 silicon ipad pro. This shouldn’t be happening, and I have been denied a refund. Would not reccomend. **Developer response:** Apologies for this situation. This should now be resolved with a fix in version 1.3 ### 1/5 — Still Unacceptable! *2023-05-04* I already gave this great game a One Star review a few days back- Broken. This was BEFORE this latest update. And as of this moment…..aaaaaand STILL not working on my iPad Pro M1. I’m starting to lose faith in you guys ability to rectify the crashing soon after the developer screen animation. This title cost too much on mobile to be dealing with such issues. Again….please fix it team! Thank you. **Developer response:** Apologies for this situation. This should now be resolved with a fix in version 1.3 ### 2/5 — The game simply doesn't load on my MacOS *2024-04-13* 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4 GB ### 2/5 — No mouse support *2023-12-30* Please add the function to use mouse to click around the game. As of right now, we can only use mouse to skip through cutscenes and the only options in the settings are to change tap controls. ### 3/5 — Average At Present. *2024-03-17, version 1.3* The game takes a while to learn how to play, but the on screen controls for the combat mode are awful and you only control one character. Please fine tune it to be better. ### 3/5 — I want to play it with my ipad 8! *2023-10-27* TAT my device can’t run it so sad ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ok *2024-10-19, version 1.3* Ok game. ### 5/5 — Really good RTT *2024-06-15, version 1.3* If you are a fan of Commandos or Desperados series i think you won’t be disappointed. ### 5/5 — Amazing work *2024-04-28* There should be more ports like War Mongrels to iOS. Thanks, devs! ### 5/5 — When did this come out! *2024-03-16, version 1.3* No way I had this on Mac and I now can play on iPad! Amazing! Great game 5 stars JUST BUY! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2023-12-17* بهترین بازی که بعد از سالها در این سبک بازی کردم. سالها منتظر همچین بازی بودم. یکی از طرفدارهای بازی کوماندوها بودم و در سبک استراتژی از این بازی خیلی لذت بردم. الان در مرحله چهارم این بازی هستم و تا الان خیلی ازش لذت بردم. ۱۰ ستاره هم لایق این بازیه به نظرم. ### 5/5 — A Game of Art *2023-11-16, version 1.1* I think if you played Commandos before, there is no question to try it. Otherwise I can say that runs realy well, and it is simply beautiful. The story line is amazing. The gameplay is quite difficult to get used to, but it's worth the learning curve. The game is pure art. I do recommand it! ### 5/5 — Just buy it *2023-10-21, version 1.1* OK I saw this on the app store and the graphics looked cool, I saw the review saying it looked like the much loved Commandos game, for £6.99 what did I have to lose? Using an M1 Max Studio, it looks superb even on the recommended Medium settings (4K 60Hz display). But while the grapphics are great, its the storyline and gameplay that will grab you. Controls are with a fairly intuitive mouse, keyboard layout, (MMB is used so is the space, CMD and WSDA), best of all is the first mission, which acts as the tutorial, It has a Metal Gear Solid on the old PSX quality, I am hooked already. This is quite possibly the best £6.99 I have ever spent, its reamrkably cheap for the quality, game design, graphics, sound and storyline. This isnt a game, its proof the Mac can game, its a loveletter to the Mac and its users from the developer Basically, just buy it, buy it now and thank me later. To the developer, thank you so much for this and thank you for bringing it to the Mac. Update, and to make it even better, the £6.99 also gets you the iPad version. Speechless ### 5/5 — Commandos on steroids *2023-10-03, version 1.1* At first glance it looks like the old Commandos game with modern graphics but after playing it for a while I have been surprised by the quality of the story supported by beautiful short animated movies. Also gameplay has been enhanced with many new features which make the game challenging and fun. ### 5/5 — Unbelievably under loved. *2023-09-23* This is an awesome AAA game ported to iOS. Get it now you won’t regret it. ### 5/5 — Atmospheric RTS *2023-07-13* This is a very good game.The device I’m playing this on is the 12.9 iPad Pro with m2 chip and although the screenshots look amazing this is exactly how it looks on my pro iPad, it’s also pretty smooth and looks about 30 fps to me but the gameplay is solid.It pains me to say these guys probably won’t get the money they deserve for this version of the game as people don’t like to pay to much for mobile versions of games but I would liken this game to a very good PC game experience.As it is this is one incredible feat seeing this run on a mobile device. --- *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 2026-08-17.*