Last updated on December 10th, 2025 at 11:39 am
Armchair Commander – Entertainment Game Review
Armchair Commander is a Entertainment/Strategy/Simulation game from Segment Games Inc, first launched in 7th March 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,106+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Armchair Commander Stand Out
Relive history! This is the only game out there with an unlimited number of missions you can play – there are thousands of them… many created by committed players! Play or create your own missions in World War 2 and all the way through the Cold War. Learn to master the skill of the commander and conquer every enemy!
Wargame & Turn-based Simulation
From the Battle of Stalingrad to the Normandy landings, it’s got the vast majority of WW2 covered. Play as Germany, the Soviet Union, Republic of China, United States, Great Britain, or really any of the 50+ countries with more coming soon. Attack enemy strongholds and defend your cities with 20+ land, naval, and air units. Even the same unit has special functionalities differing by country!
Campaigns & Conquests
There are currently about 30 or so missions and conquest maps. The missions can be played through the story line, and the conquests (you get to choose your country) feature 1939-1943 Europe and 1937-1941 Asia. All the campaign maps can be downloaded and modified at your own will, as seen in the following section…
Sandbox & Custom Maps
Like I said, you can create your own maps; you can even upload them for the world to see! The map editor is readily available for use inside the base game. Every aspect of a mission is customizable: a country’s alliance, resources, cities, airports, troops, veterency, troop attack distance, winning conditions, and even which troops have generals can be customized.
Simulated Politics
From custom events to war declarations, this recent addition allows dynamic games of multiple alliances and betrayals; custom events can also be made to reflect historical events with different types of consequences (changes to resources, alliances, unit experience). Aid can also be given to allies like Lend Lease in the real WW2.
Historical Generals
Hundreds of generals – with more coming by each update – from various countries around the world. Generals are not tied to specific units; they can be sacked from a unit on the spot and be replaced at any time.
About Me
I’m an indie student developer, so this app is very flexible in terms of update content. Please feel free to contact me if you want to make suggestions or collaborate to make the game better.
Game Engine: Unity3d (c# + python)
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Armchair Commander is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th July 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Armchair Commander is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Armchair Commander 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:
Every time we start up the game it just stops almost 9s in.
We love how this game actually has the actual country insignias, its hows actual operations and portray of the war that take place in it, it doesnt care, it only shows historic accuracy.
When we made a map did not save.
Hey, we love your game and play it quite often. Although, we also want to make our own levels on extra large maps. The map editor itself is great, but the amount of time it takes to fill in all of the tiles is frustrating. Ive spent about 20 minutes alone just filling in the map with new tiles. So, what we were wondering was whether you could make a fill button where anything behind a line gets filled with that country. Again great game, absolutely love it, but this mad editor is annoying. And one more thing we want to mention, we think if you take all enemy countries city(ports) then you should get all the tiles they own. The border gore is crazy without it.
This game is a really fun and surprisingly complex WWII simulator. The developer has been super active lately, so the game just keeps getting better and better. This is definitely one of the best games on the App Store right now. In terms of suggestions, we think a diplomacy system would be interesting.
We really like the commuting map but we hope the game is more like wc4 like those shop menu because it very hard to find generals second the map is a little weird suggestion is to kinda make it like wc4 which we really like but it has no commity map which we like of urs the game is a 2.5 but it a good game if it like wc4 only the map looking and other stuff thank you.
Its basically pretty epic to be honest and we really enjoy it. Edit:this game has a lot of potential and thats what we like about some games.so good luck man and hope your game grows.
Can you add airborn and skins for each country.
The Game graphics is so bad that this is the worst one that we found yet. Hopefully you can make the graphics look a lot better and change the shape of each province.
We will put 3 factions here that we think should be added to the game -modern UN peacekeeping forces -Serbia -Albania Also great game! We love seeing more updates come in! Keep up the good work.
What could the new conquest be later in time and saw the new stuff coming could some campaign missions gets some updates and we will get the game retro combat and we may use the review for some chats and we will soon not use reviews and how could new conquest come if some people made maps already but sometimes might not be the best and could some AI units have generals like in some campaign missions and conquest and will there be a japan campaign coming.
The game is delightful with the update but it might be better with a diplomatic part where you might conquer say Spain,or get it to join you join in a alliance.also perhaps a research part for say weapons improvements or rockets.
We like the game just needs a Free play where you can do what you want and invade any country.
To be honest this game is very good there is not really a bug for us like the other reviews cus the game never crashes for us it could be either we have a good device or something but yeah its doesnt crash for us the only thing else we want is a Huge bigger map than the max large map in the map editor but this is still a great game.
How do we make the other country an enemy in the map maker? We made this cool Gallipoli campaign thing but we dont know how to make turkey an enemy and it is frustrating.
Generals are worthless, ads and conquest only give 200 coins and now you uped the price of Mao so you can gain more profits is ridcious. Make custom maps give medals that THE USER can customize like each strategic point taken gives 100 gold or something similar. We know you are better then this, Invest some time in this game for now you really made us lose our trust in you. Make Generals have a health bar and make us create our own generals and stats for the game. We don't know what to say, we really thought you were a good developer; you all are just the same.
Hello, this game is amazing. The create your own level is awesome. But time for some of our suggestions: 1: after completing a campaign level, it sends you back to the main menu. We fell it should be better if it sent you back to where you choose a mission. 2: Maybe make hexes boarding the ocean more curved, they for us just feel odd. Also have a line that is more clear that marks the boarder, not just the colored hexes. Mabel also have this curved? 3: Larger maps to create levels. For us when we want to make a map, it always feels small even when a large. It will also just give more variety for map makers. 4: unique units for countries. Have units for nations that no other nation gets. For example, the French can get resistant fighters, that are cheaper that riflemen, have more health, but are not as good. Or for Germany a super easy tank like the E100 or Maus. 5: More variety of terrain. For this there should be rivers that decrease movement, deserts, hills, and roads. Every terrain peace, other than mountains or water, can have roads that improve troops movement. They must be built. 6: More buildings. It would be cool if you could build forts that can house troops and defend them. Also place minds that are unable to be seen by the enemies. Infantry should be able to dig in and make trenches for defense. An airfield should be its own building and can be captured. And airplanes should stay on the board, they can land at airfields and if they are in the air for to long they crash (from the lack of gads). 7: A would conquest map, with all the nations in the world during this period that can fight! 8: Diplomacy. You should be able to make alliances and enemies during the game. Trade deals would be nice. And if the player wants they can stay neutral unless attacked. Well thats it for now. This is an awesome game that has a lot of potential. We hope that some of the stuff we said will be implemented into the game, that would be awsome.
We mean this game isnt as good as World Conquerer 4 but this is what we love about it: 1. Tanks and Trucks use fuel, so you have the will for resources 2. You can make custom maps with it 3. The campaign just makes more sense for some reason So Id rate it 10/10.
We have played the game for awhile and in our opinion it is pretty fun. But our only problem is that our data got reset to where we lost progress on 3 missions and lost a General (we obtained him last session) and this was after we did a free coin offer by watching an ad. So we would just work on fixing the issue so it doesnt happen to other people.
Got this game a couple of years ago and loved it. It was similar to axis and allies then, but now it's pretty bad compared to that. At least give the option to play the old map/style.
When we got done updating the game we thought you made from scratch but no you just took sprites from the WC series but make it look more simplified we like this game but we dont play it much but please make your own unit skins except stealing from other strategy games.
How am we beat The campaigns how.
Hey there developer! Overall love what youve done with the game, but some of the levels were too hard in our opinion. The seige of brest-litovsk, in particular, is extremely hard to beat with the little amount of troops you have at your disposal. The other german ally does nothing but ram its troops into the enemey in the water, and never takes any cities. Maybe its just us? We have rommel lvl3 and guderian, but am not able to beat it, even though im on operation bagration in the soviet campaign. Love you and what you have done with the game so far, and we see a lot of potential, but it definitely has its rough edges.
Though not beautiful this game provides us with the ability to make maps and make levels that the person didnt make which is very fun for us because we already made 3 maps in the last 2 hours of playing the game which is very fun.
But we want to ask why there is no progress in downloading community maps.
There are no flags in the flag menu. There are no generals in the general menu. Is this a bug.
It is really fun and we like being in the position of a World War II general and we also like how your game has so many so much stuff to do.
How did this game get a map maker and PvP before WC4.
This is a really great game nails the experience in all the boxes but one little technicality that im having is that the sandbox or map editor well we doesn't work on our tablet like we cant add anything on the canvas we click add soviet country per say and we click on the map trying to add it and it doesn't work we cant add anything! On the map editor so it would be really great if there was a tutorial for the editor when you download the game so like that players have a basic idea of how to use it.
Im trying to host a match and also join but its not letting us.
Ive been playing this game since it came out in 2019 probably the best history and strategy game Ive ever played.
We love the devs comments to the one stars its amazing we read Someone comparing it to easy inc games when literally all easy inc does is pay to win games that ruin their games completely this is an actual game that takes brains not paper.
This is an incredible game. We love nearly everything about it. Obviously there are a few issues the most glaring being the AIs room temperature IQ. Though that can largely be ignored because this game grants us the ability few others like it have. A map editor. You can do about anything with it and Ive spent hours upon hours designing maps and then playing them. You arent even stuck with the base game countries and generals because we are also given the ability to upload your own flag or create a custom general image included. The freedom you have is like none other that Ive played and has a lot of work put into it. We play on mobile and its genuinely one of the best mobile games we have. There is one thing that we would love to see added if possible. We already have a map customizer, custom flags, and a general customizer and it makes us wonder if it is possible to make a unit customizer. Dont really know howd that work. Maybe you can just change the stats of already existing unit models so that a modern tank actually moves as fast as a modern tank or increase the artillerys range and damage or something. And when you change it it only applies the changes to one map. Or maybe you could upload your own image like you can for flags and generals. May not look the best but thats not the important part. Then again implementing this sounds complicated and may not even be possible. If it isnt possible or isnt going to happen then it really doesnt matter the game is already great as is.
A suggestion for the next update, we suggest that you make a custom editor for units or custom unit models that we can use by you giving us the option to pick a skin for a unit. If you do, we and others will appreciate it. We also suggest more terrain options, Like a more detailed African desert , Pacific/Central American Rainforest, and European Forest Grasslands.
The game is the best as they come. The map editor is AWESOME and we love being able to upload them. That is where our problems lie. Recently we have not been able to upload any maps or generals. If you fix that one issue we will spam 5 star reviews.
This game is great but the problem is every time we play our sandbox map and end round it says defeat even know nothing happens.
We can be a different Country in sandbox.
We have seen some reviews and we are definitely reiterating them. The AI is completely terrible. 100 regiment offensive. We were letting our allies take over the left side and we saw 2 cities about to fall. We wait a couple turns. Our allies to the north are absolutely decimated. And somehow, the cities are not captured even while being completely open. Not to mention oil can be as abundant as an ocean, but other times, it is nonexistent in a level where you need tanks. Also, are later enemies on roids? Cuz they seem to be super soldiers. It goes from a somewhat tricky strategy game to a mobile Sid Meier game but 10x harder to the point that it is near impossible.
The community maps is not showing up.
We once had a good thriving account on the game and uninstalled and reinstalled the game but then we had to start over from scratch and it was the reason we make this 3 stars without that this game would be perfect.
When healing a unit, it removes a rank from them, giving them a lower level, less health, and deal less damage. Why? The only reason anyone would find it worth it to heal a unit is if it was high ranking or a commander, this feature makes healing pointless. Time limit for world conquer mode. Why? The game is already difficult enough just to finish the game, why give it a time limit? Purposefully buffs enemies, and hinders allies in conquer mode. Your allies WILL lose, even if your a good player, and if you try the opposite side, your allies will STILL LOSE because your enemies are buffed no matter what. We understand this, and we think this is fair, but with the already mentioned unfairness and high difficulty, why make it worse? If theres a time limit, the game should be reasonably beatable + hard time limit to beat, not, nearly impossible + hard time limit. Yes, we want this game to be difficult, it wouldn't be fun if it was easy, but these "features" are kinda ridiculous, especially the removing rank when healing a unit!!?!?!?! Thats insane, and the most unsatisfying thing ive ever witnessed in a mobile game. Seeing our 1 hp max level artillery struggle to reach a city to heal, only for its level to simmer down to level 1 and cost 2x the cost to PRODUCE a level 1 artillery unit to repair is the most ridiculous and sad thing we've ever witnessed. What makes you think this is fair, or balances the gameplay in any way? We cant tell, it seems really unfair to the player on purpose.
Make one last update, come on, for us man, this could be our dream game. Make the Map Editor Update literally all Im asking for is a couple new terrain types (maybe pacific/more African themed) and perhaps some new buildings to go along with. Literally Id be happy with it being purely aesthetic.
This game is very good, but why the community is removed from shelves.
Have about 4 missions completed and Im loving it so far! Hope more is to come.
This game is better than world conquer4 though its pictures seem more simple. But we wonder how can we layoff our general we would like to find a forum about the game.
We love it but the generals sometimes covers the board so plz let us get rid of the pop up of generals.
We think this game is amazing and we're always playing it but it could use more flags and an easy way to do that could be for the custom flag options is to add a button that lets you choose a flag from your photo gallery that way you could use whatever obscure flag you want! We think this would really improve the game(and if you cant do the gallery option than you could have an in game custom flag designer) and every flag you upload from the gallery it could cost a certain amount of gold . Thank you.
This is a good game. And it can use Chinese.
We love the game but, how can you win when every opponent can just run through your defenses every round. We set blockades and everything and try to do the best we can at protecting our cities and ports. But for god sakes the AI are just so overwhelming.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.23.1
- Size: 144.58 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: CA, EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Segment Games Inc
Last updated: 11th July 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Segment Games Inc