Last updated on December 6th, 2025 at 06:08 pm
Command & Conquer™: Rivals PVP – Action Game Review
Command & Conquer™: Rivals PVP is a Action/Strategy/Entertainment game from EA Swiss Sarl, first launched in 4th December 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 42,607+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Command & Conquer™: Rivals PVP Stand Out
There’s no victory like one against your rivals! Feel the rush of competition in Command & Conquer: Rivals, an action-packed RTS with strategic tactics capable of turning the tide of any battle. Take control of your customized army and conquer your opponent in The War for Tiberium. Team up with friends to share resources in alliances. Create your combination of infantry, tanks, aircraft, and more to outsmart your opponent’s strategy in fast, fun PvP matches.
THE THRILL OF VICTORY IS YOURS
In Command & Conquer: Rivals, the strategy behind your skills determines victory or defeat. Choose a Commander to lead your forces – each holds powerful abilities that can influence your approach. Customize your army with winning combinations of infantry, tanks, aircraft, and more. Then evolve it to align with your Commander’s unique abilities, before unleashing destructive weapons and vehicles in quick and exciting PvP battles!
REVEL IN RIVALRY
Test your strategy against your opponent’s strategy in live PvP as you battle to outwit your rivals in real time! Choose to fight for the Global Defense Initiative or Brotherhood of Nod. Restock your supplies and boost your army with valuable supply convoys. Join an alliance to team up with friends, share resources, and climb the leaderboards. Complete daily challenges for massive rewards that improve your Commanders, weapons, and abilities. Grow your army with every victory in this adrenaline-fueled RTS!
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Command & Conquer™: Rivals PVP is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th August 2025
Recent improvements include:
Greetings, Commanders! We’ve made some behind-the-battleground enhancements to keep your game dynamic. Update now for the best experience and thanks for playing!
Download & Availability
Command & Conquer™: Rivals PVP 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:
Its a good game but the waiting time is 75% of the entire game. When you get into the game the game goes by so fast and its great, but there are no ranked bots so when you actually try and find a player in your rank it end up taking 10-15 minutes to even start a match! Pls fix this.
Best lifelong video game second to chess.
Great time killer Im almost positive your opponents are bots. Lol oh well.
Im in China Hong kong and when we entered the game and it tells us league function is unavailable right now.
Love the game been on it for some years now gotten very far on it and its pretty much the only game we play on our phone reminds us of command and conquerI recently got a new phone(same exact model)and when we went to play the game after the transfer of all our data it will not load past the Home Screen Im not sure if its needing to download more or whats it Ive let it sit for at least 30 plus Minutes at least and still nothing Ive tried reloading the game and all still nothing what can we do Id hate to have to completely delete game and start over especially when almost all our units and commanders are maxed out as well as all the coins and other stuff Ive earned throughout.
This game is awesome. We love the franchise its our favorite game franchise of all time. This is a good iteration of the game.
Amazing short 2-4 mins RTS against human opponents.
Love you the game. A lot of fun with quick, action filled sessions. Works great on our iPhone.
There are to many bullies who pick on opponents that are new and dont have the counters for their units. And when you have no option of declining these over the top opponents it ruins your win ratio, and takes the fun out of the game. It discourages new players. Ive only been playing almost two years now and there is still too many lopsided matches because of people using second an third profiles who are way better then the profile being used would suggest an Problem an often a no win situation and a waste of time. We get mad because we are doing worse now then when we first started playing an that should not be possible with stronger units an more experience but it is happening so there needs to be a way to stop these experts from abusing the ordinary players especially when youve spent good money to advance your units only to lose more often.
We feel like the mechanic is a little overplayed, but we have an idea. In the app there are no buildings to occupy, sources of reinforcements to convertetc, while in red alert 2 and other c&c variants had all of these. We propose you allow some spy aspect, and make the game have a free for all capability. Right now you have a spin off of tower defense, when (in our humble opinion) you should be looking at call of duty match formatting(its hard to explain in a comment) Good game all around thoughim just looking for teams, or an 8player battle arena.
Im level 13 and im getting put up against max lvls on bronze the matchmaking needs some work alot of work actually but its still a good game plz dont matchmake us with people in silver almost all our enemies are in silver just please fix this.
We absolutely love this game from the moment we started playing. We played primarily on android until recently when we purchased an iPad and iPhone. The graphics are SO much worse on IOS then android. The frame rate and overall graphics seems to be better on android. It appears android is on a later version of the application which is puzzling because it looks so much better. Am we the only one who noticed this.
Why are there no players ever online? Every time we play we wait for several minutes before we decide to cancel the battles Im trying to play.
This game needs to go back to its roots good game but its become boring.
The daily bonus requires you to play 10 games, each game is 3 mins minimum and most take longer than that so, its like 35-55 minutes to get the daily bonuswho has time for that? Maybe the devs set it up that way to try and get you to pay, we dont know, but if youre not paying get ready to spend a lot of time on this to be able to level up your units. Ill stick to the 5 minute games that we can play on our break once or twice a day and still get the daily bonus and skip out on this one.
Was hoping this game would be better, but like other EA games, this one is subject to constant crashes on launch.
We are a long time C&C fan, and this game is an absolute delight for the first few days. Then, we started getting matched up against players who are well-above our rank and have far superior units. The only way to seemingly catch up is to pump a ton of money into the game. We dont mind spending $5 here and there, but it really takes the fun out of it when you are constantly getting pummeled.
Leave it to EA to disappoint and ruin a beloved franchise. Im sure their answer will be more mobile games, seriously wish they didnt own this IP.
Its great but later on it gets pretty costly to upgrade your troop but other than that it is really fun we would highly recommend this. Their are so many builds to go like quick troops to get rid of the opponents harvests but you have to secede or else your economy will be behind.
Definitely an upgrade from the 90s computer version. Definitely fun.
An rank 0 nobody shouldnt be fighting against an much stronger opponent.
We love this game for being a pocket-sized RTS. The game has a bit of a grind in the beginning, but if you know your unit match ups you can beat units and players that are Wayyy above your league.
Im a life long fan. We have one problem here the, games of a strong army against an weaker lower ranking challenger. Good game give thanks for life.
Played this game for 2 months and matches are not the same someone in bronze could have troops that are 5 ranks ahead of you the pay 2 win is crazy.
ThThis is a great mobile mini RTS( Real Time Strategy).
Amazing idea for quick command & conquer battalions. We are a big command & conquer fan since 1997. Highly recommend and you can have in without investing a single penny and game is synchronized with android or iOS devices. We recorded the game in 16K UHD(15360×8640 pixels) on our PC system with a Titan RTX as world record in terms of rendering resolution in Command & conquer Rival. Check it out over 15360×8640.com.
Our phone is iOS 16.5 but we cant play this game. He said EA server connection failed.
For a quick pvp match with varying troops with abilities its fun but sometimes with different match ups u need different decks or u cant counter u only get 6 a deck no pve but other then that they got what they intended to do done a quick pvp thats fast and fun.
Enjoy the quick battles and post battle recommendations.
Just discovered this game let us tell u something naval conbat is something that to us can make a war game stand out if u guys add naval units u would effectively be making the most beautiful game ever in our oppinion try expiramenting with modes not involving capture the territory for nuke so that the games can last longer.
Once you get all the powerful units you can not get bored.
Needs more unit types, and different game modes/objectives.
The game is great n very enjoyable, we would hope for an update with more factions from the command and conquer series like Russia has the lybia units the poison Iraq unit the Cuba units and USA can have the France cannon unit, Germany tank unit and like wise with the other factions like scrin, GLA, yuri. Just wishful thinking appreciate the game.
It doesnt quite achieve the thrills of Tiberium war series, but it is a great game that parallels Clash Royale, but with the addition of being able to control troops in real time. Micro managing your troops can be frustrating especially when they are close together, and the small player base are the only negative aspects of the game. We also have to admire the flawless UI out of battle really makes the game enjoyable while in the menus.
Been playing it for few years now.
Its the best game since Star Wars force arena but it needs to have a multiplayer so we can have our friend on the same team. Can you guys do that? We think that would really improve the game if we had two V2 and more characters or different skins, and better emotes.
Kinda want red alert command and conquer from ps1 , bigger maps as well. But this is an awesome game.
This is one of the best games of all times for phone games. We use to play the original one on pc.
When we saw this game we knew we wanted it and we were right so many units and you can play as different frames it might be slow but you can earn hems for free by playing the game is not pay to win at all we love it.
Anyone else using iPhone and or iPad get weird white triangle pixelation? Mostly around the Tiberium ore.
Great mobile RTS especially if youre a fan of the original command and conquer games. If you have a PC download EA play from the App Store and you can buy and download all original command and conquers.
An excellent game with amazing graphics. We enjoy the fact that the battles are based off of skill instead of what level the other players troops are. Would recommend.
Dont listen to the naysayers! This is a great game. Lots of fun, lots of options! Balanced game. We does take time to gain the necessary skill to advance and compete against more experienced players. But no need to pay to enjoy this game. New unit released just this month. Game is not dead as others suggest.
One of the Most addictive strategy game Ive played.
This game is our favorite and second to none other.
Ive been playing for a bit, and its a pretty good game, its not pay to win, but still requires you to be play to advance, its not to easy, and also not to hard. It also gives you a lot of freedom to switch around strategies, and test new ones out, so far its great. Cant wait for an update.
C&C continues to make high quality games. We miss playing AI players but what a great job, kudos.
This game has really simplified RTS and has made it in a format that can cause for five minute battles to spout out anywhere during the day. Ive really enjoyed this game since the moment it launched and still continue to play. Im not an avid enthusiast, like some of the players are, but we manage to get into masters each month. Its a lot of fun and our go to mobile app. There is a good community on discord and the game is still well and Alive, just needs more support. It does take a long time to level up your units, so buying would speed that up. Ive spent money in the game and we hope you do too, so we can help support this game. If youre willing to grind, which we did for most of our units, then you will get your units up over the course of time. If you join a faction alliance that is alive youll get support and tips from seasoned players. We highly recommend joining discord, where you can find all kinds of players who play. We also highly recommend choosing a set of units to level up and not worry about the rest until later. That way you can have high level units and play comfortably. Although your units are sectioned off into different brackets of levels so even if you have low level units, youll still compete with other units close to your levels which is nice. We hope you enjoy this game as much as we have because we never write reviews and Im doing one because we want to support this platform as much as we can! See you in game ~DeathSquad.
Game is great, but it seems glitchy around the the battlefield.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.12.0
- Size: 200.84 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, NB, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: EA Swiss Sarl
Last updated: 7th August 2025 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: EA Swiss Sarl