Ancient Empire: Strike Back

DimTurov

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About this game

"Ancient Empire: Strike Back" — a classic turn-based tactics game in the spirit of the legendary Ancient Empires series. Lead the royal brothers Galamar and Valadorn through the fantasy realm of Thorin and crush the forces of the shadow demon — then keep playing far beyond the original story.

Remember Ancient Empires and Ancient Empires 2 — the legendary Java games from the button-phone era? This is their faithful modern remake: the same tactics, the same heroes, the same atmosphere — rebuilt for Android. And this version is genuinely comfortable to play.

THREE STORY CAMPAIGNS — 22 MISSIONS
Play through the storylines of Ancient Empires 1, 2 and 3: 22 missions with briefings, story scenes and varied objectives — escort, rescue, siege, survival, capture — not just "destroy everyone".

235 SKIRMISH MAPS
Quick battles on 235 hand-crafted maps, most supporting 2-4 players in any mix of humans and AI.

HOT-SEAT MULTIPLAYER
Play with friends on one device — up to 4 players per map.

SMART AI
Three difficulty levels (easy, normal, hard). The hard bot coordinates attacks and focuses fire — it was tuned through thousands of self-play games.

FULL-FEATURED MAP EDITOR
A real map editor right on your phone: draw terrain, place buildings and units, mix landscape themes down to a single tile, build large maps up to 32×32 tiles — then play your map straight away and share it via export/import.

DEEP TACTICS
- 9 recruitable unit types: Soldier, Archer, Elemental, Sorceress, Wisp, Dire Wolf, Golem, Catapult, Dragon — plus units from all three Ancient Empires games.
- Legendary commanders: Galamar, Valadorn, Demon Lord, Saeth. Commanders capture castles, recruit troops and can be revived.
- Units earn experience in battle and rise through several ranks, gaining attack and armor.
- Poison attacks, battle auras, raising skeletons from graves, bonuses against flying and floating units.
- Terrain matters: forests, hills, mountains, water and roads change defense and movement.
- Economy: capture castles and farms for gold, heal at temples and wells, repair damaged buildings.

SPECTACULAR BATTLE SCENES
Every fight plays out as a gorgeous full-screen battle scene, just like in the original games: squads clash in melee, arrows and spells fly, the ground shakes on impact — pure pixel-art eye candy that never gets old.
The map is alive too: units march across the field, idle, take hits — movement and battles work exactly like in the classic Ancient Empires, smooth and polished.
Fully configurable: toggle fight, idle, water and smoke animations, switch between 5 landscape themes at any time, and tune the game speed to your taste.

MADE FOR TOUCH
A genuinely comfortable interface: map zooming with familiar gestures, smooth panning and a clean screen with nothing in the way.

AND MORE
- Save / load with autosave, undo your move, round counter.
- Separate volume controls for music, battle sounds and UI.
- Available in 20 languages: English, Russian, Swedish, German, French, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish, Filipino, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese.
- Works offline.

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Ratings and reviews

thank you so much for actually still read the reviews. this is the only game i always endup installing back due to its lightweight and offline feature. hope to see more skirmish map or have a section where community can contributes maps. for the map pool of blood, could you get the same number of starting farm for the 4 kings

The first thing that came to my mind after seeing this nostalgic game that it will be just a emulated java game with bad controls. And I was WRONG! This is so much improved and optimized for the touch version! A map editor and tons of skirmish maps to play with. While its fan made, but it is absoutely like done by a professional. Thanks a lot dev for your hard work! Edit : Cons - 1) No battle animation. 2) No movement animation 3) in campaign, you can recall commander but in this you can't!!

In created maps (map editor mode) by the user the bot only plays with soldier and archers can you please fix this bug and also the game sometimes forcibly exit the game and go to main menu finally is there an option to be added to allow units to level up more than 9 levels would be really awesome 👌 thank you for such an amazing experience