Games Like Panzer Vor

In the world of Panzer Vor, mastering tactical combat is one of the highest honours. By simulating intense battles from the World War era, legendary Commanders compete to prove they possess the superior skill and strategy required for victory. Battles unfold on massive maps ranging from 1×1 km to 2×2 km (nearly 121 football fields!), giving you the freedom to deploy your tanks across diverse terrain. Conceal your vehicles in dense forest to ambush the enemy, or deploy a squad of heavy armour for a crushing full-frontal assault. Your primary objective is to maintain control over key zones, earning the victory points and resources needed to field the ultimate combat machines. With the scale of battle allowing each player to command up to 60 tanks simultaneously, the tactical possibilities are endless. Gather your friends to form a 3-player team and compete globally, or host private matches with fully customizable rules! If you have ever wanted to see massive hordes of tanks in explosive, high-stakes combat - Panzer Vor is the game for you!

Key Features

Tanks

Panzer Vor features vehicles primarily from the WW2 period produced in Europe, USA, USSR and Japan. The list is always expanding and will feature more vehicle updates even after release.

You can buy tanks for cash earned during the match and deploy them at any time after the store opens. After that you can control one tank or a squad of tanks to any accessable point on the map.

Each tank is balanced to be used for certain situation. Here are two examples:

BT-2 (USSR)

Pros: High top speed, high manoeuvrability, access to almost all parts of the map, low visibility when stationary, insignificantly affected by the soil conditions.

Cons: Low armour, low weapon penetration, highly susceptible to critical damage, low health.

Tiger-I (Ausf. E, Germany)

Pros: High front armour, excellent projectile speed and penetration, high view range, low critical rate.

Cons: Easy to spot especially after it shoots, low back armour, low map accessability due to weight, seriously affected by weather and soil conditions.

Types

Panzer Vor features Light, Medium, Heavy and Superheavy types of tanks and mobile anti-tank guns. Each type has it's own navigational limitations for each map, but compensate that with increased armour and/or damage ability.

Critical damage

This is the most common type of debuff that could be applied to a tank. Each projectile penetration (or even splash damage) has a chance to deal a critical hit that disables or limits the tank's movement, reload, turret rotation, etc. They are always temporary and expire after a certain time, but can also be cleared by an ability or a repair.

Equipment

Each tank can be equipped with extras such as screens for splash damage protection, repair kit for faster critical damage repairs, or switch tracks to reinforced or road to better match the environment. These allow you to adapt to enemy's strategy or changing weather conditions. Equipment increases tank's price.

Destroyed tanks

After getting destroyed, tank's carcass stays and becomes a navigational obstacle. Depending on the tank type, they are cleaned up differently: light tank cleaned up after 30 seconds, while destroyed superheavy tanks can stay for 5 minutes. Use that to block crucial choke points on the map.

Commanders

Currently, the game features 5 unique commanders, with more planned to be added after release. More information about commander story and abilities will be released later once they are finalized.

Abilities

Each commander has:

Campaigns

As part of the offline experience offered within the game, you can guide any commander though a visual novel-style storyline, making meaningful choices about the skills you train and tournaments you participate in. More details about this mode will follow later.

Maps

Panzer Vor features unique maps with different layouts, buildings, soil types and weather conditions. While the main objective is control of the capture points, players and also capture and destroy buildings and fortifications around the map, allowing them to earn a significant amount of match cash to buy better tanks and earn tactical advantage quickly. Weather changes can switch some soil types, making certain areas of the map inaccessible for certain tank types, potentially affecting the outcome of the match.

Currently featured maps:

Names are subject to change. More maps will be coming before and after the release.

The Project

This game is a product of around 10 years of continuous prototyping, development, rewrites and overengineering. Started as a fan game about girls in tanks from a certain anime about girls and tanks now turned into a fully standalone game with a spirit of the lore from that world, but freedom to take the story in any direction.

So far, all the mechanics elements are ready, including multiplayer. Further development is mostly content, bug fixes and UX improvements. However, since this is still a project I work on in my free time, I cannot give the exact release date.

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