World of Warships Blitz 3D War
World of Warships Blitz is a historically rich and engaging naval combat game, but recent updates have introduced significant issues with matchmaking, frequent crashes, and a perceived 'pay-to-win' monetization strategy that frustrates many long-time players.
World of Warships Blitz offers diverse historical ships and engaging gameplay, providing a fun experience for naval combat enthusiasts. However, recent updates have led to widespread complaints about unbalanced matchmaking, frequent app crashes, and a monetization model that makes progression difficult without spending money.
What users like
What users complain about
- Matchmaking is severely unbalanced, often pitting inexperienced players or lower-tier ships against stronger, often premium, opponentsR1R3R87R89
- The app frequently crashes, especially on iPads and iPhones, often in the middle of battles, leading to frustration and lost progressR7R10R16R73
- Monetization is perceived as 'pay-to-win,' with expensive in-app purchases and loot boxes that make progression difficult for free-to-play usersR2R21R23R48
- Many players report issues with glitches, lag, and unresponsive controls, including torpedoes not hitting, ships disappearing, and sudden movementsR13R17R50R63
- Game balance issues, particularly with overpowered destroyers and certain premium ships like the Atlantico, make gameplay unfair for battleships and cruisersR62R68R87R115
- Long loading times and connection issues make the game inaccessible or frustrating for many usersR11R13R39R74
- Lack of controller support is a common requestR5R52R191R337
- Customer support is reported as non-existent, especially for lost progress or purchase issuesR35R110
Latest update · v9.2.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Update 9.2 is here - bringing the first phase of the brand-new Equipment System to World of Warships Blitz! Customize your ships like never before with expanded build options and fresh ways to fine-tune your favorite warships. This update also introduces improvements to Battle Missions, refreshed battle UI elements for clearer combat information, and additional quality-of-life upgrades across the game. Prepare your warships, experiment with new builds, and dive into Update 9.2 today, Captain!
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Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy historical naval combat and don't mind a significant grind or spending money to progress R22R53. It's also for those who appreciate detailed ship models and diverse gameplay R4. Skip if you are prone to frustration from unbalanced matchmaking, frequent crashes, or a 'pay-to-win' monetization model R87.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, particularly concerning matchmaking, crashes, and monetization. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a significant decline in user satisfaction. The developer's notes mention an 'Equipment System' and 'UI improvements,' but recent reviews do not directly address these positively and instead highlight persistent technical and balance issues.
Frequently asked
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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.
- [R4] Great game to kill time: Great game love the diversity of ships in game events are awesome and love the competition
- [R22] Years of fun: I first start in 2014 with World of Tanks, then at an international game show in Barcelona I discovered Warships, at a mounted game room inside an old military truck. From then I am a current player. You may find some pay per win players, but the vast majority are normal players and is fun. Mainly because it respects the world naval history and almost all ships are acurate with the r
- [R28] Progress: I like that you can see your progress and try to improve it, and that you are in control of historical ships.
- [R53] Fun, challenging , historical interest,: I love history, love ships, love the test of skill and judgment, love it for passing time exercising on recumbent bike.
- [R8] Great game!!!: Fun!!
- [R32] Enjoyment: Having a great time blasting ships out the water like a boss happy captain here
- [R33] The best war game to date: This is one of the best war games on the phone, it’s damn near just as good as War Thunder!! Get it now! You won’t be disappointed.
- [R109] This game can do better. It has great graphics: Graphics of the game are outstanding for realistic gameplay. I’m only struggling with the final mission of the tier 10 Montana battleship because all I play is permanent random battles. Earning XP to add ‘damage control center’ is just far too much to be able to buy. I also own a Louisiana class tier ten battleship and there is the same problem with
- [R59] Been playing for 9 years.: The game is dope. I started with nothing and worked with it until the graphics year after year got better and better. My favorite mobile game I’ve ever played and continue playing. The creators really have a great community here.
- [R49] Better at it!: I was better at it then worse.
- [R1] This game sucks now: It used to be a good game but now they’ve lost their balance now tier 10 is absolute garbage they give the new inexperienced players high tier ships making matchmaking horrible wargaming ruined their game.
- [R3] Matching has been wrecked since June ‘25: the only way to enjoy this game is to not care about what happens. The algorithm decides who wins or loses before the game even starts. This game pivots 2 teams of random players against each other. The teams should be balanced, similar tier-experience-rank-etc. But most times the teams are not balanced. You can see which team will win based on the s
- [R87] Entertaining but broken game: Matchmaking is entirely broken. I’m not sure why I almost always end up with opponents with ships a tier higher than mine; nothing seems to make a difference. It’d be playable, though, were the torpedoes not overly powerful. I gave it two stars for being entertaining, but good lord, don’t play this if you’re prone to frustration.
- [R89] Matchmaking sucks: I’ve played this game for 7 years. Sometimes it’s fun, but most of the time NOT! It was decent, but now the developers have admitted, they use no skill metric in matchmaking. So, an otherwise great game is completely awful. You will get nothing but frustration because of it. When they truly balance matchmaking with a skill metric, then it will be a 5star game. Until then….1 star
- [R7] Fun but constant crashes: It’s a great game but the app crashes all the time on my iPad. Very annoying. Software updates don’t help this at all
- [R10] Becoming unstable: I’ve played this game for longer than id like to admit. I play it because it’s a great game. However it has become very unstable the last several weeks. If you play a round or two. The app crashes, often in the middle of a battle. It takes a couple of minutes to get logged back in. Often your ship has been destroyed by the time you go through the process of logging back in. It’s
- [R16] Great- currently glitchy: Great game. Current build, for me, full of gray screens and crashes.
- [R73] Crashes a lot: Good game just constantly crashes waiting for updates to hopefully fix this problem
- [R2] Stopped watching in game ads and you should too.: I used to watch nearly every in game ad but after changes to the daily collection specifically not being able to watch ads on the days where a captain,ship, or camo were awarded. I like many others relied on that established mechanic to get highly priced ships or equipment. So I am now left advocating to hit them where it hurts…their bottom line. T
- [R21] Money Hungry: After having and playing this game for many years, progressing is difficult without spending money. So after the shikishima dropped I looked over the stats and the game to get it works. I needed a new battle ship and it looked perfect for me so I decided to go for it. I thought to myself there is no way I will spend more than $15 trying to get it because it started at only like 30 go
- [R23] DO NOT make any in game Purchases: Skip any and all in game purchases. Even the “luck” based drawing you pay for is garbage. It’s rigged to funnel you to pay more and more. Developers are trash and are greedy. Best of luck
- [R48] Good game but in app purchases are too expensive and borderline exploitation: There is no ability to effectively gain enough currency to compete at same level as those who spend exorbitant amount of money to play. The repair kits for example, if you play 20 rounds per day, and buy $5 bucks worth repair kits, you will use them faster than someone who plays less. There is no incentive to play more
- [R13] ??: I need internet right? I am connected to internet and it still tells me I need to try again over and over again I hope you fix this soon. Also in games I get into some of the ships just disappeared mid-game. Good game just some bugs that need to be fixed.
- [R17] I meet hacker: Why i drop topedoes and it cant hit the enemy ship????
- [R50] Lag is making this game unplayable: As of Feb 7 there is lag for every battle and no way to communicate to anyone about it. It is going to make me quit this game again. Every match i have to stop because shooting because I know im not hitting anything. Think you can I don’t know maybe fix this. Would be a great game if the lag didn’t make this such hot garbage
- [R63] I came back but not for long: So I had been fairly successful, and considered myself average. Then changes were made. I left but came back figuring they again corrected problems. Can someone explain how a destroyer can launch 15 torpedoes at one time and sink a battleship at the beginning of a game? Or your trading shots with another battleship and scoring hits only to have that ship disappear and
- [R62] Scam: Game is so unbalanced and full of cheaters played as a destroyer point blank released my torpedoes a cruisers dodged them no way battleships and cruisers turning on a dime evading them cheaters playing on the game don’t waste your time or money all you do is get losses and frustration such a game full of cheaters pay to win
- [R68] Great game BUT: Okay so let’s be real, this game is grind heavy, we all know this, you DONT need to spend money to get to top tear but if you are going to main battle ships, your gonna get ur shot run by destroyers because the arming time on them doesn’t exist, the arming time on most torpedoes is atleast 1km, these destroyers are firing them from 0.1 km, also you battleships can’t do anything to
- [R115] Seriously?: So you “rebalanced” yeah right. Just played the latest release and it even more lopsided toward destroyer vs battleships. Took 7 times of main batteries with a direct and close hits to sink a destroyer. Not even close to being anything realistic.. .. even using close in guns with direct full salvo hits hardly impacted the destroyer. UNPLAYABLE if a small destroyer can sink battleship b
- [R11] So slowwwwwww: This game takes so long to start. You are in the waiting area for up to 10-15 minutes. I get so board I start playing another game. They need to make it faster. The teams aren’t balanced anyway so whats the hold up
- [R39] WG I need your help: I can’t play the game, it’s stuck on failed to check game version what’s happening?
- [R74] Game broken: The game won't launch. · translated
- [R5] I really enjoy playing this: I Enjoy playing the game, but I really wish there was control support.
- [R52] Give us Backbone controller support, please: This game is the best game I could ever be, but if you supported Backbone, I might just start spending money on it it’s so good
- [R191] Request controller support.: Would be a lot better if I could add my $100 Backbone to the gameplay.
- [R337] Warships: Great game, would be even better if it had controller support
- [R35] Lost all saved data. Customer support non-existent: I just lost several years of progress, a few thousand dollars spent on ships and game time. No reply’s from costumer support. Apple unable to assist since everything is managed by the app creator. Use caution with this game. Customer support does not exist.
- [R110] Fun game when u can play: Server disconnects are a constant issue, you will be playing when the screen freezes, when your able to reconnect your dead or almost dead. It use to be during heavy load times, for example when there are tournaments, but now is a constant issue. 10/6/2024 update: my apple gaming account no longer connects to servers after update. Contacted support. Will update with re
- [R40] Games are Rigged: You can always tell when you’re supposed to lose or win. Sometimes the opponents are just on you and never miss. When I’m in a cruiser or battleship, destroyers are nearly impossible to hit, I’m lucky to get one or two hits from a broadside. When I’m in a destroyer, I can’t get anywhere near a larger ship without taking a full broadside dead on. It’s very unfair. That said, game
- [R45] Extorting player base every SINGLE second this app is open: “We’re sorry to hear that your experience hasn’t met your expectations. Feedback from players is carefully collected and reviewed by the development team as part of ongoing efforts to improve the gam “. Do something about the match maker. Fix problems. Don’t just talk about it. WarGaming might be a New born baby. This developer doesn’t c
- [R19] Great game: Very expensive in-app purchases, though not mandatory. And the loot boxes look like a scam, don't buy them... · translated
- [R15] Good game: It’s a pretty good game to be honest play this game if you want to play a game about big boats but follow up on that play warthunder if you want to play a game that makes you feel like a naval captain but there’s currently this weird bug on the title screen that’s turning the water splashes from shells landing red I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing the bug but i definitely am
- [R66] Game balance: The game is frustrating and lacks good compatibility when fighting in battle with equal tier ships. Controls, movement and firing is off. If you’re looking for a fun game I suggest staying away. Don’t waste your money like I did with this game in my opinion.
- [R76] Fun but Rigged: Fun game considering that torpedoes always go straight through making light cruisers and destroyers useless. Another annoyance is when you are a carrier and you should have sunk the player twice and they sink you and get MVP it is just very frustrating so I only suggest this game if you have high tolerence for rigged games
- [R12] Needs some tweaking: The game is vary good I will give y’all that but there are two things that I wonder if y’all can fix like the sinking animations could you give it a more realistic sink instead of the ship rolling onto it’s side and sinking in 3 seconds and could you maybe add the uss enterprize cv6 and uss hornet and maybe the German battleship the bulisher. All in all good game and keep up t
- [R18] Amazing: Should add more historical British ships and Russia but otherwise very spectacular game
- [R44] The most unfair: Creators, there's no point in playing the game if you're playing against people who pay to win. Ships disappear, connections drop, anything to make sure those who spend real money win. There will be an outflow of players! · translated
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store