Modern Strike Online
Modern Strike Online is a fast-paced mobile FPS with good graphics and engaging gameplay, but it is heavily criticized for its pay-to-win mechanics, frequent in-game offers, and various technical issues.
Modern Strike Online is a first-person shooter game that offers engaging battles and decent graphics for a mobile title. However, recent user reviews frequently highlight significant issues with its pay-to-win model, aggressive monetization through pop-up offers, and technical problems like lagging, glitches, and update failures.
What users like
What users complain about
- Strong pay-to-win mechanics where purchased weapons are significantly more powerfulR3R10R16R44
- Frequent and intrusive in-game pop-ups and offers after every matchR13R52R58R66
- Lack of controller support despite some users expecting itR17R23R37R89
- Issues with updates, including the game not updating or requiring reinstallationR22R27R28R30
- Frequent lagging, glitches, and crashes, sometimes kicking players out of the gameR21R31R38R49
- Unfair matchmaking, often pairing lower-level players with much higher-level or paying playersR4R232
- Presence of cheaters and hackers, with no effective in-game reporting systemR92R115R121R233
- Difficulty in earning in-game currency (gold) for upgrades and purchasesR157R207
- Loss of purchased or upgraded items after updates, with no compensationR42R67R291
- Game can feel like playing against bots, leading to a less engaging experienceR84R198R265
- Issues with in-game purchases not being receivedR197R415R461
Latest update · v1.82.7
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
New Season 58: War Sprint - New weapon: Record Breaker pistol - New seasonal lottery: hurry to get the new Underdog special weapon and Sniper Turret combat skill - Added Global Chat: communicate with each other directly in the game - We've expanded the list of weapons available for upgrade: Dual Beretta M9 pistol, The Beast of Gévaudan special weapon, and Typhoon melee weapon
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy fast-paced mobile FPS games and are willing to either invest money in in-app purchases to stay competitive or tolerate a significant disadvantage against paying players R3R10R16. It might appeal to those who prioritize quick matches and decent mobile graphics over fair play or controller support R35R47. Players who dislike pay-to-win mechanics, frequent ads, or technical instability should skip this game R3R13R21R31.
Evidence note: The recent reviews show a strong negative sentiment, particularly regarding pay-to-win mechanics and technical issues, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. This suggests a downward trajectory in user satisfaction, possibly due to recent changes or increased monetization. The developer's notes mention new weapons and a global chat, but recent reviews do not address these specific additions positively, instead focusing on persistent problems.
Frequently asked
Is Modern Strike Online a pay-to-win game?
Does Modern Strike Online support game controllers?
Are there many ads or pop-ups in Modern Strike Online?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] Bryce: Best game ever😎
- [R2] Fun, But…: Its alot of fun, but its pricey to even upgrade to new weapons.
- [R7] Best game: I would recommend your 13 year-old playlist if they like to battle with guns
- [R8] Best game: This is the best game I've ever played!
- [R47] absolute. cinema: good graphics overall just amazing
- [R50] Game worth it: Please download graphics are awesome recommend if you like war games
- [R57] Best game ever: Very nice game, nice graphics and sound.
- [R100] Pay to play: Goodish game, graphics are good, map selections are fair for mobile. But pay to play aspect. Needs addressing
- [R35] Very entertaining and well-paced: The matches are not too long not too short and the music is great good job 👍
- [R3] I just can say on thing about this game man: Pay to win
- [R10] Here’s a real review.: This game honestly is extremely average. Previews don’t show anything of what the gameplay is. There is no campaign. It’s extremely pay to win and controls are clunky even for a mobile game.
- [R16] Pay to win: when I start playing the game, it seems really cool but the more rounds I played two more times and I realize i’m getting one shot then I realize there are these guns that you have to pay to get and they are insane and I try winning, but I can’t because the guns can just one shot anyone who tries to go near them so I upgraded my gun to max everything and I was still being one shotted t
- [R44] Pay to Win: Super pay to win game. Every gun that you can pay for just one shot kills everyone else. So instead of having a fun game play. You just spend the whole game dying because you can hardly have the chance to fight back.
- [R13] To many offers: After every match it’s offer after offer and I have to exit each offer to start the match.
- [R52] Fun but…: Game is fun but a lot of in game pop ups/sales and then you have the people who must get paid to play because it really comes down to how much money you can spend. Add/reduce costs for in game purchases and I’ll spend real money. I cant justify spending $50 for a gun…on a game…on my phone.
- [R58] To many pop ups!: I finally finished a game and I saw a pop up I closed it and another one over and over again and it was so overwhelming
- [R66] These glowing reviews have to be fake: This is like the Con Air of mobile FPS games: their commitment too poor gameplay is so high I sort of respect it. The controls are the worst I’ve ever seen in a video game and you randomly are killed by some freezing thing. It had like 8 popped after each mission. Played for like an hour and deleted. Awful
- [R17] ?: Wish I can play my black bone game controller so I’m not saying this is a bad game. I feel like it’ll make it more easy for me playing it.
- [R23] No Controller support: Without the support of a controller gameplay on here is just not fun. Touch screen controls doesn’t give you an immersive experience like a controller does. Analog is better and the precision is better too. Supposedly this game supports controller support however, that’s not the case. No controller support is present which makes the game not worth playing l. Codm stays on to
- [R37] No game controllers: Guys, I tried to play this with my controller and it wouldn’t work and there’s so many other games that you can’t play with a game controller. PLEASEEEEE
- [R89] Just how: How is it that we are in 2026 and games on mobile are not controller supported!?! What a waste
- [R22] Update: Không tải game được
- [R27] Lỗi: Game không cho cập nhật phiên bản mới.
- [R28] Bad: Donest work says it has to update and take me to the Apple Store, but just open it doesn’t say update
- [R30] Download issues: Amazing game! But the June update isn’t align with the download. It’s saying to update the game after loading, and then it says open in store… confused??
- [R21] Worst than pineapple on pizza: This game is horrible I tried to move kept lagging again and again I tried to shoot and I needed to zoom in 2 times and My screen was moving faster than light+sound combined and I deleted it wrist game ever
- [R31] Garbage: Downloaded after Infinity Ops died, very disappointed. Lags, glitches, and now says I need to update, but no update available. Don’t bother. Shame they killed a good game for this ad laden garbage.
- [R38] Glitches: When I was playing the game unfortunately it keeps logging me out of the whole game! On my apple iPad
- [R49] Issues: I absolutely love this game! I been playing it for a long time but just recently been kicked out of every battle! Please help!
- [R4] Unfair matches: I’m only a level 45 player and keep getting paired with players in the high 60’s. I refuse to pay to play. I had more fun working up to this level but now find the matches impossible to play and advance.
- [R232] Worst skill based matchmaking: The gameplay is all good and I really enjoy playing the game. Too bad that it has one of the worst skill based matching ever.
- [R92] Cheaters: Not sure what is going on but I’ve been playing this game for years, I had to start paying just to complete hundreds of dollars later I keep getting killed by player’s respawning into the game killing me before I can even see them . I have very fast internet still it seams as if these guys are cheating. Idk what is going on but it’s getting very frustrating that these people have such an
- [R115] To many hackers in your game.: Your game has to many hackers hope you get this fixed going some where else to dpend my money cause liked i said before to namy hackers on modern strike but i know you will not fix this right away. I will give you that your battles and weapons are good just wont stop the hacker who have all kind of better weapons and other hacker specialty to wipe you out before you
- [R121] Cheaters out of control: This could be an amazing game! Unfortunately the cheaters are taking over. You can “report” them, but that does nothing. There are NO things in place to stop, prevent, or rid the cheaters on this game. Do NOT waste any money on this game, you will regret it. Find a game where they actually care about the gaming experience and not cater to the cheaters.
- [R233] Warning (((LOTS))) of cheating and more: I have played this game for a long time now and I do like it but it’s got MAJOR ISSUES. 1. TOO MANY CHEATERS and no control of it by the creators. 2. The creators keep changing the home screen and you constantly have to relearn where everything is, it’s become a detested issue with every update they do. 3. They keep increasing costs of packs with every upda
- [R157] Good game, we want new modes 🤝: Today Oct 1 2025 please bring back smuggling and more gold . We are struggling to upgrade weapon or to purchase weapon . Took me good 2 month to save up 7k gold . Unlike before 7k gold can’t take more than 2 days. Please please more gold and smuggling . Except from this the game is excellent 🙏🖤
- [R207] Equipment Upgrade: Equipment upgrades need to go back to when it was only weapon/armor points and not including cash.
- [R42] Important!!!: I played this game for a very long time and invested a lot of money. I took a break for about a year, and all the weapons I had upgraded became ordinary, while the free ones now cost money. This is obviously done so people keep playing and grinding. If you stop, you'll die from a single bullet. That's not all; the gear and weapons I bought and upgraded with money are now obsolete. · translated
- [R67] LONG TIME PLAYER: it was moderate when the p2w started yea i spent close to 300 on this game to be good now they updated everything again 3rd time this happend and ruined everything. im glad i WASTED my money on such a bad game god it was bareable then now you stole from me
- [R291] Overall decent but: It’s a good game but has its issues. I once had a very high level and had spent a lot of money and time on there, then one day they changed a lot of things in the game and I lost most of what I’d worked for… in the last couple months they’ve got rid of a few maps so it becomes boring a lot quicker now. I miss the office, the city, the bank etc, those were the best!!
- [R84] Need Money: I just logged into the game I think I am playing bots no real players , and on top of that the game is a bigtime cash cow
- [R198] The players: The players fell like bots they are too easy if you are using bots please stop thank you
- [R265] To many bots: To manybots bit boring not bad ppl are paid to win tho
- [R197] Advertising Event keeps disappearing: Overall the game is good, but there is a constant problem where the Arvertising Event choice keeps disappearing from the event screen. The only way I can get it to return is to uninstall and reinstall the app. That is unacceptable.
- [R415] Not receiving in game purchases: I bought two on offer weapons one light machine gun and one moisin rifle the money has gone and the weapons have yet to arrive.
- [R461] DODGY PURCHASING: I HAVE HAD TO REFUND 3 IN GAME PURCHASES OF WEAPONS THAT I BOUGHT WITH REAL CURRENCY AS I NEVER RECEIVED THEM. THIS IS UTTERLY DISAPPOINTING FOR SUCH A GOOD GAME TO BE RUINED BY THE PURCHASING. I WOUKD GREATLY APPRECIATE HELP AS I RECOMMENDED THIS GAME TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. OTHER THAN THAT ITS A FANTASTIC GAME! NEVER SPEND MONEY ON THIS GAME! THEY DONT RESPOND TO MY EMAILS THAT I
- [R11] Best game ever: You should totally get this game. It is so good. It is the best shooting game I’ve ever played in my entire life so you should totally play it or get it
- [R105] Game is ruined: YOU PAY YOU WIN , unpaid guns are useless , pay 50 dollar every season to get guns that kill you from one shot regardless of your skills
- [R97] Boo: Needs controller support
- [R74] Unplayable: Once you reach a certain rank this game is unplayable without buying anything. It’s a great game don’t get me wrong but it’s ruined by being littered with pop ups trying to get you to buy stuff. It’s really annoying.
- [R258] Latest upgrade shows greed: This game has been my go to for ages and I don’t mind the pop ups of “offers” as you can easily cross them off. However, the latest update forces you to watch and ad before you can go into another game. Like most games there is an element of P2W but the Artemis bow takes the biscuit. £100 bow that guarantees to win any fire fight. That to me is highly annoying but hey h
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store