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You are here: Home / Comics Guides / How to Play Marvel’s Avengers Alliance on Your iPad or iPhone

How to Play Marvel’s Avengers Alliance on Your iPad or iPhone

January 2, 2013 by Dave 24 Comments

Addicting barely even begins to describe it. I started playing Marvel’s free online Avengers Alliance 3 days ago, and honestly I’m not sure I’ve stopped since. When I close my eyes I see She-Hulk… and that totally wasn’t happening before, I swear.

If you’ve gotten yourself just as addicted to Avengers Alliance and want to be able to play the Flash-based RPG on your iPad or iPhone, here’s how:

Update: Avengers Alliance iOS App Released – Android Soon!

In the biggest Avengers Alliance news since Deadpool became a playable character, Marvel finally released a mobile app version of the game today (June 13, 2013, year of the Extremis Virus).

In theory, this app release renders those pesky “How the heck do I support this addiction on my phone or tablet?” questions completely moot. You can just download the iOs app. Free of charge, too!

As you’ll see from the app reviews, though, the situation isn’t quite that simple.

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Yes, the new iOS works. Like a charm actually, with a perfectly seamless user experience so far in my gaming. If you’re brand spanking new to the game, you can hop right in and begin to (mostly) enjoy a fun, free gaming romp through the Marvel U.

If you’ve been playing Avengers Alliance since time Immortus? Well… you’re gonna feel a lot like Wolverine with his mouth sewn shut in a microbrewery.

The problem: the Avengers Alliance app launches you straight into a completely new gaming experience. So far, there is no apparent way to sync your playing history, whether you’ve been playing through Facebook or Playdom.

I don’t really enjoy picking too hard at free games, but this feels like a pretty big miss. Long-time fans of Avengers Alliance have been craving a clean mobile version of the game. Now we get it… but only if we start all over again?

This is another entry for Marvel in a long line of great intentions, puzzling execution.

If you want to maintain the time, money, and history you’ve sunk into Avengers Alliance, my flash-based workaround below still offers a solution. I’m hoping the app upgrades and makes the below completely unnecessary in the future, but for now, it’s the best alternative.

Photon Trick for iPad and iPhone Flash Games

I’ve written extensively about this in regards to Marvel’s Digital Comics Unlimited, but Marvel’s borderline inappropriate obsession with flash-based web applications makes reading their comics online a bit tricksy.

Even Flash hates Flash on iPads
What?

Naturally, Apple’s flash-blockage applies just as furiously to a game like Avengers Alliance. In order to play Avengers Alliance on iOS, you’ll need to download Photon, an app designed for the sole purpose of Flash browsing.

Again, I lay out a lot more of my thoughts on Photon here, mostly in regards to reading Marvel digital comics. The shorter version is this: for $4 or $5 (depending on whether you need Photon for iPad or Photon for iPhone) you can easily play flash-based games like Avengers Alliance AS OFTEN AS YOU DARN WELL PLEASE.

Marvel Avengers Alliance Gameplay
You can beat down Jotun’s and Enchantress at work or even school!

To be very clear, this will work for players using either Playdom or Facebook to play Avengers Alliance. If you use Facebook, you will just need to login to your Facebook account using the Photon browser (it’ll feel just like logging in through Safari) instead of using the Facebook app.

For the most part, gameplay through Photon on your iPad or iPhone is unchanged from playing on a desktop. There may be some lag time depending on your internet connection, and you won’t be able to toggle to full screen mode which means a little more scrolling, but basically you can up and play the way you want.

To purchase Photon: CLICK HERE. (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Photon in any way. I just enjoy the product as it has worked for me in the past. That said, if you are looking to throw down the $5, and this article helped, doing so through the previous link will get me a few extra cents. Much appreciated!)

How is Marvel Avengers Alliance?

If you’ve ever played a game like Golden Sun or Final Fantasy, you understand the style of gameplay involved in Avengers Alliance. If not, it can probably be classified as tactical role-playing, or in non-nerd: you line up 2 heroes and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent (that’s you!) and click ways to attack the villains and thugs standing directly across from you. And you go in turn, very politely, as you were taught in beatdown school.

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The short review is that this game is an addicting blast for even tangential fans of the Marvel Universe. There’s a surprising amount of strategizing to keep you busy (researching new weapons, recruiting and training new heroes, sending your team on covert-ops to generate cash $), and with a constant influx of new content the gameplay hours have no end in sight. My wife is thrilled, believe me.


To start playing for yourself, check out the game here on Playdom, or just search for Avengers Alliance from your Facebook account and add the app. I won’t expect to see you here for a while.

Also, if you’d like to ally up, my handle’s DivineBolt33. Happy gaming!

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. casteandrea says

    January 3, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    Please add me

    Player ID ios : casteandre

    Gift me Sheild points and I will return the favor

    Reply
  2. TJ says

    January 1, 2014 at 1:39 am

    Please add me AgentTJ

    Thx

    Reply
  3. TheGapSponge says

    December 22, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    Add me GameCenter and in game: TheGapSponge

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  4. Shera79 says

    December 22, 2013 at 8:32 am

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    Reply
  5. Wolv says

    December 21, 2013 at 10:17 am

    add me PlayID: Wolv3

    Reply
  6. Jan says

    December 17, 2013 at 7:02 am

    Add me PlayID: CosmasD
    I gift daily
    Require shield points please

    Reply
  7. Mike says

    December 15, 2013 at 7:25 am

    Need shield points and gift daily

    GC: Agent MAG1

    PlayID: Agent MAG1

    Reply
  8. Pillowfigther says

    December 13, 2013 at 12:12 pm

    Guys i will add everybody above to IOS 😉

    Game center ID: Horseman.SFD

    Game ID: Pillowfighter

    Reply
  9. Philip says

    December 12, 2013 at 11:48 am

    Please add play5534264 zero allies so far.

    Reply
  10. Karl says

    November 22, 2013 at 9:32 am

    Add me…
    Player id: Skrape

    Thanks

    Reply
  11. Mikey says

    November 4, 2013 at 1:10 pm

    Add me 🙂 player ID smelly_pickle

    Reply
  12. Jevon says

    September 12, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    Add Me: Player ID: Keijen

    Gift me Sheild points and I will return the favor

    Reply
  13. Brek says

    September 5, 2013 at 9:43 pm

    add me player id brek

    Reply
  14. FOXiz says

    September 4, 2013 at 10:34 am

    Add me player id FOXiz as ujasvekov

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  15. Josh says

    August 19, 2013 at 12:07 am

    Add me player id Rigbus

    Reply
  16. Stu123 says

    July 3, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    Add me playid stu123

    Reply
  17. bac says

    June 21, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    how to connect my account on iphone and my facebook ‘s one? i sent gift for my friend from iphone but when he sent me back, it came to facebook’s account, it’s annoyed, and when i log in on facebook, i have to replay from the start, just like they’re 2 different accounts

    Reply
  18. Reckless says

    March 3, 2013 at 7:34 pm

    Great tip! Thanks for this! Works great!

    Reply
  19. Andrew says

    February 8, 2013 at 2:48 am

    Hi Dave, hows the performance of the game on this browser ? Is it laggy or as smooth as it is on a desktop ? (internet connections aside)

    Reply
    • Dave says

      February 8, 2013 at 8:58 am

      It can get pretty laggy, especially if you’re on-the-go and not just chilling in your living room with a strong wi-fi connection. If you go with this option, I would expect most of the flash animation to drag some (even Quicksilver will get hit with a time delay). That said, the gameplay just works, which is nice. Some lag is inevitable with this, but Photon has done a surprisingly nice job of letting you play with bandwidth settings as needed.

      Reply
  20. Jim says

    February 3, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    Downloaded Photon and opened FB and then Avengers Alliance and still can not play on iPhone. I guess there goes another $5 bucks down the drain. Good sell though. Let me know if you can give any advice on how to play this on my iPhone 4S thanks.

    Reply
    • Dave says

      February 4, 2013 at 9:33 pm

      I just checked again, and I’m able to access AA on Facebook through Photon. My first suggestion is to make sure you turn on flash browsing (lightning bolt in the corner) before you click on the game. Test it out on a stronger wireless connection first, too, maybe even on another flash-based app to make sure it’s working. For the record, I’m using an iPhone 4 on iOS 6.0, so that could play into things. Let me know if you’re still having problems with it after all that and I’ll have to update the post; don’t want to give a phony recommendation.

      Reply
      • Mhar says

        February 16, 2014 at 2:45 am

        How can I use my fb account to play here in my iPad.. Coz if I play using my fb account by a desktop I can use my original account but if I will use my I pad I’ll start at level 1 .. Plz help

        Reply
        • Tom says

          February 13, 2015 at 4:11 pm

          Same promblem,were u able to fix?

          Reply

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