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Social gaming gets apocalyptic with Apoc Wars for iOS

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Social gaming gets apocalyptic with Apoc Wars for iOS
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Social gaming doesn't have to be about flowers, farms, and pretty houses. It can be about dirty desert hideouts, big turrets, and sending waves of men to their death for the greater good.

At least that's what Apoc Wars, the new free-to-play social strategy game from DeNa and gloops games, wants you to think.

Taking its visual cues from the irradiated wastes and punk rock villains of Borderlands, the game tasks you with building and defending an outpost in a post-apocalyptic world.

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You'll build extra bits of base and train your soldiers to be better at defending it. All these actions take time though, and like the best free-to-play games, you can speed up that ticking clock by throwing some of the in-game currency at it.

As well as being defensive you need to attack. Here you'll send out batches of troops to try and destroy the enemy's command centre. First though you'll have to find it in the fog of war.

Apoc Wars doesn't offer a lot of depth, but if you're sick of building farms and trading carrots, the violent theme might offer a refreshing change.

You can grab Apoc Wars [download] as a Universal app from the App Store right now for nothing at all.

Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.