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Warcraft Rumble alternative
Games like Warcraft Rumble, for players who came for the PvP
Warcraft Rumble took the lane-battler format and built a big single-player campaign on it. If the part you enjoyed most was the fight against another person, Skyfire is the same kind of battle with player-versus-player at the centre.
What the two games share
Both are real-time strategy games played in minutes. You bring a small army, a resource ticks up, you spend it to place units, and the units make their own way toward the enemy. Winning is about what you place, where and when, not about controlling each unit.
Both also have collecting and levelling at their core, and both give each faction a personality rather than treating units as interchangeable.
Where they part ways
| Skyfire | Warcraft Rumble | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Player-versus-player: ranked 1v1 and 2v2 | A large single-player campaign, with PvP alongside |
| Maps | One symmetrical two-lane board | Many hand-built maps with their own layouts |
| Army | 7 ship cards plus a starbase | A leader and a set of minis |
| Resource | Energy, plus freighters that haul in more | Gold, plus mining on the map |
| Factions | 12 races, one per deck | Warcraft families, mixed within an army |
| Setting | Starships of the VGA Planets universe | Warcraft, as tabletop miniatures |
| Platforms | Web browser, Android, iOS | Mobile and PC |
One board, learned deeply
Rumble's variety comes from its maps: each one is a puzzle with its own paths and objectives. Skyfire goes the other way. Every match is on the same board, so nothing about a battle is decided by the level. All the variety comes from the two decks and the two people. If you found yourself replaying Rumble's PvP rather than its campaign, that is the trade you were already choosing.
A shared idea: fight over the economy
Rumble players will recognise this immediately. In Skyfire, freighters fly to ore deposits in the asteroid field between the lanes and haul fuel home for bonus energy. Sending one early is an investment. Killing your opponent's is a play. It fills the same role that mining and chests do on a Rumble map, with the difference that the miner is a card from your own deck and you decide whether it is worth a slot.
Races you commit to
A Skyfire deck belongs to one race. You do not splash the best units from several families. You take the Bird Men and accept that your whole fleet is fragile and cloaked, or you take the Robots and bring carriers and enormous minefields. Each race has its own merit and its own rank, so you can be an admiral with one and an ensign with another. Read about all twelve.
What Skyfire does not have
- No campaign. There is a practice Simulator where you can fight the computer playing any race you choose, and a monthly star chart you cross with turns earned from your battles on the ladder. There are no boss fights, dungeons or raids.
- No guilds. You have a friends list, friendly challenges and 2v2. There is no chat of any kind.
- No Warcraft. If the characters were the draw, nothing here replaces them.
What it does have that Rumble players ask for
- A ladder that is the main event. 27 officer ranks from Ensign to Space King, per race, with a public leaderboard.
- 2v2 with a friend, each of you bringing your own deck.
- Replays. Your recent battles are kept in a battle log and can be watched back from any point.
- A browser version. The same account works at a desk and on a phone.
Questions people ask
Is Skyfire single-player like Warcraft Rumble?
No. Skyfire is built around ranked player-versus-player. You can practise against the computer in the Simulator as much as you like, but there is no story campaign.
Does Skyfire have something like Rumble's mining?
Yes, in its own form. Freighter cards mine ore deposits in the middle of the board and haul fuel home for bonus energy, and both players can attack each other's freighters.
Is Skyfire free?
Yes. It is free on the web, Android and iOS. The optional store sells currency, blueprints and unlock tokens, and never sells random chests.