# Warlands — user reviews > 92 indexed App Store user reviews of Warlands by W-Cubed Studios, LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 167 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/warlands/id493806952/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/warlands/id493806952.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 95 · 4★ 28 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 20 ## What do users think of Warlands? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Simple and easy-to-learn mechanics - 🎮 Fun turn-based strategy gameplay - 👥 Local multiplayer support with friends - 🎯 Addictive and engaging gameplay loop - ⚡ Quick turn notifications for online play - 🧠 Good strategic depth despite simplicity - 🎲 Fog of war adds tactical complexity - 💰 Free-to-play with optional DLC maps - 🏆 Works well as a time-killer game - 🤝 Asynchronous multiplayer functionality **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues - 📱 Game becomes unplayable on startup - 🎬 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🤖 AI difficulty is inconsistent and unbalanced - 📊 Limited number of free maps (only 3) - 🎨 Poor UI/UX design and aesthetics - 🔧 Menu controls are unintuitive - ⚙️ Camera movement issues during AI turns - 🎪 Screen flashing and visual glitches - 👥 Small player base makes online play difficult - 🔄 No way to quit matches without completing them - ⏱️ Slow turn placement and loading times - 🎭 Lack of visual polish and textures **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes on home screen at startup - Buttons unresponsive on launch screen - App crashes 30 seconds after opening - Troop placement lag and loading delays - Screen flashing during enemy turns causing headaches - Camera launching into blank space when zooming - Fog of war causing performance issues - Game crashes when changing match settings - Hexes not accepting troop placement - In-app purchase system not working - DLC maps unable to be purchased - Notifications not working properly **Most requested features** - Custom map creation tool - Additional unit types (cavalry, faster units) - Castle and bridge construction mechanics - Team/alliance gameplay modes - Campaign mode or story progression - More maps and game modes - Faster AI turn speed options - Real-world map packs (continents, countries) - Better damage system explanation - Improved graphics and textures - Battle music and sound effects - Discord integration for finding opponents - Ability to freely move camera during AI turns - Remove ads option or ad-free purchase - Team battle functionality - Larger map sizes ## Newest reviews (16 of 92) ### 4/5 — Fun but needs a skip button *2026-07-25, version 1.23.0* So tired of waiting for AI, I have adhd and it drives me freaking bonkers having to wait for them to finish their turn. I love this game and would play it all the time IF I didn’t have to wait ### 4/5 — Good but could use more *2025-11-28, version 1.23.0* This is a nice simple game and I love it however it would be nice if you could construct castles and bridges. Additional units would be nice too such as a cavalry or some other unit that could move twice in one turn. ### 4/5 — My Honest Review *2025-10-05, version 1.23.0* As an avid player, I find this to be a fun and simple game with easy-to-learn mechanics, however I would also like to say that it isn’t perfect. If there is one thing I would say that this game does perfectly, it is nailing a fairly solid tactical war game to play when you’re bored or wanna kill time—because, after all, it’s hard to go wrong with a game as simple as hexagons attacking each other. A few things I would like to see: Add faster speed options with AI turns, add an option where you can freely move the camera during an AI turn without it returning to where the AI madd a move, and PERHAPS make a few more maps freely available (I do understand that may be hard to do due to balancing fewer ads with how many things can be free). Thank you for reading this. ### 4/5 — Bad AI *2025-09-27, version 1.23.0* Fun game and concept but even on HARD the ai is terrible. ### 3/5 — Bad mechanics ugly ui *2025-09-23, version 1.23.0* Bad game and only get three maps with main purchase. Go play the battle for polytopia. It’s better and cheaper. ### 3/5 — Potential *2025-07-14, version 1.22.0* While there is a good idea here and somewhat good mechanics, this game has a loooong way to go before it’s actually desirable. The controls on the menu are by far my biggest complaint. And the only way to get rid of a boring match on the menu is to go back in and complete the match, no backing out or anything similar. Keep updating though! And this may become a great game yet. ### 4/5 — Custom maps *2025-06-18, version 1.22.0* A really fun game, but I wish we could create our own maps. I get that it might make purchasing the DLCs obsolete, but giving us the option to design our own battlefields as a perk for buying all the expansions would be a nice feature. ### 3/5 — Middle of the road *2024-01-11, version 1.22.0* Title pretty much sums it up. Not overly exciting to me but to someone else it maybe more exciting ### 3/5 — Kinda meh *2023-09-07, version 1.22.0* Playing against the AI Is super easy or hard depending on placement rules, AI Difficulty doesn't matter, and sometimes I've just let the AI Stay alive in a corner to see who wins and it seems they're literally incapable of defeating another Enemy, AI Only match no AI Defeated ever, closest was an AI Attacking another ones last spot but just left it alone afterwards, it's just a constant cycle of AI taking land, being attacked and losing a ton of land, then immediately retaking most of said land. TL:DR. Placement rules decide if the games Easy or Hard, an AI Incapable of fully eliminating another AI, and AI Difficulty doesn't matter ### 4/5 — No one to play with *2023-03-12, version 1.22.0* It’s no fun playing against a bot it is a fun idea but it needs more players ### 3/5 — Get rid of ads dude *2022-11-18, version 1.22.0* This stuff’s fun just use it as resume fodder to get app dev jobs ### 3/5 — Very Hard *2022-09-04, version 1.22.0* I can’t figure out how to actually beat the bots, it seems like it’s next to impossible to do. The bots get more defenders, and attackers, so your constantly weaker than them. ### 3/5 — Looks Good But… *2021-08-20, version 1.22.0* There appears to be no AI (pity) and you can only play against people you already know, I assume from your contact list (double pity) The game layout looks great but I unfortunately can’t play it! ### 4/5 — Fun and underrated *2021-02-25, version 1.21.0* It’d be nice to have harder AIs as I have only lost against the AI one time as of now. Really good concept and some advertising might go a long way, overall, a good game! ### 2/5 — Not much there *2021-01-05, version 1.21.0* I can't speak to the online games but even at the hard difficulty the app is not smart and I win easily. Even if it were smart the game is of limited scope. You can buy maps but the game is still limited. It is good if you are looking for a mental break and like winning. ### 3/5 — Meh *2020-07-23, version 1.21.0* Essentially impossible, cpu always seems to get more units. Was fun until I realised I’m constantly battling someone with apparently different rules. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — RNG simulator *2026-06-21, version 1.23.0* The AI has no logic and will attack randomly, letting the leading army run away with the game. ### 1/5 — Completely unplayable *2025-03-27, version 1.22.0* Game boots up, but no buttons work! Can’t even start a game. ### 1/5 — its not working *2025-03-09, version 1.22.0* pay to have full game and its just get freeze 30s after you open game ### 1/5 — Broken *2024-11-03, version 1.22.0* Unable to do anything with the app ### 1/5 — Not workung *2024-10-28, version 1.22.0* It just doesn’t work. None of the buttons on the launch screen can be even pressed. ### 1/5 — Needs major work *2022-11-05, version 1.22.0* Pretty bad game, very boring ### 1/5 — Potential fun but needs a lot of work *2020-05-28* The game has potential to be fun but certain choices by the developer prevent me from enjoying it. I’m deleting the game. 1. Ads - I’m more than happy to pay a few dollars for a mobile game up front. The developer’s interest in incremental revenue through ads is a no-go for me though. They’re a distraction on the screen and I can’t even pay to remove them. 2. Maps - Again, happy to buy a game for a few dollars up front if I get a rich game experience. The included maps aren’t limited in number and poor in execution. I’d pay a small additional fee to get access to all the maps if the base game came with more and they were well designed. 3. Map design - The placement of the forests and castles on the maps are poorly thought out in terms of strategy. More thought should have been put into map design which would result in more challenging gameplay. 4. AI - I’ve only played on the default settings but as they are, the AI is neither challenging or interesting in its play style. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. Purchasing any map pack removes the ads. This allows you to try the game for free, and support development efforts if you like it. We appreciate your thoughts on the map design and AI, and will keep your feedback in mind for future updates. ### 1/5 — Programming is horrible *2020-05-05, version 1.21.0* The concept of the game is simple enough. Basically risk with a maximum number of units you can place on each hexagon. However, the programming is horrible and for some reason every time you finish your turn, the screen will start flashing around and you will be unable to watch the map and see everyone else's moves. It is unbelievably annoying and gives me a headache. There are tons of other games that are exactly the same without this programming problem. Get those. ### 1/5 — Other players never play *2018-01-17, version 1.20.1* I've tried to play this but can't get another player to ever play. Can't say if it's fun or not because there is no playing just waiting for someone that never plays. ### 1/5 — Has ads *2016-06-25, version 1.18.1* No thanks ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game *2026-02-03, version 1.23.0* A lot of fun Ttrpg based battle strategy, map effects units, plus! Been trying to dev a similar type game it’s a great underrated style of game ### 5/5 — pretty good *2025-08-27, version 1.23.0* simple but pretty fun, custom maps would be a nice addition. there is a bug where if you zoom in/out while the camera is moving to show the computers move, it will launch the camera far away into blank space ### 5/5 — Never able to play *2025-02-09, version 1.22.0* Never able to play, downloaded and the Home Screen is frozen, tried redownloading and everything. Garbage. ### 5/5 — Risk Like Game. *2025-01-29, version 1.22.0* It is a good alternative to Risk. Though it is inconvenient to not be able to place a hoard of troops on a single tile, I believe that does make the combat more interesting by limiting your full reach in a turn. I do wish the AI was smarter. I have been beaten a few times by it, but that’s only when I have several on the board and all or most gang up on me early on. A good game. I hope to see more maps in the future. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-12-15, version 1.22.0* This game is great, simply, and fun to play. It can help pass time and is co-op. This means you can sit done and play with friends on a couch. You have lots of variety for being a free game, you don’t have to buy anything unless you want some new maps. 👍 ### 5/5 — Need to get a discord to get a fam base *2024-06-23, version 1.22.0* I can never tell if these are just bot replies or real replies but either way I’m real but I love the game and I see most of the replies are 4-5 years ago so my hopes of you the maker of the game to see this is slim but don’t give up on this much more you could do to make this a shiny diamond the first step is discord to be able to have people match in game to play there is still a few that play off and on so if you could put a discord link in the game menu then make it clear if your looking for a game or making a game to join because I still don’t know how that works but if you do that and want idea I could throw you some but if not the discord will help bring light to this game I am sure of this but I will see you in a another life ### 5/5 — Lots of potential *2022-09-25, version 1.22.0* Good game with lots of potential. Hope the developer continues with improvements! ### 5/5 — Had a laugh *2022-09-04, version 1.22.0* Had an enjoyable couple hours with me mates on this game, not bad and pretty fun (especially when your winning). Glad I found it. ### 5/5 — Wish their were more players *2018-01-10, version 1.20.1* Great game, but I get matched with the same person, I wish more people played this game, hope they make ads for it ### 5/5 — Great *2017-09-24, version 1.20.1* I accidentally typed in warlinds instead of warlings Best accident in my life --- *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 2026-08-27.*