Barnard's Star 9+
Turn-based tactical skirmishes
Pollywog Games
Designed for iPad
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- £3.99
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Description
Snipe your friends, electrocute your enemies and rain down acidic slime in the Barnard’s Star system, 6 light years from Earth. A multiplayer, turn-based tactics battler with no micro-transactions and no random chance — ingenuity is the only way to victory!
Features:
- Choose between 3 warring factions: Humans, Robots, and Critters
- Do battle with 30 characters using dozens of unique attacks and abilities
- Conquer 18 different maps set on space stations and intergalactic ships
- Play offline vs. AI or locally against a friend
- Challenge friends and strangers with online multiplayer
What’s New
Version 20e
You can now play online games against bots! Use the "Add Bot" button from a game lobby to add a bot player to your game.
Two new mutations have also been added: Clone Wars, where all units on each team are the same unit. And Units from All Factions, where Human, Robot, and Critter units can play alongside each other.
The Map Editor has had several improvements: Selection tool, Cover multi-select, and easier view movement.
Additionally, there have been several balance changes and bugfixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Sort of good - let down by AI
This game has a nice 8-bit design - and is similar to many other tiny war games.
It’s strength is a pretty fun unlocking system - unfortunate in that some characters require multiplayer).
It’s weaknesses are
- a truly terrible AI
- a lack of variety in characters, eg no long range mortar (with suitable power up delay), no invisibility, no mines, unlimited ammo issues, and many others.
I am keeping this game hoping for an update.
Strategic fun
Simple to learn yet hard to master, It’s rare to find a game like this which isn’t riddled with iAP so having a pay once play whenever experience is like a breath of fresh air.
It can be played in portrait and landscape, there is pass and play, play against the AI and obviously play against others for trophies.
The basic game against others is you take your turn and await your opponents turn, a bit like sending a message. Unlike a lot of games with this playing style though, with this being a paid game it’s rare games will time out and you’re getting more constant games.
There are three different factions to choose from and each has their own unique characters, with a few locked which can be unlocked through playing and getting achievements which gives a little more challenge to some games. I will note as well, whilst these characters aren’t necessarily more powerful than the already unlocked characters, you can create new tactics for different maps and different play styles.
The community on discord seems really friendly and the devs are active there, already setting up tournaments which I can’t wait to compete in!
Definitely worth a play if you’re into uniwar, warbits, xcom etc.
I think this game will be on my phone for a long looong time and I’m looking forward to seeing how it grows.
Nice theory but doesn’t work at all yet
Bought this game since I love this developer’s other game (Card crusade, great!), but unfortunately I’ve been very disappointed.
The theory is nice but the game just doesn’t work; it glitches when playing against AI so the opponent just doesn’t take its turn, and won’t let me play online at all. I’ve requested a refund because this simply isn’t worth any money yet
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Information
- Provider
- Pollywog Games
- Size
- 128.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2025 Pollywog Games
- Price
- £3.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.