Modern turn based tactical games can sometimes feel way too serious, overly complicated, or bogged down by aggressive microtransactions. Sometimes you just want to grab a ridiculous arsenal of heavy weaponry, completely blow up a chunk of the map, and outsmart your buddies without a massive learning curve.

If that sounds like your kind of chaos, you need to check out Warlings.

YOU ARE THE ENTIRE SQUAD

Forget about managing a massive, sprawling military command. In this game, you are playing the soldier, acting as the general, and carrying the entire squad on your back.

The core gameplay loop is brilliantly straightforward, but it demands absolute precision. Every single step you take across the battlefield matters. You have to outthink, out maneuver, and brutally outplay your opponent before they manage to return fire. Win your matches, stack up your gold, expand your personal armory, and unlock totally fresh classes of soldiers to prep for the next massive skirmish.

38 WAYS TO CAUSE ABSOLUTE CHAOS

The weapon selection in this thing is completely unhinged.

You aren’t just stuck relying on standard issue firearms. Sure, you can grab reliable classics like heavy shotguns, miniguns, high impact bazookas, and standard fragmentation grenades. But why stop there when you can casually rain down a fiery meteor strike or summon an alien UFO to obliterate your enemies?

The best part? The terrain is 100% fully destructible. You can literally blast massive craters into the ground to trap enemy units, or use smart tactics to completely reshape the map and expand the battle zone to your advantage.

8 SOLDIER CLASSES AND SIX BRUTAL BATTLEGROUNDS

You have plenty of room to experiment with your tactics.

The game drops you across six uniquely themed battlegrounds featuring a total of 18 different map scenarios. To conquer them, you get access to eight distinct special unit classes. Each class packs completely unique abilities designed to give you a massive tactical edge. Whether you are playing solo or fighting for your life, adapting your team composition is the only way to survive.

PLAY ONLINE, OFFLINE, OR FACE TO FACE ON ONE PHONE

We all know the pain of losing internet access right when you want to game. Warlings completely solves that.

If you want to sweat it out against the global community, jump into the online PvP ranked mode, grind your way up the ladder, and fight for that coveted Master Diamond rank. Prefer a casual single player session? Drop into offline AI matches across three distinct difficulty settings to sharpen your aim.

But the absolute coolest feature? Real, unadulterated offline multiplayer on a single device. You can fire up the Hotseat game mode, hand your phone back and forth with a friend sitting right next to you, and trash talk face to face with zero internet required. You can even link up via Bluetooth if you are playing across separate phones.