Network WARS App Reviews

This is an interesting twist on Risk-style strategy games. I have my suspicions about how the battles are decided, but it’s definitely not 3v2 with defenders winning ties. Each game is completely random, which leaves some games feeling very lopsided. I wish I could wager on the outcome, or that there was some sort of challenge metric assigned to maps where my high-density units are at the 4 corners of the map.

The basic concept is great. But when I attack a 2 with a 6; I assume I should win and end up with a 3 on that tile? Instead the tile did not change colors, an we both dropped to a 1? If this is a bug, it wrecks the game. If that’s by design it would help to explain why.

I loved playing Network Wars (created by Jim Rutt) because it reminds me of all the bar work effects the world is littered with if you can function stacking. Every function stacking beyond a threshold achieves a network effect. I like the way game mechanics reinforce network effect availability in the game and in general. ~Bobby

Games are short and engaging. Most attractive game I have on my tablet.

This is a fantastic addictive game with realistic strategies. There is one flaw that gives the human player a tremendous advantage. Bots never attack a node that has an equal or higher value. Attacking a higher node sometimes is a great strategy as it weakens the node so that it gets attacked by other bots or allows the player to use more than 1 node to gang up on a higher node.

Don’t 100% understand how everything works because sometimes the math works out differently than I expect, but the game is interesting and a good challenge.

Why isn’t the math consistent? Sometimes a 3 will beat a 2, but sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes a 2 will beat a 3 when it doesn’t seem like it should. If there’s an explanation for this that can be factored into the player’s strategy, please include the logic in the instructions. If there isn’t an explanation, please fix this broken but almost great game.

This deceptively simple app is one of my favorites. The basic rules are easy to learn but the game dynamics shift with every randomly-generated round. It’s like a miniature induction into intuitive game theory! But fun.

Incredible amount of interest and emergent complexity from a very simple set of rules.