Warcraft Rumble

A more than successful first for Blizzard with Warcraft Rumble on mobile lands. This first game in the Warcraft universe dedicated to smartphones transcribes with panache the universe launched by Orc & Humans 30 years ago. Enough to attract initiates without losing “simple” fans of mobile games since Rumble does not take itself seriously. However, its gameplay is mastered and is aimed with agility at fans of action, strategy and customization games. The game plans are numerous and we take great pleasure in tinkering, that's really the word, with each war troop linked to them. The massive single-player campaign really allows you to vary the playing styles in the same way as the dungeons, the most interesting mode of the title although repetitive. Warcraft Rumble is very good for anyone who wants to get into video games without spending hours on it. That’s good, that’s often what we ask of a mobile game.

Warcraft Rumble is a superbly designed action RTS game which offers deep tactical experience, a massive single-player campaign with 75 unique missions and boss battles, PvP, and other content to enjoy for months. Unfortunately, it's also plagued by predatory monetization tactics that exploit human weakness in order to make you spend an absurd amount of money.

It’s hard to tell how games with such a complex economy and shifting balance will evolve, and while this doesn’t land with the same wow factor as Marvel Snap, it’s a promising start, albeit one that comes with a lot of grind. For a game with Warcraft in its name that’s most certainly in line with expectations.

Despite its substantial content and solid gameplay, Warcraft Rumble is not a game that players will be unanimous about. It suffers from a number of shortcomings, such as the fact that free-to-play progression is slowed down, that load times can be a little long, that there's no fun to be had, and that it can be frustrating. However, it will also find its target audience, who will love the universe and be able to enjoy it even if they don't spend much time on it each day.

Warcraft Rumble is a strategic "tower offence" game where you deploy miniatures via cards across short real-time battles. Familiar faces from the franchise pop up with a variety of abilities you can get tactical with, but it does start to get grindy fairly early on. You can engage in some PvE missions though to level up before you take on others, so it's worth giving it a shot if you're looking to add a new twist to your standard PvP affair.