Last updated on November 30th, 2025 at 07:41 pm
Expanse RTS – Desert Power – Strategy Game Review
Expanse RTS – Desert Power is a Strategy/Simulation/Entertainment game from Tabee Networking Limited, first launched in 22nd February 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 119+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Expanse RTS – Desert Power Stand Out
Expanse RTS — a new strategy game from the developers of the RedSun RTS! Fight for energy resources on a distant planet during the galactic expansion!
25th century. The mankind has left the Earth to settle other planets. One of the Ark ships arrived in the star system but eventually no habitable planets were discovered. It led to a conflict between three factions — the scientists, the workers and the military — arisen on a planet with the best living conditions. Each faction wanted to fulfill its new task — to stay here, to fly further or to return home. But there is only one ship and the planet's resources are not enough even for two factions. Who will win? It's up to you! Choose a faction that you will lead to victory!
You will find:
- The classic real-time strategy.
- 3 fractions, each with its own characteristics and balance features
- More than 30 single player missions in 3 campaigns
- Complete multiplayer mode
- Rating system based on Elo rating system
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Expanse RTS – Desert Power is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
bugfixes
Download & Availability
Expanse RTS – Desert Power is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Expanse RTS – Desert Power 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 have to say honestly, yes its buggy. But at the same time, no other game in the App Store / Google Play comes close to this one in relation to the classic Command&Conquer RTS games. Thank you for this game, please continue to work on it! And adapt it to newer ios device screens (curved, etc.). Since its free, we also feel theres no room for us to complain.
Its just like CC but still lags a bit , reminds us of back in the day at home computer playing lol.
We love the game from our childhood so we gave it a 4 but truthfully the ease of navigating and the glitches make it closer to 2 stars.
We really do enjoy playing this and we hope the developers make more unique maps, units and buildings. Maps should be a bit bigger and more ore is needed as well. Maybe add custom map maker app that can link to this game and also controller support so its more fluent. Also when we do matches adds happen after the match not during at least from our experiences.
We love real time strategy or RTS and this is the best one thanks so much for making this game guys we truly love it.
Its really fun game has some glitches wish we could play against our friends or other ppl it would make it better.
Paid 99 cents for no commercials. Still getting commercials. We loved Dune so Im thrilled to see this, but so far its difficult to make it work, even on IPad. We will see.
There are major issues with this game. The harvesters get confused easily and often dont know where to go back to. If you move the carry alls they wont do anything after that. And there are major game glitches in blue team mission ten that will not let you advance.
Fun game just wish we could advance past mission 1 when we actually collect 5000 Hellium kind of a bummer really.
As is unplayable past mission 5.
Whenever we try to start up the game we get a black screen and music thats it.
Its impossible to win a mission. Wont let you click on certain buildings and wont attack enemy turrets.
Controls can be frustrating, selecting multiple units is difficult, building hard, units dont defend themself properly( they just sit there and dont shoot back unless we order them to attack),impossible to tell which is enemy, list goes on.
Bro, you did it, you literally did it.
We have a deep love for RTS games and this one is very well made.
For some reason once we take over the base our harvesters when they return to the refinery dont add and resources and it stay at 100 unless we spend them. It makes it quite hard to continue the game when we cant get past a certain level.
We loved the original game but this one makes it so hard to tell which ones are the enemies as the colors for both teams are the same, secondly, its hard to select a few vehicles at the same time. Finally its not intuitive what the buttons are for and how to deploy buildings or vehicles, we were so frustrated.
This game is awesome! Has the classic Rts feel to it. Cant beat it. Just wish there was some game modes to it and also please nurf the stormtrooper.
Thank you thank you thank you! The bug fix for iPhone allowed the game to function properly again and we are able to play the game enjoyably again on our iPhone 5. We enjoy it so much.
Graphic is terrible, you cant move the map and we payed 0,99$ for the add free version. Dont download this game its a wasted space, internet and time.
Seems to have bugs. The curser is all over the place on the trading mission. We deployed the construction unit. It it will not let us open anything, so we cant open any screen to open the power plant. Stuck on the trading level. We really want to play the game.
Glad someone gave it a shot as Dune was one of our all time favorite games but interface is not good, lots of bugs, save/load doesnt work well. Instructions are not clear.
This is basically a spoof of Dune 3000.
When the first thing you see when you open the game is the screen saying DIGITAL GARBAGE it really makes you not wanna try this game.
Game is good, only problem is when ever u load save, enemies will be same army as u, making it hard to know who is who, please fix. Thank u.
You cant move on from the 2nd challenge. Destroy the base. Done. But thats it, is it a glitch? Cant read any hints or the mission again.
Why there is no update for the game.
Love this game as it takes us back to Dune 2000. The replacement storylines and lingo works for us. We're sure translating the functions over to a touch screen interface isnt simple. Especially since there are more intricate controls while selecting multiple units or specific structures. We wish there was more differentiation, it can get confusing to what you're actually selecting at times. The main issue is when you go to generate soldiers, trikes, buildings, it will auto select unlimited and ultimately drain your resources until you sell the building. If you're quick, it's okay but it's too much once you start getting attacked. Fix the single select and the game isn't too bad for the version.
Looks like the real fun, but feels slightly unfinished.
If you're going to try to rip off an older game at least copy it correctly. When we buy a new building it ends up on the other side if the map and we have to go look for it to even be able to place it. Then, for some strange reason, the enemy can spawn a turret on our territory and our units won't even attack it unless we tell them to and other turrets that are RIGHT NEXT TO IT will never attack it even if we tell them to. Then, when we use both fingers to try to expand an order to include other units it hardly ever works. We honestly don't know how there are so many people giving this game 5-3 stars when it barely works. We're guessing these people have never played Dune 2000 which is where this game is ripped off from.
We are going to give 5 stars just because this seems like so much work to develop. Our only problem is that it is very hard to work with the controls. We wish there were and easier way to zoom in with gestures and highlight units.
What happened to the map editor!? That was the main reason we loved this game.
This is actually a pretty fun rts game and it is THE best (free) rts we have played, but it needs a lot of improvement and better graphics but overall this game has some serious potential and is really fun (especially in skirmish).
It neeeeeeds better graphics. We know that graphics are hard but these are horrible. Also please improve pathfinding. Overall good game if you don't mind bad graphics. Also the harvester could use some fixing upping. It never gets picked up by the flying thing in time. Also the campaign should show the objectives on the main menu.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.314
- Size: 79.03 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, HE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Tabee Networking Limited
Last updated: 25th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Tabee Networking Limited