Last updated on January 26th, 2026 at 05:40 am
Rivals at War – Action Game Review
Rivals at War is a Action/Simulation/Entertainment game from Fresh Build Games Inc., first launched in 6th March 2013.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 345+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rivals at War Stand Out
RECRUIT an elite team of combat soldiers and shooters who are ready for duty anytime and anywhere. TRAIN your soldiers and upgrade your weapons for each mission. ATTACK the enemy and watch epic head-to-head battles unfold. CONQUER rival teams from around the world. Fight for VICTORY and become the elite of the elite!
- Battle across four different combat scenarios, each with its own 3D battlefield and military mission.
- Assemble your troop, choosing from 6 unique soldier types – Commander, Sniper, Saw Gunner, Breacher, Radioman, and Medic.
- Power-up skill perks to enhance the Accuracy, Speed, Damage, Defense and Health abilities of your soldiers.
- Unlock new soldiers with better weapons, guns, and skills to improve your team's combat assault rating.
- Customize your team with different camouflage uniforms, headgear, and team badges.
- Select powerful tactics cards to tip each battle in your favor.
- 45 achievements to complete that unlock more special rewards.
- Command your elite team to the top of the leaderboards for global domination.
It is your duty to protect the world from the threats of terrorism and chaos. Aim for glory and honor and prepare to become Rivals at War!
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rivals at War is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th April 2021
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Rivals at War is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rivals 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:
Anyone still play this game? Definitely needs a new update.
Need more update, people still playing the game.
Yea just want to know if people are still on this game.
Downloaded today, but couldnt remember our login info, so we just made a new one. Players are still playing the game, the game is still the same! Loved it when as a kid we see that theres a 2084 rivals at war too, Is that the newer one? Might give it a try.
This was one of our favorite games as a child. Today we spent an hour looking for this game because we couldnt remember the name!!! Only the OGs remember this game.
Please fix a bug when we go into the game a error 500 pops up please fix.
Is the other RAW game we could control a player and it was a munch better experience. Not a fan of just simulating a fight and not being able to play as a character in this one.
WAYYYY too many ads. Not only that, but we can never exit out of them when they complete so we have to restart the app every single time. Game is decent overall but this makes it almost unplayable.
The game does NOT work on iPad. SCAM.
Unbalance pay to win and trash never download it.
Needs lots of improvements with the controlls.
You cant play/control the characters. The game is completely misleading unless you read the description carefully. This game is ZERO fun. We dont understand why anyone would bother. One round was enough for us to delete it.
Back then when we use to play this game we were able to move the commander ourselves now all we can do is watch is it a bug or did you guys remove fps.
We think its time for this game to be updated with realistic graphics and gameplay and please add real time multiplayer to the game also.
The first time ya finish the campaign, ya get the three super soldiers promised. However, after despite completing 4+ campaigns, each time Id never get the 3 super soldiers advertised/promised. Pls fix! :).
It is a fun game and all and the graphics are good the one problem we find is that when your team is better than the team ur versing then u should win 99% of the time.
We used to play this game 3 years ago and we just watched one of our old YouTube videos and this game was in it then we remembered the whole game , It was sooo fun and we redownlaodd it to play it again to remember those memorys :).
Please fix the matchmaking issues we dont want to be matched with people significantly higher than us every time we play the game… And an even bigger issue than that for us is our soldiers getting critically wounded after EVERY match! You cant even make any money to get better when that happens! You can only go backwards at that point.
Developers we ask you to please make this game have no energy if your not working on the game well please do also can you make an option to have the old music from the first time come back please Im not than idk we just think its a good idea.
With the recent iOS update the app no longer opens for iPhone. Please fix since this is an amazing game.
You ALL NEED RO MAKE A RIVALS AT WAR PART 3 . NEW GAME NEEDED THIS IS RUNNING OUT IF STYLE.
The second we open the app it just kicks us out.
It wouldnt let us play the game, it kept kicking us out.
Can we control our soldiers on here.
Would love it if you guys made a new rivals at war. We still play but we just want a new one.
We got this game when we were 7 and did not understand it yet we became really good after reinstalling Im having a lot of fun. We dont like games like this yet we got it and still play it.
We've got a comment Can u remove the energy.
It's really cool and all but we already went through all the missions and defeated the V.we.P.E.R so it gets a little boring they need to add more campaigns and more maps and more types of soldiers and more tactics lol sorry but it would be pretty nice if they did.
Game will crash once you open it.
We love this game and it's gameplay is amazing but we forgot our password for our former team 5 stars.
We love the game but can't open since update.
We really enjoy playing this game, but we feel like you guys have stopped updating the game. Please update because we don't really like the futuristic game. Thanks.
We love the game but they need new stuff in it.
We love this game. We would recommend it to anyone. But for us we can't even open it anymore. All that happens is the HotHead logo shows up. Then a little loading circle. Then. CRASH. Every single time. We really want to play it again. It is our favorite out of the three. Plz fix this.
Please please please fix the reason it keeps crashing wile we're opening the app, it shows the hothead logo then shows a black screen with the loading circle in the center then it crashes, please fix this problem cause we would love to play the game agin,.
We want to play the game but it keeps Crashing is was in to the game and want to play it again please fix this problem.
We have this on our IPod 4 and it works perfectly fine and we tried getting it on our IPod 5 (this device) and we can't even play bast the logo. Fix this.
We really love the new look and music in the update! We just opened the app and haven't tried the new special missions game mode but it sounds really awesome and fun! We played this game a long time ago and started playing again recently and we're really glad it finally got a new look not that we didn't like the old one but it helps us get back into the game.
But it came back greater than ever.
Every time we come on the game and we try to play a game it doesn't give us the option of being the soldiers and when we looked at the game it looked like a first person whiter to us.
We love this game and would play it all of the time but all we see now is a hothead logo and…..CRASH. All we want is to enjoy this game.
We've completed the special missions five times in a row and didn't get the super soldiers.
Is this game still being worked on.
So we downloaded this game a while back then we downloaded it again and we can't get past the logo we have an iPad 2 so it's probly that's but plz help us.
Since the latest update we have been unable to even enter the game. It quits as soon as we start.
The new update seems great! It's just that it won't let us play. It shows the hothead symbol and cuts off… Please fix it.
We have a really high leveled account and ever since the most recent update we can't play the game it shows the hothead logo then attempts to load but crashes we would like to play this game we play just about every game by hothead gaming especially the 3 rivals at war games.
Everytime we do a quick match we always loose.we already have soldiers in our team who has like 56 rating and 55 but we still loose no matter how much we put their perks it still does not work.we change our soldiers but they still don't work.Could you make you AI's more smarter! We would love to put 5 stars but it is too hard.
It's decent for passing time but the fact that your men will get wounded after EVERY SINGLE BATTLE causing you to lose more money than you earn is our big then off. Not to mention the bad match making system and almost impossible way to earn cash.
Can anyone tell us why when we open the app, it immediately kicks us out we have looked for the fix with no resolve we'll click on the app but it will just kick us out immediately any help? Thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.4
- Size: 92.21 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Fresh Build Games Inc.
Last updated: 29th April 2021 | Genre: Action, Simulation | Developer: Fresh Build Games Inc.