Comparison

War.app vs Base Alpha

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.

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Base Alpha

Features
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Your crew has just touched down on the Moon. Keep them alive, and find out what the Moon can teach us. Base Alpha is a survival strategy game about building the first lunar science base. Choose one of five real landing sites, set down your first habitat, and build the power, oxygen, water and food your crew need to live, before the Sun sets on a night that lasts two weeks. Then do what you came for: explore, study and discover. MAKE REAL DISCOVERIES • 13 discoveries drawn from real lunar science: ancient comet ice in craters that never see the Sun, a lava tube big enough to shelter a city, the Moon's first crust, a fragment of the early Earth, helium-3 for fusion, the radio glow from before the first stars, and more • Survey strange sites with your crew, record moonquakes and solar flares in your Research Lab, and watch the sky from an Observatory • Every discovery explains what it means for people on Earth, earns a grant, and makes your base better • Each mission has a science goal as well as a survival goal, and a Science Archive keeps everything you've found BUILD YOUR BASE • 16 modules, all open from the start: habitats, solar arrays, life support, ice extractors, greenhouses, battery banks, reactors, excavators, sintering plants, parts factories, storage depots, comms arrays, research labs, observatories, robotics depots and a launch pad • Mine metals and helium-3, dig regolith by hand, and turn them into bricks and parts • Plan a layout that keeps your crew clear of reactor radiation LEAD YOUR CREW • Recruit specialists and name them: engineers build faster, scientists research faster, geologists survey and dig faster, medics help everyone heal • Every crew member has their own health and radiation dose. Send them out to build, survey and repair, and bring them in before it's too late • Crew off duty work at the lab desks, and a Robotics Depot's robots repair the base without taking a dose SURVIVE THE MOON • The lunar night: 14 sols without sunlight. Store enough power, or run reactors on helium-3 • Micrometeorite strikes, moonquakes, solar flares, dust storms, deep cold, crop blight, scrubbed launches and more TRADE WITH EARTH • Order supplies and recruits, delivered by rocket to your launch pad • Export helium-3 and metals to pay for the colony • Research upgrades such as Thin-film Solar, a Water Recycler and a Med Bay FIVE REAL LANDING SITES, FOUR DIFFICULTIES Shackleton Rim, Mare Tranquillitatis, Cabeus Crater, Malapert Massif and the Marius Hills, each with its own mix of ice, sunlight, metals and helium-3, and a fresh map every mission. From a 30-sol Easy mission to an 80-sol Brutal one. New to the Moon? The Training Mission teaches the basics step by step. • Pause at any time: build and plan while the clock is stopped, then play at up to 4× speed • Plays offline. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account • Made for iPhone and iPad, in any orientation on iPad Inspired by the real plans for a base on the Moon.

Screenshots

War.app4 screens
Base Alpha4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Base Alpha at none against War.app's 10. 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Base Alpha asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
War.app versus Base Alpha: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWar.appBase Alpha
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRandy FickerGalapptic Limited Liability Company

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

Base Alpha

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

War.app

Subscriptions2
  • Membership$3.991 Month
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time8
  • Mother's Day Sale$3.99
  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
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  • Super Camp$9.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Halloween Bundle$29.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99
None

Base Alpha

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is War.app free?
War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Base Alpha free?
Base Alpha is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do War.app or Base Alpha have ads?
Neither War.app nor Base Alpha shows ads.

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