Tanks & Trebuchets

You drive a WW2 tank. Everyone else has swords, bows, pikes, cannons and trebuchets. Nobody explains how the tank got there.

Almost everything can be destroyed: houses, palisades, castle walls, bridges and trees. Soldiers move as real crowds of hundreds, over a thousand late in a Gauntlet run, and they ragdoll, burn and drown. Blood and gore can be turned off.

An open-world campaign across several kingdoms, each tougher than the last. Raid villages and camps for gold, capture forts to weaken the royal castle, then break the heirs' towers and the keep. The king flees in a carriage, and if he escapes, the castle is rebuilt.

Gold is only safe once it's back at camp. Between the big objectives there are bandit lairs, wandering champions, a legendary beast and contracts from benefactor factions that unlock paints, crew and heraldry.

The enemy fields everything from peasants and war dogs to plate knights, hand-gonners and Greek fire, backed by cannons, trebuchets, battering rams and siege towers. Lean on one tactic too long and they start bringing units that counter it.

A roguelike run on a generated map. Enemies keep coming and get stronger the longer you last. Every level you draft an upgrade card, and the combinations stack until the tank fires volleys of shells, spreads napalm and drags enemies into black holes. Boss castles turn up along the way.

Pick a tank class, raise the Heat with mutators for a higher score, and spend war tokens on permanent upgrades. There are leaderboards, a Daily Challenge and weekly missions.

Up to four players in the campaign or the Gauntlet. Friends' tanks drive into your camp, and everyone keeps their own garage, unlocks and gold.

One player drives the tank. The other runs the kingdom from above, recruiting regiments, building defences and taking direct control of soldiers. The tank has to burn the towns' stores, break the ward on the keep and kill the king before time runs out. Either side can be played against the AI.

Tank against tank for up to four players, with AI tanks filling empty slots. Before each round you pick a card: summon your own knights and longbowmen, or change your tank.

Swap the hull, turret, gun, tracks and fittings. Most parts trade a strength for a weakness. Think a 240mm siege mortar, a sword for a barrel, a Tesla coil on the roof or a meat grinder on the front. Ammunition goes from canister shot up to the tactical nuke.

Paint the tank, design your realm's banner and dress up your camp. Friends who join your party see it all.

Other details

• Full controller support with Xbox and PlayStation prompts, and fully rebindable controls.
  
• Metric or imperial units.
  
• Three difficulty levels.
  
• Separate toggles for blood and gore, screen shake, cutscenes and hints.