Nodewar vs Celestile

Welcome to Nodewar! Command nodes, outsmart the AI, and conquer the grid across 40 handcrafted levels and 5 unique worlds. Nodewar is a minimalist strategy game where you command nodes on a grid to capture enemy territory. Send units along connections, outgrow your opponents, and conquer every node to claim victory. FIVE UNIQUE WORLDS • Foundations — Learn the basics of node warfare • Strategy — Generators, fortresses, and relays change the game • Mastery — Limited moves and chain reactions test your skill • Fog of War — Hidden nodes add tension and surprise • Time Attack — Race against the clock with every constraint combined 40 HANDCRAFTED LEVELS Each level is a unique puzzle of positioning, timing, and resource management. Earn up to 3 stars per level based on your speed. DAILY CHALLENGES A new procedurally generated level every day. Build your streak and sharpen your tactics. KEY FEATURES • Clean, minimalist design with smooth animations • Three AI personalities: aggressive, defensive, and balanced • Undo system to correct mistakes • Adjustable game speed (1x, 2x, 3x) • Five premium cosmetic themes to customize your style • iCloud sync across devices • No ads. Ever. Nodewar rewards careful thinking over quick reflexes. Every level can be won with the right strategy.

A turn-based 4X strategy game with no dice. Every attack shows its exact result before you commit, and that number is what happens. No luck. Just the plan you made. Claim a cluster of space one tile at a time — expand, build, research, and out-think up to fourteen rival empires. TWO WAYS TO WIN Domination — hold every planet on the map. Ascendancy — finish ahead of every rival inside 40 rounds. DETERMINISTIC COMBAT The forecast above your units is the outcome. Attack, defence, terrain and tech resolve to one number, and you see it before you commit. A fight you lose is a fight you misread, not one the dice took from you. EIGHT FACTIONS, EACH WITH A COST Every faction has one real strength and one real weakness. Hive Mind builds mines for 1 energy and pulls 50% more out of them. Swarm fields cheaper units and one extra per planet, but defends 10% weaker. Nothing here is a straight upgrade, so choosing is an actual decision. TERRITORY YOU HAVE TO EARN Every planet projects a zone of control, and you can only build inside your own. Put three Moon Lasers in a planet's zone and that zone widens. Growth is a build order, not a land grab. A TECH WEB THAT FITS ON ONE SCREEN Five disciplines — Warfare, Doctrine, Aeronautics, Stellar and Lunar — three tiers each. Fifteen technologies on a radial web you read at a glance instead of scrolling. FOG THAT HIDES FLEETS, NOT GEOGRAPHY You see your own zones plus a tile, and a tile around every unit. Ground you have already explored stays on the map, dimmed. An enemy fleet standing on it does not. AN ECONOMY YOU CAN LEVERAGE Deposit energy in the bank and draw interest. Or borrow against the future and settle a balloon payment five rounds later. Miss it and the Galactic Bank sends dreadnoughts to collect. EIGHT UNIT CLASSES Scout, Marine, Rover, Fighter, Bomber, Mech, Artillery, Dreadnought. Build a military university for a class and every unit of that class attacks 10% harder for the rest of the game, anywhere on the map. BUILT FOR A PHONE, NOT PORTED TO ONE Portrait, one-handed, low-poly worlds on deep space navy. The board scales with the field — a tight 12x12 grid against a single opponent, up to 24x24 against fourteen. Four difficulty levels. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No login. No internet connection. No chat. There is one interstitial ad, and only from your third match of the day. Buy any faction and it never appears again. Players in the EEA, UK and Switzerland never see it at all. WHAT IS FREE Two factions — Hive Mind and Swarm — and the whole game around them: every map size, every unit, every technology, both win conditions, all 63 achievements. Six further factions are a one-time purchase each. No subscription. 63 achievements, a five-star rating for every faction, and a career record that persists between games. Nine languages: English, Spanish, Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Korean, Japanese. Frosty Robot Studio.