Defense Legend 3: Future War

Name: Defense Legend 3: Future War
Rating: 4.52459 (46952 reviews)
Author: JoyUp

JoyUp

★ 4.5 (46,952 ratings)

⬇ 5,000,000+ downloads

Est. actual: 8,891,579

Style: Strategy

Free

Released: Jul 19, 2018

IAP: $0.49 - $89.99 per item

Contains ads

Rated: Everyone 10+

Mechanics Tower defense Shooter 4X / war strategy

Signals

4 this week · 2 positive · 1 warning All of this week's signals →

📈Last 7 days +2.8K installs — 25% slower than the week before (+3.8K) · 431/day since Sep 18
🏆Among Strategy games top 9% by installs gained this week (9368 peers growing)
⭐Rating steady at ★ 4.52 since Sep 18
🛠Updates actively updated · updated 3 days ago · every ~84 days (2 updates tracked)

Installs since launch

+18,944 installs · +23 ratings since Sep 18

SDKs in the app · version 6.8, analysed Oct 2, 2026

Ad mediationAppLovin MAX ironSource / Unity LevelPlay
Ad networkAppLovin SDK Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) 25.3.0 InMobi Liftoff Monetize (Vungle) 7.7.4 Mintegral Pangle 8.1.0.3 Unity Ads 4.16.6
Ad qualityAppLovin Ad Review (SafeDK)
AnalyticsFirebase Analytics 23.0.0
AttributionAppsFlyer Facebook App Events 4.39.0
BackendFirebase Authentication 24.0.1 Firebase Realtime Database
ConsentGoogle User Messaging Platform 4.0.0
Crash reportingFirebase Crashlytics
Engagement & messagingFirebase Cloud Messaging 25.0.0
Game engineUnity (engine)
Game servicesPlay Games Services 17.0.0
PaymentsPlay Billing Library 8.0.0
Remote configFirebase Remote Config 23.0.0
SecurityPlay Integrity API 1.4.0
Social & loginFacebook Login Facebook SDK (core) 4.39.0 Facebook Share Google Sign-In 20.7.0

8 mediation adapters

Adapters connect a mediation SDK to an ad network. An adapter alone does not mean the network’s own SDK is bundled.

AppLovin MAX adapter → AppLovin 11.3.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAdsAppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 8.1.0.3.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 25.3.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 25.3.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 9.4.3.0.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 17.1.61.0AppLovin MAX adapter → UnityAds 7.7.4.0

Found by static analysis of the app package; bundled is not the same as active. All SDKs →

Update history

6.11 Oct 30, 2026

Stability update: less work when the game is paused, new handling of the system bars, and rewarded videos now reload after a failed load. Unused third-party SDKs were removed, so the download is smaller.

6.8 Aug 7, 2026 · seen Sep 18, 2026

Trailer

Defense Legend 3: Future War is a strategy game by JoyUp with 5,000,000+ downloads (about 8.9M estimated). +2.8K installs in the last 7 days. Rated 4.5 from 47K ratings. Released Jul 19, 2018. Install growth, rank history, SDKs and ad networks.

From the store listing: “We are pleased to introduce the next part of the Tower Defense game series: Defense Legend 3 - Future War. You will have an exciting experience With Defense Legend 3: Future War. Tower Defense 2 ended: the dark forces were repelled. However, a part of them escaped and planned to reinforce their forces to…”