Treadnauts
Treadnauts is the kind of game that hits all the bases. Everything I want from couch-gaming can be satisfied after playing just one match.
Pros
-It’s flawless movement mechanics make the game feel buttery smooth with a controller in hand.
-The art style is unforgettable, it’s suave and leaves a smile on your face.
-Jazz never felt so smooth, as in, the music is dope as heck and sticks in your head like a child’s favorite cartoon theme song.
-Caring developers who update the game regularly with relevant and meaningful changes.
– Real player with 701.6 hrs in game
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Note: Review was updated after Early Access ended.
Fantastic game for playing with other people! The game mechanics are solid and the controls feel great. Development on the game has stopped so we won’t be seeing more content, but what we have right now is more than enough for playing with friends. The community surrounding the game has died down from the activity that it boasted during the Early Access period, but the small community that remains on Discord is very friendly.
Pros
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
Saffron Fields
SAFFRON FIELDS
An arcade tank game devoted to physics rather than hitpoints
You’ll have
A tank that can shoot, jump and do a somersault
A greedy, reckless, drug-dealing PMC, staffed by copters, fighters, digging tanks and mechas
Infinite fun of trying to throw everybody from the edge
Kickass, plunging into a battle trance soundtrack by Damscray
4 different game mods
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Campaign — tricky arenas, cutscenes and unique bossfights
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Endless — compete with saffron farmers around the world in a global leaderboard
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Co-op — see how long you can survive with your friend in local multiplayer
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Duel — destroy your friendship by showing ultimate tank skillz
Read More: Best Tanks Score Attack Games.
Dieselpunk Wars
I think I am the player who has been playing this game for the longest time ever (most of them spent on building stuff in creative), and I did enjoy it and had high hopes. But still…
Abandonware
Several serious bugs exist, including one that makes airships pretty much unplayable.
The Devs have been informed of those bugs for months but no action was ever taken.
They also stated on Discord that the May update is going to be the last update, so consider it officially abandoned.
Severe Lack of Content
– Real player with 466.8 hrs in game
Read More: Best Tanks Sandbox Games.
A very good game.
Important notes:
Movement:
Movement on the ground for wheeled/tracked vehicles is generally pretty good, the only issue i tend to have is the velocity being canceled completely by trees/random geometry such as rocks. Movement also feels very slow/tanky however i think that fits the game just fine. Sea/Air movement works perfectly well, though i couldn’t get a walker to work.
Building/UI/Keybinding:
I have a few nitpicks about it, namely with not enough keybinds/options for keybinds in the building menu, and not being able to press esc to exit out of some menu prompts. There are some bugs here, as you might guess from an early access game, but aside from the occasional incorrect mirroring, it works just fine.
– Real player with 65.8 hrs in game
Tank Golfing
Interesting Idea, clunky/terrible execution.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
City Siege: Faction Island
The intro song is very cool, that’s one thing that this game has going for itself. The game itself is a fairly simple 2D shooter game with some strategic and platformer action in it, making it a very nice and enjoyable combo game.
The game really is quite fun to play with a lot of destructive elements for you to enjoy and experience. Your units can be upgraded making them better and stronger to use. The game has a combo system that really enhances the experience of the game, last but not least, the physics behind the game is really amazing , for the price you really get an amazing little gem here, this game is really worth a shot.
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
City Siege: Faction Island
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Destructive and exciting gameplay
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Inter-faction fighting
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Combo system
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Upgradeable units to build your army
The ultimate 2D Physics War Game! Build your army with tanks, guns, spies, flame tanks and helicopters. Then embark on battles of mass destruction and tactical rescues. Bring peace to faction island by destroying all your enemies.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Total Tank Simulator
Man, to think i was once upon a time hyped for this game.
After all demo 5 was very promising, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, let’s make a list!
-At some point betwen demo 5 and launch, someone decided that the game should not focus on strategy and instead try to be more of a cheap TABS ripoff, except the point of tabs is that all the units are cartooney, wildly different and not accurate to real life whatsoever. Regardless, note that most issues here were not present in demo 5:
-Units lack uniqueness to an extreme degree: most factions play the exact same with very few units that really differ stats-wise from their equivalent in other factions.
– Real player with 32.9 hrs in game
The Pros
Good Game For Its Price For $20 there is plenty of content with six campaigns all involving their native languages (rommel speaks german. Patton speaks english, etc…) A nice little detail
Sandbox Is A Blast you really get some cool looking shots when you take control of a infantry unit , you see other infantry rushing and other tanks by your side
Lots Of Units And Nations For an indie game I wasn’t expecting minor nation like Poland, I was expecting the standard four players in the European Theater which was UK, USA, Germany, and Soviet Union. The unit selection is impressive from going to early war tanks to early modern MBT’s made in ‘45-‘46. Then there’s the silly special units like the US having the Atomic bomb or the Soviets having a bear with a tank turret, etc.. Lots of care went into this.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
Heroic Armored Company
Very good game but short…(more coming soon)
Need to be optimized but It’s hard and fun to play.
I hope they will continu to work on.
– Real player with 24.9 hrs in game
Having played Hero Armored Company for about 10 hours now, already some things can be said about this tank sim. Let me begin with the most important thing: I like it! This game has the potential to become a great tank simulator.
Does it have problems? Yes. Does it need improvement? Absolutely! But that doesn’t wipe out the fact that this is the most fun tank sim I’ve played since World Of Tanks (and I’ve played a LOT of WoT!!!) - and for me at some points it even superseeds it!
THE GAME
For now only part of the single player content is available with a Story Mode (with at this moment 8 missions) - an aspect I definately miss in WoT! Single Player Mission Mode and Multiplayer Mode will become available at a later stage. So far I have been grinding myself though the Story Mode.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
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– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game
I’ll save a full review for the full release, but so far I have really been enjoying this early version! I have 51 hours in the first kickstarter demo, that’s more than I put into some finished games, so I think it’s definitely worth your time to try it out if you like building vehicles.
So far it’s very much like an improved version of Terratech or Crossout, you build vehicles in a late-1800s/early-1900s military style and use them to complete missions and kill other vehicles. The editor is easy to use, combat feels nice with both small and big guns, pretty much every design you can think of will work in combat, and I can’t think of any other games that will let you build half-tracked amphibious battleships. The physics are very well optimized too, you won’t have to worry about building something so big it crashes the game.
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
Panzer Warfare
Early Access Watcher Public Service Announcement
Update Version: Initial Release
Disclosure: This game copy was bought by the reviewer.
Gameplay Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDUNTmLf6nc
This game works well enough. It has a simple layout with very simple controls. It has three game modes online and offline with several different weapons to choose from. I do not see how a game like this will be able to evolve past the basic design choice it decided to go with. It is something you would expect as a fifty cent release and is by no means worth two dollars. I wish I could say more, but there really isn’t much to talk about content wise or gameplay wise. It is that barebones. I recommend avoiding this in favor of something with a bit more meat and hopefully a lot more fun.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Currently multiplayer is not functional - My friend and I weren’t able to join each other’s games
Pros +
I can be pink
Cons -
No one can see how cool and pink I am
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
ShellShock Live
Very good, very fun.
Works really well on Linux as well.
– Real player with 534.5 hrs in game
Proceeds to hold a piece of paper and win
9/10
– Real player with 136.6 hrs in game