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Modern Warships

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63%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, grinding
63% User Score Based on 374 reviews

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Modern Warships is a multiplayer arcade shooter game with a warfare theme. It was developed by Artstorm FZE and was released on June 4, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Modern Warships is a cross-platform arcade online action game where modern naval battles look like they do in reality. Surveillance aircraft rush forward to detect the enemy from distance, cruisers launch volleys of guided missiles and try to reset enemy missile defences, submarines sneak up to surface vessels and jet fighters provide cover to the allied fleet from the air.

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63%Audience ScoreBased on 374 reviews
gameplay15 positive mentions
monetization11 negative mentions
  • Engaging and fast-paced modern naval combat with diverse ship and aircraft classes allowing varied play styles.
  • Good graphics and visual effects, impressive for a free-to-play mobile port with enjoyable gameplay mechanics.
  • Cross-platform play and steady content updates with a large selection of ships, planes, and equipment.
  • Extremely aggressive and predatory pay-to-win monetization heavily favors paying players and limits free-to-play progression.
  • Poor matchmaking balance often results in unfair team compositions and frustrating ranked experiences.
  • Numerous bugs, unstable AI teammates, abusive cheating, and poor moderation of toxic community behavior.

  • gameplay

    52 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    29% positive mentions, 65% neutral mentions, 6% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally described as fun, accessible, and varied, with diverse ship classes and strategic elements involving positioning and teamwork. However, it is marred by pay-to-win mechanics, balancing issues, repetitive content, and some core mechanical flaws, especially in aircraft combat and matchmaking. Despite these drawbacks, committed players find the core gameplay engaging and the ongoing updates add modest freshness to the experience.

    • “The gameplay itself is honestly a ton of fun and the pace depends completely on what you run.”
    • “Gameplay centers around online team battles where players work alongside allies to eliminate enemy fleets and secure battlefield superiority.”
    • “The gameplay is exciting and strategic, requiring players to think carefully about positioning, weapon selection, and teamwork.”
    • “Gameplay is like arcade mode compared to World of Warships, and team coordination is almost impossible due to the map and chat interface.”
    • “The gameplay mechanics suffer from various issues that make certain weapons and ships overpowered.”
    • “Gameplay barely gets refreshed throughout the year; when a major update finally arrives, the so-called “new mode” is just the same old content with a fresh coat of paint, boring you within two weeks.”

  • monetization

    28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    18% positive mentions, 43% neutral mentions, 39% negative mentions

    The game's monetization is widely criticized as overly aggressive and predatory, heavily pushing ads, microtransactions, pay-to-win mechanics, and gating key content behind paywalls. While the gameplay itself can be enjoyable, the intrusive ads, constant monetization prompts, and imbalance caused by paid advantages significantly diminish the overall experience and frustrate many players.

    • “This game is super pay-to-win. Since there are no ads on the Steam version, I recommend playing on mobile where you can watch ads to get extra 50% rewards and obtain items like Artcoins, upgrade points, money, and gold.”
    • “As with many free-to-play multiplayer games, monetization remains a frequent topic of discussion within the community.”
    • “Although monetization concerns and balancing challenges occasionally affect the experience, the strength of the underlying gameplay ensures that it remains one of the most ambitious and entertaining naval combat games currently available.”
    • “First of all extremely predatory: you open the game and get 3 ads for 2 premium currencies.”
    • “Then there’s the power creep, gacha, battle pass, premium equipment, and increasingly aggressive monetization.”
    • “Overall, the aggressive monetization and poor chat moderation completely ruin the experience for me.”

  • graphics

    27 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    63% positive mentions, 26% neutral mentions, 11% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed reviews, praised for being good and detailed, especially on powerful PCs or flagship phones, but often criticized for being outdated, blurry, or lacking AAA quality typical of mobile ports. While some find them impressive and fitting for the gameplay, others feel they detract from the overall experience compared to competitors or expectations.

    • “Great graphics, but you need a powerful device, like a PC or flagship phone, to run it flawlessly.”
    • “The graphics are impressive, with highly detailed warships, realistic effects, and beautiful maps.”
    • “Great graphics, fun naval battles and plenty of warships to choose.”
    • “Graphics are outdated and primitive.”
    • “The graphics look terrible at max settings; the people say left and right, not port and starboard, and the controls are bad. -9/10 would not even play it over World of Tanks, as it's literally just World of Tanks but on water and worse.”
    • “Ship camos are each uglier than the last, graphics have only gotten blurrier with updates, and ranked matches are stressful with teammates showcasing bewildering moves.”

  • grinding

    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 8% neutral mentions, 92% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is a significant challenge, especially for free-to-play players, as many powerful ships and equipment require extensive playtime or real money to obtain. The process is often slow, repetitive, and can feel pay-to-win, with heavy time investment needed to compete or progress meaningfully. While the game offers some free rewards, the overall grind is considered tedious and may detract from the enjoyment.

    • “If you don't want to pay, your only other option for seasonal events is grinding for 8 plus hours a day just to get the required points for a ship or weapon, otherwise you're paying just to get more chances to win a desirable ship.”
    • “There are so many balancing and grinding issues, and the community has worked out the most economical ways to get around it, that it has removed the fun from the process.”
    • “Daily routines are all about grinding missions and the battle pass, with rewards that feel stingy.”

  • story

    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    30% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 30% negative mentions

    The story aspect is largely criticized for its absence, with no real narrative or lore to engage players. The game offers minimal cooperative and historical missions, leaving it feeling shallow and focused more on monetization and grinding than on delivering an immersive story experience.

    • “I usually prefer co-op and the historic missions on World of Warships, which were my favorite.”
    • “Being able to play real-world missions or even made-up ones would be epic.”
    • “The story offers 3 co-op missions that enhance the gameplay experience.”
    • “No story, no lore, no care.”
    • “☑ no story”
    • “3 co-op missions... I usually prefer co-op and the historic missions on World of Warships, which were my favorite.”

  • optimization

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    44% positive mentions, 23% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The game runs well performance-wise, benefiting from its mobile origins, with smooth gameplay and quick learning curves. However, optimization issues persist in terms of game mechanics balancing, server stability, and some underperforming units, leading to lag, crashes, and inefficient gameplay elements. Improvements in server optimization and ship performance balancing could significantly enhance the overall experience.

    • “Performance-wise the game runs great, which makes sense, as it's also a mobile game.”
    • “So, the game is good, one of a kind, works well, performance is good.”
    • “Bringing even the high performing ship to around 10% or less increased performance of other ships would go a long way and could be done by buffing many ships that don't perform well.”
    • “Bringing even the high-performing ship down to around 10% or less and increasing the performance of other ships would go a long way and could be done by buffing many ships that don't perform well.”
    • “The game lacks crucial mechanics optimization and a proper economy.”
    • “Servers have a lot of issues and no optimizations at all, causing lag, crashes, and freezes.”

  • humor

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Players consistently find the humor in the game highly entertaining, often citing funny videos and amusing avatars that elicit genuine laughter. The comedic elements are well-received and add to the overall enjoyment.

    • “The avatars alone made me laugh out loud.”
    • “It's a good game and so much fun.”
    • “Hilarious.”

  • stability

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The game itself runs smoothly with very few glitches, offering good overall stability and performance. However, the PC launcher is somewhat buggy with occasional glitches and large update sizes, while server issues cause lag, crashes, and freezes, impacting online stability.

    • “Very good game, no glitches or anything else.”
    • “Performance-wise, the game runs great, which makes sense as it's also a mobile game.”
    • “The independent game launcher on PC was buggy, with glitches throughout, and required massive 13 GB updates despite the game being only 12 GB.”
    • “Servers have a whole lot of issues with no optimizations, causing lag, crashes, and freezes.”
    • “Please fix the little bugs and glitches that persist throughout the game.”

  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The soundtrack is notably well-crafted, reflecting significant effort from the developers and enhancing the overall game experience.

    • “The soundtrack is impressive; it's clear the developers put a lot of effort into it.”

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The atmosphere is described as unpleasant and stifling, making players feel unable to express themselves freely within the community.

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Modern Warships is a arcade shooter game with warfare theme. Common tags for Modern Warships include trading, third person, war, vehicular combat, combat and others.

Modern Warships is available on PC, Phone, iPad, iPhone and others.

On average players spend around 6 hours playing Modern Warships.

Modern Warships was released on June 4, 2026.

Modern Warships was developed by Artstorm FZE.

Modern Warships has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Modern Warships for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Modern Warships is a multiplayer game with local co-op support.

Similar games include War Robots, War Robots: Frontiers, World of Warships, World of Tanks, Modern Warships: Naval Battles and others.