Before you deploy.

Narrow Front is a portrait WWII strategy game from Matterward Labs. Command infantry and tanks, build an army camp, reclaim land from the dead and survive until dawn. Free on Android, iPhone and iPad. Play a ten-mission story campaign, skirmishes, Dead of Night, The Front, The World, seasons or local battles with a friend.

Narrow Front is developed and published by Matterward Labs (Matterward Labs Private Limited). Matterward Labs' contact for support and press is admin@matterwardlabs.com.

Narrow Front is out now on Android, iPhone and iPad. The game first launched on Google Play on September 29, 2026, and on the App Store on October 8, 2026. Google Play has version 1.7.0, updated on November 12, 2026. The App Store has version 1.6.3, released on November 11, 2026.

Narrow Front runs on Android 8.0 or later on a 64-bit phone, from Google Play, and on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.0 or later, from the App Store. Battles are played in portrait.

Narrow Front is free to download on Google Play and the App Store. Optional purchases include premium crates, resource packs, a starter pack, gems and cosmetics. Crate odds are shown before purchase. Current offers and regional prices appear in the in-game store.

Ads are optional rewarded videos that you choose to watch for an offered reward. No ad interrupts a battle. Watching a rewarded ad requires an internet connection.

Campaign, Skirmish, Dead of Night and The Front work offline against the computer. Play a Friend needs a shared local Wi-Fi network, but no internet connection. The World, seasons, sign-in, cloud sync, purchases and rewarded ads require an internet connection.

Play a Friend lets two players battle over the same local Wi-Fi network on supported Android, iPhone and iPad builds. The World is a separate shared-map mode with room for up to 100 commanders and requires an internet connection.

The current catalogue includes US, British and German armour, with shared infantry and tactics.

The campaign is set at real places and dates from June 1944 to March 1945, from Colleville to Remagen. Each mission is a small action such as a crossing, street or bridge, and the characters are fictional. All ten campaign missions are playable, each with its own map and an attached unit.

Narrow Front supports Google Play Games on Android, and Game Center on iPhone and iPad. After signing in, your campaign, army, commander and achievements sync between devices on the same platform. Android and iOS saves do not transfer between platforms. Guest progress stays on the device; sign-in is optional. You can delete the online account and its cloud save in the game under Settings > Account.

Yes. The game has 25 achievements: 19 listed openly, from Reporting for Duty to Broken Leash, and six hidden until you earn them. Earn them through campaign progress, command levels, supply crates, card upgrades, three-star mission results, Strongholds and battlefield feats such as shooting down aircraft or pinning enemy infantry. You can earn achievements offline; they are reported to your connected platform when you are back online.

When the two saves differ, the game shows both progress summaries and lets you choose which complete save to keep. It does not add their coins or inventories together. Sync waits for a safe menu checkpoint, so it will not replace your progress during a battle.

A Narrow Front skirmish lasts three, five or eight minutes (Blitz, Standard or Long haul); you choose the length before the battle starts.

Yes. Narrow Front is free on Google Play for phones running Android 8.0 or later, and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.0 or later.

Narrow Front has 10 campaign missions, 11 skirmish maps and 46 units and tactics: 8 infantry squads, 24 tanks, 4 anti-aircraft and rocket artillery vehicles, 4 aircraft and 6 support tactics. That player-usable total includes Night Flare, an issued ability. The normal collectible roster has 45 entries; eight enemy undead types are counted separately.

Destroying the enemy headquarters wins a Narrow Front skirmish at once. If the clock runs out first, the side holding more capture points wins; on maps with defensive bunkers, the side that destroyed more enemy bunkers wins. An even count is a draw. Campaign missions set their own objectives.

Skirmish opponents come in five ranks: Recruit, Regular, Veteran, Elite and Ace. Choose Auto to match your level and recent results. Harder ranks pay more, up to 175% experience and coins.

A ranked match is one battle against a commander near your rating, fought with the army you set in Army at your cards' own levels, so raising your cards makes you stronger there. A friend's code and practice are fought at equal levels. If no player is waiting, you face an AI commander run by the game; AI commanders never appear on the leaderboard or win season prizes. A battle level on the clock goes to the side with more headquarters left, then to the side that lost less. Ranked results pay coins, crates and experience and count toward your season score, and in the higher leagues a loss costs season points. Current plan, not final.

Yes. Dead of Night is a survival mode with undead waves, four bosses and boons between waves. The dead also occupy land around your camp, attack it in night raids and appear in outbreaks. These encounters are separate from the historical setting of the story campaign. Blood can be turned off in Settings.

Yes. Your army camp grows through ten Command Post levels, with builders, resource producers, troop training, walls, towers and other defenses. Clear land held by the dead to make more room, and prepare the camp for night raids.

Campaign follows ten story missions from Normandy to the Rhine. The Front is an offline war across a campaign map, with sectors, operations, counterattacks and outbreaks. The World is an online shared map where commanders send armies to targets and bring loot home.

A new season begins every two weeks, with daily orders, divisions and leagues. Seasons require an internet connection. Check the in-game season screen for the current rules and rewards. Daily camp orders have their own stamp card: seven completed days earn a Field Crate.

No. Narrow Front is a mobile strategy game by Matterward Labs, played on a narrow portrait battlefield between two headquarters. It is not a history of the 1944 Allied argument over a broad or narrow advance into Germany, although its campaign is set at real places on the Western Front from June 1944 to March 1945.