Comparison

Call For Fire vs Idle Forces

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Call For Fire

This mobile simulation game trains users in coordinating indirect artillery and mortar fire. It teaches essential procedures for calling in fires, adjusting targets, and assessing battle damage, based on real military doctrine.

Highlights
  • Call for indirect artillery and mortar fire
  • Coordinate fires in a coalition environment
  • Utilize Grid and Polar missions
  • Learn RATEL procedures
  • Adjust fires onto Observer Target (OT)
  • Bracket targets
  • Send Battle Damage Assessments (BDA)
Features
Currently charting
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Welcome to Call For Fire, the mobile training simulation that teaches you how to Call For Fire and coordinate indirect artillery and mortar fire. This game will put you in an Observation Post and arm you with a radio enabling you to rain down hell on enemy armoured vehicles and personnel. This is not your typical shoot em up arcade game. Call For Fire is a training simulation built by soldiers for soldiers. It closely simulates what it is really like to call in indirect fires onto a target. The Call For Fire is based on the US JFIRE doctrine and will teach you how to coordinate artillery fire in a coalition environment. The game will enable you to learn the art of coordinating indirect fires utilizing both Grid and Polar missions. By playing this game you will learn: * Correct RATEL procedures for all stages of the Call For Fire * How to adjust fires onto Line OT (Observer Target) * How to correctly bracket a target * How to send in a BDA (Battle Damage Assessment) THIS GAME IS FOR YOU IF: 1. You are a coalition soldier and are interested in perfecting your skills at calling for fire. 2. You are a military instructor or commander looking for a tool to teach your soldiers how to Call For Fire. 3. You are a soldier in training and want to get a competitive edge on your call for fire skills. 4. You are just interested in learning how soldiers call for fire on the battlefield.

About

Idle Forces

Command a military base, train recruits into specialists, and manage resources in this incremental army simulator. Build, upgrade, and customize your base while dispatching operatives on dangerous missions to bring law and order to remote corners of the planet.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade military bases
  • Train recruits into specialists
  • Manage military units
  • Dispatch operatives on missions
  • Customize bases
  • Earn and invest money
Features
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The Idle Forces: Army Tycoon is incremental game. But it isn’t one of the traditional idle city builder games! You won't find here supermarket, restaurant, roller coaster and amusement park because it is an army simulator, rookie! Do you want to become an idle army commander and command the tycoon military units of a powerful state and execute peacekeeping campaigns? Do you want to raise a recruit to a military specialist? Bring Freedom, Law and Order even to the most remote corners of the planet! On the orders of a top army commander, you will set up a military camp and take control of a military base in a hot spot. Your main priority is to train operatives from green recruits. Every recruit and sergeant need to defend army homebase with a gun. Periodically, professional soldiers attack the military base! It would be better if it were mafia or zombies … Zombies are easier to deal with! An idle military base is a complex structure which need to build, upgrade and customize. Each building has its own purpose. Chefs cook in the kitchen. This is certainly not a restaurant, but they will give you a cookie and lemonade for dessert! In the infirmary, the medics will put you in a hospital bed if you're sick, and you'll feel at home instead of in prison! It's not a hotel empire for overnight stays, but a barracks with everything you need, including lemonade and cookies in the vending machine. To be resilient, you need sports activities. Sergeants choose a training program for your idle recruits. Instead of a gym, the military camp has its own firing range and shooting range. This is not an idle golf game or a roller coaster, this is a an army simulator, rookie! Become the best special forces soldier and go on missions of transport forces by car! Make your own military business empire! Earn money, replenish the bank and tap tap to invest in military tycoon base development! - Distribute money between your bases - Train and upgrade every soldier - Monitor the progress of your recruits - Create conditions for recruits in the clicker game - Transfer troops between hot spots - Create a training program for your men - Dispatch operatives on dangerous missions - Receive awards from the headquarters - Unlock and customize new bases and make army business empire - Adventure capitalist clicker game ~~~~~~ Rate us in the app store and join our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Military-Operations-Tycoon Join our Discord community! We'll be happy to receive your feedback: https://discord.gg/9GTYjYhcfh

Screenshots

Call For Fire4 screens
Idle Forces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Idle Forces at Free against Call For Fire's $5.99. Idle Forces also leads on ratings volume (5.5K vs 109) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). Call For Fire's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Idle Forces is free to download; Call For Fire costs $5.99 up front. Idle Forces sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Call For Fire asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle Forces holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle Forces has 5.5K ratings behind it against 109, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Call For Fire's written reviews are positive against 44% of Idle Forces's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Call For Fire versus Idle Forces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCall For FireIdle Forces
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (109 ratings)4.6 (5.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews — better43.9% of reviews
Number of ratings1095.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#80 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size244 MB295 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperSimulation Training GroupHot Siberians

Customer experience

Call For Fire

All ratings107 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral7.5%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral11.3%
Negative11.3%

Idle Forces

All ratings5,453 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews269 reviews
Positive43.9%
Neutral20.8%
Negative35.3%

Bugs and requests

Call For Fire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Idle Forces

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Stuck on first mission after completing it
  • Vault upgrade cost exceeds max money storage
  • Cooks not properly feeding soldiers
  • Inconsistent speed upgrade descriptions
  • Directive tutorial loop and freezing
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  • Losing top soldiers for no reason

Requested features

6 requests
  • More content and new bases
  • Customization options for soldiers
  • Better guidance and tutorials
  • Offline progress tracking
  • Sound effects and ambience
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  • Prestige or reset system

In-app purchases

None

Call For Fire

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle Forces

One-time10
  • Special offer$0.99
  • Chained Offer Easy Mark$0.99
  • Piggy Bank$2.99
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  • Operation “Chest”$4.99
  • Special Offer$4.99
  • High-Ranked General$9.99
  • Support Team$10.99
  • Personal Assistant$12.99
  • Special Offer$15.99
  • General’s Pack$29.99

Questions

Is Call For Fire free?
Call For Fire costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idle Forces free?
Idle Forces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Call For Fire or Idle Forces?
Idle Forces is rated higher. Call For Fire averages 4.4 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while Idle Forces averages 4.6 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Call For Fire or Idle Forces have ads?
Idle Forces shows ads; Call For Fire does not.
Which is updated more often, Call For Fire or Idle Forces?
Call For Fire ships an update every 6 weeks, and Idle Forces every 6 weeks. Most recently, Call For Fire was updated on November 3, 2026 and Idle Forces on November 3, 2026.

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