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Tanks: The Crusades
A top-down shooter with tanks that have various assorted abilities, with support for multiplayer and a level editor.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Literally Wii Play, but only the game Tanks... + it's free + it has multiplayer + it is so compact it does not take ages to install WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS GEM?!”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“its a nice throw back to the tanks on wii, and a pretty good speedrunning game”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“I have ass cancer im going to die in a week from leaving this review this game has let me be myself. Like a dog on the side of the road, Dead.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-02 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
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Pivoting Tanks towards becoming a roguelike (Tanks v1.6.2)
Update: This was an April Fools joke build, and has now ended. If you want to play this build of Tanks again, its jar file has been archived and can be found here: Tanks1.6.2-april-fools.jar Tanks v1.
Tanks v1.6.1 is now out!
A small patch update has been released to improve the multiplayer experience and fix some bugs. What's new in Tanks v1.6.1: - Joining parties during a level no longer kicks you (you'll now join a sort
Tanks v1.6.0 is now out!
Hello guys, It's finally time for Tanks v1.6 to come out. This update has been in the works for almost 3 years, and it overhauls the item system, allowing for crazy new item combinations and changing
Check out the new customization in the third 1.6 beta!
WARNING: Do NOT open levels you care about in this version. You will no longer be able to open them in the latest stable version (because the save format has changed), and they may be corrupted due to
Tanks has GONE 3D! (Tanks v1.5.3)
UPDATE: This was an april fools joke and has since been reverted. But if you had fun with it, you can download the archived JAR file for it here ! If you guys liked these features, maybe they will mak
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Tanks · Arcade · Arena Shooter · Strategy · Retro · Multiplayer · Shooter · Singleplayer · Minimalist · Casual · Level Editor · Family Friendly (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · LAN Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Workshop |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://github.com/aehmttw/tanks |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel i3 with 1.0GHz (or equivalent) Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 Supported Device Storage: 500 MB available space