Ironline Command

Ironline Command puts you in charge of a frontier outpost that keeps growing into a full war machine. It's real-time strategy trimmed down for touch: drag to select, tap to command, pinch to zoom the battlefield. It sounds fiddly but the interface is one of the better ones I've used on mobile.

Resource management is the heart of it. You're always balancing energy, metal, and troop supply, and rushing one usually cripples another. The AI plays fair on normal difficulty and turns genuinely mean on hard. Skirmish maps give you a break from the campaign when you just want a quick match.

It's not the flashiest game visually, but strategy fans will feel at home fast. The learning curve is real but rewarding.

What we liked

• Surprisingly clean touch controls for RTS
• Tense resource balancing
• Fair but sharp AI opponents