Comparison

Warlands vs Building Colonies

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

Head to head
About

Warlands

Engage in turn-based strategic combat to conquer territories and achieve global domination. Deploy diverse units across varied terrains and challenge up to seven opponents locally or online.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy gameplay
  • World domination objective
  • Multiplayer (local & online)
  • Two unit types (attack/defense)
  • Six territory types
  • Multiple map styles and sizes
Features
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Warlands is a turn-based strategy game where your goal is to destroy your enemies and take over the map until you achieve total world domination. You can play up to 7 other people or computers, either on the same device or over the internet. You are able to place two different types of units (one that is better at attacking, and one that is better at defending), and there are six different types of territory: plains, impassable mountains, treacherous water, defensive towers, cunning forests, and unit production centers. The free base game comes with three styles of maps in three sizes each. Additional map packs can be purchased for 99 cents. Purchase of any map pack removes advertisements. Full instructions at WarlandsGame.com --------- Map Packs: The Divided Lands - Includes spiral, layers, and cubes maps The High Seas - Includes fire-islands, whirlpool, and water-world maps The Desolate Country - Includes bases, rapid-growth, and continents maps

About

Building Colonies

Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Land colonization
  • Map exploration
  • Colony development
  • Resource management
  • Colony defense and attack
  • Tribal interaction
Features
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics

Screenshots

Warlands4 screens
Building Colonies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Warlands at 67% against Building Colonies's 0%. Warlands also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (167 vs 1). Building Colonies's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Warlands sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Building Colonies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Warlands holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Warlands has 167 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Warlands's written reviews are positive against 0% of Building Colonies's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Warlands versus Building Colonies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWarlandsBuilding Colonies
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (167 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews67.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings167 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB15 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperW-Cubed Studios, LLCMaxim Rudyi

Customer experience

Warlands

All ratings167 ratings
Positive73.7%
Neutral9.0%
Negative17.4%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive67.4%
Neutral12.0%
Negative20.7%

Building Colonies

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Warlands

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Game freezes on home screen at startup
  • Buttons unresponsive on launch screen
  • App crashes 30 seconds after opening
  • Troop placement lag and loading delays
  • Screen flashing during enemy turns causing headaches
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  • Camera launching into blank space when zooming
  • Fog of war causing performance issues
  • Game crashes when changing match settings
  • Hexes not accepting troop placement
  • In-app purchase system not working
  • DLC maps unable to be purchased
  • Notifications not working properly

Requested features

16 requests
  • Custom map creation tool
  • Additional unit types (cavalry, faster units)
  • Castle and bridge construction mechanics
  • Team/alliance gameplay modes
  • Campaign mode or story progression
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  • More maps and game modes
  • Faster AI turn speed options
  • Real-world map packs (continents, countries)
  • Better damage system explanation
  • Improved graphics and textures
  • Battle music and sound effects
  • Discord integration for finding opponents
  • Ability to freely move camera during AI turns
  • Remove ads option or ad-free purchase
  • Team battle functionality
  • Larger map sizes

Building Colonies

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Warlands

One-time3
  • Map Pack - The Divided Lands$0.99
  • Map Pack - The High Seas$0.99
  • Map Pack - The Desolate Country$0.99
None

Building Colonies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Warlands free?
Warlands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Building Colonies free?
Building Colonies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Warlands or Building Colonies?
Warlands is rated higher. Warlands averages 4.0 out of 5 from 167 ratings, while Building Colonies averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Warlands or Building Colonies have ads?
Both Warlands and Building Colonies show ads.

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