Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 03:28 am
Paper War – Strategy Game Review
Paper War is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from FIRE STUDIOS OYUN TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI, first launched in 7th December 2024.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,770+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Paper War Stand Out
Step into the thrilling world of Paper War, where strategy meets endless action! In this captivating idle RPG, you'll assemble a powerful army of unique characters, deploy them into battle, and watch your defenses rise to glory. Earn golds continuously and upgrade your army—there's always progress to be made!
Key Features:
Build Your Army: Summon a variety of distinct characters and strategically position them for victory.
Level Up & Upgrade: Strengthen your team by sacrificing weaker characters to enhance your best warriors.
Epic Boss Fights: Challenge fierce bosses with your upgraded army. Summon reinforcements and lead your team to victory.
Unleash your strategic genius, summon new heroes, and crush your enemies. How far will your army take you? The battle awaits!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Paper War is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Gameplay improvements
Download & Availability
Paper War 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 love this game so much we just got it and we are addicted there are no ads unless you choose them (meaning get coins for ads unless u want).
Only gripes with the game overall is that we dont feel theres enough options for purchasing levels. 1, 10, Max, isnt enough for where Im at. We wish there was an option to buy 100 and 1000 at a time.
When we downloaded the game it was just so addictive we played for 30 minutes and it was worth it download now.
Ive been playing for a bit and im addicted.
We would give it seven stars if we could.
Its not bad but if you upgrade a stat above what it wants for the quest (if we level up to 6 from four but it was out of five) it shows that you have passed the amount required for the quest but havent completed the quest. You have to close the game out to fix it.
As we mentioned in the title, its a solid game with a fun core loop. However, it falls short in a few key areas that make it feel a bit unfinished. The biggest drawback is the lack of meaningful progressiontheres no skill tree or impactful perks tied to ascending, aside from a basic gold multiplier. This makes the endgame feel repetitive and leaves you wanting more. It would be great to see more daily events, player interactions, or clan features to keep things engaging over time. Right now, after just a few days, it already feels like Ive seen everything the game has to offer. One other issue is that the game only generates gold while its actively open. While it doesnt claim to be an idle game, the gameplay style gives that impression, so its a bit frustrating to realize that progress halts the moment you close it. With a few more features and deeper progression, this could easily be a five-star experience. Until then, its funbut limited.
We bought the dumb like $16 bundle upgrade for no ads and some extra stuff basically, one of which was supposed to be more daily summons, which we dont know if we even got an increase in the quantity we could get a day, really just that we didnt have to watch the ads to summon now. But now we only get 1 set of 3 summons a day? It used to be at least 3 sets a day, with like 45 mins between the first reset and then 3 hrs and then remaining time til 24 hrs from first one or whatever. Idk super lame though Ive practically stopped playing stop bc of it, now we can upgrade one of our weapons halfway everyday woohoo. It was a good idle game before this change though.
Game is really fun. But every like 30 seconds to 2 minutes it says no internet connection and we have to exit and reload the game for that to go away. Extremely annoying, making us consider not playing thats how intrusive that bug is.
Not much in the way lighting up what little endorphins we have left, the scaling difference between the Gold and Boss rush is so huge making gold rush nearly useless aside from completing quests, occasionally when buying skills with gems in the summons tab theres a small chance (if you tap too fast) to use up gems but not acquire a summoned also when it comes to player events you can sometimes just get thrown into events which have already started giving other players a massive lead as well as theres no form to scaling so people with amazing items and over leveled skills dominate others giving them no chance at all to get rewards besides the bare minimum making them spend quite a while to attempt to get decent rewards by comparison.
We took a liking to the game because it was simple but progressive. Everything was great the past 2 days since we downloaded then opened it today and the game reset most of our progress! We dont even have the skills section unlocked anymore. We do not want to spend our time playing if there is a possibility to lose everything randomly. Still fun so we gave a 3/5 but we most definitely wont be playing again.
We have internet connection, but we live in china now.some server that in china couldt connect, it have been banned.
This game has a interesting concept that is all but ruined by the scaling of the rewards, challenges, and skills. You will be left to watch an ad at least once per minute in order to complete challenges that are far below your skill level. Simply to have the ability to attempt the challenge. We never felt like any of the opponents were difficult, only the wait times to complete the next gold rush or boss rush. This game has some major adjustments to be made before it actually reflects the 4+ stars it brandishes.
Game loop is fun but a game this simple really shouldnt demand an internet connection to play. You seriously cant boot up the game without one.
As the title states the game has been a lot of fun but both PVP events and Read events just say server has some issues. Please try again later theyre not fully integral to the game from what it seems but it would be nice to be able to play them.
The arena keeps saying there is an issue on the server and try again later.
We want to start by sayingdont let the cons sway you from giving this game a try. What follows is just our personal experience and feedback based on the current state of the game. Overall, the game is enjoyable and well-crafted. We personally purchased a bundle, so we havent had any issues with ads. Some definite highlights include the engaging music, a decent leveling system, reasonably priced in-app purchases, and a solid variety of interesting units. That said, there are a few areas that we believe could use improvement: 1. PvP Scoring System: The current PvP ranking structure could benefit from a rework. Starting at zero and only gaining a handful of points per win, while top players sit at 5,000+, makes the limited progression feel unrewarding and discouraging. The rewards are appealing, but the grind is excessive and repetitive, especially when each play uses a ticket and involves minimal interaction. 2. Unit and Skill Clarity: Id really appreciate more transparency or in-game guidance around how units and skills contribute to overall attack power. Right now, it feels like trial-and-error with little feedback, which can be frustrating when trying to optimize your setup. 3. Offline Progression: One of the more limiting aspects is the lack of offline functionality. Needing to keep the app running in the foreground overnight just to make progress is far from ideal. 4. Gold Rush Rewards: The reward scaling for the Gold Rush boss feels off. At level 79, Im receiving around 1,095 gold per level, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions Im earning per second during normal waves. For a mode thats supposed to be rewarding, the return on investment just doesnt match the difficulty or the players current progression. Despite these critiques, we genuinely believe this game has huge potential. Im invested enough to continue checking in and updating this review as improvements are made. To the developer: Id be more than happy to share more detailed feedback directly and for free, because we believe in what this game could become with the right tweaks.
We love it. Can you please include info on what prestige fully does? It just said Id get more gold but we also got more power? We like to know how much stronger Im getting. Its why games like this keep the dopamine going. Also, am we supposed to be able to do the boss rushes and gold rushes without tickets? It lets us do it whenever.. If so what do the keys do? Also the discord link to your channel might be broken.
Its a fun game just is good nothing more needs to be said.
We love playing this game when Im in the car for a long time.
Sorry but if you want your stupid game to require super secret ways to internet connection we would say you did a bad job with it, this game has a little amount of content in it and will not be appetizing to play even without internet connection.
This is simple but addicting, and the dev(s) know theyve done very well, so we will use the review portion to recommend things to improve the game: – It would be nice if the +/- buttons could be held down when purchasing tickets with gems similar to how you can press and hold upgrades. Moreover, it would be great if we could purchase more than 20 at once – Late-game scaling is flawed. With the current rarity probabilities, most players common and rare skills max out between summons levels 11 and 12. After that, theres about a 97% chance per pull of getting a skill that is completely useless to the player. It feels bad getting spending the gems only to get nothing impactful. -Not sure how tough it would be to implement, but an auto feature for PvP, boss fights, and other future events you might plan on doing (similar to the normal gameplay) would be an excellent addition. All things considered, its a great game, so good job! We hope you guys make a good chunk of money off of this.
The game is a great way to do past time.
We love this game and have been considering putting our money into it for a while now but Im held back by the fact that we try to watch videos for rewards in summons of the characters (aka weapon-like drawings) and after our first video we wait the 5 minutes to watch the next and it tells us that we only have 1/3 left when the 5 minutes before we had 3/3 and had received our first reward set. Its very frustrating especially because its limited to 3 in a 24 hour period and Im losing 1 each time so Im getting 2/3 of what Im expecting. Other than this frustrating experience with the rewarded ads, we love this game. We truly hope this is just a bug and gets worked out soon because we would play so much more and watch more ads, heck as many as we possibly can if you take off the limitation entirely. Thank you for the great game and thank you for your time.
It would be 5 stars if we could figure out how to use event keys.
We currently have 7,290 skill summons that we cant use since they are maxed out any way we could get a sell option or use them to power other summons at a lesser rate like we can the weapons? Or maybe adjust the rate that higher summons come in? All our common and rare skills are maxed out also can you raise the level that we can purchase the attack and hp etc we have them all but hp recovery maxed ( which happens pretty fast for us now) and while hp recovery is is a level 10million its useless the bad guys Im fighting kill us in one hit anyway. Even our level 45 legendary cannon which has like 46T health.
There arent many ads, yet, but there is also no offline earnings. Its the most active idle like game Ive played. Played off and on for 2 days. Overall its okay.
The game is fun but we cant figure out how to do the events we even got to the point where we thought you had to pay for it but nothing worked – update the event button randomly showed up but we still cant connect to it.
Like the game but we bought the ad blocker card and it hasnt worked once Ive tried refreshing purchase but nothing works. Would rate better otherwise.
Game is pretty classic and fun. Allows you to get right to strategizing and developing an army. Doesnt feel pay to win and is a great way to kill ours time. Definitely worth the download.
Great game could use some QoL upgrades. 1. Add a multiply button for upgrades it takes to long to hold for upgrades. 2. Add an encyclopedia for units you have unlocked.
We play this game in our free time when im bored. Theres a glitch tho when you collect your daily coins and gems. You close the game right after and reopen it and the daily items are collectable again. You can infinitely get the daily items as many times as you want in one day.
No ads, cool game, and we love it. Thanks for the game.
We left 4 stars just because it is super grindy. Other than that, its fun. Takes commitment a lot of it to get through the game. Feels like forever, which can be cool if you like the feeling of reaching milestones with new bosses. Makes you feel like your work into the next level means something. We just left a 4 star because it feels a little too slow, but other than that. Its a cool game to waste some time, if you arent doing anything.
Game please help we got past a lot fast and it was a really fun game but then our quests broke we got past dungeon 4 gold rush before we were supposed to and it didnt know that so our quest paused please help.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 28
- Size: 205.81 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Loot Boxes
- Developer: FIRE STUDIOS OYUN TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI
Last updated: 9th April 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: FIRE STUDIOS OYUN TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI