Comparison

War.app vs WW2 Countries At War

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

WW2 Countries At War

Engage in turn-based strategic combat across historical World War II campaigns. Command land, air, and sea forces to conquer territories and dominate the globe. Recruit allies or conquer rivals in increasingly challenging scenarios.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy gameplay
  • World War II campaigns
  • Land, air, and sea forces
  • Recruit or conquer nations
  • Increasingly complex scenarios
  • Global domination objectives
Features
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WW2 Countries At War is a turn-based game pitting the various major and minor powers against each other. This war game is based on the WW2 conflict and plays through scenarios that increase in difficulty and complexity. Use your land, air and sea forces to spread and dominate the world. As one of the major powers, you can recruit minor countries or conquer any country standing in your way to victory.

Screenshots

War.app4 screens
WW2 Countries At War4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: War.app at none against WW2 Countries At War's shown. War.app also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). WW2 Countries At War's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (79% vs 66%). On price, ratings volume, 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 WW2 Countries At War 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 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.6K and 2.5K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of War.app's written reviews are positive against 79% of WW2 Countries At War's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

War.app ships an update every 3 weeks, WW2 Countries At War every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
War.app versus WW2 Countries At War: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWar.appWW2 Countries At War
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better4.6 (2.5K ratings)
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews78.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K2.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB590 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandy Fickerwombi pty ltd

Customer experience

War.app

All ratings1,590 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews337 reviews
Positive65.9%
Neutral5.9%
Negative28.2%

WW2 Countries At War

All ratings2,452 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral3.7%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews373 reviews
Positive78.8%
Neutral9.7%
Negative11.5%

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

WW2 Countries At War

From 2.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Very good
  • 👍 Great game
  • 🚀 Amazing
  • 🚀 Awesome
  • 👍 Surprisingly addictive game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes constantly
  • 🐛 Disappearing units
  • 🐛 Glitches
  • 🐛 Buggy
  • 🐛 Erratic behavior

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

WW2 Countries At War

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Armies getting locked in certain territories
  • Troops disappearing when transferred
  • Inability to close battle report
  • Menus overlapping, preventing button presses
  • Game crashing on certain turns
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  • Entire screen freezing on certain actions
  • Allies/friends randomly declaring war
  • Countries joining alliances automatically

Requested features

16 requests
  • Add diplomacy features
  • Add more countries and maps
  • Add new game modes like sandbox
  • Add different types of divisions
  • Add more advanced diplomacy mechanics
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  • Add WW1 or Cold War scenarios
  • Add ability to make peace
  • Add ability to join different alliances
  • Add more economic improvements and resource strategy
  • Add ability to randomize alliances
  • Add ability to make allies/friends declare war less
  • Add ability to upgrade units
  • Add ability to make peace treaties and post-war borders
  • Add civil war mechanics
  • Add ability to surrender countries
  • Add ability to make countries puppets or vassals

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
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  • 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

WW2 Countries At War

One-time5
  • BuyCredits$3.99
  • Buy 15 contracts$5.99
  • BuyExpansionGame$7.99
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  • BuyFullGame$7.99
  • BuyBulkCredits$8.99

Questions

Is War.app free?
War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WW2 Countries At War free?
WW2 Countries At War is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, War.app or WW2 Countries At War?
War.app is rated higher. War.app averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while WW2 Countries At War averages 4.6 from 2.5K ratings.
Do War.app or WW2 Countries At War have ads?
WW2 Countries At War shows ads; War.app does not.
Which is updated more often, War.app or WW2 Countries At War?
War.app ships an update every 3 weeks, and WW2 Countries At War every 4 days. Most recently, War.app was updated on September 24, 2026 and WW2 Countries At War on September 22, 2026.

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