Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 06:08 am
Strategery – Board Game Review
Strategery is a Board/Strategy/Entertainment game from Affogato LLC, first launched in 9th December 2008.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 180+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Strategery Stand Out
Strategery is a fast-paced game of world domination, designed and built from top to bottom for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Play against the computer or your friends in an epic battle of strategy and risk. It's an App Store oldie but a goodie (check out the reviews).
Macworld's 2009 App Gems Award winner for Best Strategy Game
"There is no game I play on my iPhone more than Strategery"
- Lex Friedman
"Strategery offers depth that can—and will—claim hours of your time."
- Macworld
"My latest iPhone gaming habit is Strategery"
- Slate Magazine
"Lots of fun and the gameplay has a great feel."
- Daring Fireball
FEATURES
• Challenging game of offensive and defensive strategy
• Play for a couple minutes or a couple hours (it's pretty addictive)
• Four difficulty settings, ranging from "Easy" (for the strategically impaired) to "Brutal" (risk being humiliated)
• Online battles with push notifications and random matchmaking!
• Pass-and-play multiplayer (up to 5 players)
• Automatically saves your game to resume later
• Randomly generated maps (four sizes) make every game a unique challenge
• TONS of gameplay options to tailor the game to your preferences
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Strategery is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th June 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated for newer versions of iOS:
• Added 64-bit support
• Added Compliance for App Transport Security
Download & Availability
Strategery is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
This once got us through a 3 hour delay with strangers lol please create online mode. Its better than risk.
Still the best and lightest Risk-like game for iOS, but it's gone years without modernizing updates. As of 2025, it seems impossible to use online battles due to an error happening upon trying to register a username. No username is registered, no account made etc, no logging in, no playing. Offline modes still work however.
This is the best app Ive ever downloaded on our phone, Ive played it regularly 5+, across multiple phones its always the most played game we have. No ads, no in app purchases, just a good game we play to pass time.
Can you add a pause feature during replay? Maybe touch the screen to pause.
Ive loved this game for years. We wish they would update it for modern iPhone displays.
Here it is five years later and we're writing another review. This is still by far one of the best games on the app store. Challenging. Endless configurations. Play it daily.
We've been playing this since we got an iPod Touch in 2008 and 15 years later it's still our go-to casual game. Basically perfect.
Great, addictive game that has been on our iPad forever! One request, it would be cool to see which color AI wins the game on matches that we lose. In other words, see the AIs duke it out till the game is finished.
This is one of our favorite games of all time, and the game we play more than any other. It hasnt been updated in five years, and we really wish theyd make small tweaks or an overall update. Id definitely pay for it. Like if they had a faster gameplay in terms of speed, or auto fill armies.
Ive been playing this game for years. Its wonderful. Wish they would make another version. Perhaps allowing you to transfer dots from one area to another during the game play.
This is one of our all time favorite games. Im grateful that it exists.
Instant replay is not working anymore. We use the latest app and iOS versions. Thank you for the great game.
The multiplayer server has been unreachable for weeks, but now its back.
This game is one of our all-time favorites. We have played thousands of games, and we love it. After a break due to working from home and changes in lifestyle we have come back to play more and am so sad that the app does not open on our iPad anymore. We are not sure why but there are no updates for the app, and it just closes itself immediately upon opening. Restarting our iPad did not fix it. We are very sad as we may lose our game history if we have to delete it and reinstall it. :(.
We love this game, and have played it for many years. In the past month or so, it stopped working on our iPhone XS. The app refuses to open, or opens and immediately quits, Im not sure which. It still works on our new iPad Air.
This was the very first game we played on iOS. Ive played it at least a few times a week ever since.
This was our go-to game to kill a few minutes. Ive been playing it for what seems like over a decade now. Great game, that alas does not seem compatible with iOS 14.2.
This is the longest played iOS game we have that we keep coming back to.
Dont believe the comments about the levels being all about ridiculously impossible dice rolls – that was clearly from a person who tried jumping to the brutal level before he had a grasp of the subtleties of the game. We only play in the brutal level and it is a true challenge (we win 60-70%), but you have to know what youre doing. We suggest mastering each level before moving up – and disregarding comments of ignorance. It took about 80 hours to work up to brutal for us, and has kept our interest for 7 or 8 years now. We do agree, however, about having to occasionally tap many times to eliminate the last one or two pieces (which is usually the result of poor planning on the players part, but we accept it as a kind of punishment for not getting the end moves just right, driving our challenge right up to the last move), and that there could be an easy fix, but we find it hysterical that the complaint is coming from a screen name with …Real Zen… In it. We play this game every time we have to wait for something (Drs. Offices, on long flights, etc.) and it is a perfect challenge for us. We highly recommend it. November 2020 Update: This game doesnt appear to be compatible with IOS 14 – it just wont open since we upgraded our IOS.
This was one of first games on our first iPhone. 11 years! Ignore the newbies who dont take the time to learn this game – theres subtlety and style involved in mastery, but the turn-based play lets you spend from a few seconds to a few hours. Waiting rooms, queues, bored, mastering a single map – you can do it all. Ill be playing this for another decade yet to come.
Ive been playing this game for many years. It has a high level of replay ability. Highly recommend.
Hello. We were first introduced to this game by our father a long time ago, and Ive come to love it today. Its still a well-built game. Only suggestion we might have is to potentially update the UI a bit, and to have the game screen fit the iPhone X and above. Cheers.
Rediscovering this while at home for awhile. Still super fun, would love an update but. It complaining. Good for our kids aged 6 & 8. They got real strategic on us and now surrender to each other after amassing forces to combine and crush us.
The most subtle/interesting setups may be with coalitions, which is how we always play it. Give yourself a large board with 2 out of 5 colors, set to brutal and strategies naturally evolve such as buffer state, the enemy of our enemy is our friend, complicated lines of supply, sacrificial tactics, and curious dilemmas. Assign yourself a victory condition that both your microstates must survive, and its harder. How to play where 3 or more colors contact is often difficult, and chess terms like zwischenzug or similar restraint suggest themselves. Go qualities like efficiency, number of points of contact, and shape are also in the air.
After nearly a decade, this game continues to be among the best games for iOS. The beauty of the game lies in its simplicity and subtle strategy. An absolute must have.
One of the best strategy games. A lot if replays with different settings. Many online players for more intense plays. We also used this game to teach some concepts of geopolitics and strategies. You might want to add some functions from A similar game "Warlands" such as 1) automatic deployment when the game is ending; 2) fortifying and relocating existing army to other adjacent tiles.
This game is old but remains a favorite. We play the hard level, not brutal, and while it has gotten a little easier over the years, it still poses very difficult challenges and presents boards that may be impossible to defeat. The game can be played quickly and the maps can be scaled to mobile phone or iPad size. Im really impressed with this game. No matter how many years go by, it remains a favorite. It produces an endless array of maps and combinations. Its an outstanding game. The challenges to the game reveal themselves over time. Maximizing your placement of dots to try to defeat the board in the shortest time possible is not a game function, but the type of challenge you can add yourself.
What a fantastic game! This app got awards back in the iPhone 2.0 days and we would give it 5 stars today. We didn't realize the app was only 14.7mb large – great job dev team! Sure the app has some issues now with iphone x screens or online not working, but the core single player experience is still amazing.
The game is fun, but not challenging. Once you understand how the AI thinks you can will all of the games easily even in brutal mode with odds against you. We wish if you can add a world mode with continents and countries like in some popular game. Part 2 maybe.
Great little game. Simple, quick risk like game, especially when auto army placement is turned on. We have no problems with the game and can easily beat it on brutal, if we pick a good map.
Im not sure what these bad reviews are talking about. If you read the game rules and understand the game mechanics youll realize that it tells you how your armies are placed. If you dont like it theres an option to place them where youd like them. Hands down one of the best time killers out there. If we run out of space on our phone o keep this app as our last game because it doesnt get old. Its like a board game that you go back to because its solid.
It's a fantastically simple and entertaining app. It happened to be one of the first ones we downloaded when we got an Apple device years ago, and it's the first one we've downloaded on any Apple devices since. We also will play it while watching shows.
This is our go-to mindless game on our iPad mini. We never stop playing it.
Good strategy game. Fast to play if needed. Fun to toggle settings like size and full/empty starting map and experiment with different game setups that way. Fun to try to figure out the AIs and predict their moves. Fun to conquer the world Risk-styles. Fun to play on randomly generated maps that are always different and almost always interesting in some unique way. The one problem is that your starting position largely controls whether or not you have a shot at winning this game. But even then, it is often fun to give yourself an inferior starting position and see if you can still win. All in all, awesome game, well worth downloading.
We purchased this game when our 3gs was new. Still playing it several phones later, thanks for keeping it updated.
This is one of the only iOS games we play. We've had it for years and never get tired of it.
We've been playing this game, nearly daily, since 2010. Was worried we'd have to find a new game when iOS 11 shipped. Would love to see a new, bigger, map size for the big iPad Pro.
A great game that we've kept on our phone for years. We were afraid we were going to loose it when iOS 11 came along. Thanks for the update.
Fantastic turn-based, Risk-like game. Dov's updated it to 64-bit, so it will continue to live when iOS 11 arrives. We've spent many hours playing this game and am happy to see we will be able to for hours to come.
One of the few games that is always a joy to play. The games are the right length, and the gameplay is great. Thanks for creating it! Update: we still enjoy playing years laterthank you so much for keeping your app updated.
Yes 64bit support!!! Love this game. Played it for years.
Really could use pinch to zoom added for modern devices.
We love this game however, they havent update it in a while. It crashes whenever you lose a game. Will not let you restart the game like it used to. Again, it crashes. But we still love to play it.
Ive been playing this game for several years. Its a wonderful simplistic game that passes the time nicely In the higher levels of play, it does require some real strategy. The one complaint we have is this. In the smaller maps, competition AI gets a little illogical, broken down and downright impossible for most battle scenarios. The AI competitors can beat you with a 2 vs 3 Army attack many many times and youre never able to beat them when you have 2 armies vs their 3. Also, often times the three AI armies will gang up on you or ignore obvious strategic advantages by attacking either empty spaces or other AI colors. Its a glitch and they probably will never fix it but its just something that Ive noticed and recorded on video several times. If the developers are willing to discuss this with us Id be happy to share our evidence. Again, otherwise this is a really fun game and super simple that has survived the many upgrades of iPhone to still be a part of our game catalog.
We really enjoy the game, but theres a bug that can destroy games. If you get interrupted in the middle of placing armies & the screen locks, then all the armies that youve placed will be gone & all youll be left with are the unplaced armies. So instead of having 30 armies, you can be left with 5.
Solid fun game of risk. Only thing wrong imo is the starting placement of territory in land grab mode. Being able to change location to make more balanced would make it 5 star for sure.
We've played this game continuously since we first bought it in 2010. Turns can be completed very quickly, making this our go-to game during commercial breaks, waiting in line, etc. We. Still. Love. This. Game.
Love these type of games. Its like Dice Wars that we would play in flash back in high school. But man is it frustrating when the AI attacks at disadvantage and wins over and over again, then you lose battles with 2 or 3 dice advantage over and over again. Just watching our dice the AI rolls many more 5s and 6s then 1s and 2s, and opposite for us. Bad luck for the player seems to be built in even on normal difficulty and thats a cheap way to bake in difficulty.
This is definitely a fun game but is super buggy in Online Battles. Please fix.
Game was great but started crashing under 17.4.1. If they fix that it will be great again.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.8.0
- Size: 14.84 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Affogato LLC
Last updated: 17th June 2017 | Genre: Board, Strategy | Developer: Affogato LLC