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Battle Islands – Simulation Game Review
Battle Islands is a Simulation/Strategy/Entertainment game from 505 Games (US), Inc., first launched in 12th December 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 436+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Battle Islands Stand Out
Battle for supremacy in this epic WWII combat strategy game!
It’s 1942, and deep in the South Pacific your platoon of crack troops land on a tropical island.
Can you defeat enemy forces and hold your ground to fight another day?
FEATURES
- Build and prepare your base for enemy attacks from players around the world
- Invade enemy islands to take as many supplies as possible
- Deploy unique troops from air, land, and sea to claim victory
- Tackle challenging Campaign battles to improve your fighting skills
- Band together and fight alongside your comrades in exciting Alliance Warfare
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This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Battle Islands is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th September 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This whale has decided to call your islands home! Give the whale a pet and she’ll make a splash!
NEW! A whale has arrived! This new pet will make waves with your troops.
NEW! Player Inbox! A place to receive news about updates and special offers.
IMPROVED! Improved visuals on the Rocket to show a target on the unit which is the focus of the attack!
IMPROVED! Improved visuals on the Decoy when distracting the enemy!
IMPROVED! Improved visuals on the Sabotage unit while disabling enemy buildings!
IMPROVED! Riflemen in Ambush traps can be seen keeping an eye out for enemy attacks!
FIXED! Submarines now shows its projectile when firing on the enemy.
FIXED! Other bug fixes and improvements under the hood.
Download this update and get back into the battle!
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Download & Availability
Battle Islands is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
This game deserves so much more.
Not gonna lie this game is actually whoever made this game needs a game of the year award battleIslands.
Dear 505 games, we would love to see you include even more bombers,naval ships,or more land vehicles like the tiger tank or a Russian tank and for the naval ships you should add the YAMATO.
We had this game on our kindle when we were a little kid and we loved it but we recently got it back and was soo happy. 505 one tiny thing the Germans didn't fight in the pacific in ww2 and please please please put more updates in. THANKS RP5000.
The game currently has great animationsBut theres not an animation we would love a landing craft animation where the front door of the landing craft opens and all the soldiers walk out and if they touch water it makes a splash and add more death animations And if you win a battle you keep the surviving troops and BTW this is our favorite strategy game.
Need more troops added and to request from alliance.
Its quite a good and fun game that passes times, Im a th13 in clash of clans and we get bored and wanna try other games and this one personally hit the spot. Hope to see more updates cause this game has a lot of potential with artwork, gameplay and more add ons.
We have this on our grandmas phone and we love it we would wish u would add more defenses and army units but overall our graviton game ever.
Game is amazing and fun but would like to see alliance members should be able to send reinforcements and send money to help other members.
Give us a aircraft carrier!!!! Please.
To be honest this game just need a update and it needs to be more like clash of clans.
Can you plz make it faster to train stuff like a button to auto train them all so you dont have to click so much also im not saying to make the process quicker im saying that its hard to remember what troops were in army you used so there should be a button to display the army you used so you dont have to try to remember that army since there is no button of that we have not attacked people before only 1 person intotal and im at level 4 HQ.
This is a great game 10/10 we love it.
We love this game how about downloading guyits so cool we love this and Im make (EDITOR CHOICES)XL ……..we love you 505 games.
Battle island is a great strategy game and its fun also the people and alliances on global are amazing all together its a great game the only problem is hackers, the only bad experience we have had in game is being banned by a hacker which was fixed within a day so just dont dare hackers to ban you.
The ranger order command is dumb is doesnt work he doesnt even attack the target sometimes fix it for god sakes we lose all our infantry to howitzers sometimes the pager will shoot the target one time then move on to a target thats not even important we hate the ranger now because of this fix it now.
Great game needs some more troops maybe a flamethrower or aircraft carriers or more aircraft we hope you guys can add more troops and more to the campaign.
We need a military add on. The review of the game is fun so far but we dont like how it takes time for u to upgrade and build stuff. We think we have more stuff that needs to be added to the game. We think more Air Force needs to be added. We think a larger bomber with 4 engines with more health and protective guns surrounding it. We think the original bomber needs protective Turetts around it to. If its already there Im sorry. We have a rank 4 bunker. The b17 Flying Fortress would be a good new bomber and the a20 havoc would be a good twin engine fighter. And we highly recommend more heros for sea and air. Read a few other reviews and suggestions. We saw one about those heros. A aircraft carrier we highly RECCOMEND an AIR CRAFT CARRIER is something we highly reccomend. Lastly we still dont like the timing. Why not put gold for another use. Like repairing units from the other battel that happened other than buying new ones even if all the units survive. Besides we like this game and keep up the good work.
We gave it a 5 star because we use to play this game when we were small it was our first game and then our phone broke so we forgot about it and now that we got a iPhone 11 Im playing it and we would like all the people to give it a 5 star plz lol.
We love paying this game but we want to also play Battle Ages and then when we want to download it it says not available in your country or region and Im really mad about that so please make it available in North America.
We only have two requests, first being heroes for air and sea and land, instead of only land. For sea maybe a big battleship with greater range, damage, and health than warships. Or an aircraft carrier that has a air wing personalized by the player but incapable of launching bombers and escort fighters, and the carrier itself be a favorite target of enemy torpedo bombers, but the carrier armed with anti aircraft guns and be able to keep some fighters around for CAP (Combat Air Patrol). In air maybe a Tuskegee airman or (our personal favorite) a flying tiger in a p-40 instead of the p-51. Of course these will also be able to defend against attacks too. Our second request is between campaign levels, first you have to defeat the defending navy in a complete ocean map, then establish air supremacy in a map that looks like its far above the island being attacked, then do the regular invasion of the island itself. We know this is a lot to ask, but we truly think this will change the game for the better, by a lot. We hope you consider our thoughts. Thank you.
We love this game but think the gerrison has four tents so it should have for men able to come.
Look this game is a hit. Its amazing and it could definitely be better than boom beach. But you guys left the game. Its been a whole year since you last updated it and its such a good game. So simple yet no game we play other than boom beach are the same its not weird cards like in boom beach it has realistic cards from ww2 and you should still be working on this game. You guys made terraria and we know that game can be busy to update and stuff but this game could be just as good as terraria so please come back.
All right so when a plane or bomber or whatever goes down there is a 50-50 percent chance that they can eject land on the ground or in the water and fight on the ground like paratroopers.
Dear 505 games, Battle islands has been a great game for us so far, we love the over all controls and it makes us feel like Im playing an actual ww2 game (unlike some games when you dont have to try at all) however, we have maxed out the campaign and am in need of some more levels for it. Thank you for the game and hope you continue to update it in the future.
Make a special attack helicopter named Ace that has a bit of the same fighting style as a fighter. But it heals troops that are in its proximity, sort of like Ranger. This is just an idea. Base: Link.
The crates when you get higher and higher in the stages get less and less valuable just take the base value and multiply it by what level you are.
Aircraft carriers,and a bigger airplane.
Once you get command bunker 10 you are max out. But why not make a new command bunker and new things.
Add other country options like Germany or Japan and any other.
Got a new phone. Trying to log in to battle islands. Says Facebook sign in is currently unavailable for this app. Any help would be great.
The game is really fun to play and you dont have to pay money to be able to play. Also the graphics are good. The only thing is it takes a little bit to train and upgrade thing. But everything else is great.
For one this is a great game Ive been playing for years now and we love it but we find that 1 ours can wipe out your hole army so we think they should be nerfed because if you place 18 or tanks and the drive over 1 ours they will all instantly die because of their path finding code they will all go to the same spot if there places on the same side of the island and since they go to the same spot they get destroyed by one ours so this is a really great game but we would really like to see the land mines nerfed.
Please make an update. Like more islands or like a custom island where you get to pick the size or something. Just pls update it. You havent updated it in 2 years pls update this game.
Its great in all but we would like to see an update to it because its been so long since its last one.
Wherever we try to move it, it says cant move there due to obstruction but there is nothing there.
The howitzer is really hard to beat. It kills all our rifle men before they ever get close to it. So please nerf the Howitzers.
While removing some of our unwanted apps we accidentally delete battle islands, but that wasnt the real problem we couldnt find a way to restore our purchases we had made in the shop, but beyond that we love the game.
This game needs an anti-aircraft gun truck, a Field artillery, and some other special class of soldier like the ranger.
Awesome game but we think if they were deployed you shouldnt lose your whole army please fix. Please reply:).
We have played this game since day one And loved to see it grow. But in the last year its been very boring and because we are such a high level there is no combat. We still love the game but it could be better.
The game has outdated graphics that didnt age well, well from the start of the game the MG nest looked weird and we expected better graphics for them but something that just threw us for a loop is that 505 games the company that made terraria cant sync the MGs recoil to the actual muzzle blast and sound. Also the game just feels gray and colorless making it boring off the start.
From time to time when attacking an opponent the screen goes black unable to see anything just hear sound. Other than that the game is fine.
This game is great and we agree with most of the other reviews. But the issue is the fact that people can name themselves developers. Its gotten pretty common, they curse. Which considering that there is probably a lot of kids on here is bad. Other than that, this game is awesome though we would suggest adding game modes.
Ive played this game for 7 years and recently we had to clear some space for more important app, well it sort of deleted all our app history and we couldnt restore our purchases and we had over 300 dollars on this game so its kinda stupid.
First, the game is fun. There have been no updates for a while. Pleasefor the love of whoever you believe in fix the Kindle issue. The fact Kindle users show up as zero tags in the war tree is so bad. You can have a top Kindle player showing up at the bottom of the tree with zero tags. Please!!! Fix the Kindle issue or base the war tree on the command center rank instead of tags. This would move the review to 4 stars. Making an option to have a war base and a raid base like you can in Clash would make it 5 star. What a pain in the a** it is to rework your base in and out of war. Overall we are still playing, but some work needs to be done.
We played the game for a while and spent $ to upgrade, we had to get a new phone recently and we redownloaded Battle Islands, now it is impossible to reconnect to our old account we have to start over from 0, even though our account is linked to Facebook. Fix this issue developers.
Made a island advance really far using our Facebook and making a account spent 20 dollars first time lost everything would not let us log in and said they was aware of the problem made a account with facebook spent 40 dollars on gold lost everything .. And also could not log in we really enjoy the game but Im over it . Would be a awesome game if they could fix this.
The game would be enjoyable if it werent for the fact that everything takes days or even weeks to promote or upgrade. Unless of course you have $$$$$$$$$$ and lots of it. Will be deleting game.
Noticed this week a player has access to unlimited bombing, nothing but dropping bombs until a 100% victory, ".
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v5.4
- Size: 215.28 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: 505 Games (US), Inc.
Last updated: 4th September 2018 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: 505 Games (US), Inc.