Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 11:32 am
Space Takeover – Defense War – Casual Game Review
Space Takeover – Defense War is a Casual/Puzzle game from LIAO WENYAO, first launched in 16th October 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,538+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Space Takeover – Defense War Stand Out
The Space Takeover is an adventurous competitive mobile game. The gameplay is exciting and the game has a sense of substitution.
Space Takeover Game highlights
- Compete for your favorite planet, draw lines between the planets, it’s time to speed up and see who finishes the task first!
- Animation style, multi-level challenges are waiting for you to join, easy operation is
- A series of incredible fantasy props are also set up in the game, create as many effective combinations as possible, use them well, and get a high-quality game experience.
- The animated cartoon style, the challenge of many levels waiting for you to join, the operation is easy and waiting for you to challenge, who is the real master of breaking through.
Beyond the city, competing for the planet. Masterpiece of risk strategy IO games.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Space Takeover – Defense War is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
-Updated gameplay with a smoother experience!
Download & Availability
Space Takeover – Defense War is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Space Takeover – Defense 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:
Game doesnt bomb you with ads and is pretty simple and fun. We have gone through quite a few levels and no ads yet.
Finally a game thats like the ads. Highly recommend this app. Ive sunk many hours into it and regret nothing. Good puzzle game for anyone bored easily by other takeover games and keeps us entertained for a long while.
Fun game though we really wish we didnt have to be stuck with the color given.
The game has freeze ups that ruin the entire game experience.
We have had this game for a bit and enjoy it. We have spent a several nights playing and would watch the ads when Im on WiFi however now if you dont have internet access, game just puts network time out alarm on screen that wont clear so you cannot play. We dont use cellular data for any games, so this limitation is dumb and something new they just did.
Game would be fine with the standard 30 second ad. This game has 2 min unskipable ads constantly, even when using a commander power mid-game. If you love ads, download this game and sit back and enjoy Space Ad Takeover.
A decent reimagining of Galcon, with an unbelievably high ad load. After the first several levels, at least one ad every time you beat a level, and often two. Ive seen ads up to two minutes each, and ads that wont finish unless you interact with them halfway through. For a good game, its disappointing to see such disregard for the user experience.
Now we remember why we deleted this game in the past. Way too many adds even for a free game. There are ads between anything you do.
This one has ships and planets has battle we love it.
You know what this game is. Weve all played them. This is a space variation thats pretty fun. IMO.
Unfortunately the ads have become constant and now they wont exit so our game has been unplayable for the past hour.
At first the game is fine, the level design is pretty nice, but upgrading is slower than a snail on a treadmill. And there is really only one in game currency, which you can either use on upgrading your ship and abilities, or spend them on powerups in the game. This is very poor game design, because eventually you get to a point, where because the leveling is so slow, you cant win a level without using your currency on powerups, which then slows you down on upgrading even more. If you want to actually be able to play the game, you have to spend money. 2/10 would not recommend this game.
With a recent update it became impossible to play without an internet connection. The game is Ok though.
We are enjoying the game but would like to remove the ads but it wont let us purchase the no ads bundle.
We really like the new maps youve recently implemented!! It would be awesome if those came out more frequently. Otherwise, wonderful, stimulating, and challenging game.
We really like this game but the update while adding new interesting things created a major glitch. So you can work to have your off line bonus increased to 600 % or more. You need this to have the money to upgrade ships. With the update this no longer works! Hope they fix it.
This is how a game should be built and played. It actually rewards you for ads and does not force them down your throat.
Even when you turn off all sounds in the game's settings it will still pause any audio you're playing when the app opens. As someone who likes to listen to audiobooks and podcasts while playing games this is very annoying.
99% of the level are beatable by skill. 1% you gotta use the abilities because of where youre generated in the level. Buy the ad pack..worth it.
This was a great game till the adds started breaking the game.
Uses ads to show intentional bad gameplay in poor attempts to get you to play their junk game. Pretty pathetic devs that need to resort to these tactics. Even more pathetic to use paid positive reviews.
Pretty fun but turns our phone turns into a furnace and absolutely drains the battery.
It was the best whoever made this is the best and also we get to win theres a blue guy and a red planet, and a green planet blue planet, which is us thats all.
There are so many outrageous and crazy people out there putting in tons of ads to make money and then wants you to pay them to remove it.
Now ads lock up in middle of game. So frustrating.
Really fun game, but theres a big problem with CPU usage. It makes our phone run so hot the screen dims and the phone slows down. Ive not had this happen with any other game/app.
The base game is pretty normal with a nice progression, but there is War of Stars that is supposed to be against other people. In there usually there are no great strategies except spamming abilities that you do not get often. So it is painfully obvious that you are fighting an incompetent robot and losing.
Game is fun, or would be if the drag to target worked. More often than not, the link to target fails to establish, even when theres enough points for the source and no obstacles. If crossing a line, youre more likely to break an established path than you are to create a new one.
All ads all the time, you MUST use power ups to pass many levels. You have to buy with real money the power ups, or watch a thousand ads. Good concept, fun game, sad cash grab.
This game recently added a pvp component. Its a tiered arena-type system. The problem is that there doesnt appear to be many people to pvp with so it defaults to pvp vs the computer. The computer isnt a better player, but it seems to have an infinite supply of special abilities (which you do not). The computer will burn you down without any respect to any budget a human would have. And we say this as someone that has played this game as a time killer for years and has everything maxed out with a ton of banked energy. Dont bother with the PvP portion of the game (unless it is tuned to be somewhat reasonable).
This game is pretty much an ad at the end of every level. We suppose thats more annoyance than terrible. It drains battery power, heats up your phone so killing long term battery capacity, and taps the computational power of the phone to the point the device lags and requires restarting just to operate properly- even if you close the app. What is this app doing in the freakin background to cause this issue.
Made it to almost level #2,000. Difficulty is the same continuously. Theres only about 10-15 different levels. After that its all reused. Nothing new, nothing changes. Now theyre trying to do a bAtTlE pAsS just another copy cat company reusing the same things just under the same game under a new name.
Fun gameplay, the dynamics .ad, ad, another adare interesting and you get toad,ad,another adbuild up your..ad, ad, adoh and it lags on the phone and makes it crazy hot. And drains the battery. Probably because of all the freakingad, ad, adpop up ads. Seriously could have been a fun game. Now please watch yet another ad while your battery gets cooked.
Its obvious they didnt think out the Multiplayer Mode. Someone can literally multi-special attack you the entire match. Its ridiculous and pointless.
Im 550+ Levels in and this option of the game is still locked. And Im getting 2. Star points per level but we see nothing for them or even see them anywhere. Starting to feel like this game is dead. (Edited-3-16-2023) just hit level 1001+ and still no Stars of war unlocked. So Im going to guess this was a thing big the past not removed or something thats never going to come. Stages are repeat now. More then ever. Everything is easy now no ads, no energy needed to win, etc. Im losting hope for this game.
We enjoy the game but theres interesting effects that happen when a security firewall is used while playing. We get notified of Malicious host blocked followed immediately by email threats of APT infection. Maybe just a coincidence but we took a few months of from playing, started to play again and as soon as we got on a secured network it happened again. We performed that same break 2 more times with the same outcomes. The malicious host is blocked and the emails begin.
Theres no reason a game this simple should cause a phone to be hot to the touch. Say goodbye to battery performance quickly if you play this game even casually. Whats this app doing that it requires so much power.
No s muy bueno el juego ..! Us gustara que desbloqueen el modo torneo ..! Ya estoy en el nivel 4,000 voy por esos 1,0000 niveles.
We ended up deleting it because around level 580 it gets to the point where you have to use power ups and to make it worse you watch an ad to collect at the start screen, after you beat a level, and then if you want to increase your winnings. It was tollerable until we started getting 45 second ads after the win and then again to collect the bonus. Sorry but we had to delete this one.
Love the game. Dont repeat levels..booooooo.
In the autochess section when we go to buy an assasin it does nothing but take gems.
Unplayable due to the ads EVEN AFTER PAYING. No response from developer how to fix. Apple, your policies for in app purchases are failing. NO game is trustworthy.
The only good part of this game, the auto chess is missing! Bring it back.
Ive played this app for a long time. Dealt with the excessive ads. Dealt with broken features. The assassin never worked even when we updated the app over and over. Now theyve added ads to return home when youre in a level. As of 12/04/2022 thats our last straw. Hopefully if youre reading this itll help you decide to not download the app.
This game freezes the screen and even crashes the app sometimes when viewing adds at the end of each level. In the Auto Chess part of the game, one the characters (Assassin, we think?) does not even appear, when we try to purchase the unit. (Must be ultra mega stealth assassins!) The in games currency does get consumed though.
Adds were 10~15 seconds now some are over a minute and none are under 15 seconds anymore. Its annoying.
Ive played this game a lot, it while it was once tons of fun, its now just your typical ad riddled game. 1) You can pay to remove the forced ads. Its reasonably cheap. There are still voluntary ads even if you pay. 2) The only way to actually make progress in the game is to watch the voluntary ads, because the in-game currency is given at such low amounts you are more or less required to watch them to get the multiplier. Shame on developers that offer ad removal but then force it upon you after youve paid with soft walls. 3) They have added in multiple new levels that are impossible to beat without power ups. It used to be maybe 1/20 levels were like that, and not it seems closer to 10/20. The only way to get powers ups is, you guessed it, ads. You can pay for in game currency as well. You simply cant earn enough in game currency without the ad multiplier to have enough to buy the power-ups. 4) In short, despite paying to remove ads you still must watch them. You cant get power ups without watching ads, because you cant earn currency without beating levels, which you cant beat without powers ups, which require watching ads. Its a bummer because the game is fun excluding it. At least make a remove ALL ads available.
Too easy, we like it, but it is too easy on the first levels.
If you like to watch ads then this game is for you! Yes there is an option to buy ad removal, but the free version is just ads with a little bit of game play thrown in. Banner ads, ads to get boosts, if you decline the boost what do you get? Ads! Im sure without the ads the game would be playable and probably quite enjoyable, but someone is being greedy.
Super difficult game from the start. No explanation of how to play. We dont understand whats going on at all.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.4
- Size: 275.54 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: LIAO WENYAO
Last updated: 4th November 2025 | Genre: Casual, Puzzle | Developer: LIAO WENYAO