Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 04:06 pm
Battle Bay – Action Game Review
Battle Bay is a Action game from Rovio Entertainment Oyj, first launched in 3rd May 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 63,586+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Battle Bay Stand Out
Choose a ship, select your weapons and go to battle against opponents around the world. Use team strategy and firepower to take your fleet to the top – it's sink or win!
– Choose your ship –
Shooter has a big array of weapons, Speeder is fast and furious, Enforcer is agile and versatile, Defender is a floating tank, and Fixer keeps friendly teammates floating. Level up your ships for more hit points and power!
– Collect weapons –
Collect, upgrade and evolve your weapons to gain more firepower. Choose from a huge selection of destructive, defensive or utility items. Acquire special perks to further enhance the power of your gear. Whatever fits your play style and keeps your team from sinking!
– Host your own battles –
Host a competition with your friends and guild mates in Custom Battles. Create a lobby and invite up to 10 players into 2 teams, plus up to 5 spectators. Play your own 5v5 tournaments or prove your skills in 1v1 duels.
– Join a Guild –
Team up with your friends by joining or creating a guild. Guild leaderboards pit your crew against other bands of blast-happy captains. Who will rise to the top?
– Take on quests and achievements –
Finish quests to earn gold and sugar or go on a guild quest marathon for a chance to earn spectacular loot. Pass achievements to earn pearls and powerful items. Prove your Infamy by competing in ranked two-week tournaments for exclusive rewards!
– VIP Subscription –
Battle Bay offers a VIP subscription service that grants its members exclusive benefits:
+50% Ad-Free bonus to Battle Rewards
+20% faster Crew Training
One free Daily Shop Refresh
Access to VIP Chat Channel
The VIP membership subscription is available as a weekly or monthly purchase at a price of $4.99 / week or $9.99 / month. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account starting at the initial confirmation of the VIP Subscription purchase. Your VIP subscription will automatically renew 24-hours before the end of the current payment period. Manage subscription auto-renewal in iTunes Account Settings. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Cancellation will take effect at the start of the next subscription period.
We may update the game periodically, for example to add new features or content or to fix bugs or other technical issues. Please note that the game may not function properly if you do not have the newest version installed. If you have not installed the latest update, Rovio will not be responsible for the game failing to function as expected.
While our game is free to download and play, some game items can also be purchased for real money and the game may include loot boxes or other game mechanics with random rewards. Purchasing these items is optional but you can also disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.rovio.com/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.rovio.com/privacy
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Battle Bay is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Skins added for Trickster Ship
Minor bugfixes
Download & Availability
Battle Bay 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:
Wait time is 5 to 10 minute average. And it pairs you unevenly. Fix this!!! We put this 5 star so u can see.
Super fun but the waits are a super common problem it takes around 30seconds to 2minutes sumtimes up to 4 minutes for 1 game with 10 players total.
Waiting for matches is ridiculous! We played this game years ago & loved it. We stopped because of waiting for matches. We actually forgot why we stopped. Until our son pulled us back to play again. Years later we see that this part has not changed. We've fallen asleep waiting for a match to happen. We're sooo disappointed & think we might have to just delete it again.
This game seem like thrash . When we were waiting for a match. It takes like a hour. So dont waste your valuable time.
Add backbone device support please.
We have been playing this game for approximately 9-10 years. We absolutely love it and there is no other PVP of this scale to date. Matching has become horrible with the introduction of casual a few years ago and challenging to get matched with players WHO CAN ACTUALLY PLAY.
This game is amazing we love it so much we used to play it when we were a kid and it is still one of our favorites.
Underated game 10/10 must try again.
We've playing this game since 2018.. And still a well recommended game. But it needs, advertisement to promote this game again… Please promote this game facebook or youtube. So that they can find and see this game. That all it needs.
Hitting next battle crashes the game.
Graphics are really great. Yeah there are issues with team balancing. Thats to be expected when 5 people not knowing how each other fight. It would be nice to have a league where the same people fight together for a week or month. Have to set a certain time of day or night. No shows forfeit. Like any league. Bowling, football or softball. Meet once a week. Once a day. Id like a team.
We love the game in every way but it needs more ships/different kinds and the game will be the best of the best.
Super fun game to play with. Good quality, and no lag. Cool variety of different weapons, ships, and game modes to try. Overall, great game 5/5 star.
Im an experienced player with a level 30 main account and Ive played since 2018, recently we decided to restart and after 15 matches and at level 4 Ive only played bots and level 50 maxed Russian human players at 2500 + infamy. Rovio please fix this you will loose new players. Dont get us wrong we love the game but this is a big issue.
Love the game! Super fun, chaos packed action! But holy, the matchmaking. T H E M A T C H M A K we N G we S S O S L O W. The game has had a decline in player counts, which add to the slow matchmaking. And worst of all, bots. They server ZERO purpose. They add nothing besides some targets to shoot at, and are literally free kills. A fix would to have the bots A. Better accuracy, and B. Better/Scaling items, to make the bots not just free items to shoot at.
We used to play this game a long while back when we were younger, the game is great entertaining and everything but there are multiple bugs that appear frequently. Otherwise it is a great game and would recommend for all.
For the past like 9 years, Ive loved this game with our whole heart, only reason we stoped playing it is because the waiting time to get into a game is OUTRAGEOUS, everything about this game is Sooooooo good but after certain trophies or levels the waiting time to get into a game makes you want to delete and forget this game ever existed, PLEASE make the servers better or do something to make the waiting time decrease TREMENDOUSLY-very OG player.
Its a really good game. We like it, its common knowledge in the community that the developers has been neglected this game and doing not much change and marketing for this. We want to play but most of the time there is not player and just bot. Or even worse we match with Smurf player its too over power stuff. Hope they focus on this game more to reviving it.
Im one of the original players of this game, having played since its initial release in 2017. We love the gameplay as a whole but the back end integration of the game and pretty much everything handled by the developers is god awful. From match matching, to ranked play, to any bugs that develop, to the way events are run it could not be worse. The developers of this game are some of the worst Ive ever seen (and Im an avid gamer). We were hopeful when Sega bought Rivio that the back end of the game would improve, but boy was we wrong. They unfortunately are no longer the Sega of our childhood. Even this most recent patch, they took 2 weeks to correct an issue with calendars and the season not working, to roll out a patch that STILL DOESNT WORK!!!! Get better and be better! You have the building blocks, stop smashing the cool castle after its built like our toddler does.
We've been playing since the start of this game coming out years ago we still love this game today keep up the good work devs we love all y'all we have maybe 2k hours.
The daily reward calendar doesnt work.
Every couple of updates there are bugs constantly, and naming a few such no new infamy season shows or not being able to claim any daily rewards for almost a week now. Other than that the game is amazing and we highly recommend getting everyone to play it for the game to expand its horizons.
Needs new weapons and maps please.
The bug still intact, they tell us to equip our frost launcher on our shooter but we cant do it.
This game has been our favorite game since 2017. We had been a VIP member for long periods of time. We were collecting daily inventory and the game had some glitch. Suddenly our inventory was overstocked and we could only continue if we spent $1000 give or take $100. To increase our inventory space. Couldnt open anything. We have been waiting on tech support since April 2024. As far as we can tell a bot keeps replying that they are working on it. Very disappointed due to the fact that we have invested so much time and money in this game over the years. We would really like to be able to enjoy this game again. If their support team could actually do something about it. NICKADEMUS.
Love the game. Maybe need to advertise it more and add more things to keep players interested. Another thing is matchmaking is terrible. We often get matched with players that are way out of our league. 2 shots and im defeated. Game is super fun but they need to make it to where you get paired with people that are close to tour own skill level. Its waaaay off.
Im very cool and exciting when we play this game.
How can we do it we have logged into Facebook tho it still does not want to work.
Plenty of boats and packed with all the weapons you would want on a boat! Best game ever made.
The game is great, however it makes it extremely frustrating and difficult to move up when youre paired with someone else who has the same infamy level as you, 400 for example, except their ship is a level 55 yours is barely 11, they have all epic or legendary level 3 or 4 and youre just now getting the epic level 1 items that for for you. At that point its not about the skill. Youre just straight up over powered.
It does not let us play while the tutorial is on but it is a very nice game.
Edit: replacing casual with a free for all mode where you play against bots is one of the worst moves of any video game company ever. Casual games load in 30 seconds, but each player is only allowed to play 8 casual games a day. So, its a fun 8 games, and then you are forced to play ranked games which can take 20 actual minutes just to load. There are evidently work-arounds for android users that allow them to play unlimited casual games. So, if you have iPad, this will be frustrating. If you have android, you can restart your app multiple times and play unlimited casual games. Its weird they created this change that seems to help literally no one. How about just get rid of two game modes, and just have casual, fast loading games.
This is a great game and we love it and have been playing since it came out but now it feels dead. Like they shut down the forums in 2016 and you can find posts talking about how it was dead THEN. Also Im slowly stopping playing it because its taking minutes to find a match. So TLDR great game, fun, excellent and so much well put together weapons and combos to fit your play style, but now its a pay to (not) play shell.
We played this game for many years, we loved it. However it needs a full rework and patches.
5-10 MINUTES at timesjust waiting to play one match. If youre lucky you get a playable match. More likely you get one that lasts about 35 seconds at best owing to pretty terrible matchmaking. Shame too, cause its one of the most fun games Ive played on IOS.
When we first started playing it seemed fun, as time progressed and we built up to level 50 (the highest level) it deteriorated fast, team matching was a joke, always giving the other team the advantage, the ratio of yellow ships they gave us was in the order of 4 to 1, they had 4 speeders to our 1, the ratio of Guardians was 7 to one, they had 7 to our one ( naturally not in one game average spread over games played. When we did use a yellow ship our Tesla bolt was always cheated, Id only get 3 seconds of them being paralyzed, yet we would have to wait the full 15 seconds when we were hit, and another frustrating thing was after taking 2 to 3 years to finally build up to level 50, our ship was robbed from 25% to 40% of the power our weapons had, not to mention an unfair distribution of ships, like others have mentioned they make sure nobody has more than 50% win ratio. We have over 98,000 battles and a kill ratio of 1.13 which may never change due to their matching tactics which we dont like, more often than not, Im the only one with any kills, so unless we kill all 5 ships we loose, so a rating of 2 is being generous, and if you play Im warning you now dont complain about what you notice, they will only take it out on you (like you were the problem).
Rovio you need to bring back angry birds epic and make the gold coins more accessible.
Theres no players anymore shut it down:(.
The matchmaking needs to be fixed. We have been waiting for 5 minutes and still no match.
Game says update but no update is in the store. Cannot load game 9-3-24.
Great game for sure Been playing for couple years but we honestly think there should be new maps available or like new setting where you get to go to different place since you have leveled up. Just like all your other games.
Ive been playing this game since we were 7 and Ive loved it! Especially cause its made by Rovio (they made angry birds) and it is so well done. Thanks.
We honestly love this game, Ive been playing it since it came out and we never get bored of it. But the reason we did not give 5 stars is because lately Ive been experiencing a bug where even though Im playing ranked it not giving us end season rewards. Like last season and this current season we got 0/10 battles completed which is not true because we play a lot of rank and this bug is starting to annoy us. Please fix this rovio.
So we like the game we used to have it then we deleted it and then we got back now, but the one thing we noticed wasnt a thing before at least that we can remember is how long it takes to load into a match because Ill be waiting there for a good minute or two just for a single match annoying which is very annoying. We dont know how they could fix this, but please just try something. The point is it just very annoying because the matches take too long to load.
Was easily five stars, in the last several weeks each game has been taking three minutes to over five minutes to never starting also no significant changes over the last couple years. Loyal players get bored.
Played many games over many years. This one has its ups and downs depending on updates and what they might try out but its still without a doubt the best of AllTimes IMO! Big Fan.
Good games. Its had the same number of maps for years now. It needs a new one.
We love solid pvp action. Ive been playing this game for years and keep coming back for the quick, tight battles. The physics typically works like it should, so missed shots are our fault, and practice is rewarding. We still have surprises in matches and come across great players who challenge us. It might look like a kiddie game but its way more sophisticated than the package implies. The one thing that might turn people off is the years long grind to get up to top-level gear, but the match-making seems solid enough that youll be grouped with and against comparable players regardless, so leveled gear and ships feel good but arent at all a requirement to compete and have fun. Great game.
This game is pissing us off. When the match began, idk why our ship was always alone on the other side but four of our teammates were together on the other side. If this keeps happening again, we might quit this game. Hope they fix this mistake.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.3.2
- Size: 735.16 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TR
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Frequent/Intense Contests, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Rovio Entertainment Oyj
Last updated: 11th November 2025 | Genre: Action | Developer: Rovio Entertainment Oyj