Comparison

War.app vs Heroic Battle

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

Head to head
About

War.app

Engage in strategic turn-based warfare on thousands of community-created maps. Enjoy fair play with no pay-to-win mechanics, and compete against players worldwide or tackle challenging single-player levels. Customize your experience with flexible settings and a variety of in-game cards.

Highlights
  • No pay-to-win
  • Single-player and multi-player modes
  • Cross-platform play
  • Asynchronous games
  • Customizable game settings
  • Thousands of community maps
  • Clans and tournaments
Features
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If you like Hasbro's RISK® game, you'll love War.app! War.app (previously known as Warzone) is a deep, skill-based online strategy game inspired by classic board games but built for modern multiplayer. Fair, Skill-Based Gameplay • No pay-to-win, ever. All games are equally fair for all players. • Luck-free: By default, War.app games are determined entirely by your skill. Single-Player & Multiplayer • Active community: Over 10,000 multi-player games are played every day. • Cross-platform: You can play from your phone, tablet, or computer. You can play against other players no matter what platform they're on. All for free! • Join a clan and compete in clan wars! • Games can be up to 400 players, and can be free-for-alls, teams, co-op, and more! Endless Maps & Customization • War.app has a very flexible engine. When creating games, you have hundreds of settings you can tweak to create anything from a minor variant to a whole new experience. • There are thousands of maps to choose from, all made by the community. Or you can design your own! Maps range from small brawls to epic conquests with 4000 territories. • Play against real people, or play any of the thousands of single-player levels against the computer. Both are 100% free. • Community levels: Play single-player levels from the community, or make your own level and watch replays of other players defeating it. • Cards: War.app has a variety of cards with varying effects, like the Diplomacy Card, Spy Card, Airlift Card, Blockade Card, and more! • Mods allow extending the game engine. No installation required. Play at Your Own Pace • Faster games: All players can take their turn at the same time. Your friends don't need to be all be online at the same time to play with them. Take your turns when it's convenient and War.app will wait for you. Competitive Play • Compete in tournaments, ladders, clan wars, quickmatch. War.app has a highly active competitive community. • Quickmatch: QM makes it easy to jump into multi-player by matching you with players of equal skill on templates you like playing. • Open Games: If Quickmatch isn't to your liking, you can always browse through a list of games made by other players, or make your own! Truly Independent • War.app is an indie game in the truest sense of the word, as the entire game is made by a single person known as Fizzer, who has been developing the game since 2008. • Fizzer hopes to continue developing this game for the rest of his life. Terms of service: https://war.app/TermsOfService RISK® is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc. War.app is not affiliated with Hasbro, Inc.

About

Heroic Battle

A strategic board game testing logic, deception, and memory. Play against friends or a champion AI, with customizable setups for unique gameplay. Learn piece identities through attacks and utilize special unit abilities.

Highlights
  • Logic, deception, and memory gameplay
  • Play against friends online or AI
  • Customizable piece setups
  • Discover piece identities during attacks
  • Special unit abilities
  • Save and load custom game setups
Features
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Heroic Battle is a challenging strategy board game that requires logic, deception and memory. Play against a friend online or a computer opponent: Probe, the Computer Stratego World Champion. You can start a new game in seconds and pause a game to complete at a later time. Heroic Battle is easy to learn. Each game is different. You and your opponent set up your flags, bombs and other pieces and then venture out to try to capture the other’s flag. But the catch is, you only learn the identity of your opponent’s pieces during attacks. Many of the pieces—miners, scouts, the spy—have special properties that you’ll discover as you play. One of the great features of Heroic Battle is that you can create and save your own setups. Each setup produces a different kind of game. Do you prefer fast, wide open play or a slower more conservative pace? Do you want to fortify your flag and defend it or just hide it somewhere and dare your opponent to find it? It’s up to you. Heroic Battle is fun to play with a friend on the same device or a random opponent online. One of you taps to create a game and the other taps to join it. Simple as that. Or you can play against Probe, the built-in computer opponent. Probe is the three-time Computer Stratego World champion, which makes it one of the best AI game engines available. Probe is suitable for play from beginners to experts and can be set to your skill level.

Screenshots

War.app4 screens
Heroic Battle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: War.app at 4.8 against Heroic Battle's 4.1. War.app also leads on review sentiment (66% vs 43%) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 265). Heroic Battle's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. War.app sells 34 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Heroic Battle sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

War.app holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: War.app has 1.6K ratings behind it against 265, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of War.app's written reviews are positive against 43% of Heroic Battle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

War.app ships an update every 4 weeks, Heroic Battle weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
War.app versus Heroic Battle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWar.appHeroic Battle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better4.1 (265 ratings)
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews — better43.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.6K — better265
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB126 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandy FickerRaimonds Rudmanis

Customer experience

War.app

All ratings1,595 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral1.3%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews338 reviews
Positive65.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative28.4%

Heroic Battle

All ratings265 ratings
Positive77.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative16.6%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive43.0%
Neutral15.1%
Negative41.9%

User reviews

War.app

From 1.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Addictive gameplay
  • 👍 Great strategy game
  • 💡 Customizable maps and settings
  • 🚀 Minimal ads
  • 👍 Challenging AI

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🐛 Unresponsive UI
  • 🐛 Difficulty balancing issues
  • 🔋 Performance issues on older devices

Heroic Battle

From 265 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great Stratego gameplay
  • 👍 Good UI and user-friendliness
  • 👍 Works well for single player
  • 👍 Free to play
  • 👍 Customizable board layouts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 New version won't start
  • 🐛 Restore purchases not working
  • 🐛 AI is too easy/predictable
  • 🐛 AI is too strong/cheats
  • 🐛 Game speed increased, AI takes too long

Bugs and requests

War.app

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when playing cards
  • Progress loss after updates
  • Unresponsive controls
  • Map loading issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved map editor on mobile
  • Pass and play local multiplayer
  • Clan/team features on mobile
  • Difficulty settings

Heroic Battle

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • New version won't start
  • Restore purchases not working
  • AI wins not reported
  • Game shuts down unexpectedly
  • Private games show incorrect pieces
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  • Probe AI moves back and forth endlessly
  • AI knows exact piece locations (perceived bug)
  • Spy doesn't take out Marshal (perceived bug)
  • Bombs can be beaten (perceived bug)
  • App crashes upon opening
  • Cannot select certain pieces
  • Pieces hidden from view on turn
  • Bombs and flags invisible
  • Controls don't work properly
  • Random ads freezing gameplay
  • AI gets stuck and repeatedly moves a piece
  • Game field freezes
  • Cannot select a setup
  • AI response time too slow
  • Pieces do not set up on initial board

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add online multiplayer
  • Improve AI difficulty/aggression
  • Add different map options
  • Add optional modes from special editions
  • Connect account info to Game Center
Show 5 more
  • Update graveyard to show total pieces
  • Add aggressor advantage rule
  • Add piece and board themes/skins
  • Make AI harder or add challenge mode
  • Allow users to create own setups (if not already)

In-app purchases

34 purchases

War.app

Subscriptions2
  • Membership$3.991 Month
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time32
  • Day Against Nuclear Tests$2.99
  • Mother's Day Sale$3.99
  • Father's Day$3.99
Show 29 more
  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
  • Super Camp$9.99
  • Out of School Sale$9.99
  • Spring Bundle$9.99
  • The Winter Bundle$9.99
  • Cyber Monday Sale$9.99
  • Summer Solstice Bundle$9.99
  • Mega Strategy Pack$14.99
  • Mega Maps Pack$14.99
  • Holiday Bundle$14.99
  • World Environment Day Bundle$14.99
  • January Jumpstart Bundle$14.99
  • New Years Bundle$14.99
  • World Kindness Day Sale$14.99
  • Autumn Bundle$14.99
  • International Day of Peace$14.99
  • World Chess Day Bundle$14.99
  • Day of Human Space Flight$19.99
  • World Water Day Bundle$19.99
  • Halloween Bundle$19.99
  • Summer Sale$19.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Valentine's Day Sale$29.99
  • Auto Artifact Swapper$34.99
  • Thanksgiving Sale$39.99
  • Birthday Bundle$39.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99
5 purchases

Heroic Battle

One-time5
  • 20 setup slots$2.99
  • Unlock all setups$2.99
  • Heroic Battle Complete$4.99
Show 2 more
  • Remove ads$4.99
  • Heroic Battle Complete$8.99

Questions

Is War.app free?
War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heroic Battle free?
Heroic Battle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, War.app or Heroic Battle?
War.app is rated higher. War.app averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Heroic Battle averages 4.1 from 265 ratings.
Do War.app or Heroic Battle have ads?
Neither War.app nor Heroic Battle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, War.app or Heroic Battle?
War.app ships an update every 4 weeks, and Heroic Battle weekly. Most recently, War.app was updated on October 19, 2026 and Heroic Battle on October 13, 2026.

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