Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:11 am
Blitzkrieg Fire – Strategy Game Review
Blitzkrieg Fire is a Strategy game from Geoffrey Ayre, first launched in 1st September 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 118+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blitzkrieg Fire Stand Out
Blitzkrieg Fire is a turn-based strategic wargame set in the European and North African theaters of World War II. Take command of the land, air, and naval forces of Britain, Germany, the USSR, the United States, Italy, France, Poland, Finland, Romania, and many other nations in the largest conflict in history.
Experience the entire war through 20 historically accurate campaigns, from the Spanish Civil War to the downfall of Germany. Command squadrons of more than 350 types of aircraft, from iconic warbirds like the Spitfire and Bf 109 to less well-known types like the Soviet I-16 and Polish P.24. Control the seas with more than 250 types of warships including submarines, battleships and aircraft carriers.
Blitzkrieg Fire is powered by a detailed and realistic simulation of WW2 air, naval, and ground combat. Fight against an intelligent AI which constantly adapts its strategy to ensure every game is challenging and unique. Challenge a friend in hotseat multiplayer (pass-and-play).
Blitzkrieg Fire contains no in-app purchases or ads of any kind, and an internet connection is not required to play. Buy the game once and get access to all current and future content.
The game features 20 campaigns, including:
- Blitzkrieg Fire: Fight the whole of WW2 month-by-month on a map spanning from the United States to the Ural Mountains.
- Invasion of Poland: Lead German or Polish forces in the opening acts of WWII.
- Battle of Britain: Defend the cities of Great Britain from the Luftwaffe onslaught.
- Operation Barbarossa: Command millions of German or Soviet troops in the largest invasion in history.
- Western Desert: Lead the infamous 'Afrika Korps' or 'Desert Rats' in the legendary campaign for North Africa.
- Operation Overlord: Command a massive Allied invasion of Fortress Europe.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blitzkrieg Fire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th June 2024
Recent improvements include:
New in 1.5XX:- Added Mission Editor
- Added ability to attack nations before they historically joined the war
- Updated graphics
- 51 new types of aircraft
- 65 new warship classes
- 18 new types of tanks and armoured vehicles
- Added button to auto-repeat orders
- Added German and Russian map options
- Fixed many bugsNew in 1.501:
- Fixed several bugs and crashes in custom scenarios
Download & Availability
Blitzkrieg Fire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Blitzkrieg Fire 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:
Love this game. Can we get a civil war and Cold War Europe please.
Overall a good game but there are some bizarre features. For example Greece is strangely overpowered they always have around 500,000-1,000,000 troops and no matter if they are attacking, defending, dont have air support their loses are about 1/5 of yours. Only happens with Greece. Just a strange thing we noticed.
Great game, but we just wish you were able to add neutral nations to play as like Spain, Turkey, Sweden, etc that could change the dynamic of these scenarios. Also there should be a way to save actions mid turn, it can take a long time to make every action you want but if we leave the app for a little the app just refreshes and all our actions will be gone, it can be frustrating.
We love this game but could you make a huge update please.
Ive followed the Fire series of games ever since pacific released, we never anticipated that a mission editor would be really but that came in Red fire, and eventually Blitzkrieg. The point being it really needs to be fixed. Its filled with bugs, for example sometimes some of the air squadrons we added just use a placeholder called GenericAircraft meaning we have to delete it and completely redo it so it doesnt glitch while playing, not to mention sometimes Carrier squadrons will transfer to Capital ships like cruisers. Furthermore, the AI is so janky. For example the soviets will just horde their army in Odessa meaning the Romanians effectively cant do anything to invade southern Russia due to lack of manpower, also when partisans or resistance capture bases behind enemy lines, the allies will just horde thousands of aircraft in said spot making it uncaptureable due to air strikes. To also mention, there needs to be a way of deescalating war involvement, for example suing for peace. In redfire at-least theres scripted campaigns where this happens, we get diplomacy was different than WW2 and the cold war but the point still stands. There also needs to be more territory but this isnt too much of a problem and we get this would be a-lot of work, but there REALLY needs to be more ship classes, and maybe even ships getting refitted at a historical date. Again we get this would be a-lot of work but its just an idea. Also, naval combat is BRUTALLY oversimplified, like its not even arcade level stuff its just bad, this has been a problem in all 3 games. Overall, we love the Fire series of games, but like all theres lots of issues and mistakes.
Hey love the game its amazing. We would just like a 1933 and 1936 start date. Like we want to use German troops and gain experience through Spanish civil war before we invade Czechoslovakia and Poland etc. And a world map would be awesome. Like axis w Italy Germany and Poland u could make it called Axis Majors.
This game is 10 out of 5 stars for real. We just have a few suggestions: Light diplomacy(like the ability to change a countrys faction) The ability to prioritize production( armor, air, navy, or general) maybe not specific vehicles and such but a more general picture of production. What if? Units ( such as if France survives and continues fighting, they begin to produce armor like the ARL 44) war thunder has plenty of examples.
This is a really amazing game, a unique one to put it at that, stands out from the rest of the rts ww2 games. But it could definitely use some additional features, two of which would be rather easy to implement, 1. Flags and 2. More Customization including ability to give each country a different color on the map, so its easier to see which country controls what, and with the flags we could also change whether we want them to show up on the cities or whether we want france to be blue color and germany to be red britain to be yellow and ussr to be green, things like this would definitely improve the game. Anyways im really stoked about future updates and we hope you continue to work on this game! Thank You.
Why dont know at air supply in they add small jet bomb a a mustard, gas.
We love this game a lot and we cant find jewels like that at all in the AppStore. The realistic ww2 experience is fun and hard. The real tiny logic problems that really are the reason Im writing this (1: Is it just us or do ships die way to easy a example if you send like one bomber unit at the enemy fleet and they will kill most of the really Im only asking that the ships get stronger (2: this one is just the reason we gave it four stars we were playing Germany in the whole map mode and had just ended France so we took our Airborn units to go deal with Norway (note we took over Denmark but never took Norway) we think we have like 7 or 6 airborn divisions attacking the Norwigen army we were a shoe in Then we forgot to add fighters then when we attacked the territory was taken BUT the ONE BIPLANE GROUP that probably had less then 25 planes killed probably 65 thousand men we were just enraged. Now we love this game and hope it becomes great but please fix the way airborn works when there are enemy fighters.
We dont really know if we have it but can we make custom units in sandbox where we can name them and equip them to goof off and stuff and we dont know for campaigns but do we have the SAS Units for the U.K It would be pretty cool to have them there and special air groups and more elite groups that would be very cool this game has potential.
What else is there to say? Its just fantastic. If you want to execute on tactical WWII strategy, this is the game for you.
We really think this game series have potential! The strategy behind it is very nice and different then other games one thought would be a ww1 game with the same style and also a game with different map styles more closed up but with the same style we really think close up combat would be cool maybe like where you can zoom in extra closely to see the units but with the red and blue style to keep the realism anyway hope these suggestions are added!! Thank you for making this great game.
This is a really great game. We also have Pacific Fire and love it as well. We think this style of game has a great amount of potential and would love to see it branch out into other conflicts than just wwii. We think a civil war or napoleonic style or even the crusades would be amazing with this concept. We cant wait to see how these games progress and hope that they make more like this.
Just get the game, youll be glad you did. Id like the to see the developer add a total resources available by type screen. It would go a long way in aiding in the allocation into either attacking or defending cities.
You learn a large amount of towns and citys.very few crashes and lot,s of options and veratity and realistic reinforsment and goes into many topics.
This new version of game was very good,and we can just say this,and pls for the new game,have ww1 ,you know,we dont have any great game about ww1,but we sure if you creat it,it can be excellent.
Please continue to update this and Pacific Fire you could still add som many things. You could add generals that give buffs and debuffs, which would make every army more individual and different to the others in a new way. Or could make generals assigned to just certain parts of fronts either way it would be a good addition. We would also like a more day in what troops spawn each turn some way, and specific losses and kills for your country, like what your specific country has lost and killed in the war and what units have killed the most. Please continue to update the game, thank you for reading this.
When aircraft squadrons abort a mission, they do so to survive, and thus fly back to the base they took-off from. This game however, has aborted squadrons land on the target base, where they get bombed and destroyed anyways Consequently, aircraft casualties are higher, than realistic. Example: A squadron of 25 Bf 109G-6 aircraft takes off from Cassino to fly CAP over Rome. At Rome it engages a P-38F squadron, loses 14 aircraft and aborts. The remaining 11 Bf 109G-6 aircraft would land at Cassino. Instead, the game lands those 11 planes at Rome, where they get bombed by strike missions and lose another 10 aircraft. The one remaining survivor reappears at Cassino at the beginning of the next turn. Only squadrons on the ground at a base, would lose aircraft from bombs, not aircraft over that base fleeing from air combat.
The game is great! However, there are a couple small issues. 1. On our iPhone 12, the date and the information button on the top bar are blocked by the notch. 2. The roads are very hard to read because they blend into the background and rivers. We tried all 3 map display modes, but they didnt help much. Sometimes city names also cover part of roads. Would be great if the color of the road is more visible. Even better if players can toggle visual layers to show/hide city names, movement arrows, etc.
So this game is awesome and we love it. Our only ask is give us more control on what units we wish to mobilize instead of random units spawning each turn and where we want to mobilize them.
The theme is great as are the visuals, but dont expect to win any scenarios unless youre legitimately trained in the art of battle. Ive played games like this (both digital and tabletop) for decades and Ive never experienced the kind of brutal difficulty that this game presents, even with your opponent set to easy.
Dont buy this if your phone has a notch! Its not optimized. Planning on refunding if its not fixed within a few days.
Finally deleted the app for good. With no font adjustment, the eyestrain is too much. Too bad.
This game is an incredible little game, and well worth the price, hours of fun. However, one thing that would turn this single player experience into a fun game to play with friends, its a long range multiplayer feature, with perhaps the option to have multiple players, each playing a certain nation(s). Otherwise amazing game and definitely recommend.
We think you should add more content like Cold War gone hot and Vietnam afghan and stuff and make it more realistic and can control units like a tank or would make it so cool and you can buy your own units were there not randomly spawning but overall we still like the game very much.
Awesome game worth the money but with the new update the game tends to crash whenever a mission is loading or after a few turns, if you could fix this problem 5/5.
This is a great game (along with Pacific Fire). It has eliminated some of the tedious mechanic (supply / command control) without losing playability & replay. However, since the last update a few days ago the game crashes after just a few moves. Im hopeful the designer will correct this problem quickly. Otherwise its a one star great idea / poor execution game.
Great game and love how it works but we want to see battle of Berlin or just after d day but great game.
This game truly allows you to experience what it would be like to be the leader of a country during WW2 and the decisions you would have to make to achieve victory. This game also shows how sometimes sacrifices must be made for a greater cause. The only issue is that sometimes the game crashes when you try to view the log after a battle involving a large number of troops. Overall great game and worth the price.
This is an absolutely awesome game. The graphics are good, the moving front is an interesting concept Ive always wanted to see in a game, and no two scenarios are alike. Ever given any thought to a modern war scenario version of these games also Using Pacific and European theaters or even a Cold War version.
Would be better if there would be armies with divisions in them and they could locate not just inside cities but all over the front line. Otherwise, game is worth the money.
Love this game and Pacific fire. Would be awesome if you added an update to include v2 rockets and the atomic bomb.
We recently bought this and we dont regret the purchase. This game and its brother, Pacific Fire, have a promising future. Im waiting for the eventual update where you can play a Soviet vs Western Allies scenario (You cant have a strategy game set in WW2 Europe and NOT have a Soviet vs Allies scene). Im looking forward to new tanks and aircraft like the M26 Pershing, IS tanks, Comet, Gloster Meteor, etc. But Im probably asking for too much. We also hope for the experimental frontline option to be in the Pacific Fire game. We hope this game continues to have the usual update here and there, but what we listed is what we hope to see in BF in the future. Keep up the good work.
This game is exceptionally awesome and is underrated. Think Plague Inc but WWII but better. A must play.
For future updates PLEASE EASTERN FRONT.
We love pacific fire and Blitzkrieg fire is even better bigger maps more units and countries and way better graphics and animation the new battle graphics are awesome and just like pacific fire the game is easy to learn and play for strategy newcomers The best thing though is just like pacific fire blitzkrieg fire is a full game no pay 2 win garbage and no in app purchases you pay the $6 and get the full game we wish more games on the App Store are like this Highly recommended.
Ive tried the game on both OS and the sensitivity on iOS is definitely very high and prone to the slightest touches. The scroll bar on the unit list is hard to use and when moving around the map, its like moving around on crack, way too fast. The iPhone 12pro max notch covers up the date and objective button at the top of the game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.501
- Size: 186.90 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Geoffrey Ayre
Last updated: 26th June 2024 | Genre: Strategy | Developer: Geoffrey Ayre