Last updated on December 15th, 2025 at 05:04 am
Colonies at War – Entertainment Game Review
Colonies at War is a Entertainment/Strategy/Action game from Wombi Pty Ltd, first launched in 17th August 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,456+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Colonies at War Stand Out
Colonies at War is a game set in the 19th century during the rush by colonial powers to colonize the known world. It's a game of building armies and crushing enemies. Pick one of the 28 nations available, look for the best lands nearby, then send in your armies to conquer them. Make allies of your friends, and war on your enemies. Build your navies to control the seas and become the greatest nation in history.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Colonies at War is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Make adjustments to price of giving Gifts.
Fix a bug keeping alliance going after its been cancelled.
Other bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Colonies at War is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Colonies at War 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:
We typically dont review games, but we have to say we love this game. Prussia is probably our favorite country to play as. Theres a difficulty there having Britain, and Russia by you & you never know what France or Austria is going to do. We think the hardest part is trying to gain ground at a rate that gets you ahead of the Ming dynasty. As Prussia we typically do the best we can to keep Russia away from us, and go after the Ottoman Empire. Usually end up having to fight Russia, but by the time that happens its a march to take on the Ming Dynasty. All in all its a really fun game. Sometimes all it takes is one bad attack, and the whole things falls like a house of cards, but thats life. Great game man.
Colonies at war is a very well made game. It requires true strategy, and an understanding of mechanics to be successful. People often complain that its unrealistic however 40k armies can cause clutter so perhaps making four 10k armies and attacking a target would be more effective. If you manage army and naval size and resources you can easily outmaneuver the AI on easy and medium and with a well thought out strategy win hard difficulty. There are ads but we believe that it is a reasonable amount and a fair trade between a free game and in return adds to give the dev a steady flow of income. Overall Id recommend this game to those who want a true strategy experience and really enjoyed playing through it and hope the other games are just as good.
Great game, can a modern day one be made.
Hey love the game should add a mode where theres Mongolia or mongol empire and or add to Africa and possibly expand Native American faction.
World at war had a free for all mode that would play great on this game, also what happened to world at war? Cannot find it on the AppStore anymore.
In 1898, Hawaii should be a territory of the u.s. Can you add that please.
Love these games. But where did world at war go.
We love playing all your games man but we would suggest you make a world at war WW1 version that would be awesome.
So first we just want to say, out of all the strategy games youve made. This one is our favorite. Though just one thing, in your French Indian and Viking games your commander system is amazing, but this game we feel has the best gameplay so we were just wondering, if yo y could add the commander system to this game. If not this is still an amazing game that we love.
This is our first time writing a review. But overall, we quite love this game. Hope nothing but the best for the game and developer.
Overall this game is very good very relaxing and very enjoyable to play Ive played most of these games we think this is the best one yet overall great job we were also wondering if you c pull ever make a ww1 game.
This game is super fun with countless possibilities however a 1914 edition including ww1 battles would be very fun.
We only have a few minor problems with it but theyre more of pet peeves. 9/10 game.
A fun playable game. If you dont care much about History. Or orthography! They cant spell Burgundy! Or many other place names. You cant have everything we suppose.
Colonies at War is a genius blend of strategy and world history, and its so fun to play! Highly recommend trying it out.
Add something where youre units are more organized for example make a army group customization for regions and, add something to name youre regiments and divisions it would also be nice to add a revolutionary war time era in the game with the uniforms and, with a era the world 1775 and battles, and add tax systems to earn money, and more resources like cotton sugar, also for different eras add different leaders, Overall this game is amazing and very FUN! We love this game and you made this game great if you can add these it will be greater thank you so much if you do.
This game has a lot of potential to have many more content like World War we and the Russian Civil War and many war this game is really good and these are just some ideas.
Very good game but there is a problem whenever we make a army it lets us only make 5 armys before it just does not let us make more.
This game would be decent and fun to play? All the adds are killing it though. We mean, we get it, you have to make money. But to what expenses do you want to do that. Make it to the point where you dont even want to play cause of to many adds will kill this game fast.
This game is very entertaining we only wish it were possible to purchase artillery contracts and possibly some new equipment upgrade contracts would be super beneficial.
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This game is so fun its difficult and boring sometimes but we like it.
We love this game its incredibly uniq, but whenever Im supposed to receive a certain amount of money we dont. If it says Im supposed to have 4k Ill only get 19 hundred.
Simple and fun game but for whatever reason we cant build ships. We keep trying but all it does is take the money and not actually give us any ships at all.
The game is so good and addictive it makes it makes it feel 1 hour of gameplay is just 5 minutes of gameplay would kind of recommend just suggest you not to play the game everyday take a break from the game ones in a while and if they added more troop types and details it would be even better.
You can bombard a lvl 5 fortress for what feels like an actual hour with 200+ cannons, and little or no progress will be made, your allies dont help you or turn on you too easily, your enemies will do everything in their power to rip you apart, you can own half the world and still get counter attacked back to the stone age on a single slip up, any level past level one is near impossible it seems.
We found this game absolutely enthralling from the second we picked it up. That being said, the one suggestion we have is the farther you get into the game the repetition of the ads become a little unbearable, but other than that this is a fantastic game and you should be proud.
Really good for killing time, but we would have liked the option to free countries or give territories to other countries for favor or something like that, it would make it more interesting in our opinion, other than that, amazing.
This mission, set on hard, is basically impossible. Ive tried various strategies, from attacking early to waiting back, and nothing seems to work. We lose quit quickly.
Just put the atleset 4 or 3 land for each warlord so it can be better because the other warlord has to take land also us to but if you just give the 4 or 3 land to each warlord it will be better. Also put the Japanese in 1911.
We really like this game and we have a lot of fun playing it, we think you do a very solid job when balancing troops and we honestly cant come up with many suggestions when it comes to changing this game, and we love that you add new scenarios every now and then. We honestly mainly just wanted to suggest the idea of maybe making a napoleonic wars game or maybe scenario idk but yeah we feel like that could be cool to like do scenarios with the different coalitions ,the invasion of russia, invading egypt,etc. Or maybe even a roman one, idk we just feel tgat you guys did very well in this one concept wise and that you could aplly it to so many different points of history by just making some changes to troops skins, and adding some of that cool historical stuff you guys do.
The World 1898 needs Polynesia to be gone as the US had already taken Hawaii by that time and Poland should be added or Portugal. Besides that a very well crafted game keep up the good work.
An idea we would like is a map of the Texas and Mexico war where Texas is The Republic of Texas.
We have played this game a lot even after winning matches we will still conquer the entire maps. We just finished taking over the world as Australia on the hardest difficulty we can say its very fun a lot of thinking and strategy. Its a simple but complex systems we also like your other games you have made. In all honesty the only thing we can ask for is local multiplayer. Cause out of all of the war games we enjoy this the most and have quite a few friends that like playing it too it would be awesome to play with them. Thanks for making the time to read and better the game we know reviews are only opinions but yall take them seriously we know us and countless others can agree. Have a good day.
Greatest game we have on our phone and admittedly we spend way too much time playing it. Regardless of weather this suggestion is done Ill still be a massive fan of your work and this game sir. We were wondering if there would ever be possibly be a customization mode? Where you could edit the year and the countries in the game, all the things such as development levels, starting armies and territories, etc.. Just a suggestion Id like to throw out there. Thanks again.
Here are the issues we noticed following the Rise of Italy update First, the progress card is pointless in our opinion. Its never accurate and doesnt actually show to what level youve completed any of the missions Secondly, when you scroll through the mission l chooser, it should say at the top to what level you completed that mission. It doesnt even do that correctly anymore These two issues were present for months now Finally, following the new update, the ability to transfer has been completely obliterated. You can no longer move troops or ships on the map. This obviously renders the game UNPLAYABLE! This bug must be fixed as soon as possible or the game will suffer mass-quittings.
Its so good but you changed up transfer rules to where you have to be in the same province so we cant even get to our colonies unless Im friends with half the world. Its super annoying and is so annoying its worth a whole star. Please fix.
Used to love this game, an unskippable ad every other turn makes this game un playable, had to delete.
It needs Sweden, Sweden was a powerful country at the time.
He updated it wooooooooooooo only complaints is there are none, but could you allow the ai to use the Civil war card on Hard.
Great game! This game has so much potential on top of how cool it already is! One thing Id like to see next is another scenario like 1835, but with the nations in 1898. It would also be cool if there was a game mode where all territories acted like countries in expanding their land and such.
We have played every single scenario multiple times on all of the difficulties. We have virtually no complaints or critiques other than some occasional bugs that happen. The bugs arent even too problematic despite the developer of the game being only a single person. Very fun, not too complicated that its hard to learn, not too simple that it becomes mundane to play after a short time. We also wish there was a Europe only campaign, or a Mediterranean only campaign.
This has to be one of our favorite conquest games,but we question is what are you planning on doing beyond this.
Is there any possibility that an added feature would be the ability to edit the map or edit scenarios? And Im asking for all your games. Other wise this game is pretty neat. Thank you.
Alright, alright, dont get us wrong. The game is one of the best Ive ever played, and we dont think Im ever going to take back that sentence. BUT, when we were playing as the confederacy against the Union, we had a level 7 fort with 4K troops in it. When a group of 7K men in the Union side attacked Virginia, the level 7 fort with 4K units, it somehow took it. We had artillery, stonks of it, and it didnt do a thing. We had 90% more chance PLUS tactics PLUS the Union was going across the river. How is this balanced???? Please respond.
We have 2 problems 1: 1898 Scenario In this scenario countries are historically placed onto different parts of the map the Sioux are located in Hudson Bay, Labrador, New Mexico, and Kansas lands our people havent even lived in 2: 7th Cavalry Scenario This scenario is based off the Great Sioux War of 1876 fought in Dakota Territory, Montana Territory, Wyoming Territory, and Nebraska where the Sioux basically dominate the whole country These ideas are nice and all but not really if it includes almost the entire United States we dont know if we should be surprised that Im Lakota and we know more than yall just saying So in short, do double research before making these types of scenarios.
We wish you could play with other humans, or make the game progressively harder.
This game is a good game, just some stuff we want to add. Number 1, please add battles up close, we want to see how the battle goes. Number 2, also can you add more modes, like the Texan Independence War, Boshin War, Boxer Rebellion, you know those stuff. Number 3, there is a lot of units we can choose from but can you make a Machine Gunner Unit? And the last one is optional, Im creative so can you make a mode where you can make your own country and units? Thank you and this game is really fun.
We love your games but we think you should make a Roman version of this games where there is a free for all when Rome is founded and you can write your own version of Roman history.
This is a good game we have had a lot of fun with, ads are minimal and its great if you have the time to invest in the campaigns.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 12.2
- Size: 344.34 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Wombi Pty Ltd
Last updated: 16th September 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Wombi Pty Ltd