Iron Horizon
Real-Time Tactical Warfare
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
iPad
Ten missions, 26 units, and one 10x10 grid. Command tanks, gunships, carriers and stealth bombers in real time. New: Absolute War — everything unlocked, no limits.
Take the grid or burn it.
IRON HORIZON is a real-time strategy game built for iPad. You command a modern combined-arms force across a 10x10 battlefield: infantry, armour, attack helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and a full navy. Win by holding enough territory, or by levelling the enemy's Command HQ.
THE CORE DECISION
Cheap units arrive now. Good units arrive later. A rifle squad costs 80 credits and two seconds. A Nightfall Bomber costs 1,280 and twenty-two. Every square you hold pays you every second, so time spent saving is income you never earned — but a light-vehicle rush dies to the first Titan it meets. That trade is the whole game.
26 UNITS ACROSS FOUR DOMAINS
- Infantry: rifle squads, Tank Hunter and Skywatch teams, mortars, spec ops
- Armour: light tanks, IFVs, main battle tanks, self-propelled artillery, rocket batteries, mobile air defence, and a railgun tank that outranges everything
- Amphibious: a hovercraft that crosses and holds both land and water
- Rotary and fixed wing: armed recon drones, attack and utility helicopters, ground-attack aircraft, multirole fighters, an orbiting gunship, a stealth bomber
- Navy: patrol boats, attack submarines, destroyers, missile cruisers, and a fleet carrier that launches its own strike drones
BUILD, DEFEND, ESCALATE
Raise barracks, vehicle plants, helipads, airfields and naval yards. Fortify with bunkers, gun turrets and SAM sites. Put refineries on captured oil fields. Buy upgrades that apply retroactively to every unit you already own. Call in recon drones, paradrops, artillery barrages, airstrikes, cruise missiles — and eventually a Skybreaker.
TERRAIN THAT MATTERS
Woods and urban ruins cut incoming damage. Hills add range and cover. Roads are faster. Only the right domain holds ground: boots on land, hulls on water, and nothing in the air holds anything.
TEN-MISSION CAMPAIGN
From a desert basin to a coastal strait to the Scorpion Citadel, each mission opens up new hardware and a tougher enemy commander. Five distinct AI personalities that play by exactly the same rules you do — same costs, same build times, no cheating. Three stars per mission for winning, beating par time, and keeping your losses down.
ABSOLUTE WAR
No tech tree, no drip feed. Pick any map and a scale up to 150,000 starting credits. Both sides begin with the entire arsenal and a production line already standing. Seize the central objective and hold it for thirty seconds, take seventy squares, or destroy their headquarters.
BUILT FOR TOUCH
Tap to select, drag a box to grab a group, long-press to attack-move. Save three control groups. The HUD is docked along the bottom — nothing ever covers the battlefield.
Game Center sign-in keeps your campaign progress tied to your account.
No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No data collection.
The developer, Rishi Madhok, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Rishi Madhok
- Size
- 2 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 Rishi Madhok
