Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 12:26 pm
Tiny Armies – Puzzle Game Review
Tiny Armies is a Puzzle/Strategy game from Brothers Flint, first launched in 13th September 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 306+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tiny Armies Stand Out
Epic battles of tiny proportions!
Tiny Armies is a fast-paced game of conquest. Swipe your units to conquer the enemy and strategize as you encounter lakes, mountains, and forests along the way.
Play solo, battle your friends face-to-face, or jump into iMessage to battle across the world.
Quick bursts of gameplay with a striking presentation, designed for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and iMessage.
- Reviews –
"Tiny Armies is a fast, lightweight, easy-to-play, game of conquest. This one's worth buying on your iOS device." – Pocket Tactics
"Tiny Armies should be standard issue for all Apple Watch owners. It places an effortless punch right on the button that delivers a knockout." – The Zarf
"This is the type of game you'd expect to play on a watch. Once you start playing – oh my gosh – it's like wait, they're attacking me! I'm not just swiping. It's not passive. These guys are moving trying to eliminate me. It's actually quite fun." – Apple WatchCast
"One level of Tiny Armies takes a mere minute which makes it perfect for short play sessions. The game is fun and fairly challenging, you’ll need some good tactics to play a couple moves ahead and take down Red." – 5 Minute Games
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tiny Armies is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th January 2021
Recent improvements include:
This update fixes a swiping issue on Apple Watch Series 3. Thanks to the players who brought this to our attention!
Download & Availability
Tiny Armies is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
The maps sometimes trap our soldiers and we have to drown ourselves, or its made so that we cant win. Maybe you should try making certain blocks (like water) not spawn in certain places? Thanks, good job.
Got this game years ago for our Apple Watch. Recently rediscovered it for our iPhone and am loving every moment of it. Its a classic and its one of those games that would excel at multiplayer online battles if the devs wanna go that route. We have more ideas too and would like to reach out.
This is one of the simplest, but cleverly delightful games Ive ever found in the App Store. Simple to grasp but it has provided hours of fun.
We found this game randomly and we love it! Its just the right balance of casual strategy and luck. The design is gorgeous, sophisticated, and the UI super easy. We pick it up and play it often because of how quick you can get in and out, and progress is always saved. Thank you also for monetizing fairly with no ads, no IAP, no data collection. The file size is small and the app uses no battery. You did everything right here. Thank you developer.
Pretend to be an important business man but really be playing a fun game on your wrist. Very nice.
Just from the short time ive play this game, ive learned two things. First one being, If the plan is simple, more than likely it works. Second lesson being, if it costs, it costs.
We love this game its very nice to have it as an option to play with someone else Ive used it well waiting in line and its nice because it goes on our Apple Watch so we get to play and when we dont have our phone at work or even if we want to save battery life on our phone.
School is fun however, a Level editor would definitely help. It would be more replayable. An online mode would be really cool.
Good game but gets boring after 10 minutes.
A few hours ago we noticed the app unstalled itself on our phone, so we attempt to restall it only for the app to say unable to install. So Im curious, was it an glitch or was it down.
Its pretty fun for a game you can play a little anywhere without much time commitment. The Apple Watch feature is implemented well. The only criticism is that the gameplay itself isnt as strategy based as we would like, a significant portion of it seems to be luck based on the starting position, but besides that its not bad for the price at all.
So this game is a really fun strategy game and we love it. The only changes we would make would be a level creator. So we can make our own levels and play thoughs levels with NPCs and our friends! Another thing is that your game is not online so we cant play ageist real Peaple that dont have to be right next to us. Thats it for our suggestions and for the people who are reading this review we think this is a really fun game for phone and Apple Watch! We totally suggest you get it.
Simple, fast, and fun game. Needs dark mode.
Game works on our phone but not our apple watch series 7.
Its good but needs polishing has potential to be better.
When we saw this game we were hoping it was more of a strategy game involving moving one piece at a time to position units strategically to attack the enemy pieces or maybe something like chess but with a cool twist of obstacles. What this really is is a turn based puzzle game where swiping moves all units in the direction you swipe as far as they can go with the addition of having obstacles change certain movements. Your piece landing on an enemy eliminates it and vice versa. Its easy to learn and play but we found it became far to monotonous too quickly. If you like repudiative puzzlers that add a little more difficulty to each level as you increase then this is for you, but if your looking for more of a strategic game with more complexity and greater choices in actions, then we would suggest searching elsewhere.
We loved the game, but we hated how the campaign was less then 30 minutes to beat.
The idea is cute, but as a fast paced mobile game the gameplay renders little challenge. AI is often very weak, and to be honest sometimes coming up with an optimal strategy is pointless. Maybe adding a properly long campaign mode without an AI (like 4-7) would help a bit.
We really enjoy this game, so we were interested in playing multiplayer. We bought it for a few of our friends, but one of them has the newest iPhone and wasnt able to get past the initial Swipe Up screen. Then, the iMessage version doesnt allow certain directions of swipes. It seems to be registering as attempts to dismiss the iMessage App window. If these things were fixed, we were hoping to set up tournaments with our friends. Id be very grateful, and Id make sure our friends friends all bought copies and told their friends. Thanks for making a clever, unique, and well-crafted game.
Absolutely dry and uninteresting game featuring grade school level logic puzzles with predetermined outcomes. You get only a few choices of movement and its pretty obvious which is the right move. Great for keeping the kids busy we guess. One extra star for not collecting data.
Just no way to plan ahead for many of the space effects, so not actually strategy.
Bad AI and level design create matches that are unrewarding or impossible to defeat. No middle ground. You either win extremely easy or never stand a chance.
The concept is shallow but entertaining enough when youre actually able to use strategy. Most times though, you will be forced to rely on RNG as there are tiles that send your pieces in random directions. So instead of strategy you just keep restarting until the pieces actually go where you need them to. There are maps where that is the only way to get to the other side. Its a terrible concept and ruined our enjoyment of the game.
It displays other levels but there are only 7. Not even worth a dollar.
We got this app to mainly play on our watch but When we enter a game it doesnt pick up on our swipes. We have tried everything and nothing has worked. Dont get us wrong it is a good and fun game on our phone but sad it doesnt work on watch.
The games is good but it just starts to get boring. If they could add in new game modes or new levels.
Its good but too much is left to chance. You could make a series of moves and die one time. Then do the same thing and win. Its kind of dumb. Still a decent game to screw around with.
This game could truly shine, but needs a few tweaks to get there. Right now there is really very little strategy. The water obstacles usually devastate whichever army attacks first, and the AI often recognizes this and simply moves back and forth indefinitely until you decide to take the risk and then just destroys you (this is especially true in the fog of war levels). Or the reverse is true and you take out half the enemys army on your first charge and then mop up. Deva we love your basic concept, now make some tweaks so there is actual strategy as opposed to just luck.
As a concept for mobile puzzle/strategy gaming, this is easily a 10/10. It literally could replace Chess or Risk as the next totally original yet traditional turn-based strategy game. But it actually delivers far short of its potential for a couple reasons: -The obstacles are randomly placed, which is inherently fine, but the nature of them puts the first turn at a disadvantage; for instance, having to choose between drowning in water or putting yourself in a position to be taken. -Water, mountains and portals are predictable. Campsites are not – they behave completely unpredictably by nature, so sliding toward a camp is a 33% chance of going straight, right or left, which devalues any strategy and makes it more of a cross your fingers and see what happens. -The AI is really dumb. We mean, it will oftentimes slide back and forth indefinitely between safe moves, forcing you to drown or sacrifice yourself. Or it will move into a positing of being taken. In fog of war, it never moves into water accidentally, meaning it knows where they are. The AI really kills the fun. At the end of the day, this is a nice iPhone and Watch game that Ill probably keep for those moments we have 20 seconds or so to kill. But it could be so much more. It could be a real critical thinker strategy puzzler that requires real foresight and planning multiple moves in advance. Ultimately its just a randomized slider that is about 50/50 who will have obstacles best aligned to allow them to win.
Fast gameplay and very simple at first. Will ease you into the harder stuff. Fun Id like games like 2048.
We love this game its so fun, its strategy, you can play on Apple Watch, and even two player. Great game all you need.
Simple and addicting. This game captures the spirit of both turn based strategy games and board games into a minimalistic masterpiece. We play this game at least three times a day. Whether Im cooking some breakfast or riding in an elevator, when the games are so short we can always make a little time. Endlessly replayable and extremely satisfying 10 frustrating forest upsets out of 10. Oh yeah we almost forgot, the local versus is an amazing way to kill time with a friend or partner. Flinging your little mono color comrades back and forth is a great way to make a stale moment waiting for a movie to start into a fun little game of thrones. 10 fellowships of the fling out of 10.
This is an enjoyable game that involves multiple mini-matches with a combination of luck and strategy.
Nothing wrong with the game works fine, we just find it a bit boring as it is nearly all luck and once in a while you can apply some strategy, which is still going to be about how lucky you get.
This is the first time Ive been disappointed in an app that we actually paid money for. We bought it just because it has a watch app access in addition to on our phone. We played all 8 available levels and we couldnt progress on to new levels. It sure seemed attractive with all its positive reviews but if you dont want or dont have the ability to play with friends theres no point in this application at all. We just wish at this point we could get a refund, but whatever. $0.99 wasted on a good lesson not to always buy just based on good reviews.
Tiny armies is an amazingly fun game to play on our Apple Watch when we have nothing better to be doing, but contains a few major flaws such as but not limited to the ai almost never moving into fog because it knows whats in that fog, and mountains completely blocking a character in its spawn zone making that round impossible to win or lose.
Great app but heres and idea! You should do a Champion game mode where who every have the most wins in a month would get a prize. Like cash.
This is such a fun game to play to play while your bored and really cool cuz it also supports iMessage and Apple Watch as well. All in all, just a really fun mobile game.
Its the best puzzle game for any time and anywhere we. Its super fun.
Fog of war is worse than pointless here. Glad theres a setting to disable it. A replay option after a loss is a decent idea. Powerups? Might be fun. Better AI easy/normal/hard.
This game is solidly executed and there's something pleasing about the animations. The random boards though make this game particularly frustrating. There are often maps where there is no winning moves for you or the AI ("The best move is not to play"). In skirmish mode you can customize the occurrence of the map tiles which helps make it a little more probable that it's possible to win.
Great game but would greatly appreciate an iPhone X update. Other than that it is an amazing game. Totally worth .99.
You should do something where you can customize the map your self you know This game is fun and the only problem but at the same time isnt one is when your kinda forced to do the same move over and over when the AI or when us and our friends play Thats why we want to be able to customize the playing field ourselves thanks for listening.
Works well on watch too! Dont have to open the app on our phone at all.
Its a great game! A very nice game where you need to pay a lot of attention to be the champion! One thing that can be better is to add music and sound to the game but that is just extra sense its already an amazing game.
Good game guys download it now.
It's a great game. Fun to play with friends. Couldn't ask for more.
This one is tons of quick fun. It's a super quick fix… Kinda like battle royale in that respect only it takes seconds to play one game. Definitely pick this one up. It's a watch app, but we enjoy playing on our phone as well.
UPDATE No bugs. No nonsense. Just glorious (and tiny) action. IMessage is great now! REVIEW This game is perfect if you just want a way to waste time. It's especially good for this purpose if you have an Apple Watch. We have spent a surprising amount of time sending our blue squares flying into trees, mountains, rivers, and enemy soldiers. Multiplayer is even more fun. WHAT COULD BE BETTER we are having a hard time thinking of more features this game could have. It's pretty much perfect as is; more features might overcomplicate it. But more game modes, settings, and level creation options would be interesting.
Unique and fun strategy game, but gameplay gets old.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1.1
- Size: 31.68 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Brothers Flint
Last updated: 19th January 2021 | Genre: Puzzle, Strategy | Developer: Brothers Flint