PANZERKAMPF®
Panzerkampf is a PvP team tank game with tank battles from World War II. You will play with historically accurate tanks and also experimental tanks that existed as concept ideas. Modern tanks will also come into play.
Key aspects of the game are the emphasis on a balanced game setup (no P2W!), excellent gameplay and a clear and intuitive user interface.
Panzerkampf is free to play. Your are welcome to try a playable demo on our official website http://www.panzerkampf.net.
CHOOSE A TANK AND GET INTO THE BATTLE
Select your tank, load up your ammo and equipment, give your crew members their daily orders and go into battle!
BEGIN UPGRADING PARAMETERS AND POLISHING APPEARANCE OF YOUR TANKS
Upgrade your guns, engines and other parameters as you fight. Send members of your crews to regular training exercises. Put different types of camouflage, stickers and badges on your tanks.
PLAY YOUR OWN PERSONAL TANK BATTLES OR FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH FRIENDS
Call to battle from your tank for yourself, or team up with friends in the game. Form a platoon and work together in battles to achieve the maximum number of victories possible. Join a clan and interact and fight alongside other tankers!
IMPROVE YOUR COMBAT SKILLS
Advance through battles, gain combat experience, improve your personal stats and fearlessly climb the in-game leaderboards. Fight in new game modes (Death Match, Team Flag Conquest, Battle Royale and more) as they are released.
FIGHT IN AN ENVIRONMENT RENDERED WITH THE MOST MODERN TECHNOLOGY
The game uses state-of-the-art High Definition Rendering Pipeline. Tank models and environments are highly detailed. Particle effects use advanced animation and rendering techniques. The tank sounds are those of real tank engines and weapons, including of course the legendary German 88!
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
Spend 25 euros to unlock a tank with gold. having the shock of my life to see it just unlocks the tank and you still need to buy it with silver.
Steam User 14
The game contains historically authentic tank models, whose armor, weapons, and parameters are taken into account in the game. Only play if you accept and understand this.
Steam User 7
So played for 42 hours now and have generally enjoyed the game.
Pros:
Fun fast paced Battles
Allies vs Axis battles
No pay to win elements
No Artillery
No invisible tanks
Can only shoot at tanks within your view range
Well sized maps for fast gameplay
Good Armour set up once you know where to shoot
Good, not to grindy progression
Mostly runs well (Running on 3800x and RTX 3090Ti)
Cons:
Currently no way to platoon up (countdowns mostly work)
limited selection of tanks
Currently no way to just play against bots
No way to see the stats on tanks before you buy them other than armour profile
Limited map choice
No way to avoid events (the moment it goes to All Vs All the server is just stuck like that for days)
Holding out hope that all of these cons will be addressed as it is early enough to fix them and the game has the potential to be unique if it avoids just copying what the other games in this genre do especially if they specialise in PVE as all the other games mess this up or don't include it at all
Steam User 2
No this game is not perfect. First of all it's Free, so there's that. It's not as polished as WOT or WT. It's very basic in what it offers, and that is why I am writing a positive review among other reasons. Besides lacking the dozens of "spend money on me!" distractions that is smeared all over the garage in WOT and WT, the game is very easy to pick up and play immediately without any tutorials. There is gold and premium time but no premium tanks or any pay to win mechanics that I could see. The "grind" really doesn't feel like one because of the way the devs did away with research points and allow you to purchase any tank you want from any tree simply using silver only. So I skipped the terrible Panzer 1 grind and used the Stuart to earn a buttload of silver to unlock tanks in all 3 trees. There is a very noticeable USA bias in this game so you know. The controls are simplified to the lowest common denominator but keybinds can still be changed. I downloaded this game to see just how bad it would be after reading some of the reviews. Over two hours later all I can say is that I had fun the entire time. And I think sometimes we forget that's the reason we all started playing video games in the first place...to have fun and escape for a few hours. And this game delivered that to me. I plan to revisit it time to time when I just want to forget about my WT grind and have some fun instead. Give it a try, it has a lot of potential and I hope the devs havn't given up on it, but if I was them and read these comments I'd be pretty discourgaed. I don't understand how people can be so angry over playing a free game that they just don't have the perspective to appreciate for what it is? (shrugs)
Steam User 2
constantly shutting down mid battle, loosing all progress! also server is slow. not enough maps.
Steam User 13
So I played a few games just to check it out and, to all those negative reviews, calm your whiny a$$es down... yeah game has issues so what? I never played it personally but saw a couple of videos, and I'm pretty sure even WoT back in 2000 whatever wasn't as smooth as it is now. Practice makes perfect, and in this case if the devs are really really really and genuine into putting effort in the game, I'm sure they will optimize it so your 50k $ computers can be able to play the game... also this might be a ''bad carbon copy of WoT'' like some comments said, so what? Everything is a carbon copy of something nowdays. PUBG and Fortnite, Marvel Rivals and Overwatch, Hell let loose and Post Scriptum, so saying that this is like WoT doesn't add anything scandalous to your comment.
Now onto what the game is and how the experience was for me:
- Essentially is a very simple version of WoT Blitz (which is a simple version of WoT so you make the calculations) BUT, this doesn't mean is a bad game. Yes it's laggy but like said above, the game just got on Steam and probably it even just got released at all. I don't know anything about pc tech stuff but I guess solving those kind of issues (lag spikes, delay etc...) takes quite a bit of time and tests and all of that. Controls also are a bit weird meaning that if you move or especially turn your tank it takes like half a second for the imput to go through so the tank actually turns.
- Main menu and interface are quite simple, which for some reason are bad and for some are good. Good reason is that you don't have a lot of things all over your screen while playing, bad thing is that you don't have many settings or options to properly optimize your game, also you can't change your nickname but have to stick with the random one you get (or at least I couldn't find an option to change it) so hopefully the devs will add this feature in future updates to put your own nickname or something that just automatically puts your Steam nickname in the game like almost every Steam game.
- So far the shop doesn't seem pay to win because you can only buy gold (the premium currency), silver (the ''main'' currency), skins for 3 tanks one for each of the 3 nation available for now, and premium account which doubles your silver currency earnings. No premium tanks or anything that makes someone a god after swiping the credit card. But again, the game just came out so we'll see what the future (and the devs) has for us, hopefully it doesn't become pay to win of course, that's my main wish.
- Tech trees are quite ''empty'' meaning there's not many tanks in any of the 3 nations. Germany has 13 which is also the only one having 3 TD, USSR and USA have both 8 to 10 tanks and no TD. Also every type of tank is kinda all mixed up together, you don't have a specific line with just heavies or one with just mediums etc... but again, like said with pretty much every point listed, game is new so maybe in future they will add more tanks and split them in their different roles. Also there are no premium tanks which is a big plus for me, same reason I said for the shop above. And if premium tanks will be added in future updates, I hope they will not be op compared to the tech tree ones, even if you just get double the reward by playing a premium instead of a tech tree tank, I'm sure is a good enough reason to spend money on a premium tank. Plus there's always skins that are only cosmetics that can be implemented into the game if the devs want a reason on creating a market to earn money.
- graphics even at the lowest seems pretty nice, but the sounds I don't know why but it seems there's something weird about it. Not that is a bad thing it just there's something in the back of my head saying that it doesn't seem right lol
Experience:
I genuinely enjoyed those few games I did. Yes like most people said game is rough, laggy etc... but if I managed to get 2 or 3 kills in each match, with my not so good pc which isn't really meant for gaming, with an experience of gaming of not being a god and having unlocked only 1 T10 tank in WoT, I'm sure you'll be more than fine. I'll definetly keep playing this and I hope devs will keep updating the game and most of all more and more people will be brought in and give a chance to this game. Other than that, game is free to download so I can't say anything else more in this review that will truly tell if you like the game or not unless you try it yourself.
Best case scenario, you found a variation to WoT. Worst case scenario, you lost a few minutes or a hour giving a new game a chance yourself instead of just reading bad/good reviews of people you probably will never meet in real life believing them and avoid trying it yourself maybe regretting it in the future.
There might be more stuff to be said, but I'm not an expert on pc tech or a game developer so I don't see anything else that was worth noting and mentioned here. If you donwload it, have fun! If not, goodluck both in your gaming and real life!
Steam User 10
Surprisingly solid gameplay with fair play in mind, its like a free breath of air compared with other tanks themed games. Lets hope its stay this way and later do not add spg with satelite aiming or other stupid thing like that. In this stage is just a treat for player tired of WOT unfairness .