# Warplanes: Online Combat — user reviews > 127 indexed App Store user reviews of Warplanes by Teresa Dymek, rated 3.90/5 from 177 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/warplanes-online-combat/id1503152604/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/warplanes-online-combat/id1503152604.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 98 · 4★ 22 · 3★ 21 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Warplanes? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Fun arcade-style gameplay - 🎨 Good graphics and visual quality - ⚡ Excellent optimization and performance - ✈️ Accurate historical aircraft models - 💰 Not pay-to-win, skill-based gameplay - 🎯 Engaging PvP multiplayer combat - 📱 Works well on older devices - 🎪 Weekly community missions - 🎚️ Tilt controls simulate steering wheel - 🆓 Free-to-play with optional ads **Cons** - 🎮 Difficult and unintuitive controls - 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches - ⚠️ Unbalanced matchmaking system - 🎯 Poor aiming mechanics - 🔌 Long loading times - 👥 Low player population - 🎪 Repetitive gameplay - 📡 Chat visibility issues - ⏱️ Long wait times for matches to start - 🚫 Mission editor has restrictive conditions - 🎮 Controls feel janky and squirrelly - 🔓 Data tracking concerns **Commonly reported bugs** - Cannot create campaigns - 'Insufficient Conditions' error - Server connection failures - Multiplayer matches won't start - Chat messages not visible to all players - Plane immediately nose-dives on acceleration - Cannot control plane movement properly - Hackers with teleportation exploits - Lock-on targeting fails against certain players - Plane weapon ports don't match actual firing points - Auto-aim button malfunctions - Game freezes during loading - Data not syncing between offline and online versions - Mission editor rejects valid missions - Cannot aim downward or look down - Altitude limits prevent proper maneuvering - Plane tier mismatches in matchmaking - Name input validation issues - Roll button blocked by phone notch **Most requested features** - Friends list and friend requests - Voice chat or team communication - Alternative control schemes (joystick mode) - First-person cockpit view - Free flight mode - Naval combat and ship targets - More bomber aircraft (B-17, B-29, B-25, B-24) - Additional plane models (P-47, P-38, HE-112, BF-109 K-4, F-86) - Better plane tier balancing - PvP missions with objectives (defend/destroy targets) - Spectator mode for eliminated players - Daily rewards and challenges - Data transfer from offline version - Offline campaign mode - Improved mission editor functionality - Better music and sound effects - Skippable ads - Finger swipe controls instead of tilt - Notch-friendly UI for newer phones - Turkish language support ## Newest reviews (15 of 127) ### 4/5 — Исправьте пожалуйста управление самолётами и сделайте так чтобы игра не лагала *2026-06-25* Игра в принципе норм но минус управление минус то что там очень трудно выполнять манёвры патамушта там часто перегревается оружие все показатели очень сложная игра в принципе нормально советую немножко доработать но управление чуть надо доработать так как в игре в Вартан дар управления на самолётах гораздо лучше но общем игра в принципе норм но я когда играл там я сбил вражеский самолёт и он почему-то продолжал лететь с надписью противник не уничтожен Игра в принципе норм но надо доработать ### 2/5 — Кака *2026-01-20* Все? Сервера тютя? Не работает .. не подключает к серверу ### 3/5 — About the airplane *2025-02-25* Can you fix the fact that the saucer only has two machine guns that can fire, can you fix the fact that the plane with six machine guns only has four machine gun ports left, and the fact that it's really only shooting at four? ### 3/5 — Здравствуйте добавьте пожалуйста в игру управление пальцем как как и в первой части игры *2025-02-23* Игра хорошая но только минус управления ### 2/5 — There is a lot of bugs *2025-01-21, version 1.6* I can’t play multiplayers ### 4/5 — Great! *2025-01-03, version 1.6* Good addition to the original, though it gets repetitive. Community missions that are chosen every week to let us play with are great features. ### 2/5 — No, Just No. *2024-06-25* First of all, When you start a game, You are usually tier 1, And when you go into a match, You are going up against max-level players, Which have the most overpowered fighters, And going up against them is impossible, But jesus, its peoples first time playing, At least make it a little more beginner-friendly for god's sake, And maybe it's a skill issue, But I think not, Why? because I get demolished the first second I spawn, What should you fix? Like said make it more beginner friendly, Make it so you are going up against people the same or near tier as you. And thats it, But just please, I like the arcadey style, But make it so you can actually play the game without dying every second, And one last thing, I love the other game you made thats like this but you are going up against AI, But this, Isnt for me. ### 4/5 — Overall a great game *2024-03-16* For the most part, it’s a fun play just a few things that I wish weren’t the way they are. Several of the planes appear in the wrong tiers. For example, the Fw 190 is in tier II while the Ta 152 is tier IV despite the 190 having twice the firepower and being a much more historically significant fighter plane. Or the He 177 being in tier III despite having a higher bomb load than most of the tier IV bombers. Or 7 of the 12 Japanese planes being tier II. I get it that they didn’t have a lot of impressive designs, but could we maybe spread them out a bit more; maybe bump the Zero and the Hien up a tier? Just something to think about. Also, I wish there were pvp missions where bombs and torpedoes were useful (like one team has to defend a factory or a fleet or whatever and the other team has to destroy it). As I said, other than what I just mentioned it is a very fun historical game! ### 4/5 — Verbesserung *2023-12-23, version 1.5* Wann ist das wie die Offline-Variante? ### 3/5 — Fun *2023-12-21* Nice detail on planes. Good graphic & sound. But, occasional hackers preventing lock on. Most annoying is that matches require each player to select “ready” & then “vote” for start. Match will not start unless all players choose “ready” then “vote start”. Game needs to be fixed so that matches start once a majority of players “vote start”. ### 3/5 — Was fun, but now it is acting up *2023-11-28, version 1.5* Over half of the games I try to join never start. It used to be a lot of fun, but for some reason there is an issue tying together everyone in the lobby. When texting only certain people can see your text and these people end up not moving from the lobby to the actual game. Hope they fix this bug soon or they will lose everyone. ### 4/5 — А *2023-07-14, version 1.4.1* Когда появятся корабли или подводки чтобы использовать торпеды ### 5/5 — Great Company and Products *2023-07-03* I love that one isn’t forced to grind through videos just to continue playing and the minimal cost of purchases is so very much worth it. A great game!great community! Two suggestions, unlike the WW1 game, the ability to create missions is limited and hidden in settings and night fighting is not an option and sometimes one cannot create a mission without changing terrain. Are these bugs? Also - I and so many others LOVE the WWI game, PLEASE create an online version! Thank you for being good to your players! Hats off gents! ### 3/5 — Норм игра *2023-05-22* Только ужасное управление!!! ### 2/5 — Why did you have to ruin Warplanes!!!! *2023-04-27* The online version of ‘WW2’ is impossible to figure out the controls so if you don’t find out how to update the controls to the original controls you won’t be hearing any good from me… ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t create a fricking campaign *2026-04-04, version 1.6.3* Can’t create a campaign without “iNsUfFiCiEnT cOnDiTiOnS eRrOr”. This is, out of every single app in the fricking world, the single worst one ### 1/5 — This game used to be fun *2023-12-22* The game has some serious issues. While waiting for a game to start you can type in the chat room, but most players can’t see your text and you can’t see their text. Then once a game starts you sit for 5 minutes for the action to start. It will say - waiting for others to join. Then once the game actually does start most people have left the room as nobody wants to wait that long. This all started about a month ago. You would think they would have the bugs fixed by now. ### 1/5 — Trash *2023-11-26, version 1.5* The controls are wanky. I’ve played 10 games all of them had hackers in it the would teleport. And you couldn’t lock on to them ### 1/5 — You can’t control *2023-07-19, version 1.4.1* What game is this when u r at down you cant click target what even worse you cant look down so you sometime cant destroy the station ### 1/5 — This game doesn’t even work 👎 *2023-06-23, version 1.4.1* When I join in a game (every game mode) it’s says to press the accelerator button to speed up the plane but, but right when I do that the plane immediately goes into a nose dive that I can not control at all 😡 ### 1/5 — ゴミゲー *2022-07-15* いい所なし 悪いところ 名前を何回入力してもダメになる。普通にゴミゲー ### 1/5 — Game editor poo *2022-02-20, version 1.4* I hate the game editor because there is limits to make the mission that is why the game editor is poo ### 1/5 — Annoying *2022-01-14, version 1.4* First it takes way to long to load I waited 3 hours and it was still loading fix your game ### 1/5 — Avis *2021-10-22* Warplane dogfight parfait, mais warplane online combat très décevant: pas de radar en cas d’adversaire qui vous cible et niveaux des joueurs mélangés, injouables. Aucun intérêt. ### 1/5 — Needs work *2021-05-21* I played for about 30 minutes and the controls are horrendous. There needs to be an option to switch to a joystick mode rather than tilting. Aiming while moving your phone or tablet around is nearly impossible. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Impressive *2026-05-29* Best historical dogfighting game platform I have ever used. ### 5/5 — Advice for Starting Out *2026-02-13* The “quick play” mode lobby is usually full of higher level players and players with planes that have bombs, rockets, torpedoes etc. Starting out in the game you are given a choice between two tier 1 planes which carry machine guns only, they are not very maneuverable at base level. I recommend as a player creating a lobby that has a plane tier limit of 1, or looking for a lobby like that on the session list. This sets a cap on the mechanical advantage other players could have on you, which makes the game much more fun! ### 5/5 — Очень нравится *2025-04-15, version 1.6* Игра очень хороша, оптимизация на высоте, графика красивая, а весит мало. Геймпелей интересный ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-03-01* I love this app it’s so good Also you have to tilt your device to move!! Which I like: makes it seem like you are holding the stearing wheel for the plane!! 😀 ### 5/5 — 🗿👍 *2025-02-21, version 1.6* Игра моево децтва!!!! Благодарю) ### 5/5 — Best *2024-12-17, version 1.6* This is best warplanes game but please add big bomber like b29 b17 ### 5/5 — Nice *2024-06-12* Nice game ### 5/5 — 神ゲー *2024-03-31* iPhone5でもpvpができる！！ ### 5/5 — Класс! *2023-12-18* Вы лучшие . ### 5/5 — Самая *2023-09-25* Лучшая игра которую я скачивал --- *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 2026-08-26.*