War Thunder Mobile Reviews

So for context, I have 3,500+ hrs in the main game on pc since 2016 so I've been through a lot of ups and downs with Gaijin. Put simply In my opinion the mobile version of war thunder is just a medium for them to continue some of their predatory business practices regarding making the game difficult to progress through without a premium account or vehicles.

I am also slightly disappointed that I cannot use my main account with all of my vehicles in the mobile version but oh well.

As far as gameplay goes it is exclusively in arcade which means that tanks have a penetration indicator and they have more horsepower which I, personally, am not used.

Overall its a fun alternative to WoT Blitz for people who just want to shoot tanks but for other experienced war thunder players its a bit disappointing.

Best mobile game I’ve played in a while, it’s just like it’s computer counterpart, although there is no mode for just aircraft which I’d love to see added in the future.

This is the first rts game that on the developers bring mobile and I can see a lot of stuff in the future

Company when it comes down to it plays favorite on the pc versions and most like this one were their home country’s ships and tanks will have better stats then any other as they have bias to other countries. What I got from experience from playing the game on pc and ps4 in the past. I would recommend avoid this game and go play world of tanks or world of warships.

(Pls let my family go)

I love the snail. The snail has my heart. When will they add premiums? I need to feed the snail.

Yeah ima be playing this every where no doubt

The snail already has my soul may was well make the most out of it

mobile pain I love it

It’s just wot but actually good. Hopefully the grind isn’t as bad as the main game.

The snail won’t leave me alone

I can now suffer on the go!

I must give money to the snail at all cost

Selling my soul on the goal nice one snail

Help me I’m in the snail’s basement dear god help me please

10/10

Please add planes

The best mobile game

The snail took my soul

Idk what they were thinking lol

The tutorial is way too basic. It does not go anywhere near being descriptive of what most of the gameplay is. Without that, and the ability to customize the controls, this game is as cheap as all the others. The graphics, of course, as just as good as they are on desktop, thanks to Gaijin’s immaculate graphics. But that’s about it. For graphics appreciation, this game is it. For gameplay and the actual understanding of how to play, you’re better off with WarGaming.

It’s too bad, especially after playing both War Thunder desktop and WarGaming’s mobile platform for years. I really hope it improves.

Now I can grind anywhere, in the car, on a train, on a plane, at my uncles house, in the basement, anywhere, thanks gaijin, tho I would like to see planes and a realistic mode but I bet that’s coming soon, also I like in WT where I could make my own line up and it had BR systems but this works as well and is good for opening the game. Attention to the designated grind square! [F6]

App Store drops ball again. Just like the game Kards. Both games not in editors choice of play style.

Does need a way to zoom on controller. I hope this is just early stages and full war thunder comes to mobile. PVE and air craft just two missing things.

Hi
This is my first time playing war thunder and from what I’ve heard it’s a really great game and people suffer for some reason but since now is on mobile I hope o can join the suffering thank you

Suffering at home wasn’t enough, now I can bring the feeling of an abusive relationship along with my in my pocket!

I’ve been waiting for this to come out for a long time and I gotta say it is already amazingly accurate to the real War Thunder

Very realistic, which means it isn’t easy , fun , go slow at first , they campo come out of anywhere

I just did 20 battles in the free French tanks. I lost only 3 of them. I have experience with the original game so I just always know what to do. Wining is fun in all but I would like a challenge. Please add realistic battles

Now we can play the pain while on mobile

Idk where else I'd go for this but eventually could bluetooth controllers (both PS4 and XBOX style) be compatible?

I finally can suffer on all my devices now ☕️☕️

Xbox computer and now my phone thank you

The balance of some vehicles is questionable but overall it’s fun, I would like a feature where you can adjust how large certain buttons hitbox is cause I keep mistapping my fire button.

I also would like to know where you can send an application to become a coder for the game

The game is great can use some work in the turn time maybe a little less faster like the actual game as if it were computer or console, and maybe even air battles soon to.. but over all a good game

I’m not able to spend money on one more gaijin project, and give more to the glorious snail! The grind is now with me wherever I am. When will we be able to play this app in our sleep?

Not sure if there is controller support already. But would love air-only mode since air combat is so much fun! Also would like some sort of reward system to send research points to a linked this app (PC/Console) account

I just want to say thank you I have been waiting for so long for a good tank game to come out I really do appreciate it but I was wondering if y’all will add the tech tree into the game like the console and pc version

I am absolutely thankful that Gaijin added War thunder to mobile, i have around 2,400 hours in war thunder on my PC, I hope Gaijin adds Realistic mode and planes like in the PC version. -Sweden Main :>

Trash, just like the console version. It’s extremely pay to win. So be ready to pull your wallet out if you want to actually “be good” at the game. Not to mention, the controls are absolutely HORRIBLE. Oh yea almost forgot to mention. Good luck landing half your shots. Most of the time the shells just go straight through enemies without even registering as a hit. This is just another cash grab from Gaijin. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS BULLSH!T EXCUSE OF A “mobile game”

This is the best game I can grind a lot and make friends the only thing is that there is a few glitches but over all 10/10 🔥🔥

Hopefully this review will help you give your basement meme maker some better food. Or at least a better lock so he doesn’t escape anymore

It’s good but the teach tree should be the same as the pc. And the controls are so bright and please let us change the size of the controls and the opacity.

It’s war thunder mobile only arcade but that’s fine it gets me through the school day
There gaijin let my family go now I gave you what u wanted

Love the gameplay, which is the only reason I didn’t give it one star. Played for a few hours without premium. On average I’m getting 1-2 deaths and 3-4 kills per game. You have to use “repair kits” to repair your vehicles when they’re destroyed and these kits are taking ALL of my profits. It’s impossible to progress without buying premium.

P.S. the rank system needs work too. I shouldn’t be fighting tiger tanks in a t14 with a 75mm gun that can’t even shoot through the tiger’s cupola and only turns the barrel red with a direct hit on the muzzle break. This game is designed to piggyback on the main war thunder game to force people to pay even more to play a watered down version in their phones.

I’d like to do air dogfights, the system you created for the airplane was perfect, and I think that if you guys just put it in a different mode for the planes as well it would just be 1 million times better. then again the game did just come out on mobile. I’m excited to see what you guys have in store for us in future updates.

on you. with the game. Add an Arabic language. Store at the Chem Center. Voice communication between players, promotion of the game, excellent quality, additions to the game, more than one player in the team, playing online with friends, a good arrangement of tanks, we want all tanks

So I was expecting this game to come out in like another 3 years how ever it’s here and I was excited until I played it.
The graphics are nice and the game runs smooth how ever there are two major flaws in my opinion.

Two Major Flaws:
1. You can’t choose what tanks or air craft you take into battle. This takes away from what war thunder is you find tanks from all countries and you battle with them.

2. No true tech tree, in this game there are packs of vehicles at each tier that you can buy and have to level you get more tanks and etc. I understand trying new ideas but please stick to a tech tree.

To end I love this idea and am excited to see how the developers expand on this but I’m holding off from playing until these flaws are addressed.

I know that uptiers are their for a reason. So that matchmaking isn’t 10 mins long but, in the main game uptiers even a full uptiers is more manageable than uptiers in this game. In this game the amount of uptiers will just immediately decide who’s going or win the battle. Especially for fleets if for example you have a tier 1 light cruiser and the enemy team has a tier 2 heavy cruiser and yours doesn’t the team with the heavy cruiser is going to win 95% of the time. Though this game does have potential it might be best to wait a for more patches to come out.

Literally played for like 3-4 hours straight, got migraines, don't feel my eyes, but it was worth it. The game is a blast, literally 3 hours of internal diabolical laughter and neuron activation, that wasn't that intense for me since I tried the RedBull for the first time. On god, banger.

Game is fun but you guys need to downgrade the game a little bit. the lowest graphics setting in this game is higher than most phone games nowadays thus it makes the phone sizzling as well as draining battery incredibly fast. PUBG mobile is massive compare to this game yet it still run smoothly if I switch the graphics to lowest and frame rate to highest

This game has way better graphics and mechanics than world of tanks. There is plenty to do, if you are a good world of tanks player you better play this.

Just writing this for people who came from the main game and are slightly upset for it being “hard”, is basically the Arcade game mode and as a massive fan of AB i’m already getting in the grove of the game, for people who complain how you can’t select your plane well that’s how people like us in AB play, if it’s hard remember RB as the damage models haven’t changed between the modes and on mobile

This game is garbage. I only ever get into matches with people who are much better than me even though I am brand new to the game. The only fun I ever have is when I am in a plane, which does not have it’s own mode and is only accessible through tank mode. And even when I do get in a play, either my tank gets killed immediately no matter where it is, or my plane spawns directly in front of an enemy plane and I get shot down instantly. Not to mention that I either have to have garbage graphics or I only get 10 fps max. Awful mobile game, you should have just left it on pc/console.

I would be five stars if you didn’t have some glitches also I would really enjoy the game a whole lot more if you had planes as it’s own vehicle and a mode where it was all the vehicles against each other but overall it’s a good game.

Hey this app mobile devs I love your game so much I’ve been waiting years for this game to come out and when I first heard they was going to come out soon. I was on edge just waiting and now it’s finally out I get to enjoy it I love the maps and everything including the game but there is just one thing I think you paid more attention to the tanks then the map but they both look like they were loved equally.

I just hope one day that you could add aircraft because I would grind the heck out of the bombers and the fighters because they are both amazing I hope the next update you could pay more attention to the map detail and start working on the aircraft battles.

Amazing. Gameplay is greate. Research is quick enough in the early part of the game to keep new players interested and long enough that you can play it and not be bored while waiting for an update.

Minor possible changes are:
1: Pls make it like the pc version where you research individual tanks and can make your own lineup. This would give you a few more tanks, Maybe a limit of like 6 tanks at max in you lineup.

2: Pls make it so you can still get a reward even f you leave a match. Maybe to balance this feature is by having a reward penalty 10% for leaving the match. This makes it so players don’t want to lose 10% of RP and SL.

3: Pls make the tank joystick controls a little more precise. Make it so players can have a wider turn.

4: Add planes.
5: Add more trees.

Besides the fact that I get my console name and a free ship what’s the point in linking accounts I understand not doing it now since we don’t have every vehicle in both games but I was mostly exited to be able to grind when I can play on my console or pc. Overall great game just needs some minor tweaks.

How to get a good rate or they ignore it, yes, this may be a high-quality game, but it’s still not fair, hit registration is still garbage it does not work like it should, one shot may be a one shot kill, another may be a ricochet. It does not make sense, and it’s indecisive. Jesus, if you’re going to borrow some money, make a game that’s fair.

I have always been a fan of games like war thunder and I think that this is a fantastic game. However in the future I would like to see the player have the ability to connect their mobile account to their PC/Console so you would have the same vehicles.

The controls are awful even if you use a controller, the free look is borderline useless and its more ideal just to look around, and the game is constantly stuck in arcade mode (if you dont know what that is, play the main game) which makes light tanks useless and makes heavy tanks the only thing you can play and succeed at well in

the absolutely only reason you should play this game is for the event rewards for the main game, otherwise delete it and go play world of tanks blitz, you’ll have a more enjoyable experience

The game is great but there are a lot of problems. One of the major problems that stand out to me are the uptiers. For example, whenever I play naval, I most of the time get uptierd with player that are higher in level than me. They have ships like the uss New Orleans while I’m stuck at level three with just a uss Nicolas which does pretty much no damage to them. Other than the horrible uptiers the game is fine.

Is that War Thunder addiction driving you crazy when you’re out of the house? Well worry no more! Because now you can feed that addiction anywhere you go! The snail knows where you are at all times and you can keep the abusive relationship continue strong!

I’ve love War Thunder and have always wanted to play it, but once I got on, the game said there was a connection issue and I couldn’t go and play matches. Even though there was nothing wrong with my internet. Please help, I tried your website but it doesn’t have much to offer.

Also, please add a freeplay/mission mode for offline enjoyment.

Not too detailed but I’m guessing that’s gonna be in an update later in the future, but the game is great, even though we are stuck in arcade”(not sure if y’all are gonna add different game modes later)” -_-, but looking forward to the future this game has set for itself

The gameplay is overall amazing but there are too many objects within the maps that can be shot through with no limit to how many it passes through, fixing this issue or at least extremely limiting the number of objects a round may pass through.

This game has potential but it still has a long way to go. Every time I play a match there’s always someone who is a higher Tier than me that no matter how many times I shoot at them they won’t get destroyed while they fire at me once and I’m blasted in the face of the earth. I know uptiering cuts back on loading time but I would rather wait the extra 5 minutes and have a chance at winning than be put into a match with no chance at all.

Also I feel that the aiming and crosshairs that tell you where and when to shoot should be changed to be more like WoT blitz where you can actually see where to shoot rather than moving your crosshairs around hoping you find a green spot.

Other than those two things I think that if the developers keep improving on what there doing this game could be a very great experience for us all.

I first of all love the game, I’ve already played the pc version so I know that war thunder is grindy, but I just didn’t like the feeling of having to grind for 800,000 lions to either get a amx50 or the upgraded tiger 2, I like navel because it felt a bit more lenient on the level of lions spent to get the next ship and like I said I know that gb is grindy but this feels worse so I thought that maybe as a suggestion to give more lions to the player when the level up instead of eagles, but other than that I love the game it feels alright and I hope for aviation to get added or more planes get added for gb

This game is great! The only issue I’ve had with it is that whenever I open WarThunder there is no sound, music and other noises made in-game. I don’t know if this is just because this is still the beta version or if something is actually wrong… maybe I’m doing something wrong. 😳 Anyway, overall I enjoy this game very much and look forward to future updates!

An amazing game that doesn’t feel like a mobile game! Graphics making it feel a little retro, but also modern. The game doesn’t feel cheap to play and it’s controller compatible, which is a big plus. If you’re looking for something fun to do on your lunch break or while sitting on the couch, this is the game for you!

The only reason I’m giving this review 3 stars is because I have played the pc version of war thunder for over 2 years and love it. Though whenever I try to open mobile, it can’t connect to the server. I’m just gonna delete it for a few months and redownload hope that it’s fixed by then.

As the title says, the game is awesome and similar to this app… but the premiums are WAY too expensive for a mobile game, the main game has cheaper premiums… this is almost an excuse for Gaijin to make money since the main game got review bombed… Gaijin, please do not make that same mistake with this game.. you will kill it quicker… you need to cheapen products by at least 25% or more… it’s way too expensive…

Edit: they also need to improve silver lion rewards for premium vehicles by a lot…

Yes yes yes , I’m saying it .. More realistic than WOT Blitz and so far a lot more fun .. I don’t know if chat will eventually be integrated though for not still better than the previous game mentioned. Thank you for bringing this to mobile and I’m even trying to get people in wot to check this out.. Thank you!

I can’t say this enough but I believe I am talking for most people that play this game. When in a game match I’m always teamed up with other players or bots that are a hire tier then I am which makes the game impossible to enjoy/play. I only get a total of 3/5 minutes of game play before looking for another match which is annoying. I’ve played the console version as well and let me say it’s exact same game with its pay to win criteria and like I already said high tier players match making. So play game developers change the game to where it’s enjoyable and not just another console pay to win system.

Honestly had little expectations and was just right. Like all mobile adaptations, better to play pc or Xbox version. The graphics were fairly nice. The only draw back is the controls. I have pretty big hand and it was difficult to move around with the joysticks. Honestly World Of Tanks Blitz controls were much better. Very hard to move around especially when moving backwards and sideways. Furthermore, add control customization elements. It was so frustrating trying to shoot while on zoomed. Has potential but wouldn’t play regularly except trying to get event vehicles

I played over 1k hrs on this app pc, so when i was told it had come to mobile, I was ecstatic! Having played for several hours now, im still pretty happy. No its not the pc game ported over to mobile. The tech tree is nonexistent, instead researching platoons of 4 tanks, or simply all vehicles on your player lvl and lower being available for purchase. I dont mind it though since it helps the mobile version feel more accessible to the playerbase. The research isnt quite as grindy as pc but i think some balancing still needs to be done for tank progression. Also i guess they opted for leaving aviation out. I do hope that is only a temporary thing, since the aviation was always my favorite part of the pc version. Lastly, and probably a little unrealistic, but i think it would be awesome to somehow link mobile, console and pc accounts, so you can progress research across all platforms on one account. But probably wont happen given the differences in tech and research between platforms. Lots of fun though, ill be playing for months!

(For context I play the PC version of War Thunder & have played on the Xbox One X version as well.) War Thunder Mobile in my genuine opinion was a huge let down in what I was expecting. No aircraft to speak of except support aircraft in matches, linked accounts don't give you access to vehicles you have on other platforms (For example I have the Maus on my PC account.) I expect that linking my Mobile and PC account would grant me use of the Maus in the Mobile game but nope it’s locked behind a paywall. I guess to sum it up as I don’t wanna type too much. No aircraft in-game on the sole exception of support aviation. Linking accounts to Mobile is useless unless you want/wanted to get the Beta rewards. As soon as I open the game I get an ad for some premium vehicle that cant be skipped, (Same Issue for PC with premium account and such but atleast it aint an animated one that cant be skipped.) Overall War Thunder Mobile is a huge let down, and I won’t be entirely surprised if a huge amount of the 5 Star reviews are from bots, given how Gaijin handles it’s stuff. (Steam Review Bombings.) :)

War Thunder Mobile is easily the best mobile combat game on WarThunder Store. It’s easy to get the handle of and once you start to get more expensive ships and tanks, the game becomes more fun. The only one thing I don’t like is that it empties your battery REALLY QUICK. That’s really the only thing I don’t like about War Thunder Mobile and people who enjoy learning about military vehicles will have a fun time. This game is incredibly educational because it has the historical aspect on military superpowers and it’s really cool seeing the different tanks and how they became more powerful over the years.
The main soundtrack for War Thunder and War Thunder Mobile is really nice.
Kudos to Gaijin!

I love this app. I’ve played the pc version for years putting in thousands of hours. And honestly it’s a pretty terrible game. There’s a million problems that I could get into but I won’t. That’s all aside from the point, the mobile version while much more simplified is a such better game. If you want to feel like a tanker play this app on pc if you want to have fun play the mobile game. I can’t speak for air cuz I’m a die hard tanker but mobile this app is fun.

Who? Who? Who is the imbecile that put the rise and surface button ⬆️ right on top of the shoot button on the submarines? It’s a half centimeter away from the shoot button and super easy to accidentally hit when trying to shoot a torpedo. Move it up! Move it away from the shoot button!!

There many of us are, using our submarines to battle a ship. Our subs are badly damaged, but so is the enemy ship. We’re the last two in the battle! Then while firing a torpedo to win the game. INSTEAD the rise button is accidentally hit because it’s a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny bit away from the shoot button. Our sub rises and is totally exposed to the enemy ship. The ship fires one of their little cannons and BOOOOOM!!! Our sub is SUNK! Game over. We LOSE!!!
Thanks to the half-minded game developers for putting that stupid button ⬆️ on top of the shoot button.
Have you ever tried your own game? Have you tested it? Don’t you see how EASY it is to accidentally hit that button? Come on, guys!!
MOVE THAT BUTTON UP!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!!!!!

First off, it’s a fun game. Don’t get me wrong, it can be fun. But you have to put significant money into it to grow.
BUT, it soon becomes not fun at all. As you get into the higher levels, it gets bad. You get one shot penned by other tanks, get 5-10xp and have to play 100 matches just to level up. You play for 20 seconds, get one shotted by someone in a premium tank (which need to get nerfed) then you’re out until you have more than one tank and can upgrade the power and survivability. Which takes FOREVER and takes the joy and relaxation out of the game.
This is NOT for a casual player…. You need to put money into it to not get wiped in less than a minute.

Overall it’s a fun game ,good graphics and lots of tanks to chose from. Can’t wait for the aircraft to come out in its own mode. But naval matchmaking is really unfair how do you expect a destroyer to destroy a heavy cruiser? Torpedos Maybe but I can’t get close enough even with a light cruiser to fire them off. I spawned in as a light cruiser in a battle 10 seconds late a heavy cruiser opens fire and less than a minute later I’m dead no amount of repairs can help. Overall a fun game but naval matchmaking needs to be fixed for sure in order for naval to be fun

I understand controls are hard to get right so there’s not much you can do there, but the balancing of tiers in mobile should be much more strict than in the real game, simply due to the poor controls a phone gives
an M4(75) should NOT be going up against what is the equivalent to a Panther A
it’s just simply not a fair fight in the slightest
also the marketing team needs to be fired completely, the ads that are being pushed out for this game are so outrageously misleading and just outright garbage it’s not even funny, this game deserves proper adverts

Good day developers!

I’m writing to you after using your game for an enough time to give my opinion fairly. The TANKS made fantastic; but the planes are made miserably unfortunately, so here’s my list:-
1- the left gear must control the plane positions (elevation, descending, turning to R & L).
2- The right gear for the view
3- the humans had invented something called FLAPS, gears & spoilers so add them pls.
4- the games, mostly have the ability to customize the bottoms as the players wants, try to do that.
5- the enemies & teammates names are really terribly annoying, pls put the ability to the users to display it or undisplay.
6- make the recharging the ammunitions by landing on a safe zone airport (realistic and much more funny)
7- voice chat is mandatory nowadays, huh!
8- chatting? 🤔
9- solo missions are also beautiful.
10- crossing ( planes , tanks & ships) in same match with bigger players number, boy that’s gonna be epic!

Ty 🙂

First off, you didn’t even give planes their own choice of gameplay and just put them as air support, please give us a plane tree. Second, add the choice for modifications, not just gun, parts and crew, like up rated caliber. lastly add tech trees, but make them like you can unlock many tanks (6 or 7)in a platoon. I am not trying to bicker, and if you read this, can you please give me a custom M10 TD with extra armor ? my name is Player9gue4, and I just want that added to the 2nd tier Sherman, thank you. I’m a very big fan

This could be a great game, but I’m sick and tired of shooting a tank 3-4 times in a place that it should be a kill shot, and having it still be alive, then dying while I’m waiting to reload to shoot it for the fifth time…. I’m sick of shooting tanks in places where it’s highlighted green, and getting a ricochet, then that same tank shoot me once and I explode. I hate how the reticle isn’t married to where the gun actually is. I’ve fired at a tank in 3rd person view and the shot went nowhere near where the reticle said it was supposed to be. I’ve looked at where my shot went in 3rd person, then switched to the scope and instead of it being in the same place, the position is different. It’s infuriating trying to have fun with this game while all this is going on, these things need to be fixed.

This game has potential but however whenever I play this game players always one shot me somehow and idk why if they can one shot me why can’t I one shot them? And plus I don’t even have backup cards for the tanks and the one backup card is 90 golden eagles and I only have 90 golden eagles and I don’t want to spend them I’m just saving them and also these players won’t let you survive because whenever I’m trying to repair they are stubborn enough to keep on shooting you until you are dead. I highly recommend the developers of this game to make the experience a little fair and make the earning of silver lions and golden eagles easier.

I absolutely love the game for what it is, yes it needs a lot of work but it’s a mobile game. I started playing this game with the idea that it’s not going to be anything like pc. It’s a little glitchy like sometimes if you fire your guns then they don’t fire but that happens rarely. My only actual complaint is to pleaseeeee make submarines actually bob in the water. They put no effort into making the subs feel like a submarine, just floating and not moving at all, also when you turn the sub, the dive planes rotate the sub as well. Idk about you but I don’t think that’s how it works. They don’t rotate when submerging or surfacing, the sub just stays completely horizontal. It’s not a huge problem, just breaks from the immersion and feels like your not actually piloting a sub.

Similar to PC, premium is a big push. Paid vehicles are always more overpowered than their non paid counterparts. Also similar to PC, graphics are incredibly and absolutely beautifully done. Team play seems to be lacking due to most “players” still being bots. Yes their aim is godlike, and yes you will most likely die in one hit. When you do get into a good well balanced match, skies are filled, strategies are well developed, and the gameplay becomes as amazing as war thunder always has been. It is a grind fest!!! To a degree… the first 5 tank levels and 10 ship levels go by fast. After that its a credit grind mainly. I just really wish they had a dedicated air mode!!! Add that and you’ll get 5 stars from me Gaijin!

Hey WT devs, just wanted to give some feedback on your mobile game.

First, of for being a mobile game this is top notch, much better than wot in my opinion. However I was very disappointed to not see my progress from my account carry over to the mobile version, which would be bad enough except even my premiums didn’t carry. Which as expensive as they are was a massive dissatisfaction. I was also disappointed to only be able to play in arcade, and as a RB player this actually mad me quit the mobile version. I would personally redownload WT mobile if the problems were fixed, however it’s not that bad if you haven’t already ground out the game on PC and don’t care for RB. Really sad it turned out this way. Thanks

For a mobile game, the graphics are top notch. Having said that, game play is like having a knife fight in a broom closet with four other people. The maps are small and cluttered, with limited lines of sight. Battles are chaotic and leave few opportunities to employ strategies such as going hull down, flanking, or setting up kill zones. The control layout is crowded and, as someone playing on a tablet, it’s hard to imagine effectively using the controls on a smart phone. The tank controls are a bit wonky and, at times, the tanks themselves skid about like they’re on an ice rink. World of Tanks and World of Warships gameplay is far superior, the only advantage War Thunder has is the aforementioned graphics.

This game has the potential to be a 10 + rating but due to The lagging and stopping and going happens a lot especially during intense battles there are quite a few complaints about it , nothing is done , the other issue is when in a shoot out with another tank
SAME MODEL SAME CLASS i barrage the tank in all specified spots nothing happens , then he hits me in the SAME SPOT with one shot and first in the same place I hit his tank two or more times , he turns my tank to dust ,
The stress level is high and with the added lagging and stopping and going with intermittent play the frustration is even higher , other players have complained about these same issues with their tech support , the designers should stick with designing and they should hire REAL COMPUTER TECHS TO CREATE THE TECHNICAL ASPECTS ,
maybe they should hire some specialists from WORLD OF TANK BLITZ THERE ARENT ANY ISSUES AND WHEN THERE IS THE TECH SUPPORT GETS BACK TO YOU RIGHT AWAY AND FIXES THE ISSUE , I wouldn’t spend any money on this game , if you do you may be disappointed
Sad such a good game too

This game has a lot of issues with it. First of all the crew knockout mechanic shouldn't even be in the game, it’s irritating and only makes players feel like they were wronged and its easily the worst part of War-thunder as a whole. You cant even report cheaters, the amount of times my entire team got destroyed because of one “unkillable” tank is ridiculous, Chinese cheaters are rampant. Its also missing any ability for players to move the camera around without moving the turret, think of World of Tanks 😑. Also messaging should be a thing because people literally harass me whenever im just trying to take a shot and then the enemy is kills me because of it.

It would have been a good mobile game but i cannot work with the crew knockout mechanic, its useless and dumb, this is a mobile version stop trying to make it like PC!!

Nice game and all of that. Earning money, and experience should not be this hard. And players should be able to sell the tanks or ships they don’t want anymore. Like lower level thanks and ships that I don’t use. The selling price should not be a rigid one but a just one. The draws r all rigged and u can’t win keys in the draw. It’s not fair to players. I was big time fan of CODM, but I moved on, I can move on, but hope u guys would fix it so that we can stay. In order to buy a tank, I have to have over a million coins now, and u can earn only enough in one level to be able to buy the next level, or spend $$ to buy more coins. This is ridiculous. Plz fix it before we move on.

So Iv been playing this game for awhile now, bought most tanks and ships/subs and I have to say this is by far the best tank/ship/airplane game I have ever played on mobile. The graphics are good, controls are easy to manage and the gameplay is smooth. Iv wanted a replay button after the match since day 1 but I believe they are working on that. Game updates almost every week so it’s always improving. Only ideals I can think of to make the game better imo. Maybe be able to build your own platoon, choose your own tanks to bring into battle. More tanks and maps. Add helicopters and make planes a class of their own to bring into battle so you can fly longer and make anti air more useful. I can’t wait to see where this game goes and it’s definitely been well worth playing. Thank you

I love this game!! I am a knew player and have unlocked a lot already. Without spending any money. Which is something a lot of games don’t have. I played world of tanks and ships and both I could not progress in because of the pay wall. I was stuck. So I deleted them. So far yall have managed to allow us to progress with out paying anything. I love what yall are doing please keep the game away from the pay wall and add planes as its own class. I also saw someone ask to be able to make there own platoons. I would love that to. Thanks for making a good game and caring about your players. 😊🙌

This game is very good but I feel like it just needs that aircraft. because we already have some aircraft models but I probably bet that the Dev’s are already working on this. but overall all the graphics are amazing same thing for the gameplay. you guys are all doing very well. also I have some things in mind so I’ll probably respond once you respond to this. I’m not saying that you need to I’m just saying that if you want to you can and I will give you the ideas.

Can’t believe they came to mobile but man they killed it. Insane amounts of vehicles for not having planes or helicopters yet. Game plays almost as good as the pc version. Premium tank deals pop up all the time. I like what they did with the platoon system for vehicles! When you unlock one you are technically unlocking 4 because there are 3 more available with progress of that platoon. They were smart about it too and kinda made it like a br line up that you would try to make on console. Really smart game

Hi! 3k hours on pc, I don’t mind this at all, yeah, it’s Gaijen so expect grind. The game though, it’s pretty decent, way different than you know. You start with a basic tier 1 platoon. You kill people(knock out) others, gain XP for level and tank crew, except only this time the crew experience accrues levels to unlock your “tank destroyer, your AA your medium tank and finally your kinda normal tank. I’ve seen some historical accuracies already; tiger I being medium… lol, nonetheless this is a great step for those who want that mobile war thunder feel, or if you’ve never been able to play; no console or pc, this’ll give you a taste of what the base game has to offer in some senses.

Yes, Gaijen wants you to buy their premium, and buy their premium tanks for the “edge”. I can only guess how broken a premium tank will be in a mobile app of war thunder…regardless, if you’re looking for a game to pass time, or someone like me, who just enjoys the feel of war thunder and gameplay, then you’ll enjoy this. Tank driving controls though, are not the best.

Thanks!

For three or more years ive played PC war thunder and when i heard it came to mobile, i wanted to check it out, alongside this i was hoping to be able to collect my daily rewards for pc, and yet after two days of trying it, it seems it won’t let me despite being told in the oc version it would allow me to collect the rewards. All that aside, the gameplay itself is incredibly poor as you can simply pay to win. The movement controls are poor, the aiming is to be expected for a mobile game so I can’t cast hate there. The biggest let down I had was both the fact i got 13-16 fps on lowest settings on an ipad, and the fact that there were no aircraft to be seen aside from air support, while controlling an aircraft the lag would onky become worse, and for some unknown reason every bomb has a five second fuse, which gives plenty of time for the enemy to run away like its nothing. Overall its an unfun game unless you want to oay excessive money, and i have no doubts a lot of these five stars are botted.

Overall, this game is fun. It’s great to see the range of classic warships set against each other in a well designed battle environment. Usually, the battles go well with the better side prevailing.

However, there are times when my ship has around 60% health, then the ship is instantly sunk. I am not sure what is happening but it is very frustrating. Even if the ship was hit by a salvo from another ship or torpedoes from a sub, it shouldn’t result in an instantly sunk ship. When a ship is legitimately sunk, the game shows the ship exploding and the slow demise of the ship. But in the situation I am describing, the ship goes from steaming along firing its guns to being instantly sunk and underwater. Don’t understand it but it’s a real fun killer. I end up shutting down the game and moving on yo anything else when this happens. Wish this could be explained if it is supposed to be part of the game or fix it if it is not supposed to be part of the game.

I find this game really fun I remember playing this game on pc first before I switched to console and to me it seems as realistic as it can be the only thing I want added to the game really is being able to see the armor layout of your own tank it would make it easier for me to know how I should angle my tank in which direction when I’m facing an enemy player so I can come prepared before I enter a game I know you can check your amor layout on pc and I hope they add it on mobile also but all in all it’s fun game it can get frustrating at times but the game takes patcience and strategy so don’t give up!

I have been waiting months for this game to be downloaded on IOS and I have downloaded it a week ago. The game has beautiful graphics and gameplay. But there’s something the game lacks. British tanks. So, from the OG War Thunder PC game why not make another platoon, but with the tanks being the Churchill I, Crocodile Churchill, Matilda Hedgehog and the Matilda III. I have no idea what the tier should be, but this is just an idea.

Edit: I just saw they have the Churchill I. Another a thing to add instead of the Churchill I or something. Also there are a lot of Sherman tanks which is one of my favorite tank.

So I like the game its very straight forward. Meaning not complicated tech trees. Easy grind for a beginner....

Although there are several major problems. First being the constant updates. You want to increase a south american user base stop with the every two day updates. Every update eats data making it impossible to play if we dont have the data for downloads. Make updates once a month. You seriously have more updates than CODM and that takes up more space than this app.
Second is make the control interface more customizable, i should have to suddenly stop my tank and the my tank camera moves up and die because of poor UI.
My last complaint is the heat. Im using an iPhone 13 pro max, but this game causes my phone to over heat. I play other games such as mobile legends, CODM(CALL OF DUTY MOBILE), World War Armies and these games don't cause my phone to overheat. You would think with so many updates this would be addressed. Or is the iPhone 13 pro max already too old to use for this game? How do other phones perform if the iPhone is performing this badly.

Please fix these problems.

Just now I got spawned camped and it was one time but I wanna make sure that it won’t happen again so hopefully you can find a solution now I understand if you can’t find a solution but would be very happy if that never happens again because I hate spawn camping next on the list is unfairness most of the lobbies there is at least one person on the enemy team that has that rocket thing on top of there tank that is way to op in fact the rocket thing is one of the people that spawned camp me and our team and then we lost but I have an idea for the rocket thing put the golden tanks I’m just gonna call them golden tanks in one lobby like all golden tanks and no gray tanks and I’m calling the tanks that aren’t golden and so the gray tanks won’t just feel overwhelmed if there team doesn’t have any golden tanks and idk if this solution will work but how about if a tank is in the enemy area a AI does an artillery strike and it will absolutely destroy them but they have a chance to get out but make it hard know that’s it but I really hope you see this because I really love this game it’s really realistic tank game and I really hope you see this 🤞

Can you please please add a division only for planes please like cause I just wanna like fly the planes and like can’t you just make it somewhat like the real game like a different tears like you give the game more actual war thunder look and really like you’re doing good with the premium stuff and everything because like plus you need to give like pre-premium accounts to the one dollar premium account i’ve been playing war thunder for a pretty long time and I just started playing mobile. It’s nothing like the real game like literally when I play war thunder and compared to War Thunder Mobile it’s like I don’t even want to play the game anymore you need to make the game better and plus, you need to add more of the actual look and I would like to get the YouTuber that play the game like give them custom tanks or something like custom vehicles don’t make the game much more fun of that vehicles to the game like Russian like at every division cause I’m with tally like every country that has anything really OK

The game is amazing, (please read, every time in one game the enemy team spawn camps, add a miniute timer that once done, who ever spawn camps gets destroyed) great realism, and good ships, one thing that needs to be fixed is when planes like the He-111 and a Soviet aircraft with the Four Bombs and Rockets, have playable gunner aircraft, which would be great considering the amount of enemy’s playing as aircraft when you are in one, for tanks, I would like to have the Maus, I’m not begging, beging is for top tier players, it’s well and good, and I don’t have it, I’m a good player with slow tanks and make them useful in battle, also, you should add 3 more tanks,One WW2 and Two Cold War, here’s each of their platoons. RANK 3 Matilda 1, Sherman firefly, (non premeuim) A15 Crusader, Grant 1.
USSR, RANK 9: IS-3, BMP, (any varient) T-72, and one more tank if u can find one
USA: RANK 14. MBT-70, M3A3 Bradly, M551 Sheridan, M48 Patton.

Hope you read this, I’d be happy to hear your response, if u need my user, it’s BattleshipBrisk2.

So far the game is very fun! Although I don’t play a whole lot because my main interest is the planes… but I hear they’re coming soon :) I’ll be hooked once aviation is added. I have hundreds of hours played in both PC and PS5. But I’m stoked to finally have it on mobile. Don’t give up gaijin. There will be a lot more of us playing once you add planes! My only complaint is that you guys should try to mimic the pc/ps5 versions more. Instead of making this game feel/look completely different. Because that’s not gonna help players acclimate to the mobile version if it looks nothing like the pc/ps5 versions that they are coming from playing. I’m sure it’s because you guys had to dumb down the game for mobile. But you could have still kept the main interfaces and home screens. Etc. It feels like a knock off version of war thunder. Even though it’s legit war thunder lol idk if that makes any sense

I love playing this game! But I really want to get onto my suggestion.
Not too long ago, WTM changed the currency used to pay for the special tanks on the daily special tank thing. It went from the regular golden eagles which I’d just need to grind for a little, to the platinum wolves which cost REAL money. That was fine with me, but I also noticed something: you can get the special version of the tank when advancing a level. But it makes me sad that you can only do that for 1 tank. So I really want Gaijin developers of WTM to make it so that you can go back and buy the special version of each and every tank. That would be super cool in my opinion and would make the game a little more interesting. However, to not make the game insta boring, you can make it so that if you are not getting via level advance, you have to fully upgrade that tank to max level before getting special version with golden eagles. Hopefully this is added! Thanks!

I don’t play this too often but when I do I really enjoy it. For a mobile game the graphics looks really good, also I like that there are platoons and that you need levels to unlock new tanks in them (the platoons). I just really wish we could research planes and/or bombers, and not just use them in arcade battles. Also I’m having trouble trying to link my Xbox account with war thunder mobile because when I play war thunder on my Xbox it tells me “log into your account on War Thunder Mobile to not lose your streak” or something along those words, and when I try I haven’t been able to, anyway, I really like the game and would love to see modern tanks such as Abram’s, Leopards, and the T-Series tanks (T-52, T-64, T-72, T-90, you get what I mean). I would love to see those and would be super cool. And if anyone from Gaijin is seeing this, keep up the good work.

Ive been playing WT for about 1000 hours on xbox series x at this point. I have the F-16C and im also starting to grind the israeli tech tree. I knew WTM had come out, but i was too focused on getting the F-16C to try it out. Now that i have it, i decided to give WTM a try. At first i noticed that there was no tech tree, which comes as a relief to me. Then i hopped into a game and realized that it was ground arcade battles. I dont have a problem with GAB, but im more of a GRB player. I also realized that there was no dedicated air mode, which of course i had put a lot of time into. These things are minor, and the game is still probably the best tank shooter on mobile, but still. Id like Gaijin to add some more challenging game modes for the more dedicated fans, along with an air mode for people who would like to fly planes not in the CAS role. 5/5

Unfortunately, due to lack of player base, they seem to have you face tanks that are noticeably higher BR as soon as you start to progress. For instance, my tiger E, a mid to late ww2 tank went up against a early Cold War American m48 Patton, as well as sometimes going against another tiger but a much later year and model such as the tiger II, and as you'd expect I failed to penetrate it in any way that would allow me to kill it, whilst not being able to realistic my get into any position in which I could. You could try shooting the barrel but you better be accurate and hit it more than 3 times because that's the only way to damage it, and even then he will have plenty of time to repair as you fail to penetrate them. The developers need to make it so you only face tanks up to 1 battle rating above or below the current tank you're in. The gameplay is actually relatively fun when up against tanks of similar caliber, but otherwise it quickly becomes a frustrating grindy mess that lacks any type of fun.

This game is so stupid. I just came back from a Mach and there was five players camping all around the A zone but not in A zone. They where all right where we would come from. I am shaking in anger right now. When I had a guest account it was fun and easy. But when I deleted the game and got it back I selected Apple ID and the first two games where easy but then every player on the other team was a sweat. I had 3 level 25 killer ranks in my severs, I am level 3. It is too the point where I hate the game now. It is so stupid. I have only won two matches. I hope you dumb developer fixes this horrible problem right away because I actually want to play this game to have fun not to die every three milliseconds. If you made it this far I’d like you to know I get angry easily and my team are bots. When I was going to get A zone, my teammate was pushing me into a side of a building. Please add servers that are my skill level because I am trying to get the M4 and I can’t with every Mach having killer rank.

This game is great. It’s not about how much money you spend (does help tho) you can have a fun experience. There is no who shoots the most. You have to know the tank your using and going against, find the week points in the armor, how much can you angle without exposing your side. This game has no health bar. Only crew like realism. You have to kill all the crew to get a kill. Ammo racks can get cooked off, or the tank explodes. You have to carry a specific amount to minimize your chances of combustion. I had this game since they launched it on iOS and it’s been great. It does help if you have the desktop war thunder especially if you just started as you get some rewards like a Sherman. And you can use it to figure out the weak points as the tanks are one to one

Gameplay and graphics is good. The game requires quite a learning curve so be patient. The game seems to crash a bit and suffers from a lot of lag at least on my end. The game needs more maps and vehicles but I assume this is on the way as the game only came out in August. Also, during flight you only receive about minute of flight time and this is not really enough to make more than one or two passes at enemy vehicles on the ground. There is also a lot of spawn killing during aerial missions. I also think the KV-2 platoon needs to be moved from 1 battle rating and moved up to 2 battle rating as it is quite overpowered.

Pros: Top-Tier Graphics, fun gameplay, good maps, engaging.

Cons: Needs to overhaul a lot of the balancing for vehicles and aerial units. Buggy at the moment and suffers from a lot of lag.

Hello everyone just wanted to let you know I’ve been playing games since I was a kid Atari Genesis, Nintendo, 64 Xbox PlayStation, but this being said I never played such a good game on an iPhone 15 Pro Max like this one fantastic job guys I love the battleship game the tank game is just as good but I love that you’re a soap and those torpedoes flyby and you have EarPods. It’s the most realistic game without actually being in the war that I’ve played in a long time on an iPhone PS do me a favor those who are inventing these games make a call of duty boots on the ground game

on an iPhone, because that would be out of this world . PS keep up the good work. Very exciting interesting. fantastic game to play on an iPhone so please. make another one. tea day the invasion of Germany. when the US soldiers landed on on the beaches.

I started playing war thunder with a friend about 3 years ago, and just reached 1k hours on it with my steam account, so I recently got war thunder mobile. It is way ahead of many other mobile games out there, the UI and controls are well designed, and the gameplay is similar to war thunder’s arcade mode, making it easy to navigate from switching from a PC. It is also quite fast to get new tanks, and with this system you can play a variety of tanks from many nations, all of which are in the PC and Console war thunder, not to mention the naval mode, which I have yet to try. Overall, the best mobile game I have found, and, it is not pay to win, and you can earn both types of the in game currency through crates and doing tasks or watching ads, making it very fun and not frustrating, especially because there is no ads to interrupt the gameplay.

Just as the title says, WT Mobile is an awesome game. The controls are easy to get the hang of, and while at first the turret rotation controls are hard to get the hang of, you get used to it. It has awesome graphics, (I have them set on high and 60 fps because I have a strong iPad, but it starts you off on the lowest setting so if your device can’t handle the strain of running at a higher frame rate with better graphics, then it’s ok. Now for the things I would like to see implemented. First is modern tanks. While we do have some more modern tanks in tier VIII, I would like to see some more modern tanks like the Challenger 2, Leopard 2A7, and the M1 Abrams. Possibly you could add more tiers to accommodate these better tanks. Also one more thing that would be great is a dedicated air battles mode. While it is great to fly planes during a tank battle, I think that it would definitely be great if we could have a separate mode for air battles. One thing to take into consideration if you do add the air wars mode is also to add modern aircraft like F-16, JAS-39, and F-35. Also more in between planes such as the F-14 and others. That’s really all I have to say about the game though, so I’m done now.

I forgot to include this, but we can’t even like dried plains. I don’t know if there’s an option to like fly, but I can’t even see it. I don’t know if she even implanted flying airships in the mobile version I mean like you have it in your like pictures. And yeah, it does not even an option where I could just like fly. First of all the reason I got this game is because I wanted to fly in the air and shoot down to all my enemies. But the only time I see flying is in theRussianbadgers video about you. Plus he scammed $141 out of you. quite impressive and plus how can people fly planes? I mean, like I know how to fly planes in the tank mode but not in the mode I mean, like tell us tell us like where you can fly and plus in the tutorial you don’t even tell us that we can switch modes. I was stuck for like three days. Playing the ship mode. And we move so slow make it that like we could go into overdrive, but there is a chance that we can catch on fire and plus please for the life of God fix your game and plus. Never get the game. I’m begging you.

The community is amazingly diverse, from funny internet memes all the way up to Gaijin themselves posting daily memes about their game. It’s quite refreshing from a long grind, as this game takes lots of time, just as the PC/Console version does, which actually takes almost 15 times longer to fully complete. This game, however, like many others, have extremely bad flaws. Now, one of the WORST ones is when you get “Gaijined”. It’s a popular, if not the most popular, saying/meme within the community. Essentially what happens, is a shell from a tank hits you, and it’ll spread out after explosion inside your tank and hit your ammo rack/engine, which instantaneously kills you, no matter what hit it, as long as it was a shell or bullet that penetrated. Spawn campers aren’t an issue for me.

I normally don’t write reviews even when games REALLY stink but this one was just so dumb that I couldn’t resist. I guess I just go into the pros and cons Pros - realistic damage system. Idk if you would put this in pros or cons but I personally think it’s a con -good graphics Cons -damage system TERRIBLE that is the only word to describe the disgrace for example let’s think of this your tank drives between two buildings and shoots an enemy even though the cross hairs turned green indicating that your bullet will penetrate it doesn’t work and your bullet simply deflects off and does no damage. The enemy though payed money to buy the vary best tank and he then spams his rockets that he paid to have and they easily destroy your tank and send you back to the lobby. -pay to win you can grind as hard as you want but without paying for the best tank you have no hope. Normal tanks stink they are slow week and generally bad but if you pay the low cost of 9.99 you can have a fast well armored tank with a huge gun. This game is not far and is so pay to win this was just an example of how a bad game this is -low variety Every single match it’s the same tanks your going against the same three maps too there is just vary little variety and feels like a beta still. In conclusion I don’t like this game and think that it is poorly made, pay to win, with poor verity. I would not buy this and think you should just get world of tanks or world of warships not this.

I’ve always enjoyed war thunder on other platforms, but I was excited to see it come to mobile as I can play on the go. The game is almost just like the previous versions except toned down to fit on mobile. However, there are some features that I would like to change. First and foremost and the planes. The planes are really well done except I feel like I should be able to fly longer, and like in the og game, fly off from a run way. I feel like this would make the game more immersive and fun to play. Additionally I feel like the bombs take way too long to explode. This could be fixed by making them have less time to explode or making smaller bombs have less time and bigger bombs more time to explode. This way I would feel that playing as a bomber is worth my while.

Though my review might never be seen by a dev, I want this review to give more info to people who don’t know a lot about the game be still want to play.

Again, really fun and immersive with tons of ships, tanks, and soon to be planes.

I like how this has a lot of the detail from war thunder on pc/console, but also dumbs it down a little to make it easier and more convenient to play. It’s a fun game, matches take about 5-10 minutes, and it’s not that difficult to get the hang of.
Plus, the ads are optional, so that’s a huge plus considering what most mobile games look like today. I’m looking forward to the air combat modes that are currently in beta, because the aircraft aspect of this game is pretty fun too.

Solid 5/5. Haven’t managed to get bored of it after a few months of playing like I do with most other mobile games (other than our lord and savior, Minecraft), so that already is enough for me to leave a good review.

Constant updates and support are also nice. Haven’t encountered many bugs or cheaters if any, so i suppose whatever they’ve been including in those occasional small updates is working. Wish they’d change the patch notes instead of just copying the ones from their most recent major update, even if it just said something like “small bug fixes” or whatever. Thats a technical issue that doesn’t really relate to the game itself though.

TLDR: good game, no forced ads, minimal bugs, good game design, not hard to learn. 5/5.