Panzer Knights

if you like GuP then this game is for you
But beware you might get bored of it fast

either way this is an interesting game for sure.

This game is a mix of Girls Und Panzers, War Thunder, and World Of Tanks all in one with it's own story to tell.

It's actually a decent little game.
After about 10 hours you have seen what it has to offer
Got it on a sale and don't regret playing it!

If you're a fan of WOT, or War Thunder, but want a single player, non-live service experience, then this game is for you. It plays very much like the aforementioned games, there are a fair number of missions (plus skirmish), and a decent amount of tanks with a variety of crew to upgrade. As someone with quite a few hours in WOT Blitz, I can say that the physics are very similar, just a little bit different, and all in all I had a good time with this one. The AI isn't super bright, though. The fact that it's single player made this game for me. When I stopped playing Blitz, I had what I would call withdrawal. This game helped me to get away from that crap, one mission at a time. You might want to wait for a sale on this one, this isn't a 100+ hour game or anything.

Expect anime style arcade tank game. Not much realism, simple damage model. Its also bad that you encounter only tanks and some guns and trucks on maps, so they feel pretty dead.
On plus, pretty good story shown from German perspective, good artistic style and plaesant gameplay.
Edit: Also its minus for me that campaign ended at Kursk, wanted fight in Berlin me dammit!

Best WW2 game ever since sudden strike 4.
Fun game-play so grinding for unlocks is fun !
There are a lot of unlocks for the game; Crew members, tank cosmetics, crew and tank upgrades and new tanks.
Characters are unique with their facial expressions in game.
Even though I don't understand Japanese, you don't have to, to enjoy this gem of a game.

Unfinished...
I was actually expecting this to be thinly disguised fanservice for lonely and/or gay men...
but it is actually a real game; it's just not finished.
Aim point jumps while enemies stun lock you
I understand that most of these tanks didn't have stabilized guns but the way the aim point jumps around like you are trying to aim a sniper rifle from inside a bouncy castle while a hyperactive toddler tries to get your attention is excessive.
Even when you are stationary, you have to wait for your aim point to settle and of course, it also jumps around when you rotate the turret... and leaps like a scared cat when you take a hit... which happens a lot because they put ridiculous numbers of low-level enemies in most of these missions.
I remember losing my Mark IV Panzer to a Char B1 which I shot at several times but couldn't hit because WWI era FT 17s kept shaking me like they were hoping that coins would fall out.
More playtesting might have improved the aiming system and mission design but both of those were obviously rushed. Speaking of rushed and unfinished.
No Desert Fox
No Panzer commander is as legendary a Panzer commander as Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox... So North Africa isn't even in the game. That whole theater of war is absent.
No Western front...
No Normandy, no Battle of the Bulge. In fact, your last chance to meet the Western Allies will literally be in 1940 in the battle of France. In this case it seems obvious that they just got lazy and decided to leave that out because they actually did include the Valentine, the Churchill, the Sherman and the Pershing... but rather than actually put these in the game, they just sold them as DLC so you wll never meet them as opponents.
The "campaign" ends on a cliffhanger in the middle of the Battle of Kursk
Even if this were sold as "Germans on the Eastern Front", rather than "Panzer Knights' it would STILL be incomplete because they just end on a cliffhanger in the middle of the Battle of Kursk. In fact, the last "mission" in the game isn't really even a mission since you just fight a never-ending stream of tanks that literally goes on forever until the objective changes to turning around and running away.
No Allied Campaign
Most games with "Panzers" in the title allow you to play as the allies at least some of the time but this one doesn't... then again they don't even let you play as the Germans in North Africa or the Western Front after 1940... or The Eastern Front after 1943.
There is clearly a pattern here. It's not a creative choice; it's just unfinished.
No story
You would think from all the anime aesthetics that there is some attempt to tell a story here (it would be stupid since in real life, the Germans would rather have their weapons sabotaged by POWs than allow women to serve in factories... much less combat... which makes sense when you learn what they did to the women whom THEY captured...)
but no. There is no story to speak of. Each "character" gets exactly ONE still image for the entire game and they never have any kind of a story that goes beyond barking orders. If you use certain character in certain missions, you will get some text where they say that they like to play chess or whatever but I unlocked all of that and none of it rises to the level of a "story".
They DO included a bit of an apologetic for Hitler though in the form of boring text like this.
And in case you are wondering, no Hitler did NOT invade any country because the allies forced him to with their "insatiable demands'; he did it because he was a compulsive backstabber who began his career as an infromant who ended up killing many of the original leaders of his own party before going on to stab the Czechs in the back after they gave up the Sudetanland in exchange for a promise that was all he wanted, then attacked the Poles who cooperated in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia (by blocking efforts to defend it and then taking a bit of it themselves) then invaded the Soviet Union after the Soviets helped him dismember Poland... etc.
Hitler wasn't forced into war by the allies or anyone else; he was a backstabbing opportunist who kept picking fights until he lost... and lost vast swathes of territory which today belong to Poland and Russia. You would think that a game about the Panzers might take the side of Rommel and others who wanted to oust Hitler but that would require far more thought than a low-effort, unfinished, wehraboo game like this one.
Conclusion
This makes me sad because if they had actually FINISHED the campaign, toned down the pro-Hitler stuff, and put a little more work into playtesting, this game could have been great. In its current form though, I can't recommend it. I was hoping for this to be the game that broke the "unfinished indie tank game" curse but it's just another threadbare, barely OK product.
I don't regret buying it because I can still have a bit of fun collecting tanks and playing skirmishes as the good guys (Char B1 baby!) but it's not the great game it could have been.