Tank Squad

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Tank Squad is a single player and multiplayer tactical shooter game with a historical theme. It was developed by DeGenerals S.A. and was released on May 8, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

▶ TANK BATTLES Tank Squad is a tactical-combat action game, where you take command of your tank squad and lead it during tank battles of World War II. Take part in historical battles, set in linear campaigns, alone or with up to three friends. Each player can control his own tank or be a part of your tank crew. Each battle is a separate mission in the campaign, with separate objectives that you …

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Audience ScoreBased on 393 reviews

story13 positive mentions

optimization11 negative mentions

Authentic WWII tank combat experience with detailed interiors and crew roles enhancing immersion.
Good vehicle customization, logistical management, and combined arms gameplay with infantry, artillery, and air support.
Active, dedicated developers providing frequent updates and engaging transparently with the community, improving the game steadily.

Significant bugs and performance issues, including AI problems, crashes, and unpolished graphics affecting playability.
Complex, confusing UI and control schemes lacking proper tutorials, making the learning curve steep for new players.
AI behavior unreliable with friendly units often dysfunctional and enemy AI sometimes unrealistically accurate, impacting gameplay balance and immersion.

story
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The game offers a challenging and immersive tank combat experience with a decent number of varied campaign and side missions, allowing players to manage and repair tanks between battles. However, the mission design is often corridor-like, AI is generally poor, and numerous bugs and technical issues frequently disrupt progression and immersion. Despite its promising concept and deep mechanics, the story and mission execution need significant polish to fully deliver a satisfying narrative and gameplay experience.
- “The missions are really well laid out, and the challenge can get intense.”
- “The campaign missions where you have to account for damaged vehicles and killed support infantry make it a challenge, especially with dumb AI infantry.”
- “Especially with the resource management, repair systems and battlefield scale (in main campaign missions, having infantry, bot allies etc. adds to the immersion. Side missions are smaller in scale and more tactical - which brings variety).”
- “The story is rated 3/10 by a player, reflecting a generally poor impression.”
- “The mission design is very corridor-like, forcing players to go from point A to B with little room for different approaches, which some players find unenjoyable.”
- “The Russian missions are described as impossible due to armor and penetration imbalances, making progress frustrating and unfair.”
gameplay
101 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay offers a deep and engaging tank combat experience blending tactical mechanics, vehicle maintenance, and cooperative play, drawing positive comparisons to Tank Mechanic Simulator and War Thunder. While the core mechanics and historical authenticity are praised, many users find the gameplay rough, clunky, and sometimes frustrating due to bugs, confusing controls, AI issues, and lack of polish, indicating the game feels more like an early access title still in need of refinement. Active developer support and ambitious features suggest strong potential for improvement and a rewarding experience once further optimized and streamlined.
- “The core gameplay experience is very well made and there is a lot to like, including massive difficulty customization, large scale and length of battles, fire support, commanding units, and multiplayer elements.”
- “Rather than treating a tank as a single controllable vehicle, the game models it as a coordinated system of specialized roles—commander, gunner, loader, driver, and machine gunner—each with distinct mechanical responsibilities.”
- “While rough around the edges, the gameplay mechanics are engaging, combining historical depth and cooperative features to offer fun tank combat and broader strategic play.”
- “Gameplay is repetitive and confusing. The tank machine guns fire at 90 to 120 rounds per minute, and to rearm your tank you have to get out. The AI in your tank just drives away without you, and if you try to get on top of the vehicle, it takes too much time to enter the hatch, especially if enemy AI kills you first.”
- “The gameplay is plagued with game-breaking bugs and random issues, runs horribly even on top hardware, which will leave most tank enthusiasts furious.”
- “In its current state, the game feels more like early access than a full release. There is no proper in-game tutorial, and the manual offers limited information about mechanics. The order system is broken: units will only respond to 'move to' commands but won't attack enemy AT guns or tanks, leaving you vulnerable while they do nothing.”
graphics
64 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics are generally considered dated and low quality, resembling titles from the early 2000s or even 1990s, with blocky models, low-resolution textures, and frequent glitches. While some users appreciate the tank modeling and atmospheric charm, many criticize its poor optimization, inconsistent performance, and lack of visual polish, which detracts from the overall experience. Despite these issues, several reviews note the graphics are acceptable for the game's price and scope, especially given its early access status and small development team.
- “I'm not mad at the graphics like most people; I think they've done a great job modeling the tanks and took care in all the models to be accurate.”
- “Overall enjoying the game, combat is good and brutal, graphics are great and the objectives make you feel like you're actually doing something.”
- “Visuals are solid, and performance is respectable: with DLSS enabled, I’m cruising at 45–60 fps on a 3080 Ti paired with an i9-12900.”
- “The graphics are absolutely disgusting, with pre-2000s low quality textures and models, and the game takes literal minutes to load a single map, which is unacceptable in 2025.”
- “Tank interior graphics are blocky and low resolution, and the graphics look dated and blurry even at max settings, nowhere near the store pictures.”
- “The graphics, even on ultra settings, look like they are from a game 20 years ago, while performance remains mediocre.”
optimization
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Optimization for the game is widely reported as poor, with frequent performance issues such as low and inconsistent frame rates even on high-end PCs, making it occasionally unplayable. While recent updates have improved stability and performance somewhat, many players experience choppy gameplay, bugs, and inefficient AI, indicating the game feels more like early access than a polished release. Despite these challenges, there is optimism that ongoing developer support and future optimization will enhance the overall experience.
- “Performance is much improved after most recent update.”
- “The game looked great, it was fairly optimized considering all the moving foliage and modern graphics.”
- “Visuals are solid, and performance is respectable: with DLSS enabled, I’m cruising at 45–60 fps on a 3080 Ti paired with an i9-12900.”
stability
37 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from numerous bugs and stability issues, including frequent crashes, graphical glitches, poor AI behavior, and performance drops, making it often frustrating or unplayable. However, ongoing developer updates show promise, and despite its current unstable state, many players see potential and find it fun when overlooking these problems. Buyers should anticipate a rough experience and consider waiting for further improvements.
- “The AI is just too buggy to the point where the only tank unit you can command will just reverse their back into enemy positions and die, or freeze in place at the first objective while you're 1000m away and not follow you, or listen to any other command; which is an issue because you can only have one tank unit at one time.”
- “Given the game's complexity, it featured a highly necessary tutorial that was difficult if not impossible to follow or complete, buggy vehicle physics, broken enemy and AI pathfinding, buggy infantry support options and command, bug-riddled animations; you name a system or component and it had problems or room for a great deal of improvement.”
- “Broken and buggy doesn't begin to describe Tank Squad when it dropped in May.”
atmosphere
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Users praise the game's atmosphere as strong and immersive, enhanced by realistic graphics and tank models. The simulation-heavy, realistic pacing effectively builds suspense and contributes to an engaging atmospheric experience.
- “It creates a strong atmosphere.”
- “If they follow through, this could easily become one of my favorite games: atmospheric, simulation-heavy, and realistic.”
- “That kind of pacing builds real suspense, atmosphere, and realism.”
replayability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Replayability is generally seen as promising, with potential improvements like increased enemy spawn randomness enhancing it. However, some users find it repetitive after a few attempts, indicating that its long-term engagement may vary depending on execution.
- “Looks to have a lot of replay value.”
- “If done right, it could add a lot of replayability to the tank mechanics.”
- “More randomness where enemies spawn to improve replayability.”
- “More randomness in enemy spawn locations is needed to improve replayability.”
- “Replayability is low; played the first mission three times and got bored.”
- “If done right, improved tank mechanics could add significant replayability.”
humor
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The humor in the game is appreciated for its quirky, playful mechanics that make gameplay amusing and entertaining. However, some aspects like AI behavior can feel inconsistent, adding an unintended comedic element. Overall, the humor stems from both deliberate design and unpredictable in-game moments.
- “To work it from the inside is hilarious: you point at the viewfinder, use it... and hope you can traverse the pointer to the target after holding down O.”
- “The game is really funny to play but still needs a lot of work.”
grinding
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Grinding in the game is considered tedious and slow-paced, especially when played without multiplayer, which limits engagement and increases monotony.
- “Without multiplayer, this game becomes tedious very quickly.”
- “I find the grinding aspect to be tedious.”
monetization
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The game is praised for its fair monetization, offering enjoyable gameplay without expensive upfront costs or intrusive microtransactions.
- “Thank you for a very fun tank game that doesn't cost $80 and isn't riddled with microtransactions.”
emotional
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The emotional aspect of the game is deeply complex, eliciting intense and nuanced reactions that reflect its challenging and unique nature. This depth contributes to why major AAA publishers have avoided tackling similar projects.