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Tactile Wars – Entertainment Game Review
Tactile Wars is a Entertainment/Strategy/Casual game from Ankama, first launched in 13th August 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 4,394+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tactile Wars Stand Out
— Three words: ADDICTIVE, ENTERTAINING, and FREE! —
Join players from around the world in a fast-paced, entertaining, and colourful war game!
Become the general of an army of mini-soldier pigments, armed with paint guns! The objective of this strategy arcade game is clear: CONQUER the other players’ territories with colourful blasts of paint!
Choose which colour to join, and it will be your team.
ATTACK the other colours and DEFEND yours!
The TACTICAL possibilities of the game make for EPIC battles: infantry, mines, tanks, turrets, mercenary recruitment, troop upgrades, and alliances with other players are all ways to make your STRATEGY unbeatable!
YOUR FINGER: A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!
In a line, circle, or square: with one touch of your finger, form ranks according to approaching enemies.
LEAD EPIC BATTLES!
Annihilate dozens of enemies from all sides. Non-stop assaults!
BUILD YOUR BASE CAMP!
Place your mines, tanks, and turrets carefully to repel enemy attacks.
HIRE LEGENDARY MERCENARIES!
Control soldiers with special abilities. They will be key on the battlefield.
MOVE UP THROUGH THE WORLD RANKINGS!
Win your battles and reach the top of the world rankings.
UPGRADE YOUR TROOPS!
Win battles, get experience points, and improve your strike force and defences by unlocking new technologies.
FORM ALLIANCES WITH OTHER PLAYERS!
Make alliances with other players defending the same colour and destroy enemy colours.
FREE TO PLAY!
In Tactile Wars, the size of your wallet makes no difference in combat. Your brain, on the other hand…
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tactile Wars is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th August 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
GDPR Compliant
Download & Availability
Tactile Wars 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:
It cant be that hard, we want to spend money on this game. But its so buggy and unplayable.
We dont even know when this game came out but Ive been playing on and off since it has, but this has us hooked during those periods more than other games of the genre. Id love to see Ankama come back or maybe even just remaster and re release it. There isnt exactly as many competitors out now so it probably might do better than the original release.
Hi Ive been playing your game since we were atleast 4-5 years old and we loved it but Ive heard that this game has been shut down for years and stuff but we thought it was the best game on our tablet at the time please bring this game back.
This game is amazing it isnt pay to play it is free.
After clicking start, the game fades to a black screen and doesnt seem to progress any further than that.
We wanted to play this game so bad we havent in forever but definitely probably the best mobile game ever in our opinion in very sad its closed.
We used to play this game when we were little.
This game has so much potential Im hoping you game designers update it and add lots more content.
Remember playing this ob our tablet as a kid just got back into playing and still as fun as we remember.
This game has got to be one of the most funnest and most nostalgic games Ive ever played but it has one minor problem. It wont let us spend our gems in game on items like boss equipments, or cards, or mercenaries. This game is very fun but this minor issue is pretty bad. And this game has not been updated in years. Give this game life again.
This game is what is best about mobile games, being silly little games that have a unique twist on a genre. It takes a base building game and adds its own mechanic into the game to make it more enjoyable and replay-able. No more waiting for troops to be created or upgrades to finish. Its just progression through playing and thats what we love. It has unique features such as boss battle challenges, testing your own bases defenses, upgrade trees, achievement system, and much more. Even now as the game has not been updated in years, it still has that charm to it and should be taken advantage of because of that. If the devs are still able to see this they need to bring back the game as people would rather play this than most mainstream titles. Orange forever.
We had this game 5 years ago and when we redownloaded it we tried to change our name but didnt see an option. Please give us the ability to change our names Thank you.
Ive downloaded this game 4 times over the past 3 years on several devices and it finally works, it is sick a fun game if you can get it to work, play it.
By far our favorite mobile game that had such an impact on us when we were little and played it religiously. From the music, to the gameplay, to the visuals, its just perfect. Maybe not perfect-perfect especially after they added Baby Gatling just to not give you the normal one as your starting hero and just the monetization in general, but its not overtly predatory and the game is still very much an enjoyable experience.
It wont let us play the game no more we been playing it for quite some time.
This game was awesome and still is, it just needs help from the developers. If the developers notice this and other comments , we might have a chance to get back are child hood.
Pls update this game it is one of our favorites.
This game is our childhood we use to love playing it back then but finding out that the devs ignore this game really breaks our heart and we really hope they would give this game the love it needs but we doubt thatll happen.
Its still alive. Its still loved. And yall developers just ran away from it. WHY?! We miss it.
This is probably the best most polished game we have ever played on mobile. It makes us sad that you stopped working on it. The art direction is the best. Better than clash of clans. Better than any supercell game. Why did you stop working on it? As far as we are aware you completely dropped the project for no reason? If anybody can see this, we just want this work of art to come back. Please if anybody can see this, anybody at all bring back tactile wars.
This game is good but their are so many issues like unfair matchups, little to no resources, and the fact that this game has so much jank that it should be called the mayor of jank town.
Very good game with crazy potential it would be so sad to see some thing like this just get abandoned by devs. Please update at least one time.
Game is awesome and we loved playing it as a child and still do. It a pretty nostalgic game for us.
We love this game its very fun.
Yoooo make a part 2. Its been years since we played and a part 2 will definitely blow up!! Lets make it happen.
Why dont we get the coins we steal from enemy players strategic points? Good game. But why do we not get the coins.
This is one of the most strategic games on iOS. It has simple controls, works smoothly and has a large variety of well balanced weapons giving it high replay ability. It has good simple animation and is an easily approachable yet still serious game. It once had a much better rating at about 4.8 but was knocked down to 4.2 stars. This happened soon after they added a key system to the game making it slower to progress but it is a very easy game still and deserves much credit. We were a level 100+ player so we have a lot of experience playing and we strongly recommend playing even if the game looks simple. We recently re downloaded the game on a newer iPad and find it works perfectly but we have not yet re unlocked all our gear to test everything. We really hope more people play, right now on a week day about 300 battles are going on at any one time but it used to be far higher. We also hope the developers continue work on it again.
This game is realy amazing and we play it Lit,the only bad issue which still is there is that since you win some prisms ,suddenly it will be disappear ,like you never won that prisms Pls solve this issue Thank you.
It's a fun game and the little pep are so cute.
This Game is Very fun in Multiplayer It Amazes us everytime we defeat a enemy and its so satisfying.
This game is amazing. Its a really well made game that makes us feel like Im really there commanding the troops. But we do agree with what some other people say about certain colors being a little stronger than others. We picked red, but the purple team has been dominating for a while. But, at the same time, all this does is drive we to wage war more. Its like a motivator. Besides, Im not in it to win the Color War, Im in it for the thrill of winning the individual battles. So overall, this is an amazing game.
Ive been in love with this game for 3 years, and we recently got a new phone, this game seems to be very glitchy when it comes up to the IPhone 12 or 13 versions. We hope you guys can fix the glitches because it seems that is not compatible with the screen or the home button.
Ive played the game for years and Ive downloaded it on every one of our phones and just got it again.
So at first we wasnt winning many battles, but if you want to win its best if you just get XP so you can level up and gradually you will get better at winning battles.
We used to play this game a lot when we were younger, and we really loved it, and it brings us lots of nostalgia, so seeing that the developer(s) completely give up years ago deeply saddens us, they could have been on to something and we wish they had kept working on it but no. We would be suprised if anyone is still playing this so im just gonna leave 5 stars delete it and move on. Hopefully someday they come back to it. Goodbye Tactile Wars.
We were looking for this game like two years and now we find it but we tried to open the game it didnt work.
Please update the game some touch areas are not working on the new phones. And we love this game it would be great to have new things.
Pls fix the Attack button because every time we try to fight it doesnt work.
So when we join the game we press start and all it takes us to a black screen plz fix this when we were a kid we loved playing it but when it did the black screen we lost interest.
Make more game like this where you can make your own Army formation to battle players.
Please focus on this game and update it, we cant buy half of the defense in the store and there are too many players choosing the same colors. Please update this game and you will for sure start getting more people to play this game.
We cant buy vannons turtle formations rototanks and heli towers from the store. Im not expecting anything to come of this just hoping with our fellow comrades that this game is revived and these bugs fixed.
Its a good game. We like everything about it and its a good MOBILE game so that says something nowadays. Just cant claim our free booster which is annoying but 10/10.
Love this game been playing it for a while but we had to get anew phone and anytime we try to play on this new phone the game wont go past the first screen. Ive deleted and reinstalled many times now, not sure what to do past this point. Could yall update or fix this bug or something so we could get back to playing. Please and thank you.
Im coming back after a while or not playing it and we never realized why we stopped, but then we redownloaded it and remembered, it sorta stopped working entirely. But from what we remember we loved it, its cute and charming art style, the sound design, the legitimately fun mechanics, we would love to see it worked and brought back on but we dont have high hopes. But if it ever does we would most definitely recommend it.
Hi we love this game a lot we love the idea the game play how you play what you can do all in all a very amazing game our favorite game to play on the phone so hopefully the game developers see this but we would love to see lots of new Things added to this like being able to be more connected to your color team like being able to play side by side with them like what if you guys did a thing like a big event to where your or a small part of your color team has one big Territory and you and your small team defend it off from the other teams and then when you go to attack there big Territory you can play with your team together at the same time. But we would love to see new things add and the ads dont work when you click on them to get coins and sometimes when you have more than enough gems and you want to spend them to go get a mercenary or something it doesnt work. Hope you guys see this bye love your game.
Epic. Our favorite game. Ive had it for 3 years and its absolutely addicting, however, pink and purple always win the color wars, like every time and its kind of frustrating. Other than that, this is an amazing game.
We loved the game then forgot about it now we cant play it at all it locks us on a scree.
We noticed why we couldnt design our boss.
Playing this in 2021 its far more than amazing but please update.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.8
- Size: 565.09 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Ankama]()
Last updated: 20th August 2018 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Ankama