Iron Tide Command

Iron Tide Command is a slower, thinkier strategy game where you assemble a fleet, position ships across a grid of contested waters, and try to bottleneck the enemy before they do the same to you. Every ship type has a clear role, so there's real weight to your composition.

Matches play out in tidy sessions, which suits a phone. You issue orders, watch the turn resolve, then react. There's a decent single-player campaign and skirmish battles against the AI, which puts up a fair fight on higher settings.

The interface takes some learning and the tutorial glosses over supply mechanics. Push past that and there's a lean, satisfying strategy game underneath, ideal for people who like to plan a few moves ahead.

What we liked

• Meaningful fleet composition choices
• Clean turn-based pacing for mobile
• Solid AI on harder difficulties