Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 02:04 pm
War Tortoise – Casual Game Review
War Tortoise is a Casual/Action/Entertainment game from Foursaken Media, first launched in 27th April 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 6,867+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes War Tortoise Stand Out
Take control of the mighty War Tortoise, a heavy tank armed to the teeth with powerful weapons and automated turrets! Equip weapons, recruit units, build defenses, collect resources, and ultimately defend against a huge onslaught of enemy forces. Combining a shooter, idle gaming, and tower defense, War Tortoise is a unique mix of gaming that anyone can enjoy!
FEATURES
- Unique mix of a shooter, idle game, and tower defense!
- Incredible 3D graphics – watch as a huge war unfolds before your eyes like never before!
- HUGE scale battles!
- Tons of units, upgrades, and defenses to discover!
- Recruit legendary hero units, each with unique traits and abilities!
- Customize your play style with powerful Perks!
- Discover 8 new worlds with different times of day and weather!
- Dozens of unique enemy types!
- Prestige to new heights, giving huge gameplay bonuses!
- Auto-Play mode!
Support
Contact us at [email protected] for any questions or help!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, War Tortoise is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd September 2025
Recent improvements include:
- upgraded graphics api from openGL to Metal
- maintenance
Download & Availability
War Tortoise 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:
We knew from the start when we seen the sequel and read the reviews we heard it had a prequal and we always play the originals first this game is amazing very very smooth and fun to play graphics are great and Im so excited for the sequel.
Before we downloaded this masterpiece, we were a leader of a cat gang (in Paris, Germany). We are a cat who has developed sentience because of War Tortoise. This will revolutionize pets worldwide, if they witness the sheer originality and awe inspiring gameplay of War Tortoise. We are now leader of Pepsi and Antarctica, and rule the penguin-seal army, through the pact of Walrusville. We are about to embark on a diplomatic mission to Texas, and we figured we should give our thanks to the wonderful meta-changing internet famous game, War Tortoise. However, we have just made contact with the space cats of Pluto, and they want to steal War Tortoise from us! We require reinforcements! They will begin their invasion on the eclipse of the 8th! HELP.
We still do and have since we got it in 2019 but then the released war tortoise 2 now we have that on the shelves of our do not delete section of our Home Screen we muss this game it was our favorite and is filled to the brim with nostalgia. Great job devs love your work keep it up.
We were once addicted to methamphetamines and beating our kids but when we downloaded war tortoise it lead us on a holy path of righteousness. This game showed us that life was priceless and shouldnt be wasted we now have a greater purpose and we love our kids our ex wife is begging to get back together but we cant because she doesnt play war tortoise. We believe Christ himself lead us to this game and showed us a greater path. We have since abandoned pornography and am the owner of Coca Cola and we owe it all to war tortoise.
Nice game it gets boring after a few days.
No ads very polished game and gameplay is very smooth and did we mention the graphics.
We had this game for a long time and we it has never ceases to bore us which is amazing. It simple mechanics is unrivaled and its one of those under the radar games. It just a plain war game and Im a feen for gunshots sooo this our game.
Its a fun game with all types of weapons even though it has no story its addicting.
Great game! Definitely unlike anything Ive ever seen before.
We played it since we were 6 and now we forgot about it now we play it again and its just as fun.
So its really fun to keep playing the game and upgrade the tortoise but it needs a story behind this and the hole next generation thing really just makes u waste the first generation.
This is amazing, from the upgrading to the fighting. We dont care what anyone says about this game because its the best mobile game.
This is an AMAZING game, but ONE problem made us stop playing it, so now we only play the sequel. This game only forces you to watch ads when you open it. Not a big deal, right? This isnt even a problem, on its own. However, the game frequently crashes when you open the menu to spend the money you get from enemies, waves, and mining. Then you have to watch an ad when you reopen the game. So when Im feeling totally immersed, Im suddenly kicked out and have to watch an ad to reopen the game. Whats more frustrating is that if you get 15 of the special currency, you can remove ads without spending a cent, so we plowed on, despite the crashes and ads, hoping to get rid of the ads and finally enjoy the game, but we eventually ran out of patience. If you have high patience with ads, play this game! Its great! But it has a sequel without these problems, if you cant reach the point of finally getting rid of ads.
Had loads of fun with this game.
The game is fun, just downloaded it today. But wont be continuing to play because each time you die you have to wait longer and longer before being able to continue.
Its really good and fun very addicting and love how the tortoise looks in the game but idk if theres even a thing but can we have controls to move the tortoise around and maybe Multiplayer.
Ok so we were looking for games we found this that changed everything we love this game it's so fun we will tell all our friends about it.
Addicting game very interesting and fun.
We like turtles so we like the game.
Honestly, its just a fun game that takes up time. Pretty fun while at workturtle is named Big Boss. He is awesome. For realzees this game is pretty cool. Well balanced as for as gameplay goes. We wouldn't recommend spending any actual money on it though. Or any mobile game to be honest. Earning your perks and weapons with skill isn't hard or that bad with this game.
Having to restart all your resources after each (voluntarily elevating a) generation is frustrating and as you progress everytime you die you have to wait an hour to play again unless you pay up. Great graphics, cool weapons, pretty intuitive.
Ive played it for thousands of hours idk why we quit but it was the bets game ive ever played.
Its the best since creative destruction.
We love this game. But we cant get the videos to play.
We love this game so much!Keep up the good work!Also can u add a wasp sword shooter.
This game is insane! But it would be 1000% cooler if it were on the tv using a controller!!! Please update with this! Id pay for it.
This is one of the best mobile games Ive played in a while . The graphics are great and keeps you very interested in the game 5/5 would recommend.
We remember when this game came out we saw it while scrolling and saw it and just started playing.
We played this game a bit a while ago but then we deleted since we got bored recently we heard of number 2 so we wanted to retry the game thank you devs for making such an amazing game.
Game is best very good very goodturtois2.
It absolutely wreaks havoc on our battery life we played for like 15 mins and cut our battery down by 35%.
This game combines both idle war and defense for a fun, non add-addictive game, recommend it fully.
YOUR MAKING WAR TORTOISE 2 GOOD THINKING.
Played it couple of years ago, uploaded it again still love it, keep It up.
We already really liked this game but you can remove ads for free you just half to play the game and you can buy an up grade and remove ads we are now saveing up for this.
We really like this game. And the reason why we didnt type that much is be because Im lazy a lot. And now Im going War Tortoise! But we did notice that some times the biggn Mouse squad some times that dont have guns.
Only a select few games like this & sadly they seem to be going extinct. Im hoping this one will stay updated as long as possible as time goes on. This game is so much fun & Ive been playing it for a couple years now. The only game that is a for sure to stay in our game collection, seems very underrated even with 4.8 stars! Thank you devs for keeping it going this long. (November 2019) Take care.
We love these game were you have to upgrade in order to move on, Ive never really had good experience on the phone with these games, we never really liked pay to play games, but this game tops them all on our list of phone games, you dont have to pay to play we dont like waiting in between deaths, but its ok it makes it more challenging and drives you to get a better and better army, games are not fun if they are too easy and this game is the perfect equivalence.
We remember playing this game when we were 8 and we loved it we would always love to recruit new troops and we loved it cause it made us feel powerful and we think the concept of the game is just great we would say its a bit glitchy but other than that its great we wish you all enjoy.
We get to shoot frogs and stuff its not buggy and it be fun.
This game an awesome action packed game we like it because it helps teach you the controls really well and there where always new things to learn every minute which we loved One of our favorite parts are the heroes with there different cool abilities This is one of our favorite games.
A few bugs here and there. A few new weapons, new enemies and some land scapes. Weekly missions just feels forgotten.
Ive been playing this game countless times for years, switching to multiple devices and even PC and still loving it. It is a great game indeed, but there are a few flaws here and there, although very minor, but if the devs can fix them it could be even greater. 1. The graphics: the higher level you play, or longer the game runs, it will start to lag, and it gets worse, although very slowly. Our old Android couldnt really handle it, it lags a lot after level 100. Now on our new iphone XR, it doesnt lag that much, very little, still runs kinda smooth, but sometimes it freezes for like a second or so. Another thing is that it eats away your battery really really fast, even on low battery mode. This also makes your devices easily to get hot, and its a bad thing for old devices. Solution could be an option to turn down the graphics to low in the settings for some people without high end devices. 2. Automatic abilities: Heroes are great in this game, we have nothing to complain about, except for their active abilities. The abilities themselves are fine, just that if we have to sit there mindlessly tapping into the screen for hours, it is not really a pleasant thing to do. Im sure 99% of players will auto combat mode anyway, so why do we have to tap to use these abilities? We understand that some people might want some kind of interaction with the game, and some might not wanna turn this into an idle type of game, thats fine. But Im sure quite a number of players would be happy to make them all automatic. Solution can be a purchasable option in game that allow players to switch all abilities to automatic. 50 gems or 100, great cost for great convenience. Im sure a lot of people will spend money to get that. Just a few thoughts of ours. Thank you for making such a good game. Great time killing.
We wouldnt change anything about the game.
People say that mobile gaming has a long way to go. This is true. But this game, and forsaken media will launch it into the future. Blew us out of the water with H&C too.
When the game is in the menu, we dont think the game plays in the background, but closing the game out requires iPhone users to swipe up from the bottom of the screen which then opens the menu, so the game wont progress.
We used to play this game when we were about four and Im revisiting it as a 10 year old.its really cool game but it doesnt let us upgrade. We keep tapping the button on the top left corner to upgrade and get new weapons but the shop doesnt open. Please tell us how to fix this.
Nothing like expending ammo to kill time.
This game is so good and it deserves even better, Id like to see a sequel in the future.
There really isnt anything else like it. Great game we keep coming back to.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.5
- Size: 345.12 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Foursaken Media
Last updated: 2nd September 2025 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Foursaken Media