Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 04:09 pm
Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare – Strategy Game Review
Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare is a Strategy/Casual game from PlaySide Studios PTY LTD, first launched in 22nd June 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 25,035+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare Stand Out
This is the biggest auto-battle idle war strategy simulator of all time! Recruit and clash with fighters and warriors from many different ages. Have epic fight's throughout history with your army including Army, Spartan, Cavemen, Pirates, Cowboys, Samurais, Zombies, Helicopters, Gangsters, and many, many more before sending them into battle. Each and every battle gives you the chance to win gold and historic glory!
In Battle Simulator: Warfare, each unit fights differently and comes with their own unique abilities – no battle is ever the same as you upgrade, customise, and build your army to take on challenging fights across the ages!
- Deep and addictive progression systems
- A crisp and minimalistic art style
- A Battle Simulator unlike any other!
- Fully animated characters
- An expansive campaign with thousands of unique levels
- A massive roster of Fighters to recruit – each with different perks
- Challenge Mode where you can earn bonus rewards every day
VIP Membership Subscription:
You can subscribe to our Battle Simulator: Warfare VIP membership, which gives you Gold and Gems daily, unlocks the perks on all Fighters no matter what level they are, and grants 50% faster Crate unlock speeds.
The VIP membership has three duration options: Per Week, Per Month, and Per Year.
1）Weekly Subscription costs $6.99.
2）Monthly Subscription costs $9.99.
3）Yearly Subscription costs $99.99.
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You will be able to use premium features for the duration of the subscription.
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th May 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance enhancements :)
Download & Availability
Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Battle Simulator: Idle Warfare 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:
You should make a new challenge map called Space attack it would be fun to play.
Love the game cant find any info on perks or if they are passive or a menu to see which ones are active or available am we missing something.
Ive been playing this game for a while now and Im stuck fighting Louis the 9 pls nerf him.
Good Job, you managed to make a history game actually good in its criteria it was supposed to follow. The easy to follow content easily is a plus. Sadly, all the ads and annoying notifications do bring it down, it is still a great time. 4 Stars.
Ive been playing the is game a lot lately. We really like the concept and overall it is really fun. The troops have good variety and really cool designs. A couple things we would change would be some improvements when editing your barracks. Im having to dig through to find the 1 star troops so we can replace them. You have to hold, not tap on them so Im having to hold our finger and move it over slightly so we can actually see the star rating. Second, some boss fights can be very annoying. A simple fix for this was to make bosses drop more gold. Im currently stuck on a boss and Ive fought it probably 50 times. To get 1 more troop we need to battle it 15 times..it gets old. However, once we beat it, Ill go back to the more fun fights.
This game is very addicting and something to play when your bored and there is of units and they have cool designs. Although whenever we reach a boss fight it hits our units in one hit making us retry the level about 35 times before we can get stronger. If you could nerf the bosses that would be great.
We loved playing this game but when we got to level 422 the game deleted all of our warriors. So now we cannot progress any further.
Its ridiculous how many ads are in this game. You cant enjoy the game because it forces ads every three levels. The ads are anywhere between 30 seconds and a minute and ruins the whole flow. We got so tired of putting our phone down every three minutes when an ad appeared that we just uninstalled. This game is not worth your time unless you want to purchase the ad free version. Game does not respect the players time. If it wasnt for the non stop ads, we could see ourselves enjoying the game to an extent.
This game is essentially ad-watching with some short breaks of game playing in between. The game is nothing special, you gain cards that represent warriors, that you combine and make stronger with additional cards that are purchased with in-game currency. The problem is that you are very, very quickly forced to watch ads to gain enough gold to buy these cards. This game is a thinly disguised revenue cow that relies on you watching ads rather than enjoying a good game and compelling you to support a developer that cares about their product and the players. Skip it and try any other game in the App Store. It will still have the same premise towards profiting off you being mentally bombarded with never ending sales pitches from developers goading you into downloading their app with false videos of their games, but it will likely be hidden marginally better.
Once we were playing a level and when we got defeated all our progress and troops we unlocked disappeared but on the collection list it shows that it is in our army and says we have unlocked those troops.
We were enjoying this game and the fact we could spend a little money and remove ads from between levels sounded great. Ever since then, if we want to double our rewards or spin the wheel we have to watch at least 3/4 ads each time. Its a rip off, before we could watch one ad and double our rewards. Fix this please or at least let users know what you do once they pay to support you.
Let us first say that this game is fairly fun. A good time waster if nothing else. However, Ive been stuck on a boss battle for a long time (Battle of the Bulge Boss) and nothing we do will come even close to beating him. Ive watched hundreds of ads during this game to get x3 cash and have been watching ads on the challenges to replay and get as many coins to get more cards and level up troops. Ive even worked on offers to get gems to buy high level cards. Nothing works though as this boss one shots everything really quickly so it is impossible to beat him. Im fairly certain we could spend $500 to buy cards and still not beat this boss. Such a scam. We recommend NOT to play this game.
Really enjoyed the game out the bat. Great base and the build concept is simple and aesthetic as can be but your gonna miss mad cards. Even the ones you draw regularly, for some reason your gonna get robbed. Thought we could bypass it by gettin something from the shop and got finessed not once, but twice. Not pressed about losing the 15 it was more so that the game gone punish you for ripping you off. By the point that sets in the irritation of the ads will have you opening this game ever so often, but good luck and enjoy not a terrible game. Just tacky.
This game is chock full of ads we like the game, but if most of the time spent playing is 80% ads whats the point? We bought the no ads between levels pack, guess what? Every 5 levels theres a random pop up ad that takes 35-45 seconds to load through, you can close the app and play the level again thats really the only choice. We bought another item in the store, the store says if you buy something in the store there will no random pop up ads, guess what? Its still random pop up ads. PS the ads are mental torture and dont actually even do any kind of job advertising the mobile games their promoting, losing our mind.
We paid for the no ads this and we never received but our account was charged.
None of our in game purchases give us anything.
We purchased two packs for 5$ each and all it said was alreayd purchased so you want it again for free but never gave us the items we were supposed to get in the first place , they also never refunded our money atfer we contacted support it dosnt have any number we can call so now we have to write this review so no one else makes the same mistake.
From the moment we started playing this game we Was super into it we recommend this game to everyone who has good taste in games.
We like how you can progress through levels and get bonus rewards and we like how the units get different looks it just the ads but we understand its a free game still very fun game just can you add more units after space age and more to the modern age.
This game is really fun and Im at 600 something and the boss is so hard to beat we have a lot of slivers but we still cant beat it so pls make the bosses easier they take us so long to beat them all.
Nun crazy the lower level is slow but once u get going it picks up.
We have recently finished all of the levels and now what its the point of playing anymore? Please add more levels. Please please please.
This is a great gave love the game and the idea we used to play it all the time and just recently picked it back up Ive even spent money on this game cause of how much we play it but theres one problem we have and that is the bosses. These guys go from Tanky but 2 hit kills which is doable to utterly impossible to beat unless you check back daily to do quests and challenges to buy a bunch of cards which at where we are are all 15k per card and the money you get from losing to a boss is 500-1000 depending on how low you get their health but once you do challenges you cant do them again until 24 hours has passed or you watch ads for each level and quests you have to wait regardless after completing them. We recommend doing a stat rework on the bosses or some of them at least and expanding the quests maybe even do a weekly set and daily set and if something else could be added like challenges to help raise more money to buy card packs that would be great too but these are just some ideas we kinda just want to get back into the battles but Ive been stuck on this boss for 2 days and still only get him to a quarter of health.
Its a good game but we wish there was more ways to earn money and gems because sometimes u cant do anything until the next day or just do the battle again and again to get very little money. Specially on the boss battles u have to wait for them to fight them and if u lose u get like 1k which is very little and would need to upgrade a lot your troops. Pls fix this or do something about it because we think many people would agree with us.
We love this game Ive been playing a couple others like it from you guys. The level ups are satisfying and watching the battles can be somewhat fun! However our main problems is the difficulty spikes with the bosses and lack of reasources to do level ups. Ive noticed over the couple years Ive been playing this you only and we mean ONLY ALL THE TIME, get 1500 coins for defeating bosses that might take you a couple of daily chests to level up your army. No gems just a low amount of coins. Gems are especially lacking unlike the Animal warfare game and toy warefare. In animal warfare its quite balanced with levels with gems and the extra challenge levels also give you gems for all of them. Toy warfare gives you a ton of gems in lots of different ways. This game gives barely any to work with we cannot even buy anything from the lucky crates or shop at times. Only thing that Ive seen that really gives you gems in this game isnt the challenge levels, isnt regular levels/bosses, or daily. But the daily quests stuff which sometimes you cannot complete all the way thru because levels also lacking in crates on levels. Another problem is the boss difficulty! We are always getting stuck on bosses not always due to the amount of health they have but usually due to our own units not being able to out put enough damage! For example Trex is a legendary at level one it does 5 damage?!! When you upgrade it to level 5 it does 80? Why is the mammoth at level 5 and 1 doing significant more damage and health than the legendary in its timeline? Not to mention that majority of the time we can go thru levels pretty easy until we hit a wall with bosses it took us several weeks to beat a boss at one point. Did all that to only get 1500 coins and no gems. In animal warfare you get both alot of coins and gems for beating a boss! Which is nice because it allows for more upgrades! Toy warfare gives a ton of different ways to get gem including bosses and levels kind of like animal warefare but more a abundant! Battle simulator here feels like its purposefully trying to give you less and less make you frustrated and end up spending money on it. We have in the past spent money on some of these games for example Animal warefare we bought two bundles to remove ads now its servers are down and we cannot even buy things in the shop that cost gems. Toy warfare we have yet to spend money on but definitely plan to even though its a subscription. Battle simulator we only bought the no ads bundle it works fine! However theres nothing really special about its shop apart from being really helpful with the option ads for coins and that being a daily quest. Which is understandable and Im okay with it cause you guys need to make money to make a living too. Though the other problems with this game is bogging it down and making it harder to enjoy each time we get completely walled by a boss. Its not any particular bosses Im having problems with, its all of them! Hitting bosses stops progression big time. We have a couple of suggestions whether considered or not we dont mind. One maybe increase the amount of coins and gems you get from bosses. It feels extremely unfair to being grinding out challenges over days to level up stuff and to be either defeated over and over again or just get a measly 1500 coins and no gems even thought the boss skull picture includes gems. Two Balance out the units damage the units do so little damage to bosses that sometimes it doesnt matter whether you upgraded your units to two or more ranks that the boss will end up killing all of them in the end. They have no trouble with regular battles but the enemy units in regular should be buffed anyways to have some what of a fair chance. Or similar outputs as the units you get in the game like Animal warfare. Three common crates should appear a little more throughout chapters reasoning behind this is if youre not gonna increase resources to buy more units why not just allow the players to collect more chests so they feel incline to speed them up with there current resources. Finally maybe more frequent offers across games like this? There isnt a lot to really buy in all these repetitive games but we like the gameplay loops and repetitiveness. Anyways thats our review if you read of all of this stuff thank you for your time and consideration.
It has a lot of good features but we dont like the lack of control we have in the beginning. This is something we feel has plagued the mobile gaming industry for a while by not providing an access to setting, volume, etc. In the beginning and only guiding buttons so it feels more like Im looking at a click and slide show instead of a game. We enjoy the light grind but it definitely needs to give a little more control to the player.
Bought micro-transactions awhile back on this game and it wont let us restore purchases even though theres a giant button for it, button is broke, will change rating if we actually get our purchases restored.
A ok game, could use some more stuff but honestly, every game could use more. Um, great game theme but again, not enough stuff in it.
Hey Im confused because when we just got our epic chest opened we got the Egyptian assassin then after we got all the daily rewards finished and got the final reward. We got one wooly mammoth and another Egyptian assassin. But once we got back into our battle deck we only got one Egyptian assassin. Where is our wooly mammoth and 2nd Egyptian assassin at.
Need to fix the ads because it kicks us out the game when we press the X to exit the video.
Hi our name is mousa the reason Im talking about this is because Im wondering if you could do us one little favour ifs you could let people upgrade there character if they cant merge it with a other one hopefully you could do this btw this is not a complain Im just seeing if you could do this for a awesome and amazing game.
We love the game but one thing maybe there should be a sandbox mode maybe at the end so people will want to play more.
Pretty good we like the different ages and merging concept, can allow for larger armies.
This game is exactly how a free game should be. Most games like this that we play are overwhelming with adds, this game has very few and you can choose to watch some to advance to your game. Warning- VERY ADDICTIVE we live this game so much its the first one that we have ever written a review for and we highly recommend it. Love to play at school perfect for burning time. 5 STARS EASY.
This game is so well made! This definitely deserves more attention. But make maybe a 2nd game.
This is so good its like the best we wish there would be more games like this and there are some bug fixes need to be done but this game has a lot of potential.
Easy fun game for us ti not be bored. We recommend it.
The game is great around the beginning when your troops are weak and the enemies are weak. But after you get to level 100 the bosses are extremely difficult we have a full set of level 3s and 4s but we cant take out a boss without grinding for a couple of days in the challenges section. The only feedback we give to the game is to make bosses a little easier based on troop levels. As the normal enemies are easy but the bosses are too difficult. Over all it is a good game. The worst boss is the lance knight type of bosses.
Its a great game and extremely addicting as soon as you start playing it. The only complaint we have is the boss battles. The troops that you have just kind of stand around the boss doing nothing until there is room for them to get in so most of the power you have isnt utilized at the same time. It takes us a long time and a lot of ads for coins to finally get past one.
There are to many advertisements. The advertisement need more bang for your time.
You complete a level & as a reward are forced into watching an add. A personal pet peeve of ours & so the games not worth our time to play. If you like watching a whole bunch of adds to get the full game experience, go ahead.
We were playing this game when it gave us an ad, but we already was in the battle and when the ad finished we went to merge and when we did it bugged out our best soldiers and now we're stuck on this level,.
Its litterlly just a Nock off of clash Royale so really just go play clash Royale.
First of all your server is so small it can barely fit the game, the ads on top of that makes it lag and crash every other battle. Okay so we gave you a dollar to remove the ads during battle. But we still need to watch ads to get enough gold to buy cards, so do you get instantly paid when we watch the ad? Because after we watch the ad and the app crashes we not only dont have the gold for watching the ad but we also have to do the same battle over again? Yeahhh its not our phone! Definitely poor development.
Ads ads ads ads and ridiculously priced subscriptions. No option to pay to permanently remove ads. Waste of time.
We love this game but it should be easier to get gems and when you do a time warp battle it should give you a character from that time after the battle.
Just got this game a few minutes ago and we already love it recommend for all who like strategy games.
Theres only ads if you want extra stuff its fun and we just got it and we are addicted.
We love this game, sandbox or not.
The monthly subscription is $10, and the yearly is $140. There are 12 months in a year, and 12 x $10 is $120, which is less than $140.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.118
- Size: 391.60 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: PlaySide Studios PTY LTD
Last updated: 28th May 2024 | Genre: Strategy, Casual | Developer: PlaySide Studios PTY LTD