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Mobile game · 2015

Tactile Wars

Join players from around the world in a fast-paced, entertaining, and colorful war game! Become the general of an army of mini-soldier pigments, armed with paint guns! The objective of this strategy arcade game is clear: CONQUER the other players’ territories with colorful blasts of paint! Choose which color to join, and it will be your team. ATTACK the other colors and DEFEND yours! The TACTICAL possibilities of the game make for EPIC battles: infantry, mines, tanks, turrets, mercenary recruitment, troop upgrades, and alliances with other players are all ways to make your STRATEGY unbeatable! YOUR FINGER: A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! In a line, circle, or square: with one touch of your finger, form ranks according to approaching enemies. LEAD EPIC BATTLES! Annihilate dozens of enemies from all sides. Non-stop assaults! BUILD YOUR BASE CAMP! Place your mines, tanks, and turrets carefully to repel enemy attacks. HIRE LEGENDARY MERCENARIES! Control soldiers with special abilities. They will be key on the battlefield. MOVE UP THROUGH THE WORLD RANKINGS! Win your battles and reach the top of the world rankings. UPGRADE YOUR TROOPS! Win battles, get experience points, and improve your strike force and defenses by unlocking new technologies. FORM ALLIANCES WITH OTHER PLAYERS! Make alliances with other players defending the same color and destroy enemy colors. FREE TO PLAY! In Tactile Wars, the size of your wallet makes no difference in combat. Your brain, on the other hand...

Estimated daily players

~110,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 2.6K1.2M

Estimated total players

~2,300,0000.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 260K8.1M

See what's trending

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

Aug 13, 2015AndroidiOSESRB 16

What the estimate rests on

  • Google Play 66%
  • App Store 34%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Tactile Wars, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on Google Play, App Store, 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

~110,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 2.6K1.2M

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

~2,300,000

0.0% no change vs one week ago

Range 260K8.1M

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 Tactile Wars per calendar month, newest first
MonthEstimated total playersChange
August 2026~2,300,000

Community activity

Last checked Aug 9, 2026

Store signals

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

Google Play ratings

178,917

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.2
Installs
5M+

Ratings left on the Android listing. It is the broadest signal in the catalogue — about half of all games here have a Play page.

App Store ratings

4,415

0.0% no change vs Aug 8, 2026
Average rating
4.1

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

Community signals

How many people gather around Tactile 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 Tactile Wars: Steam, 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 Tactile Wars?

We estimate that about 2,300,000 people have played Tactile Wars — plausibly between 260K and 8.1M. Around 110,000 of them play on a given day, in a range of 2.6K and 1.2M. Both figures are modelled from public counts on Google Play, App Store and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Tactile Wars still active?

Yes. Tactile 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 Tactile 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 Tactile Wars released?

Tactile Wars was released on August 13, 2015 for Android and iOS.

What platforms is Tactile Wars available on?

Tactile Wars is available on Android and iOS. You can get it from Google Play, App Store (iPhone) and App Store (iPad).

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