Tanklands

A 3D wave-assault battleground. Defend the Core, command your squad, and forge the terrain you fight on.

You command one tank and a small armoured squad, and you are defending the Core. Enemy armour arrives in waves. Every kill pays credits, and credits buy weapon upgrades, buildable defences and more squadmates. If your tank is destroyed you redeploy at the Core and your squad covers you. If the Core falls, the operation is over.

Between waves the map is yours: repair the walls, extend the line, and buy the weapon that answers whatever just hurt you.

Features

• Fight in the tank yourself, or switch to commander view to plan from above
• Build walls and gun emplacements along the routes the enemy will take
• Order your squad to guard, engage and repair
• Intercept attackers with your drone and collect airdrops
• Face walking Mechanauts and the Siege Breaker, a multi-turreted boss tank that crushes buildings as it drives through them
• Play through campaigns of missions, including patrol missions
• Build your own missions and campaigns in the built-in editor
• Every map is generated terrain with rivers, roads, bridges and towns

Controls

• W A S D — Drive the tank
• Mouse — Aim the gun
• Space — Secondary weapon
• 1 – 6 — Select weapon
• X — Cycle weapon (Shift+X back)
• E / Q — Zoom in / out
• Tab — Commander view
• Q + click — Order the squad
• F4 — Launch the wave now
• F5 — Order squad repairs
• 0 — Recall to the Core
• C / M — Camera preset / Mute
• H — Field Manual (help), at any time
• F11 — Fullscreen

Getting started

Spend your starting credits before you launch: press U for Requisition, then Tab into commander view and drop defences from the toolbar along the road the enemy will use. When you're ready, press F4 to launch the wave instead of waiting out the timer.

Tanklands is in active development. Game balance, models, campaigns and missions are all being worked on. Expect rough edges, and expect them to improve between updates. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

Built with Three.js and WebGPU.

Also playable in your browser: tanklands.tripgeo.com