War Dragons
War Dragons is a free-to-play 3D mobile strategy title where base-building and dragon warfare share the spotlight. You grow a fortified stronghold, raise and evolve a stable of dragons, then take to the air to burn down enemy defenses with timed abilities and breath attacks, all while keeping your own resources and towers protected from raids.
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Publisher: Pocket Gems Playerbase: High Type: Mobile Strategy Release Date: April 15, 2015 Pros: +Standout aerial dragon battles. +Large roster with breeding and discovery. +Impressive 3D visuals for mobile. Cons: -Monetization can heavily influence progress. -Familiar base-building loop. -Combat depth can feel limited over time. |
War Dragons Overview
War Dragons puts you in command of a dragon-focused warband, but the foundation is still a classic mobile RTS loop. You expand a home fortress with key utility buildings (incubation, production structures like farms and mills) and layer in defensive options such as towers and other base protections. The goal is to build a layout that can withstand incoming raids while you stockpile the resources needed to upgrade, research, and grow your roster.
Where it separates itself from many similar strategy games is the offensive side. Instead of sending units and watching a battle play out, you directly pilot a dragon during attacks. Raids unfold as an on-rails flight path over an enemy base where you steer, aim, and trigger abilities to dismantle defenses and push toward full destruction for better rewards. Choosing targets, timing special attacks, and dealing with tower pressure becomes the core moment-to-moment gameplay.
Progression is heavily tied to dragon collection and breeding. The game encourages you to raise and crossbreed a large lineup of dragons (over one hundred) with different elemental traits and spell-like abilities, then work toward stronger, rarer dragons, including legendary-tier options. On top of solo progression, multiplayer events and competitive activities play a major role, offering periodic tournaments, guild-focused objectives, and reward tracks that can include rare eggs and treasure-based prizes.
War Dragons Key Features:
- Aerial Dragon Assaults – pilot a dragon during raids, aiming breath attacks and abilities at towers and structures to maximize damage and scoring.
- Grow Your Forces – raise, upgrade, and field multiple dragons so you always have options for different defenses and base layouts.
- Breeding and Discovery –combine dragons to uncover new variants, each bringing distinct elemental attacks and combat utility.
- Guild Play – join or form a guild to coordinate event participation, compete as a group, and chase better shared rewards.
- Events and Competition – take part in recurring multiplayer events and tournaments for leaderboard placement and rare prizes.
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War Dragons Review
War Dragons is at its best when it leans into the fantasy of being the weapon. The act of flying a dragon through a fortified base, lining up breath attacks, and juggling cooldown-based abilities gives the game a more active feel than many mobile strategy competitors. Attacks are readable and satisfying, and the 3D presentation does a lot of work to sell the scale of towers, walls, and destruction as you pass overhead.
The base-building side is familiar by design. You gather resources, upgrade production, and place defenses with the usual considerations of coverage and choke points. If you have played Clash of Clans style games, the structure here will feel immediately recognizable. That familiarity is not necessarily a problem, it provides a steady long-term progression track, but it does mean the “strategy” layer rarely surprises.
Dragon variety is the game’s main long-term hook. Collecting and breeding encourages experimentation, and the elemental focus gives you reasons to rotate dragons depending on what you are attacking. Even when the combat path is on rails, there is still meaningful decision-making in target priority, ability timing, and how aggressively you trade health for speed and destruction.
Multiplayer and events help keep the routine from going stale. Guild involvement matters because many challenges and rewards are easier, or only possible, when coordinated with other players. Leaderboards and event schedules also give regular goals beyond incremental upgrades, which is important for a live-service mobile title.
The biggest drawback is how strongly monetization can be felt, especially as you push deeper into upgrades and competitive play. Progress can slow, and spending can create clear advantages in power and pacing. For players who prefer fair competition, this can undercut the satisfaction of building a strong account through play alone. Combat can also start to feel repetitive once you have seen a wide range of base layouts, because the attack flow is consistent even when dragon loadouts change.
Overall, War Dragons is an accessible mobile strategy game with a genuinely distinctive combat layer. It is easiest to recommend to players who enjoy base-building progression but want a more hands-on offensive experience, and who are comfortable engaging with a free-to-play economy.
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War Dragons System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: Android 4.4 and later, iOS 7.0 and later
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War Dragons Additional Information
Developer: Pocket Gems
Publisher: Pocket Gems
Game Engine: Mantis Engine
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Atlas Release Date: October 2017
Development History / Background:
War Dragons is developed and published by Pocket Gems, a California-based mobile studio widely recognized for narrative-driven titles like Episode. In contrast, War Dragons was positioned as a more “hardcore” offering built around competitive base raiding, long-term progression, and guild-driven events, and it launched on April 15, 2015. The team later announced a major expansion called Atlas in September 2017, described as adding an explorable 3D landmass for players to fight over, with a planned release in mid-October 2017.