Ruthless Conquest vs MicroWars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ruthless Conquest
Engage in galactic strategy by sending fleets to capture planets and expand your empire. Enjoy local and internet multiplayer, or test your skills against six levels of challenging AI.
- Planet capture
- Empire expansion
- Fleet management
- Local multiplayer
- Internet multiplayer
- Challenging AI opponents
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Send the fleet to capture planets and expand your empire, until you vanquish them all! Local and internet multiplayer is supported in this galactic strategy game. Six levels of challenging AI await you for practice matches and for making up numbers. This game is completely free, has no ads or in-app purchases. It is a 2018 Christmas gift for players of Survivalcraft and other CandyRufusGames games.
MicroWars
Engage in strategic microscopic battles where you command cells to conquer opponents. Collect resources, upgrade your units, and devise invasion plans to capture enemy bases and expand your territory. Outwit your rivals by building defenses and launching timely offensives.
- Microscopic battleground gameplay
- Command and conquer cells
- Resource collection and upgrades
- Strategic invasion planning
- Defensive and offensive tactics
- Board-based conquest
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Experience the thrill of a microscopic battleground with Microwars! In this action-packed mobile strategy game, players take on the role of a microscopic organism and send cells to conquer their opponent’s cells on a board. The objective is to take control of all the cells on the board and defeat the opponent. Collect resources, upgrade your cells, and strategize your attacks to gain an advantage. Microwars is a puzzle strategy game, where you need to find the best tactic to capture the enemy base. Here, brains over brawn is the rule! Create new invasion plans and put them into action in each level. Bit by bit, conquer the whole universe as your nodes expand and capture the enemies. Your expansion can only match the greatness of your strategic skills. But beware! keep an eye on your enemy’s strategy as they will try to overtake you while you are conducting your own offensives. You will have to build your defense and prepare your attacks in the same time, in order not to get defeated. Will you manage to elaborate the best strategy to take over the world? Prove it now by downloading Microwars!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ruthless Conquest at 78% against MicroWars's 34%. Ruthless Conquest also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). MicroWars's advantage is ratings volume (10K vs 54) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price and device support 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. MicroWars sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ruthless Conquest asks for nothing beyond the download.
MicroWars holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MicroWars has 10K ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Ruthless Conquest's written reviews are positive against 34% of MicroWars's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ruthless Conquest ships an update every 9 months, MicroWars every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ruthless Conquest | MicroWars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (54 ratings) | 4.6 (10K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews — better | 34.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 | 10K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Igor Kalicinski | Benoit Freslon |
Customer experience
Ruthless Conquest
MicroWars
Bugs and requests
Ruthless Conquest
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
MicroWars
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game resets progress on restart
- Impossible level 40 and 130
- Ads play over gameplay
Requested features
5 requests- More challenging AI opponents
- Ability to reinforce controlled cells
- Disable timer option
- More unique levels and characters
- Improved memory mini-game
In-app purchases
Ruthless Conquest
No in-app purchases
MicroWars
- No ads$3.99
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