Very shallow turn based tank fighting game. P2W.

Game is played in 5v5 teams with 3 additional bots for each team (which makes it 8v8) and you can win either by capturing a base or killing all the opponents. There isnt much depth to it, you can do 2 moves per turn, either attack twice if you have a consumable, or attack and move. Most of the opponents seem to be bots, and then there are actual bots "Object X" with tanks that seem to have as three times as much health as starter tank does. There is some depth to it added by having random air drops and currency which you earn and use during the match to buy shells and other kinds of buffs, which are still weak compared to consumables you can buy before the match. There is only one game mode, non respawn base capture, however you can choose to play a training against bots or a "real" match. There also seems to be only one map, or there might be more of them, but they all look exactly the same with slight change of vegetation.

Tanks are unlocked by simply paying, there arent any experience trees, however there is a skill tree which is individual for every tank it seems, and it can increase stats quite drastically, seems very stupid to me and is just one more way to offset matches. Best tanks can only be purchased with donator currency.

And it gets even worse. There are consumables you can buy before you start the match, while a lot of them are offered for in game currency, the most powerful ones are paid with donator currency. And they are absolutely ridiculous, and even more laughable when you consider that there is only one, non respawn mode. You can literally buy 100% repair, and use it every single turn if you bought enough of it, which practically makes you completely immortal.

On top of that, game often disconnects randomly for no reason.

The first thing they teach you is how to accept the daily reward. And yes, the expensive tanks are strictly better.

Phone Game, not ready for PC. 4/10

2 modes one "vs bots" and 1 "pvp"
in actuality the bot match is only you and your lane creeps vs their lane creeps
pvp you play vs bots maybe not entirely but as far as i played and some of them have tanks multiple times better in every regard
if you want to use some stuff during the match to have at least some impact on the match its so expensive you lose cash every match so you can say goodbye to ever seeing another tank f2p
oh well or you can just stand back afk and get a little every time your bots happen to win

Great turn based strategy game, many hours of fun to be had.

Pros:
Great strategy value with several classes of tanks and customizable skill tree
Most tanks are buyable without premium currency
Free premium currency and items with daily missions


Cons:
Skill tree is the same for all tanks and pretty much fixed for predefined play styles.
Some low level skills are pretty much wasted skill points when you're focused on getting the higher level ones for your play style (i.e: you need base capture in order to get visibility skills; or defense skill in order to get double shot)
The 5 player party system is limited to only 3 human players, forcing you to go with at least two bots in the party.
Playing out of a party is a roulette, you might be faced against 5 bots, or 3 humans... which most of the time means immediate defeat.

BIG issue: Bots
Enemy bots will always know where you're going and set their paths straight to you, even if they don't straight out shoot you in the dark, they will light you up soon enough.
Enemy bots always know when a tank touches their base, contrary to humans, who have to wait the next turn to get the base capture warning.
Friendly bots WILL block your route, they are the first to move and they don't recalculate their paths unless absolutly blocked.
Friendly bots are suicidal, even against a team of 5 bots you will end up solo most of the time, if you're slightly better than a potato.

Things to improve:
Lower 45 secs wait per turn to 30, some people abuse the wait time to grief other players.
Remove inactive players (replace with bots), after 3 turns of no activity; don't give out any prize to them to avoid abuse.
Add 3 players smaller maps for actual PvP.
Make drop crates animation faster, it gets old fast.

The game needs to promote more party play, show online players (unless opted out) to everyone; to facilitate on the spot party making.
Also add solo human players in the same team as 3 human parties insted of against them.
Show during the match which of your teammates are humans and which are bots, for actually strategy planning, and voting Karma correctly





*** EDIT ***: Editing the review since my view of the game has drastically changed.
I no longer recommend it, and I warn every new player: this is NOT an strategy game.


Ever since I reached a high enough level with my tanks (barely lv12~15...) , I realized the developers took every shortcut possible into making the players exasperate and buy premium items (which ofc means ♥♥♥♥ at the end of the day, because they don't ensure winning).

It's no longer possible to fulfill the daily missions, since most of them depend on winning the matches; and the game won't let you do that unless you're in a full human platoon.
And for those that depend on killing a certain type of tank ... you won't find that type of tank anywhere anymore.

Since there's less and less humans in the game, and your friendly bots don't have a human "target" whom to hunt... well, it became virtually impossible to get a win.

You will be matched against way overleveled bots

Bots now no longer just know where you're, they will actively hunt you down from every possible corner, and use their overleveled skills and a seemingly infinite stock of light missiles to "detect" and attack you so they justify taking you down in one turn.
(I have actually turned this around on them several times making them forget about my platoon by playing chicken and running around... which is the one thing that makes this game boring as all hell)


In short, only way I'm playing this again is after devs remove the bot element from the game (except maybe Object X); and find a way to get more human players to play it so it's actually a game again.

Bad and unbalance
stupid team balancing
3 light-tank that run to die with no heavy-tank team
vs 2 heavy-tank team

In short

It's a turn-based mini World of Tanks clone:
+ gameplay is somehow simplified (no LoS, just FoG), but very sound;
+ microtransactions' benefits do not upset me (YMMV);
+ decent play against bots (if you are a lone human in your team and no humans are in the opposite team);
- a multiplayer game with almost no players online.

Full review

It's a turn-based mini World of Tanks. It's a very good casual game, that would be a lot of fun to play, if there were more people playing it. If it got for a while a decent number of players, then player population should multiply very fast.

It's mini, but it has 5 distinct tank classes (Recon, Med and Heavy tanks, StuGs and SPGs). Only 18 tanks to choose from, 3 of those Premium, just slightly better, but nothing overpowering. Much less grind, than in WoT to get top tanks, but probably a bit more to get a tank into a good fighting shape - you don't grind components, but for each tank you separately unlock skills, which greatly impact it's performance.

There are 20 diff skills in 4 branches, that you can mix, but you need to max a previous skill to unlock the next in that branch. You need level 18 for 1 whole branch, but with a good mix at level 10 or so you can be a valuable add-on even a for higher level team.

The gameplay is somehow simplified (no LoS, just FoG), but very sound. You don't queue for fights for more than 80 secs. There is a quite limited number of randomly assigned maps, but they are well designed and offer a chance to play them in many different ways. A turn takes 45 secs (probably should be shortened to 30) and a fight usually 10-15 minutes, though against a good opponent can take up to 30.

No premium ammo, just 3 slots for consumables, of which only 4 have their premium versions, the rest buyable without much sweat for in-game currency. Only 1 consumable of a given type (1 repair and 1 increased damage for example) can be taken into a battle. The most powerful of those is the Super Repair Kit restoring up to 100% of your tank's HP (non premium gives you just 50% repair). It's less, that it seems, because it can't be used after you die... so I can safely use the whole 50% regular repair kit, but if I wait with Super Repair Kit until there is more, than 80% of armor to restore, I may easily get killed, before I have a next chance to use it. The rest of consumables have just 1 turn lifespan. You can get, depending on your current tank, like 100% damage increase for 1 turn (instead of non-premium 50%), which seems a lot, but usually you need 4 or 5 shots to kill the enemy.

Judge it for yourself, but I don't use the premium and not only never feel upset by my enemies using them, but often I'm entertained at how they are wasting money doing so. Quite opposite to WoT, where people spamming premium ammo often increase their chances to score a hit from like 20-30% to 70-90%.

Now the bad part: playing against bots. Each of the 2 opposing teams consists of 8 tanks, 5 of those possibly human and at least 3 always bots (those 3 are named Objects X, additional bots on any team pretend to be humans). Well, in itself it wouldn't be that bad, actually playing alone and having no human in the opposite team, it's almost a sure victory, if you know, what you are doing. It would be less of a challenge, but I would still see it as a fun little game.

However, up to 3 players can create a platoon and get into the battle together... but there are no players online, or very few of them :(. So first of all you often need to wait a long time to create a 3 (or even 2 people) platoon. But if you don't, and you are matched against an existing platoon, you are practically having no chance to win, being the only human in your team. And if you finally get the 3 people platoon assembled, then you either win all battles without any challenge, being matched against teams consisting of bots and maybe 1 human player, or you repeatedly fight against the same human opponents - the chance of having a third 2-3 people platoon of similar average level being so low.

1 thing, that the devs could and should do, is to temporarily limit each team to bots plus no more than 2 human players. Maybe also they could give some bonuses for playing during specified hours (like 1.5h every 8h), so during those hours it would be easier to team up. Other than this, if they are not able to get more active players soon, the game in it's current form is pretty dead, they probably should turn it into single player then.

It has a nice, quite well implemented concept. It's really fun and often challenging to play, providing you are not frustrated by difficulties in completing a platoon or playing alone and being rolled over, if a platoon plays against you. Anyway, it's free, and the platoon problem is not that painful at low levels, so give it a try.

I like this game very much but some its features are very frustrating. For example: Many hard tasks (quests) needs buying things with gold (premium currency) for accomplishing tasks. For my first hard task I got 24 golds. I got new task where I have to use gold for accomplishing (much more than 24) it. I have possibility to change task for another for 20 golds. So I did it and got the similar gold wasting task again. So I change it again. And three times in row I got the same result. So I lost 60 golds for nothing. So I cant recommend this game until they abolish this gold wasting tasks. It is killing questing fun for me. Otherwise this game is not pure pay to win (nothing is completely behind paywall but certainly behind very high grind wall :) ) but more pay to grind less.

ugly pay to win

Decent as a free game. Can be improved though, such as adding new game modes etc.