Parents' Guide to Siege: Titan Wars

Jumping on the Clash Royale bandwagon, this unimaginative real-time strategy (RTS) game does its best to offer fast-paced fantasy player-vs.-player and mostly succeeds. It looks and sounds pretty good, and its mana pool approach prevents long, drawn-out pauses in the action. If only the reward system did the same. Post-battle (and just for signing in every day), you earn chests full of rewards. Unfortunately, only the lowest-level chests can be opened right away; the rest take one to several hours. You can pay to skip the timer, but doing so every time you earn a reward could get expensive. That's a downer, because you need those chests to upgrade and expand your deck.

It's such a shame, because in most other ways, Siege: Titan Wars does a good job. Its simple one-tap controls let you focus completely on strategy, and the short, timed matches prevent you from getting bogged down in a losing battle. Unit upgrades and deck building are also simple but fun. If developer Game Alliance gets the message one day and nixes the reward countdown timer, mobile gamers should have a worthwhile RTS game on their hands.