Panzer Knights
About This Game
We won’t lie to you: These campaigns are no cakewalk.
War is at hand, and you, among all your comrades, have been chosen for entrance to the Panzertruppenschule I.
The army requires more elite tank commanders, “Steel Knights,” to lead us to victory using the most dominating form of warfare: tanks!
Do you have what it takes to join the ranks of the elite? Are you willing to lead a platoon of accomplished, adept men and women across the lands?! Show us what you got!
Panzer Knights is a strategic action game where you lead a platoon of charming, yet deadly crewmates to skillfully outmaneuver enemy tanks!
Command your platoon from the Battle of France to the Eastern Front! You will work and interact with highly skilled soldiers to defeat your enemies. Fully experience epic and powerful tank combat as you control detailed, fully armed tanks! Feel the heat under enemy fire as you and your platoon fight for supremacy! Choose crewmates whose qualities best appeal to you and form the perfect team!
Storied, historical battles
11 main levels with plenty of side missions to satisfy your hunger for battle and prestige.
Each battlefield presents unique and challenging mission objectives. Break through defensive lines, protect important field positions, and defeat swarms of enemies as they try to overwhelm your forces!
As you unlock more advanced tanks and your crewmates’ skills improve, replay missions to demonstrate your might!
Get to know your military hardware
Unlock over 20 controllable, detailed tanks, from the Panzer 38(t) to the IS-2, each reproduced in a distinct, attractive art style.
Upgrade your hardware, unlock new camouflage, and determine the best tank and loadout to accomplish your missions.
Encounter over 40 authentic WWII era vehicles and artillery and avoid damage to your tank that could leave you without tracks or a hull full of holes.
The command decisions are yours
Call bomb raids to destroy larger groups of enemies, signal for resupply airdrops, repair your tank in the field, and alter battlefield tactics on the fly. To successfully complete missions, formulate new strategies and make use of newly acquired technology!
Select the perfect crew
Choose from 30 eager crewmates to fill out your team of five. Pick who best suits your play style and help them upgrade their skills!
Continuous in-game dialog means your crew will help to keep you alert!
Your crew will stay in communication with full Japanese audio and 5 supported languages for text dialog!
Strategize while taking enemy fire
Should you approach an enemy from a sheltered position or go for the long shot across a wide, open field? Is there an enemy tank hiding behind that wall lying in wait?
Destroy buildings, ram walls, and perfect your approaches to fighting! The world of Panzer Knights is fully destructible and expansive in scope. Proper planning will get you far, though something can be said for spur-of-the-moment brute force action.
Skirmish Mode
In the tow modes of annihilation and defense, you can freely choose the vehicles for enemy and allies, and adjust the strength of both sides to fight.
Steam User 62
You are spending $10 on a german waifu tank arcade game, not a tank simulator. Do not expect much and you will have fun. It's fun to deadbrain. Literally just Girls und Panzer, The Game.
Steam User 14
Wish you could play Dream Tank Match on PC? Or perhaps have fun with War Thunder without it's hellish pay to win grind? Panzer Knights is here for the rescue!.... kinda. This is a decently competent game, if a little bit incomplete.
TLDR: The game doesn't ask for a tall price for what it offers. And it's exceptional to scratch that War Thunder itch if you're an ex-addict like me. 10/10, would recommend to any military game fans and also someone looking for an easy and fun game to get 100% achievements in.
The Pros
+ Imports a similar "realistic" damage model to War Thunder, allowing you to knock out enemy tanks with one well placed shot (player tank seems more resilient though, taking a lot more damage)
+ Game takes notes from real history books and accounts of events from the war in the german perspective, painting a somewhat realistic portrayal of some of the events leading up to 1943.
+ In game crew has voice acting to queue you in with what's happening
+ Good variety of tanks to pick from, and enemies are portrayed with the correct armor for their time period
+ Despite marketing it's waifus, the game also offers a selection of more realistic recruits for a german tank division in WW2 (aka young men and boys)
+ Decent graphics
+ Open source and fully moddable
The cons
- Somewhat poorly optimized means the game might choke when there's a lot of assets on screen
- Although maps have destructible terrain, this becomes more of a nuisance as it absorbs all kinds of damage
- You have to grind a bit to unlock all of the content and achievements.
- Cringy wehraboo writing in much of the written dialogue (a mix of random expressions in german with the actual dialogue)
- Very inconsistent difficulty curve due to it's concerns with realism (You will be forced to face french tanks your little panzer cannot penetrate, and later have the russian missions be a cakewalk as you use the poor t-34s as target practice for your Tiger or Panther)
- Anti-climactic ending with a Battle of Kursk mission that seems incomplete and missing germany's twilight years of the war entirely (as well as a western front post sea invasion of Italy/France)
Steam User 10
Good game if you want to run around shooting with Tank.
That's it.
All of the game stuffs are in .csv files giving you access to mod the hell out of it by just using MS Excel.
Has a superman mode in config.csv probably enables god-mode?
Note: The game has black screen issue after launch if you have certain .csv game files open (running) with MS Excel.
Steam User 8
It's like something you would rent for PS2 or Gamecube at Blockbuster to play over the weekend and that's a good thing.
I got this game after getting back into WW2 Tank lore (and watching Girls Und Panzer ) and wanted to play a fun tank game. While there are some good ones such as Warthunder and World of Tanks, those feel like such hassles which require massive investments of time and money, mass storage space, pvp frustrations, and grinding. -- This game cuts through all of that to scratch that "I just wanna drive a tank" itch without demanding you adopt a part-time job of a hobby to even get started.
It's a simple game which has enough content to keep you engaged (buying new tanks, upgrading crew members and tanks, performing side quests, etc.) but not so much that you feel overwhelmed. It's not a collectathon; it doesn't need to reignite your interest every 5 seconds; it doesn't provide absurd amounts of "content" which in AAA speak really just means mass producing generic quantities of chores while forfeiting quality almost entirely. It's just like an older game you would rent and play the campaign for over the weekend akin to that of Battalion Wars 2 or Republic Commando or Sly Cooper.
Like all games it's got some interesting quirks and can be a little bit dull from time to time. But what game doesn't have flaws? What I can say is that I got every achievement and unlocked everything and I didn't need to put hundreds of hours in to do it. I got my money's worth from this game and it's DLC and when I finished, I uninstalled it. It respected my time as a player and that is something that I don't feel games do much anymore as they all seem obsessed with becoming identity forming lifestyles rather than just games to play off and on.
Succinctly, it's a fun game and good time that provides something a little different while not overstaying it's welcome. I look forward to seeing what this developer produces next!
PS; If you enjoy Girls Und Panzer, especially the Kuromorimine school, or you're just a wehraboo in general, pick it up. You'll love it.
Steam User 10
Finally, Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match on PC but without the GuP mechanics and more of a bit of WoT mechanics such as the components like turret or tracks getting destroyed and having to be repaired but not as advanced like WT.
I came for the girls but stayed for the war PTSD, the guilt of invading other countries, the guilt of destroying tanks that are crewed by sons, fathers or husbands and watching the war drag on as more soldiers perish along.
8/10 good game. Buy it when it is on sale.
Steam User 12
Its the closest ill ever get to a GuP game, plays just like War Thunder all in all its pretty fun i give it a 9/10 in game play the art is beautiful 10/10
Steam User 6
Loved it. Solid game but be warned that 1920x1080 is the maximum resulution suported.
Also no checkpoints, so if you screw up and die, it's back to the begining of the mission.
(if none of this is a dealbreaker for you, i'd recommend giving it a shot)
If you do everything, it should give you arround 11h of gameplay.