War Council vs Return to Dark Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
War Council
This app helps players of a popular tabletop miniatures game manage their unit collections and build armies. It allows for easy army assembly, strategy visualization, and sharing of army lists with friends. It serves as a digital reference for all available game units.
- Track unit collection
- Build armies and point costs
- Manage Tactics cards and NCUs
- Visualize strategies
- Share armies with friends
- Unit reference guide
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The official Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game companion app! Take your War Council with you wherever you go, to track your collection and build your armies in your smartphone / tablet! Easily assemble new armies and visualize the viability of new strategies for this amazing wargame set in Westeros. Features: - Tracks your collection of units with ease. - Build your armies and track their point costs, deck of Tactics cards, NCUs and Units. - Share your armies with friends! - Easy reference for every unit available for the game. Attention: This app is meant to be used as a companion for the Song of Ice & Fire: Tabletop Miniatures Game. Requires physical copies of the game for full enjoyment.
Return to Dark Tower
Enhance your board game experience with this companion app. It wirelessly controls the game's mechanical tower, manages virtual battles, and tracks quests and events. Bring your tabletop adventure to life.
- Wireless tower control
- Virtual battle system
- Quest and event management
- Board game enhancement
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This is a companion app for use with the Return to Dark Tower board game. Gather your warriors, complete epic quests, and assault the Tower to defeat evil once and for all. The app controls the mechanical Tower via wireless connection, runs the virtual battle system, and manages quests and events. (This is not a standalone game.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Return to Dark Tower at 84% against War Council's 43%. Return to Dark Tower also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). War Council's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Return to Dark Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 114 and 61 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of War Council's written reviews are positive against 84% of Return to Dark Tower's.
War Council ships an update every 10 days, Return to Dark Tower every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | War Council | Return to Dark Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (114 ratings) | 4.6 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 276 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | CMON | Restoration Games, LLC |
Customer experience
War Council
Return to Dark Tower
Bugs and requests
War Council
Reported bugs
10 issues- Documents will not download
- Commander units not appearing
- Attachments not appearing
- App crashes when printing
- Create button greyed out after update
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- Commander cards show unit abilities instead of commander abilities
- Dragon mechanics missing for Targaryens
- Formatting issues on Pixel2 phone
- Cannot add commander to army list
- Cannot define area for attachments
Requested features
9 requests- Add direct feedback button
- Implement swipe gestures for navigation
- Add Windows version for printing
- Include 'What's New' section
- Divide FAQ by factions
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- Add historical battle scenarios
- Allow uniting factions
- Increase max army size limit
- Add Rich Text export option
Return to Dark Tower
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
War Council
No in-app purchases
Return to Dark Tower
No in-app purchases
Questions
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