The Battle of Polytopia (2016)

3.81 from 36 ratings

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The Battle of Polytopia is an award-winning turn-based strategy game about building a civilization and going into battle. With millions of players, it has quickly become one of the most popular mobile strategy games. Choose one of many tribes, explore the world, build cities, develop technologies, and wage war against other tribes to take control of the mythical land of Polytopia.

Details

Developers: Midjiwan AB
Publishers: Midjiwan AB
Genres: Adventure, Card & Board Game, Indie, Simulator, Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes: 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), Action
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Release dates

Feb 04, 2016 (Worldwide) iOS
Nov 30, 2016 (Worldwide) Android
Aug 04, 2020 (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Oct 12, 2022 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch

Also available on

The Battle of Polytopia: Deluxe (2020) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC

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Review anarchistica 2/5 · May 10, 2026

Fischer-Price My First Civilization

Playtime: 2,5 hours

Played: 2026

Context: Turn-based strategy is one of my favourite types of gameplay.

Review

The Battle of Many Places is a stripped down version of Civilization for mobile. There are only 25 techs, about 10 units and 2 non-resource locations on the map. Buildings only give currency, population or score. It's all very simple, explicitly aimed at …

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Status anarchistica Sep 12, 2025

Free @ Epic this week (mobile too):

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/the-battle-of-polytopia-12fed6

Links to claiming all games including mobile on PC

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Status TheGrey Jan 21, 2024

A lightweight Civilization clone. It's fully competent, but I think I'd rather just play Civ.

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Review hewward 2/5 · Dec 20, 2022

A faster, boiled down Civ.

I admitedly didn't play a ton of this. Maybe only two or three hours.

In my short time, it has a lot of the bones of early Civilization, but more cutesy low-poly aesthetics.

I'm not the biggest Civ fan, so, it's not surprising that I didn't love this one either.

~David.

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Review Skidmarkpony 5/5 · Nov 25, 2020

A genuinely free and accessible offline mobile game that strategy fans will love

A free game that is genuinely free. You don't pay to unlock gameplay, no lootboxes, no pay-to-win, no waiting times and no need to be online to play (it's become my game of choice for travelling the London Underground). The only thing you can (optionally) pay for is more civilisations, which is not necessary to fully enjoy the game, but …

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