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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Amazing recreation of Wii Tanks if you ever played that. The level editor is also amazing, the only limit on the levels you can make is your imagination.”
— a player, Steam review · 66 hrs played“wii tanks but more wii tanks wii tanks :D”
— a player, Steam review · 44 hrs played“Tanks doesn't feel as much like a game as it is like a library for making top-down shooter games. I became friend with the dev on discord and he's really into perfecting everything, which in this case means factoring every special tank into features and mechanisms that can be…”
— a player, Steam review · 73 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:13 UTC · history 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 If you want to play this build of Tanks again, its jar file has been archived and can be found here: Tanks1.6.2-april-fools.jar Tanks v1.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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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