Tanks Anyway

Tanks Anyway is an original turn-based tank artillery game in 3D, and a comedy. Up to eight tanks share a stretch of hilly ground. On your turn you set a bearing, an elevation and the power, allow for the wind, and fire. The ground gives way where the shells land, so the hill you hid behind this turn may be a hole by the next. The running joke is relentless politeness while shelling your guests.

The look is retro: blue contour lines on land shaped by simulated erosion, with scanlines you can switch off.

Two ways to take turns

• Classic: one tank at a time, with time to watch.
• Fast: everyone plans at once, then every shell goes together. Orders are final once locked in.

The Gift Shop

It opens between rounds, paid for with what you earned by shelling people. Ten weapons in all, among them the Per My Last Email heavy shell, Reply All (a cluster that bothers everyone nearby), the Housewarming Gift (a large pile of dirt, delivered to the door), Smells in the Morning (napalm), Property Value Adjuster (bores a deep shaft under the neighbours) and the Roach Coach, an atom bomb. Lunch is served, and only the roaches come back tomorrow.

Around the table

• Up to 8 tanks a match. Bots fill the empty seats: Gary from Accounts, Your Landlord, The Intern, Head of Compliance and more, each with a temperament.
• Six kinds of weather, a new forecast each round, from Lovely Day to Scattered Showers (mud and lightning; stay off the hilltops).
• Deformable ground. Craters, shafts and the odd mound.
• Ranks from Plus One to Honorary Life President.
• Ultra graphics on the desktop, chosen automatically on a strong graphics card or in Settings. Phones always use Standard.

Online

Online play for 2 to 8 players is in the game: friends lists by a short friend code, friends-only games you host, and Direct Connect on your own network. Public games run on the Raven Iron server. An account has no email and no password, and there is no chat anywhere, on purpose.

Try it first

The download is the whole game, online included, for 8 matches. If you want to keep playing, buy it on itch.io for $8.99, then paste your itch.io download key into the game. One key unlocks on up to 3 devices.

Keyboard and mouse (rebindable), gamepad, or touch on Android. There is a Reduce Flashes setting for the big explosions.

Get it

Out now for Windows, Linux and Android on itch.io, $8.99, free to try for 8 matches, online included.