Battleship, reinvented: every ship has a unique ability on cooldown. Sink enemy fleets in 3-min PvP duels. 40+ ships, ranked leagues, zero ads.
Take the game everyone played as a kid. Give every ship a superpower. Now you're playing BattleTabs.
A fast, tense 1v1 strategy duel: build a fleet, hunt down your opponent's, and sink it before they sink yours. The board is hidden, the abilities are deadly, and one good read can win the whole match.
SO, WHAT'S IN YOUR FLEET?
You bring four ships into battle — and there are 40+ to choose from, each a completely different tool:
· The Coracle one-shots any ship — if you've already found the tile.
· The Longboat keeps firing until it finally misses.
· The Octopus tells you how far away the nearest enemy is hiding.
· The Loyal Defender takes every hit meant for the rest of your fleet.
· The Magic Mirror steals your opponent's last move and fires it back.
· The Valkyrie strikes twice — and harder every time one of your own ships goes down.
Mix, match, and find the combo that wins the way you want to win.
THE BOARD IS HIDDEN. SO IS YOUR PLAN.
Every shot is a guess you're trying to make less of a guess. Scout with sonar. Bluff your placements. Bait out their cooldowns, then punish the opening. The matches are short. The mind games aren't.
QUICK TO LEARN. BRUTAL TO MASTER.
A round takes a few minutes. Getting genuinely good takes a while. Climb the ranked ladder, where wins come from better reads — never better luck.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BATTLE ALONE.
Join a clan and climb together. Drop into tournaments to prove you're the best in the field. Or go solo against the AI in Expedition — a PvE roguelike run where you push your fleet through encounter after encounter, upgrading as you go, with only three strikes to spare.
KEY FEATURES
· 40+ ships, each with a unique cooldown ability
· Collect ships and build your fleets — think your strategy through
· Unlock new ships and cosmetics (hats!) on the research tree
· Skill-based ranked play — pure 1v1, no pay-to-win
· Tournaments — compete for the top of the bracket
· Clans — team up, climb, and represent
· Expedition — a PvE roguelike against AI fleets
· The Settlement — a home island for your pets, and visits between friends (Battle Club)
· Two modes: Intense for fast duels, Casual to take your time
· Cross-platform — your fleet follows you everywhere
· Free to play
5M+ players have registered. Jump in on iPhone and iPad.
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
Talk tactics, report bugs, and help shape where the game goes next.
Discord: https://battletabs.com/discord
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleTabs
Latest news: https://battletabs.io/news
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Avast, me hearties! Strategically arrange ships and giant squids to settle the question of whether pirates or Vikings rule.
Move over Battleship
Strapples (alinssite.info)
Why bother buying BattleShip in this day and age? BattleTabs has successfully killed BattleShips IP. Battleship is aged out but BattleTabs, the new fleets give it a new dynamic. Difficulty of opponents is widely variable, there is no matching done. Total random match ups. I don’t mind that considering this was born as a result of a .io game. The expansions are massive and I’ll definitely be back for more. Probably not a good idea to stream live, put a 2-3 minute delay on your stream or longer because I think I got a stream sniper on my stream today. It’s extremely fast paced and if someone knows where your ships are they can end a round in 5 turns if their boosters are set correctly. Something I can easily invite some friends to play as well as a friends list and selected multiplayer is implemented. For a game that’s 2 weeks into general launch I am impressed at what has been developed and will be keeping an eye on further developments.
Developer Response
Appreciate the kind words! It's very encouraging for us and in the past few months I've been working on getting more content into the game, even an experimental new mode that might get into the game earlier this year! Thanks again!
Great Idea, So-so execution
twomsixer
Battleship was one of my favorite board games growing up, was pleasantly surprised to discover this game is basically a modern/mobile game version of it with some twists to keep it interesting. Excellent idea that I’m surprised hasn’t been done before. There are some things I don’t like that. Some that I think and hope will be fixed over time with updates, others that I’m afraid won’t. There’s some performance issues on my iPhone 15 Pro Max with iOS 18. My phone gets really hot after only a match or two, my battery drains quickly, and the game starts freezing up a lot. I can only play a match or two at a time before giving my phone a break. I hope and think this will get fixed rather quickly with a patch. More variety in maps, ability types (seems pretty limited to just different shot patterns and variations of sonar/detection for now. Lot more room for creativity in this area), ships, game modes, etc would be nice, but again, something that I imagine will come later if the game is popular. What I don’t think will improve much is how expensive everything is. The “research tree” thing looked interesting until I got a closer look at it and noticed there’s nothing that exciting to unlock here. Looks like the good stuff is in the shop, and everything is extremely overpriced even by IAP standards these days. This is backwards from most competitive games with IAPs that I’ve played. Usually the research tree, which mainly requires rewards and time to unlock, would have your actually gameplay unlockables, such as new ships and the shop, which basically requires real money to be able to afford anything, would be where you find more of the cosmetic/optional purchases.
A gem of a game
i love pinballs
Battletabs is a wonderful game. The strategy involved in each round makes battletabs exciting. Unliked battleship, battletabs lets your play to your strengths by letting you build your our deck with unique abilities. It is also free to play with no adds or purchases required for the whole experience. I think for anyone who likes to keep one hand free while on their phone, battletabs is an amazing game that can be played anywhere, at anytime.10/10
Developer Response
Wow thanks for the nice words! I am glad you are enjoying the game. There's an active community around the game on Discord that are constantly helping us with fresh new ideas - I am working on getting as much new content in as I can find time for!
• Fixed: on iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 the app could close straight after opening. Thanks to the players who reported it!
• The app no longer asks for permission to track you. BattleTabs shows no ads, so it never needed to
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Information
Seller
Gangbusters Ltd
Size
18.4 MB
Category
Strategy
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
