Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 01:13 pm
1944 Burning Bridges – Strategy Game Review
1944 Burning Bridges is a Strategy/Simulation game from www.handy-games.com GmbH, first launched in 20th January 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 361+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes 1944 Burning Bridges Stand Out
Duty calls: Experience an exciting strategy gameplay and master challenging military missions! Storm the beaches of Normandy with the Allied troops or take command of the Axis and defend the Atlantic Wall. History depends on you!
TOTAL WORLD WAR
This is the decisive World War II battle between the Allied forces and the Axis powers! Choose your path and lead your army to victory!
TURN-BASED TACTICAL WARFARE
The right war strategy is the key to the ultimate victory! Plan your attacks and conquer or destroy connecting bridges, bunkers and roadblocks, to get yourself a tactical advantage!
DANGEROUS MISSIONS
Become the greatest general of all time and prove your tactical skills in plenty of different war campaigns! Unlock new missions, maps and scenarios!
DEADLY COMBAT UNITS
Take command of special units like paratroopers and bomber squadrons! Surprise your opponents from above and conquer strategic points in the enemy territory!
MASSIVE WEAPON ARSENAL
Fight with tanks, warplanes, infantry, paratroopers and much more powerful combat units and weaponry! Heavy artillery, espionage balloons and flamethrowers included!
VARIETY OF BATTLEFIELDS
Battle your way through the enemy lines by land, by sea and in the air! Lead your soldiers into battle and crush your enemies on the historical battlefields!
MORE FEATURES
– FREE TO PLAY!
– Impactful WW2 strategy setting!
– Destructible and fixable bridges as tactical hot spots!
– Radar technology to detect enemy forces!
– Huge fortresses and fortified MG nests!
– Wide range of military vehicles like trucks, transporters and supply units!
– Detailed game graphics and epic sounds!
– Game Center support!
– A very own '1944 Burning Bridges' Facebook community!
You can play '1944 Burning Bridges' entirely for FREE, though various items are available via in-app purchase. If you don’t want to use in-app purchases, please deactivate them in your device settings.
Thank you for playing '1944 Burning Bridges'!
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, 1944 Burning Bridges is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd December 2024
Recent improvements include:
Added full-screen support on newer iOS devices and improved notch handling
Removed ad banner
Fixed problem of accidentally using low resolution graphics on some devices
Changed ad provider
Download & Availability
1944 Burning Bridges is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get 1944 Burning Bridges on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game a lot but, we wish they had a battle of the bulge game and different kind of landing craft. But besides all of that, we love the game and lot.
IT IS amazing we love it it just gives you so much feeling about the real world wars. We love it you HAVE to try it bye.
First we hope the developers are listening because this is our favorite video game series please make a Vietnam war strategy gameI love the game thank you.
What is the difference between this and the 2.99 premium game.
So we have played this game for many years but we have always been sad that the bombers and tanks could not use mgs because all tanks ever made (except not all tank destroyers) have mgs and all bombers in history have mgs (or at least auto cannons) other than this we have no problem with the game but we would suggest that some units could use multiple weapon types for example:rifle man can use m1 grands and lee enfields and what not or they can use bars m1903-s or lee enfield smle-s so it is more tactical and realistic.
Good game but make a Vietnam game like this and make Iraq and Afghanistan.
We might not be the most strategic person out there but we feel like this game is a little to hard and we would like to see this improved by adding a slider where you can decide the difficulty of the A.we. Bye the time of us writing this review we realize that this game might not be supported anymore but Handy-games we hope you can think about this. (other wise this game is amazing).
Hi this game is awesomeHoping you would make a Vietnam version please do great game.
We would personally recommend this game to anybody who likes World War II or war stuff but we want to one feature to be able to build your own map.
We love every single one of these games Ive played all four and there amazing exactly what Ive been looking for. But we need a ww1 game like the iconic trench battles on the front lines with bunkers,trenches,artillery,gas,planes,tanks, and of course the classic British saucer looking hats and the German spike hats. Please we neeed this.
Handy games, please make a new game or either get some new update for this game or the other war games if your doing a new we really want to see the battle of France evacuation of Dunkirk and maybe some navy missions and maps for the game the germans vs The Royal Navy. This is a definite more countries instead of using the same skins for other countries you should make their own like the British should get there own. We think another idea is for a new game is Endsieg 1945 for the German Reich or the Japanese Empire the game can be like a survival and you have to defend against the Soviets and the Allies you can do different missions you defend against the Allies or the Soviets same thing for the maps. Well, hope you tale our advice.
We personally love this game but they stopped updating it, it still has so much potential.
Hi we would really like it if in the first US campaign battleships did bombardments cause it would make it more fun and easier so Ill let you think about it.
We love the add for the game so serious and fun we love it.
It is a great game but it needs more countries like Great Britain,Canada,France,and finally Italy, now that is our opinion but we would like it if you did it.
This game is a lot of fun to mess around in. We WOULD LOVE A CIVIL WAR GAME. But yeah this game is plenty fun along with its sister games.
This is one of the best WW2 strategy games we have ever played! It would be amazing if you could make a Germany vs France game like this. If you could that is.
This is the game we have been looking for for such a long time. We enjoy playing strategy games and we are obsessed with WW2 and D-day and all that. The campaign Ill admit is hard and is getting harder and Im kinda struggling but still having a great time. Like others have said in their reviews, we to dont enjoy the ads but for how good this game is we guess it is not that big of a problem. We truly recommend this game to anyone who likes WW2 and likes strategy games.
This game is awesome but when you think deep its really hard . You get not much money what if somebody wants millions of soilders and new units its easy to lose new units can fix that and bigger maps so you can have multiple outpost and multiplayer is something to so we can sochilize or multiple spots on one team and if one spends gold you dont so you can win and like 22 spots on each team is maximum players on one team and civilians to. And lsat the last level to campaign or you can buy it in sandbox it needs nukes so 4 and a half.
This game can be pretty good just because it has awesome graphics awesome action and awesome things! When we played this game, it should have more improvements, like having allied ships bombard coastal positions, voice acting in each unit when being selected, and having a sandbox mode where you put many units by setting up many gold and putting a big background which may contain many airfields and bases. This game should also have improvements like having troops instead of going so far by foot, they can use a jeep for long range missions. This game should have all the same things from deadly desert like howitzer, songs, and medium bombers which can put explosions on multiple enemies at once to make this game even better. This game should also have even more things like a p-38 lightning for a heavy fighter, a p-51 mustang for another cheaper light fighter, an m10 wolverine, a commander in multiplayer and sandbox, a command vehicle, a panzer iv, a panzer ii, a Matilda tank, a valentine tank, and even more things in this awesome game. Handygames, we hope you respond back. Thx.
Its pretty nice, and we just wanted to give ideas for new games. Invasion of Italy Invasion of Poland The blitz (attack on Britain) Winter war Invasion of China Defense of France Also for the last one, one of the campaign levels could be Dunkirk we just wanted to give some ideas.
Might want to differ something between the premium and the regular other than the ads.
Hey we know that you mainly make ww2 games but maybe you can make a ww1 game you could do maps like Flanders or the pacific or even Gallipole in multiplayer both players have a trench line and have to take out the enemys trench.
Is awesome all the ones you make but it will be cool if you could add more maps like the Battle of Britain 1940, invasion of Poland 1939,Battle of Berlin 1945 and more countries and missions we know is difficult but pls try and make it if you do this,this games will be one of the best strategic games.
We love this game and have played for 2 years but there was no mini map to locate where we are and our troops so they are always scattered around and dont some dont get moved at all but it makes for some good role play and thats why we love it and also it is an accurate ww2 simulation.
Ive played all your WW2 strategy games and loved it. However, we think we should be able to create custom scenarios for your games that other players can play with a map editor and unit placement for both sides. Itd be great since theres nothing much to do after beating the campaign.
The only thing we hate about this game is that we cant listen to our music while playing the game.
We love this game but we want to be able to play over the internet. Our friend and we are both war nerds and we wanna play each other all the time but we cant because we cant play over the dang internet. We would like that in all your games about ww2. The second thing is we would like a new game with Italy vs Australia Yes Australia was in the war and they did fight against Italy. You could call it the Aussie invasion or something like that. Please please please please do those things it would be so much better with those. P.s you can decide the new name if you dont like Aussie invasion. Please respond.
This has REAL history in ww2 And the Nazi are turrets are op.
Handy games we have been following you for years and we have an idea we know this is stupid but you know Star Wars force arena you should make a Star Wars version but you can choose the clone wars Galactic empire times and the first order we love Star Wars but we love WW2 more but still please just add plus that it needs to be free in the clone wars you start with regular clone troopers but like this game 8 people in one group if you are in the galactic empire storm troopers the regular black and white armor the first order still stormtroopers If your on the dark side in the clone wars those assault brownish robots that say roger roger to much that one repeplic those soldiers with vests and a blaster and that backwards shaped helmet the resistance uh those soldiers with helmets with the yellow visors and brown suit just do that please.
This is our favorite of the Handy Games series in this genre. Although we let it sit on our iPad for quite some time before playing it, once we got going and started to learn the game, we were hooked. Fairly simple learning curve, mastering the game was fun and engaging. Thumbs up to the Developers! Hope you are able to keep the updates and new campaigns coming.
Ive played this game off and on for a few years now and we think its pretty fun. We do think that after a while you can predict what the ai will do very easily because it just does the same thing over and over. Plus there is no additions to the game. We still play now and then but we get bored of it quickly because we dont really find any challenge in the ai anymore. But if there was any new content ever added we would definitely play.
The game is epic, but the free play ones are boring because they dont have the other types of the bunkers. Plus, please add Tiger tanks. Also, can we have more options for the planes? Thank you for reading this.
Most of the game is hard some is ez we want to do pvp not pass and play we are on iPad.
We have been wanting a game that titles a battle from the last year of the war. We personally, being a fanatic of history we would really appreciate it if you could make something such as that.
We do enjoy the game very much (besides the ads) and have a good time. But you could add a map creator or sandbox or mission creator.
This game is great and Handy Games is doing well, but we find the campaign missions for this game, and the others to be very hard. For example, we land our forces and overrun the first 2 bunkers, then, we have to fight German forces along the beach. And just when you think youre done, it asks you to destroy 7 more bunkers, and youre forces are weak. But not only that, you dont have the money to supply of by more forces. So, we think the missions should be more easy than they are as of right now.
Great game but for 1943 deadly dessert why is it rated 17+ and not 9+ like the rest.
We really like the game but here is a few things that might get you better reviews first the ad's need to go because we hit the button to "delete" the ad but we have to pay for it which is not a good thing because what if someone can't pay for it you might wanna think about that and then you have endless amounts of everything for the enemy and we get America with buy more war bonds or something like that but the enemy the same thing but never happened in the game only us have to pay for everything when they have endless everything no fair and this is an easy fix whenever we move the troops/tanks/aircraft it faces right when we're going left please fix that and that's it nothing else.
Good game but it feels like no matter what side you play on the enemy will always have an endless supply of money and way more troops than you can get.
Good game when passing the time. Only have 2 issues. 1- The games advertisements are terrible (but you expect that) 2- sometimes Ill play pass and play and be having a blast against our brother and then the game would glitch and send out of the game. Explained better we would end our turn.open up and see the part where we see what happened.we click skip and it would kick us out the game and have to restart. Even if we waited for the video to end it wouldnt end. Please fix.
The game keeps crashing or freezes when we move okay it really annoying so fix it please. (P.s l play and a iPad got it.)and sometimes it sets us to home screen.
The game is good itself but when we were about to do our turn but a random ad popped up and only said rotate device and when we were about the close the ad the x wouldnt show so we had to restart our entire battle.
So, the Frist mission for usa isnt that hard, second mission is, they send to many dive bombers for our planes, king tigers? Thats not historically accurate, their planes never run out of fuel and ammo, on the 4th mission, their artillery is TOO long range, they know where you are even if nothing is on you the German missions are way easier, 2 stars, not historically accurate.
It always keeps crashing whenever we try to start a new turn, so we keep losing progress on battles and have to completely start over.
The game one if you go to the story mode pop up ads every second youll see that if you go to cross play it just makes you play alone with bots and it might look like there really people and you might be able to talk to them but it just puts you with a bit that has took someones username and the person that username that they took from and the ai on there screen has your user name and if nobodys playing it will use a random user name and if you look at the person and you know them they used our brothers username and he was on YouTube and we were in a match with him.
This game needs more vehicles because when we look at the main picture of the game when you get in we see a tiger tank and in this game you cant even play with a tiger tank witch gets us more confused because when we play the game instead of a tiger 1 there is a tiger 2 or you can call it a tiger king.
The supply/resupply system is set to clean out your bank account. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to win anything past level 1, if you can even win that. Ive downloaded all their free games. Theyre awesome games except for the fact you really will never win unless you want to spend $,, or whatever passes for cash in your country.
Listen it has great potential not everyone wants to spend 3 dollars on a game they want to test because we could barely play without getting distracted or accidentally pressed they add.
This game was fun when it came out. Downloaded it again for iPad Air 3rd generation. Well, the game looks putrid. Isnt even optimized for the newer tablet. Deleted, and without a fun RTS game. O well.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.7
- Size: 157.39 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH
Last updated: 2nd December 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH