The Samurai Wars vs Homaro!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Samurai Wars
Engage in tactical warfare with historical samurai portraits. Command troops, utilize unique skills, and employ diplomacy, ninja tactics, and political maneuvering to conquer Japan. Collect over 400 samurais and 200 treasures.
- Tactical troop command
- Unique samurai skills
- Diplomatic activities
- Ninja operations
- Political maneuvering
- Town development
- Collectable warlords and treasures
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◆The Samurai Wars◆ This is a tactical war game using actual portrait of samurai. Conquer whole Japan as Oda nobunaga who is famous samurai warlord with over 400 samurais! ◆Intuitive Battle◆ You can command your troop and use tactical skill by Flick/Tap! Defeat enemy by using each samurai's tactical skill! ◆Various Strategies◆ It is not easy to survive by just tactics in battlefield. Diplomatic activities like trading and alliance... Various Ninja's activities... Political activities in Imperial court and Shogunate... Development of town... Let's plan your own strategy! ◆A lot of Warlords, Treasure There are over 400 samurais and 200 treasure items. Can you collect all?
Homaro!
Experience human history from the Stone Age in this evolutionary survival simulation. Craft tools, manage resources, and guide humanity's development across diverse terrains and historical periods. Features auto-save and a skill system for enhanced gameplay.
- Evolutionary survival simulation
- Craft tools and materials
- Historical progression (Stone Age to megaliths)
- Terrain and unit manipulation
- Skill system for development
- Auto-save functionality
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What can humanity do on this planet? Experience human history starting from the Stone Age with a simple system! A new sensation, a boxy survival evolutionary simulation! Craft your own tools and materials! You'll be able to use your skills to improve your gameplay. The game can be stopped at any time with auto-save! Control Method Use the virtual pad to move your units to various terrains! Collect items from the terrain! Use items to change units and terrain! The Birth of Humanity Use herbivores to turn the wilderness into a grassland. Use herbivores to turn the wilderness into grasslands, and move through the grasslands to reach the ocean. Make the weather appear and make it rain on the grasslands. Make humans appear from the forest. Africa Create weapons, hunt herbivores, and make clothes that can withstand dryness. Make it rain in the desert to create an oasis and cross to the northern continent. Great Journey Edition Create spears, hunt mammoths with your team, and make clothes to withstand the cold. Spread across the world by crossing straits and glaciers. Building megaliths Those brave enough to hunt predators will be recognized as leaders. Use your leadership skills to develop your village and build megaliths for your descendants to prosper. Skill System You can improve your skills by logging, hunting, and other activities. Use your skills to develop more advanced tools! I recommend it to people who like the following games. If you like slow life farming games! If you like crafting games where you have to hunt animals and collect materials, this is the game for you! People who like development games such as town building and house building, and games about making things! People who like historical games such as Jomon period and Yayoi period games! People who like survival games and building games where you can move freely! Well, I wish you a good trip!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Homaro! at 4.7 against The Samurai Wars's 4.1. Homaro! also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). The Samurai Wars's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 21%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. The Samurai Wars sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Homaro! sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Homaro! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 36 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of The Samurai Wars's written reviews are positive against 21% of Homaro!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Samurai Wars ships an update fortnightly, Homaro! every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Samurai Wars | Homaro! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (63 ratings) | 4.7 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.8% of reviews — better | 21.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 266 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Keita Nagafuchi | TANAKA NORIYUKI |
Customer experience
The Samurai Wars
Homaro!
In-app purchases
The Samurai Wars
- Stone 100$0.99
- Available Samurai +14 variants$3.99
- Scenario pack - Sekigahara$3.99
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- Remove ADs$6.99
- Stone 1000$8.99
- Stone 5000$39.99
- Stone 12000$89.99
Homaro!
- A mad dash!$1.99
- interference$3.99
- submissive$4.99
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- Remove ads$4.99
Questions
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