Four Tribes vs Pointless Wars
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Tribes
Lead your people to victory as a god, flattening land for settlements and unleashing disasters on rival tribes. Guide your peasants to build and harness their power to dominate the competition.
- Lead your tribe as a god
- Flatten land for settlements
- Build settlements
- Unleash disasters on enemies
- Compete against rival tribes
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As the God of your tribe you must protect and lead your people to victory over the other three competing tribes. Flatten the land so your peasants can find space to build settlements, and with the power that they give to you rain down disasters on your enemies' heads. For the latest news on all of my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!
Pointless Wars
Engage in strategic battles against friends or AI in this multiplayer and single-player war game. Choose your troops and defend your castle across 20 unique levels, or compete in an 8-player tournament. The objective is to have fun battling for no reason.
- Two-player mode
- Single-player campaign
- 20 unique levels
- 8-player tournament mode
- Troop selection
- Castle defense
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Welcome, and join the battle by declaring war.... for no reason whatsoever. Play against your friends and family in two-player mode, where you each get to choose your arsenal of troops to take each other down! In the single-player campaign, you fight against an enemy AI whose only purpose is to destroy your castle. There are 20 fun-packed levels, each a little different than the one before. If one is too hard, just skip to the next one! Defend against the onslaught by sending out troops, but you don't get to choose your arsenal..... The fun doesn't stop there! You can play up to 8 players in tournament mode. Battle to the top of the bracket in individual battles, and see who will come out on top! With so many Pointless Wars happening, we hope you have fun battling your opponents for no reason! Good luck out there!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pointless Wars at 100% against Four Tribes's 54%. Pointless Wars also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Four Tribes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 22 months). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model 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
Pointless Wars is free to download; Four Tribes costs $1.99 up front. Pointless Wars sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Four Tribes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pointless Wars holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Four Tribes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pointless Wars's.
Four Tribes ships an update every 7 months, Pointless Wars every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Four Tribes | Pointless Wars |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Peter Brumbach |
Customer experience
Four Tribes
Pointless Wars
Bugs and requests
Four Tribes
Reported bugs
32 issues- Regularly crashes
- Action takes place offscreen or is blocked
- Game runs slow when a lot is happening
- Recently started crashing
- Needs landscape mode for iPad
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- Cannot keep up with fast chip
- Lack of raising land on land
- Playing with just thumb is rubbish
- CPU is unforgiving
- Struggling to win level one on very easy
- Huge random element
- Not playable on Plus
- Cannot launch games on 6S
- Momentum scrolling is terrible
- Broken on iOS8
- Unplayable
- Cannot scroll beyond level boundaries
- Accidental volcanoes when flattening edge
- Save your money until new version
- Game crashes on title screen
- Does not open
- Refusing to load since OS4 update
- Choppy/slow performance
- Waste of time and money, does not load
- Restored phone and iPod touch because of it
- Won't even open
- Crashes at the very beginning
- Won't start up
- Level 13 crashes every time
- Game crashes on title screen
- Laggy on old devices
- Crashing issues
Requested features
32 requests- Landscape mode for iPad
- More introduction/tutorial
- Gentle pace for starting
- Build and flatten land
- Smarter AI for harder levels
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- Add sink holes or landslides
- Modern militaristic version (nukes, missiles)
- Drag to add land
- Add Demi gods
- Create own levels and share
- More levels
- Animated landscape changes
- LAN or GameCenter multiplayer
- Custom maps/user created levels
- Time speed up/slow down
- Better AI for troops and AI
- More textures (swamps, deserts)
- Reset game or more levels
- Freeplay mode
- Achievements
- Multiplayer
- Infinite mode
- Ability to control Knights
- Build water
- Raise mountains
- Add tornadoes
- Raise sea level
- Choice of enemy count
- Music/background sound
- Wizard character
- Different building types
- More attacks
Pointless Wars
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Four Tribes
No in-app purchases
Pointless Wars
- Remove Ads$1.99
Questions
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