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Warpips
Warpips is the ultimate quick to learn but amazingly deep tug-of-war strategy game. Deploy the right composition of soldiers, tanks, helicopters and planes in this tight, streamlined strategy-focused war game. Compose the best army, research the right tech; overwhelm your enemy!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
56 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Warpips is a streamlined real-time strategy game that strips the genre down to its most chaotic and addictive elements, delivering fast-paced battlefield action without overwhelming complexity. It focuses on smart unit…”
“Fun tug of war. Think: Desert Strike (Starcraft custom map)”
11 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“🎮 Warpips — Review 🧠 First Impressions When I first saw the trailer, it immediately caught my attention. It reminded me of the old-school games I used to play back in school—those Flash games where you had simple…”
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“Great strategy game and simple graphics letting all pcs being able to play it, multiple different maps to play and 3 different gamemods so at least 20 hours of gameplay depending how long you take”
8 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Pretty fun and short game, with some endless re-run chances. However, not enough variety of upgrades or overall "control" of the battlefield, which could have made it a little more challenging. 7/10”
“The Game is fun, its got quick match, endless mode and the main campaign, its a good game. however instead of quick match, what wouldve made the game better is something like sandbox mode where you can choose where to…”
“Really fun tug of war strategy game. Was looking for a game in this style for a while and then bought it on sale. Conquest mode is decent but endless is where the real challenge is. So many different loadouts you can…”
6 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“Extremely fun game. Got for like for like a 1$ on sale. If you liked guns up before it shut down this is a very close game and which I enjoyed. 9.2/10”
“good simple game 100% worth picking up on sale”
5 of the 77 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“Great strategy game and simple graphics letting all pcs being able to play it, multiple different maps to play and 3 different gamemods so at least 20 hours of gameplay depending how long you take”
“One of the best games for my deck, very addictive and easy to pick up and play.”
11 of the 77 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“The idea is fine but it drags everything out so much that even short sessions start to feel like you committed to a full evening. Matches take way too long for how little actually changes which just makes it feel like…”
“Dead game, ♥♥♥♥ doesn't make sense for a 'wargame', go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.”
7 of the 77 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Frustratingly difficult game. Tutorial "shows you" how to do the basic things but if you want to learn to play the game go read some guides noob because otherwise you won't make it far. I know there are people who…”
“Pretty fun and short game, with some endless re-run chances. However, not enough variety of upgrades or overall "control" of the battlefield, which could have made it a little more challenging. 7/10”
“From way to easy to overkill in 2 rounds... not playable at one point”
5 of the 77 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Dead game, ♥♥♥♥ doesn't make sense for a 'wargame', go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.”
“The Devs Dipped”
4 of the 77 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“The idea is fine but it drags everything out so much that even short sessions start to feel like you committed to a full evening. Matches take way too long for how little actually changes which just makes it feel like…”
“A decent auto-battler, that can get grindy and has a few bugs.”
3 of the 77 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 77 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 87.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Within my library, this really feels like one of the more 'gamey' games. There's not story really, not an overarching moral, just a game who's sole purpose is to be played for fun. If you're looking for about ten or twenty hours of playing a game, then sure, buy this. It's good,…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“Fun gameplay loop, great soundtrack, neat visual style. My only complaint is the difficulty settings, specifically "General" difficulty feels a bit unfair and unwinnable at times. Maybe it can be chalked up to a skill issue on my part but I think the relentlessness of every…”
— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played“this game is cool and all but it's gets you too-invested into the game by having fun mechanics but then instantly derailing all the fun because there are only a certain amount of units and if you lose you lose and your save is gone, it would work better if there was a campaign…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
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Nominate Warpips for the Steam Awards!
Heyho everybody! We hope you enjoy sending your Pips into Battle! It's once again the time of the year! The autumn sale is in full swing and comes with its annual celebration of video games: The Steam
Price Adjustment after Early Access
Greetings everyone, It has been a blast to see Warpips flourishing throughout the Early Access period and without the contructive feedback and afterwards following patches the 1.0 Release would have b
Hotfix 2.0.10
Greetings, we're releasing a small hotfix to address a couple bugs and issues found by the community since launch. They are as follows: 🔧 Fixed: Chinese and Japanese characters would display incorrect
Warpips Released!
Greetings Pips, Today is a special one as this marks the day when Warpips comes out of Early Access into full release! This is been amazing journey and because of you, the players, the game has really
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Tower Defense · RTS · War · Auto Battler · Resource Management · Tactical · Singleplayer · Pixel Graphics · Indie · 2.5D · Base-Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Spanish - Spain, Korean |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 21 |
| Official site | https://discord.gg/8jEvVDk |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 8.1/10 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 @ 2.4ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400 @ 2.4ghz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 or ATI Radeon HD 5570 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 550 MB available space