Clash of Clans

Strategy

8.2~~/10~~

Our score

★ 4.5 Google Play·500M+ installs

Reviewed by Editorial Team, ScoredApps editorial · updated 2026-09-05

Screenshots

Attack in progress with troop cards and a destruction percentage

Defensive base layout with walls and defence buildings marked

Clan list showing member counts and a Join Clan button

Village under construction with a builder placing a hut

Army camp filling with trained troops before an attack

Clan war map with stars awarded and a live match indicator

About Clash of Clans

Fourteen years on, Clash of Clans still runs the same bargain: build a village, train an army, attack someone else's village, defend your own, and wait for builders to finish. Clans turn it into a team game with wars on a shared map. Gems cost $0.99 to $19.99 and a monthly pass $4.99, and it holds 61.3 million Play reviews at 4.5 stars.

Game information

DeveloperSupercell Oy

Version18.600.1

Size885.9 MB (Android) · 791 MB (iOS)

Price / In-appFree

Contains adsNo

In-app purchasesYes

Content rating13+

Requires (Android)Android 7.0+

Requires (iOS)iOS 15.0+

Offline modeNone — the village and every attack run on the server

Interface languagesAR, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE + 15 more

Store rating (Google Play)4.5 from 61,358,385 ratings

Installs500M+

Updated by developer2026-08-31

Data checked2026-09-07

Specs come from the official store listings and were last checked on 2026-09-07. Developers change pricing and requirements — check the store page before installing.

Clash of Clans Review: 61 Million Reviews, One Loop

Builders Are the Clock

Every upgrade occupies a builder for a fixed time, and the number of builders — not skill, not strategy — decides how fast a village grows. That is the design's spine and its business model at once: gems shorten timers or buy another builder, and everything else follows from how many you have. Around it sits a genuine strategy game. Attacks are one-shot affairs where troops are deployed from cards along the bottom and then cannot be recalled, with a destruction percentage climbing as walls fall. Defence is laid out in advance, so a base plan is judged while you are asleep.

Clan Wars Turn It Into a Team Game

A clan fields a roster against another clan on a shared map, each member getting two attacks, stars awarded for destruction, and a live view of the matches in progress. The team format is what keeps fourteen-year accounts active: a war has a deadline, a coordinated push is planned in chat, and letting a clan down is a stronger motivator than a personal ladder ever was. Joining is friction-free — a list of clans with member counts and requirements, one Join button — and finding an active one changes the game more than any upgrade does.

$4.99 a Month, No Adverts, 791 MB

The monthly pass is $4.99, with a higher tier at $6.99, and gem packs run $0.99 to $19.99 alongside rotating special offers. There is no advertising badge on either store, which for a free game this large is worth noting: the money comes from time-skipping rather than attention. Apple rates it 13+ for frequent weapons and lists chat among the contents, on a 791.5 MB install. The ratings are the highest of the strategy games here — 4.5 stars across 61.3 million Play reviews and 4.8 from 2.77 million on Apple.

Pros

Clan wars give a fourteen-year-old game a deadline
Attacks are one-shot decisions with no undo
No advertising badge on either store listing
Base layouts are a real defensive puzzle
Rated 4.8 on the App Store across 2.77 million ratings

Cons

Upgrade timers are the entire pacing mechanism
Extra builders and skipped waits cost gems
Progress slows sharply without a clan
Gem packs reach $19.99 a purchase

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Verdict

The strategy game that outlasted its entire generation, and the reasons hold up: attacks are real decisions, base design matters, and clan wars give a fourteen-year-old loop a weekly deadline. The timers are the catch — they exist to be skipped, and gems are how you skip them. Free is entirely viable if you join an active clan and accept that a village takes years rather than weeks.

Gameplay8.5Attack planning and base design are genuinely strategic once past the tutorial.

Controls8.5Drag to place troops, pinch to scan a base — nothing fights the touchscreen.

Replay value9.0Wars, seasons and a village that never quite finishes upgrading.

Graphics & sound8.0Clear, warm art that has aged better than most games of its era.

Monetisation6.5No adverts, but timers exist to be skipped and builders to be bought.

8.2out of 10 · weighted average of the five scores above

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Frequently asked questions

Can it be played offline?

No. The village lives on a server, attacks are made against other players' bases and defences are resolved while you are away, so a connection is required for everything except looking at a cached screen. Losing signal mid-attack forfeits the troops you deployed.

What does it sell?

Gems, from $0.99 to $19.99 a pack, which buy builders and skip upgrade timers, plus a monthly pass at $4.99 and a higher tier at $6.99. Nothing is exclusive to paying players — money buys speed, which in a game paced entirely by timers is the resource that matters.

What does it need to run?

791.5 MB and iOS 15 or later on iPhone. It is undemanding on hardware and designed to run on inexpensive Android phones, which is part of why a fourteen-year-old game still holds 500 million installs and an active war schedule.

Is a clan necessary?

Effectively yes. Clan wars, donated troops and the shared chat are where the game becomes social rather than solitary, and an active clan roughly doubles the rate of progress through donations alone. Playing without one is possible and considerably slower.

How much time does it take?

Two short visits a day cover it: start upgrades, spend the army, request donations. Wars ask for more — two attacks within a deadline — but the design is built around checking in rather than sitting down, which is why accounts survive for a decade.