Fit check
Is Home Wars worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want both turn-based planning and real-time combat
- Players who enjoy commanding mixed armies of infantry, vehicles, artillery, and aircraft
- Fans of tactical missions involving defenses, convoys, aerial fights, and rescues
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a single, consistent combat format rather than alternating management and real-time battle phases
- Players who prefer abstract armies instead of ammunition management, defensive positioning, and direct unit combat
- Players looking for a cooperative action RPG with loot, pets, and character customization
Our take on Home Wars
Rather than keeping strategy at a single distance, the game shifts between turn-based headquarters decisions and real-time fighting. It also lets the commander enter a chosen unit’s first-person view, replacing detached battlefield oversight with direct participation.
What is Home Wars?
Home Wars casts the player as a general leading toy soldiers against bugs invading a house.
Its campaign alternates between two phases: a turn-based Home Mode for managing headquarters, recruiting troops, buying ammunition, spying, researching units, and positioning armies, and a real-time Battle Mode for direct combat. Infantry, vehicles, artillery, and aircraft can attack enemy forces, while defensive structures and traps protect outposts, trucks, and supply crates. Missions include room-by-room assaults, convoy attacks, aerial engagements, and recon-squad rescues. Bugs gather food to create swarms and develop their nest. A technology tree unlocks units through battlefield experience, while ammunition types and individualized shot characteristics shape weapon choices.
How Home Wars plays
- 01Dual-phase campaign
- Strategic headquarters management takes place in turns, followed by real-time battles against enemy forces.
- 02Direct unit control
- The commander can enter a selected unit's first-person view and receive a damage bonus while attacking.
- 03Combined arms
- The army includes infantry, armored vehicles, artillery, and aircraft for different combat roles.
- 04Defensive construction
- Structures and traps can guard outposts, trucks, supply crates, and other sensitive targets.
- 05Ammunition choices
- Purchasable supplies include multiple calibers, rockets, missiles, bombs, and four bomb types.
- 06Technology progression
- Battlefield experience opens additional units through a technology tree.
Home Wars compared to similar games
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened combines cooperative action RPG play with tower defense, including loot, leveling, pets, and character customization, while Home Wars uses turn-based preparation followed by real-time battles and manages ammunition, technology, and mixed military units. Anomaly: Warzone Earth also blends action and strategy, but its listed premise reverses tower defense around an alien assault, whereas Home Wars centers on commanding toy soldiers, building defenses, and fighting bugs across varied missions.
Home Wars: platforms & release
Is Home Wars worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want both turn-based planning and real-time combat. Skip it if: players seeking a single, consistent combat format rather than alternating management and real-time battle phases.
Where can I download Home Wars?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Home Wars's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Home Wars on?
Windows only.
