Last updated on January 2nd, 2026 at 11:10 pm
The Battle Cats – Strategy Game Review
The Battle Cats is a Strategy/Simulation game from ponos corporation, first launched in 17th September 2014.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 44,820+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes The Battle Cats Stand Out
-= Weirdly Cute Cats rampage across the world! =-
Command your Cats with simple controls in a battle through space and time! No need to register to develop your own Cat Army! BATTLE WITH ALL THE CATS!!
=Super Simple Battle System=
Just tap on the Cat you want to fight for you!
Fire the Cat Cannon to blast baddies getting too close to your base! Overcome weird enemies with the right Cat squad and take down the enemy base!
=Super Simple Leveling System=
Clear stages to get XP and items to level up the Cats! What will they evolve to at level 10? Can you unlock their True Form?
=Super Simple Fun!=
Collect glorious treasures while you take over the world!
Recruit dozens of rare and exotic Cats(?) and create the ultimate feline army!!
Hundreds of stages across three Story Mode adventures and the Legend challenges.
Presented by PONOS
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, The Battle Cats is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd December 2025
Recent improvements include:
[15.0.1]
■ Minor Bug Fixes and Feature Revisions
[15.0.0]
Changes to Zombie Outbreaks
Stages names where zombies appear and time left will be displayed.
Also the rate at which zombies will appear in stages has increased.
■ New Ultra Forms
■ New Talents/Ultra Talents
■ New Legend Map/Stage Difficulties/Rank Rewards/CatCombos
■ Minor Bug Fixes and Feature Revisions
Download & Availability
The Battle Cats is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get The Battle Cats 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:
Ive played this game for almost 700 hours and its one of the best games Ive ever played there is so much content in such a simple game with so much strategy and the thought of knowing you can always be better and the fact that there is just so much to do not only that its great for the car since SoL and UL can be played offline.
This game is really good and it is f2p you can beat any stage without uber just search up a guide Tho some stages are really hard and need good strategy So we do not recommend to young kids And there is no adds except for the optional ones you can watch for catfood The only bad thing is that the data transfer featute is really bad its very easy to lose all your progress.
We absolutely love this gave every time we log on we get amazing rewards and the luck is really good. We love this game.
We will start this off with a bang good game does it overwhelm us yea.But thats whats fun.The energy that it gives us is just peak also we just watched two people die in the walking dead omg Carl no your eye never mind off topic but really good game 9/10 just need less health with moon head.
This game is AMAZING Ive been playing for 8 years.
Turn the galaxy gals for 50 xp only we really want them.
The battle cats is one of the only mobile game that had stood up against time itself with high quality gameplay and Gacha rolls. Despite being a Gacha game you dont need to drop a single cent in the game! There are many ways to get good Gacha characters\cats, one being the cat clawdojo.
Ive played this game for over 5 years because we love it so much we forgot there even was a rate if system for a second also never play rip-off games like cats the commander you go ponos.
This is really good, it has a lot of cats and they are cool. Lots of levels to grind in. You should try.
We love this game so much! Our friend first recommended us it and ever since we missed out on 1 day of catfood we never missed a day playing this for 2 years. Ive even surpassed our friend now! We love how the game works and its difficulty is nice because we get challenging stages here and there (Even though we almost became a P2W after raging on Corrupted Valkyrie) we also love collecting the units! Its so fun and the designs of the cats are so cool, we can still remember the days where we would go wild when we got a Uber Super Rare. Overall this game is good, we dont understand why this game is only #84 on strategy on the rating list. And also for those who are giving 1 star reviews and talking trash about the game, its not the games problem, its your skill issue and ignorance thats make you guys complain about a completely fine game.
Us and our brother have been playing this game since as long as we can remember this has been our go to app thank you ponos for giving us this new chapter of opportunities.
Its cute and has a lot of caricatures its always a challenge so you never get bored we love it.
Play for more than 10 minutes and youll see what we mean.
This game is one of the best games that you can find in the App Store it is wacky with strategy and it is crazy we recommend this game too because you can play on mobile and it is not pay to win it is easy a very strategic AND DEVELOPERS PLEASE READ THIS.
We loved this game as a kid its definitely worth it.
Spent 2 years of our life on this game and love it. We love how our little brother started before us but us and our freind is so much better than him >:D.
Not p2w (can get resources easily), fun but also kind of difficult, funni cats (tho some are a bitquestionable), and lots of content with new stuff added frequently. Recommend dis if u have lots of time. Great game ponos.
Probably the best game like we play this so much. Its one of our favourite games we we highly recommend it :). Great job PONOS.
Over all, this game is great! No ads, high quality, and pretty addicting. Just one thing, dont add the word, sexy to kids game (talking about sexy legs cat.).
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5 years in and its still remaining as our favorite game, dont like March to Death & Last of the Dead though, was not fun to beat.
For years we have played the game and want to say to us personally has been one of the better gatcha games we have played in where they do truly for the most part care for the fan base and take the time to go and use the feedback from the players and not to mention the fun collabs that happen.
We like the game but its very pay to win we got to a level where we cant even beat no matter what cat we pick or what we upgrade we cant beat that level and makes it impossible for us to progress is like you are forced to pay for friskas to beat a level.
Why did you remove the codes we may be a player with not even a year old account but why.
This game is amazing we used to play it all the time but now when we come back and try to sign in we cant sign back into our old account and we have to restart our progress entirely.
Great game, but. Needs a better game save system and the treasure system sucks.
The game was our favorite game ever and we loved the game play.
Battle cats is probably our favorite game on our phone, not only is it fun and interesting within the character designs and level stages but also just the descriptions that you can see in the enemy guide and cat guide. We love all the random lore that goes along with each enemy and each cat, and we love how the game progresses. Its awesome. Though as of late, we sometimes scroll through the enemy guide and we notice that the later ones towards the end dont have any fun descriptions or any descriptions, which we guess is okay, but we feel like it would just be a nice touch considering how some seem like they would have a great or hilarious description. But overall this game is goated and is the best game to have on your phone when youre bored. Thank you battle cats.
Listen, its a pretty good game but soon we realized that aku meant something offensive to christians in Japanese so we immediately removed it if you are reading this replace it (if you want) we are talking about the trait and design btw of the enemies.
This game is fun and addicting, but the first time we played we couldnt finish one level at all and we had the gross cat at the time and we couldnt finish any levels because we didnt upgrade our our money thing and we were so frustrated that we cant finish any level levels so once we watched a DanTDM video and he was playing battle cats and he used all the features we didnt know about and we joined back into the game. We used the features he did and we were like man how did we think this was so hard it was super easy after that there is a few things we want Ponos to add we wish there was a one V one feature where you can one V one different accounts we scroll through a review and we were thinking of that, but then we found a review that said that Im just like we totally agree with him and the next future we want is you to be able to trade with other accounts.
Balatro is our favorite mobile game, though that might not count, so second place goes to this.
We love thing game soooo much but just one teeeeeny tiiiiiiny thing to ask you. We think that we should be able to buy cat food with xp because we are a kid so we dont have money but we need cat food. Please do this.
Okay, can we be honest? We love the collabs this game has, whether its evangelion, or street fighter, they are awesome. But, we feel like they are missing something. You know how it takes AGES to get collab units? Well, we feel like maybe, they should be given their own platinum capsules, so you are guaranteed to get an Uber Super Rare unit from said collab. We know the great platinum capsules, and how they can give a guaranteed Uber Super Rare, but they never usually give any collab Ubers at all, and those who are unlucky without spending anything, basically get nothing from the collabs, other than the units you can acquire from collab stages. This would be a godsend for everybody. Platinum tickets that give guaranteed Collab Ubers, like Ryu or Ken from street fighter, or Eva Unit-02 or Shinji cat from the Neon Genesis Evangelion collab. If this reaches Ponos, that would be Amazing.
Get us going, this game doesnt suck, its AMAZING! Dont get us lie, this thing is amazing. The updates are not like how a slow turtle made them, and the progression is Awesome. The one thing you need to change is, why do ads give ONE cat food? Eh its fine but ONE per ad? Watching 45 min. Of ad for 90 cat food is insane. Like every other ad watching is better; let say, continuing in battle, that cost 30 cat food normally (and 1 time per day). So give the 1 cat food ad prob 2 and decrease the max ad give to 3.
We really like the giraffe cat cause its looks kinda dumb and the game has really cool cats (especially the Ubers and legends) it also has super fun updates.
Its so sigma and is rizzing us up 67 mango.
Ive been playing for so long! When we get bored all the time we start playing this game! It never gets old. ENDLESS FUN.
Extremely fun, takes time, sometimes repetitive but challenging and its perfect.
We been playing this game for years we have so many cats theres no adds and you dont need Wi-Fi to play we love this game honstley love you have to get this although you run out of xp quickly upgrading your cats :).
About that opening screen, our answer is yes.
Can we all just go to clash Royale and say nerf Miner 5 also can Dev give us some gold tickets we love gambling and this game feeds our addiction.
This is a really fun party game before kids.
So. This is an awesome game but we have two new ideas. Idea 1 is what if you could friend people and battle online with them? Idea 2 is what is you add a Gamemode where you can play as the enemy? Both are great ideas in our opinion.
Evangelion is back!!!! Im so happy our fav anime crossover is back thanks Ponos.
The feeling of getting ramiel in our only 11-capsule is no match. That was when we first play the game. Now Im at late game. We love evangelion and battle cats also.
This game is really good, we took a break for a little bit because we wasnt having fun, but Im back now and the game is still really fun. :).
Ive been playing for 4 years now and if you can afford the time this game will be genuinely fun.
One of the best things about battle cats is how friendly the free to play aspect is. One of the main issues with many gacha games is how bad it is for people without money to spend. But battle cats makes progression and earning new characters feel steady and rewarding. We try to watch ads when we get the chance because games that prioritize quality over paywalling over half the roster deserve more attention. We love battle cats and will continue playing.
Please battle cats we need this, add controller support.
We just wish it was an online game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 15.0.1
- Size: 179.50 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, TH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Loot Boxes
- Developer: ponos corporation
Last updated: 22nd December 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: ponos corporation