Review: Warcraft Rumble
After a week of nearly nonstop play, I hit a wall with Warcraft Rumble and the grind is in sight. Here’s how it all went!
Warcraft Rumble (Android, iOS [reviewed on an iPhone 13])
Developer: Blizzard
Publisher: Blizzard
Released: November 3, 2023
MSRP: Free-to-play (with microtransactions)
Warcraft Rumble is a 1v1 tap-to-deploy lane-based battler that asks you to send units off to micro-wars to take down an opposing headquarters. Your job? To march and destroy the opposite base before your opponent takes out your own, through clever countering and smart resource management. Each unit is associated with a cost (typically dependent on power level), and while your unit coffers recharge automatically, Kobolds can be deployed to mine ore on the map for more resources.
Although there are a lot of nuances involved, air units generally counter ground units, ranged units counter aerial, and so on. Look, Blizzard basically took Clash Royale and Blizzified it. Now instead of sending out knights and wizards, you’re throwing Alliance soldiers and Horde Shamans. Tomato tomatoe.
The thing is it’s really fun, and Blizzard, the masterminds that they are, prey on nostalgia. Units will spout famous phrases from Warcraft lore, and all your favorites are here, including leaders like the Tirion Fordring, Sylvanas Windrunner, and more. The animations are full of life, and the art team did an incredible job of recreating some of the more iconic bits of Warcraft history in this ostensibly silly, vibrant world that exists inside of the Hearthstone universe.
The core systems are good too. Starting off countering is intuitive, then it becomes a tapestry of strategy as you’re attempting to divine out how to become the most efficient tower-killer machine
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