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Battle Nations cover art

Battle Nations

Madrona Games Inc · 2014-09-18

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 17, 2011 (iOS), Dec 25, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 25, 2024 (Android)

Battle Nations is back! Build your empire and lead your armies to victory! Choose from traditional troops and vehicles or unleash exotic forces like mammoths, velociraptors, sandworms, and futuristic plasma units!

73%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)
Battle Nations is a freemium turn-based strategy multiplayer video game originally developed and published by Z2Live, and now currently under development by Madrona Games. The game was officially shut down by Z2Live on September 28, 2016, along with many of their other titles. This event followed the acquisition of Z2Live by King in 2015.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 152 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 68% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 12,925 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
17017020142026Week of 2014-04-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2014-10-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

2832026-06-11 — 8 pageviews2026-06-14 — 3 pageviews2026-06-17 — 11 pageviews2026-06-20 — 4 pageviews2026-06-23 — 12 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-02 — 7 pageviews2026-07-05 — 7 pageviews2026-07-08 — 14 pageviews2026-07-11 — 9 pageviews2026-07-14 — 11 pageviews2026-07-17 — 14 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-23 — 9 pageviews2026-07-26 — 12 pageviews2026-07-29 — 12 pageviews2026-08-01 — 12 pageviews2026-08-04 — 9 pageviews2026-08-07 — 15 pageviews2026-08-10 — 16 pageviews2026-08-13 — 15 pageviews2026-08-16 — 8 pageviews2026-08-19 — 9 pageviews2026-08-22 — 13 pageviews2026-08-25 — 5 pageviews2026-08-28 — 20 pageviews2026-08-31 — 8 pageviews2026-09-03 — 9 pageviews2026-09-06 — 15 pageviews2026-09-08 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
50.7%
earned "Birds and Stones"
8.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesCamera ComfortColor AlternativesMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundTouch Only Option

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8983%32

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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