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Mobile game · 2018

Back Wars

When an army travels back in time to rule the world 1,000 years in advance, they get more than they bargained for from their primitive counterparts! Lead the resistance with hundreds of warriors from different cultures all over the world. Focus on one individual or step back to command an entire army at your fingertips. Combining world-dominating strategy with fully interactive battles, this game offers the best of both worlds! And just when you think it's over, history might just repeat itself...

Estimated daily players

~4,9000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 49029K

Estimated total players

~98,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 49K200K

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Dec 31, 2018AndroidiOSESRB RP

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Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Back Wars, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on App Store, Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~4,900

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 49029K

No source reports a live count for this game, so this is a share of the total player base — a genre assumption rather than an observation, which is why the range is wide.

Estimated total players

~98,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 49K200K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

2 readings · last 2 days

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Back Wars per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~98,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Back Wars where it is sold.

App Store ratings

1,627

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
3.3

Ratings left on the iOS listing, read from Apple’s public lookup endpoint.

Steam players in game

Reviews
0

Nothing recorded from Steam for this game yet.

Only the games with a PC port appear here, but where Steam does report it is a real concurrent-player count rather than a proxy for one.

Community signals

How many people gather around Back Wars outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

0

Live channels
0

First reading taken Aug 8, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

People watching this game on Twitch right now, summed across every live channel in its category.

Not tracked for Back Wars: Google Play, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Back Wars?

We estimate that about 98,000 people have played Back Wars — plausibly between 49K and 200K. Around 4,900 of them play on a given day, in a range of 490 and 29K. Both figures are modelled from public counts on App Store, Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Back Wars still active?

Yes. Back Wars is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Back Wars player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 2 readings taken since August 8, 2026.

When was Back Wars released?

Back Wars was released on December 31, 2018 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Back Wars available on?

Back Wars is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from App Store (iPhone).

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