Ancient Battle alternatives
Ancient Battle users often seek alternatives due to an overwhelming number of forced ads, game-breaking bugs, and issues with in-app purchases. Alternatives offer different gameplay experiences, from strategy with fewer ads to more complex tactical battles, catering to various player preferences.
Why users look for alternatives to Ancient Battle
- Excessive and unavoidable ads frequently interrupt gameplay, appearing before and after every battle, during upgrades, and even causing the game to freeze, making it unplayable for many users.R4R7R10R15
- The game suffers from significant bugs, including purchases not delivering gems, progress being lost or accounts changing language, inability to save progress via Facebook, and the game restarting at higher levels.R1R2R3R6
- Users report that the game is poorly optimized, leading to lag, glitches, and phones overheating, especially on newer devices.R3R23R46
- The game is heavily monetized, with ads that don't go away even with purchases, and high costs for new heroes, leading to a 'pay-to-win' feel.R18R24R40R41
- Energy limitations and slow refresh rates restrict playtime, forcing players to either wait or watch more ads.R27R30R35R46
- Some users suspect the 'multiplayer' is fake, as the game can be played offline, making it less engaging and not worth spending money on.R5R33
The alternatives
We Are Warriors! offers a strategy game experience with a focus on evolution and progression through different timelines and eras R55R58. It is praised for having no ads and minimal microtransactions, allowing for uninterrupted gameplay R52R64.
Better for: This game is better for players who prioritize an ad-free experience and enjoy a steady, if sometimes slow, progression system without constant pressure to spend money R52R55R64. It suits those who don't mind a grind and find satisfaction in gradually building up their forces R55R61.
Head-to-head: Ancient Battle vs We Are Warriors!ROME is a mobile adaptation of a classic strategy game, offering a deep and authentic experience of managing an empire and engaging in large-scale battles R72. It's known for its comprehensive gameplay, allowing for hours of engagement R72.
Better for: ROME is better for players who appreciate complex, in-depth strategy games and are willing to invest time in mastering controls and micromanagement R72R73. It's ideal for those seeking a full PC-like strategy experience on mobile, provided they can adapt to the mobile interface R66R68.
Head-to-head: Ancient Battle vs ROMEKingdom Clash: Medieval Defense is a tower defense-style game that generally delivers on its advertised gameplay with fewer ads than many mobile titles R80. It offers a fun experience with troop management and progression, though it has a level cap R84.
Better for: This game suits players looking for a medieval defense game that is as advertised and doesn't bombard them with ads R80. It's good for those who enjoy collecting and leveling up troops, but be aware that progression can become a 'pay-to-win' grind at later stages R88R90.
Head-to-head: Ancient Battle vs Kingdom Clash:Medieval DefenseHeroes of History is a game with many characters and event ideas, offering a solid and fun experience for players who enjoy collecting and progressing through historical figures R97.
Better for: This game is better for players who enjoy character collection and event-driven gameplay . However, it's important to note that recent events have been criticized for being unplayable without significant spending, making it less suitable for free-to-play users R93R96R99.
Head-to-head: Ancient Battle vs Heroes of HistoryBattle Legion is an auto-battle strategy game praised for its strategic depth in unit placement and abilities, offering a fun experience for those who enjoy optimizing their army composition R108R111.
Better for: Battle Legion is ideal for players who enjoy strategy games focused on unit abilities and tactical deployment in an auto-battle format R111. It's suited for those who don't mind a game that can be heavy on microtransactions and may require spending to progress efficiently R107R110.
Head-to-head: Ancient Battle vs Battle LegionYou should stick with Ancient Battle if you genuinely enjoy its core gameplay loop and are willing to tolerate the extremely frequent and intrusive ads, or if you find the fast-paced matches and simple upgrades compelling enough to overlook the technical issues and monetization R23.
Evidence note: Kingdom Clash: Medieval Defense and Heroes of History have some reviews indicating significant bugs or 'pay-to-win' mechanics that could impact player experience.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R4] Ancient Battle So many ads: Haven’t installed this game in years and reinstalled it to find out there’s 10 minute ads in it now
- [R7] Ancient Battle Too many ads, and game freezes: Used to be fun once upon a time. But now you’re forced to watch ads, and often times the ads freeze requiring you to close the game and reopen then you have to watch another ad which 50/50 freezes again. It’s like the devs set the game up and then abandoned it to whatever happens
- [R10] Ancient Battle Ads, ads, ads: I've had the game for a few years now. I used to enjoy it but stopped playing for a while. Just tried to restart playing, and the number of ads they now use is absurd. Beyond the ads to claim items, they now play an ad before and after every battle. They've made it impossible to enjoy. Won't be back.
- [R15] Ancient Battle STOP WITH THE ADS: Like others have said this game is amazing but I have tow watch an ad at the BEGINNING AND END IF EACH BATTLE and it’s not watch ad to get some this, the ad just plays. I would have paid to get rid of the ads but there’s no option for it. Great game ruined by greed.
- [R1] Ancient Battle Not good: Every time I tried to make a purchase it didn't give me the gems but charged me money! 😡
- [R2] Ancient Battle This game was Super Fun , it changed from English to a Different Language: I was wondering What do I use as my Username and Password now that the game changed from English to another language ? All my Progress is on the one called this one , how do I log into it? > 兵多多
- [R3] Ancient Battle Games good: But it will not let me use Facebook to save my account it also won’t let me change my guys name I keep going into the setting but after clicking done and leaving then when you reenter the settings menu it goes back to just what name you had before!?!!?? But I played this game allot on my android but now that I got Apple seems this version on the game is so very clogged with forced adds
- [R6] Ancient Battle Love the game but: I love the game but it seems when I get up to the higher levels the game wants to restart me at the beginning does the game need an update? Is there something on my end that I can do so that it doesn’t do that? My game also won’t let me connect to my FB I have deleted it and redownloaded it and it just put me back at the beginning so idk I love the game it’s a great game I just
- [R23] Ancient Battle Great game, too many adds: Love this game. Awesome real time strategy and fun combat with a growing army and abilities. But every time I click to upgrade a unit or either before or after a round of combat, it’s an add… really should consider reducing the frequency as it gets tiring fast. Also after a couple battles my phone gets very hot, and it’s a new phone… Had to uninstall.
- [R46] Ancient Battle Could’ve Been Great: At first I had a lot of fun with this game and actually found the concept really fun. But 3 major flaws quickly became apparent. 1. This game is not optimized at all. It lags and glitches and makes my phone hot to the touch. I use a iPhone XS and every other game is fine, so it’s not my phone. 2. Energy based games are ridiculous because you can barely play and this game is
- [R18] Ancient Battle Great but: Great game idea. Wayyy too heavily over monetized. Every single thing you do has an ad play. Ad before battle. Ad after battle. Ad after ad. The ads dont even go away when you pay money! Its very fun i would pay for no ads
- [R24] Ancient Battle Too many ads!: I think the game has a lot of potential and is really fun, but as a game that offers a lot of in-app purchases, I don’t think we need to be inundated with ad after ad after ad. You want to upgrade a unit? Watch an ad. You want to upgrade the unit again right after? Watch another ad. You want to open a free chest? Watch an ad. You want to unlock a new spell you just got the cards
- [R40] Ancient Battle Cool but…: Can the game not show an ad after every upgrade?…. Or at least add a “pay for no ads” cause this is ridiculous. 15 ads in a row after upgrade my troops fully. And that was just spearmen and archers I was way too annoyed to upgrade anyone else since I couldn’t just spam click upgrade. No instead I’m bombarded with ads on a decently fun game that offers to sell you brute upgrades even tho
- [R41] Ancient Battle Too many dang ads !!: I like this game and would actually throw a few dollars in IF IT DIDNT HAVE SO MANY ADS!!! can’t find an option to get rid of the ads …
- [R27] Ancient Battle One of the Funnest Games I’ve ever played or found!!: One of the best games i ever played or found on the app store honestly and i play alot of games on my phone this would have gotten 5 stars but I’ll explain why im going giving 3 stars 1st it takes to long to refill your energy and u only get 20-25 energy and each time u play the game it takes 5 energy i think that’s unfair for me finding this
- [R30] Ancient Battle Too many ads: Now before I begin, I understand the purpose for ads. I truly enjoy this game and would give it more stars if it weren’t for a couple things. First, the game doesn’t seem to develop or progress and I see myself getting bored eventually but im still having fun with it. Secondly, energy takes too long to refresh. Or you can get watching ads or spend a huge amount of gems to replenish…
- [R35] Ancient Battle Very good: I love the game, but please add more max energy to maybe 50
- [R5] Ancient Battle ….: These better not be bots …..
- [R33] Ancient Battle Fake Multiplayer: Good concept but be aware you are NOT playing against real players, game still works on airplane mode. Not worth spending any money whatsoever. Because of this the game is pretty easy and gets boring
- [R52] We Are Warriors! No ads + Looks Ai but still fun: It looks made from from ai but it’s really good, no ads either, I instantly looked for micro transactions to pay the 1-5 bucks for no ads but there is no ads, and barely any micro transactions
- [R55] We Are Warriors! Not at all dull!: Seriously, my first thought was that I was going to get bored fast. I’ve just started Timeline 3 and I’m really enjoying it. It’s not super exciting or complicated, but it’s just enough of a challenge to keep me coming back.
- [R58] We Are Warriors! This game is very cool. I've been playing it for 2 days. Chronology: 3rd Egyptian era ☯️: Awesome · translated
- [R61] We Are Warriors! This game just gets better as you go it’s pretty fun: Yeah that’s it
- [R66] ROME It’s okay but needs a improvement: It’s fun I like it but it would be cool if there was better controls the game is very fun tho but controls are hard and not ez but cool!
- [R68] ROME Please read: It’s so hard to get the controls down and it is so complicated to start a war. Also when u do start a war u can barely walk. Have to tap were u want to go and as e z as that sounds its not cause the way the u look around is so weird u have to like pinch ur fingers in a weird way. Any ways i DONT recommend this game.
- [R72] ROME 100% of everything you remember: This is the real game and it’s great you could sit here and play it on your phone for 4 hours straight if your battery would let you lol
- [R73] ROME Too tedious: The campaign is fun but then it’s death by micro management
- [R80] Kingdom Clash:Medieval Defense The game as advertised: Big plus that this game is how is advertised without ads
- [R84] Kingdom Clash:Medieval Defense Love this game but!: I have been playing this game for a while and love it. But before you invest time and money it caps out at level 10000. This really cuts back on your playing time. Gave 3 stars if they ever increase levels then 5 stars!
- [R88] Kingdom Clash:Medieval Defense Pay to win! Lots of bugs! Don’t waste your time: Don’t buy ANYTHING! Once you do you will never get it for free again. They actually penalize you when you spend to get you to spend more. Ads are now at least 2 minutes! Just a money grab now.. pathetic! You could play this game for 10 years everyday and still won’t be in top 200 on any boss unless you spend hundreds of not thousands
- [R90] Kingdom Clash:Medieval Defense Pay to play: Downloaded this game to from the ads. Played it with my kids for a bit. Then you reached a point where you can’t even beat the enemies without having to pay for gold/coins. It’s like every games in the apps store has the same idea. Immediately deleted the game
- [R93] Heroes of History Current Ithaca event completely fails. Players on strike: Consistent impossible unobtainable awards not just for f2p but p2p too. Tons of bugs. Devs never listen to main game base and respond when literally the whole chat is rioting. You know it’s bad when multiple loyal players are begging for bare minimum for the devs to actually hop in and listen and change as we ask. Not to mention so many sma
- [R96] Heroes of History Unplayable: The new events are unplayable without a large donation; the greed of idiots will ruin this game, as it has already ruined many good games. In six months, this game will become a useless swamp with a small group of high-dollar players.
- [R97] Heroes of History Solid: Very fun
- [R99] Heroes of History Ithica event completely fails. Players on strike!: This was a great game and could still be but the developers are delivering untested buggy events and taking peoples money for the pleasure of being their guinea pigs. Ithica is the latest and worst thing they’ve done yet, amazing idea but impossible to obtain the main time-limited event prize without spending an estimated upwards of $500 in order
- [R107] Battle Legion Opens Browser Regularly & MTX Everywhere: App keeps opening the web browser to access random websites before opening the store during ad views. Ads they partner with will sometimes automatically do this, even if the phone is not touched. Shoves 5-10 ads in your face every launch which several dozen MTX in the shop among the worst value I've ever seen in a MTX store (regularly 6.99 for a minor pow
- [R108] Battle Legion Good: I use to play this game all day when I was young, I forgot about it and now remeber it, very good game
- [R110] Battle Legion Pay to win let down: Cool game. Locked behind money annoyances. You simply can’t progress without spending real money. No thanks.
- [R111] Battle Legion My type of game: If you like strategy games this is a game for you or if you like to lets say there is a enemy team that is just to strong for you but what if you use characters with abilities that can affect them so that they cannot use move or slow them down or cause them to fear with that is an ability in this game and they will run away causing me to have the upper hand in the battle and then
- [R16] Ancient Battle Excessive amounts of Ads!!!: Dear developers. Graphics are very good and Gameplay is also fun. Once you are actually able to play. EVERY action requires you to watch an ad. Please scale back on the amount of required Ads. When you have to spend more time watching Ads, than time of game play simply = no fun.
- [R22] Ancient Battle Crushing volume of ads: Good concept, great gameplay, better than necessary graphics. So why is this game off my phone? Incredible number of ads. Ads before each battle. Ads if you want to upgrade. Ads during any loading period. These aren’t ads in exchange for bonuses (understandable) but rather ads for every step of the game. It makes the entire thing unplayable, and disappointing to see an ot
- [R64] We Are Warriors! No ads.: Super happy that they are no ads.
- [R71] ROME Trash: Unable to navigate past the main menu, absolute trash.
- [R91] Kingdom Clash:Medieval Defense Horrible boring: Nothing like the adds and p2w all 5 stars are prolly bots
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store