Comparison

War.app vs Forest Brothers

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

Forest Brothers

Engage in a turn-based strategy game defending Estonia against Soviet occupation. Survive and fight for freedom inspired by historical resistance efforts. This free game focuses on strategic survival during a challenging period.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy gameplay
  • Historical setting: Soviet occupation of Estonia
  • Survival-focused objectives
  • Inspired by real resistance fighters
  • Free to play
Features
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Defend the nation of Estonia as one of the Forest Brothers. A free turn-based strategy game where the only goal is survival as you fight back against the Communist occupation during the days of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the heroic exploits of the tens of thousands of men and women who fought for their freedom from tyranny. Created by the author of Rebooting a Nation: The Incredible Rise of Estonia, E-Government, and the Startup Revolution, a nonfiction book about how the nation of Estonia became a global leader in tech and digital government technology in only a single generation post re-independence.

Screenshots

War.app4 screens
Forest Brothers3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forest Brothers at none against War.app's 34. Forest Brothers also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). War.app's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 1). On price, ads, 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

Both are free to download. War.app sells 34 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Forest Brothers asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Forest Brothers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: War.app has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
War.app versus Forest Brothers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWar.appForest Brothers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandy FickerJoel Burke20003134761

Customer experience

War.app

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

Forest Brothers

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Forest Brothers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Forest Brothers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is War.app free?
War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forest Brothers free?
Forest Brothers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, War.app or Forest Brothers?
Forest Brothers is rated higher. War.app averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Forest Brothers averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do War.app or Forest Brothers have ads?
Neither War.app nor Forest Brothers shows ads.

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