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 99
It scratches the World of Tanks/War Thunder ground force itch without reminding you why you stopped playing in the first place.
Steam User 77
Mom, can I play War Thunder? It's free.
No, honey, I'll buy you a better War Thunder.
Steam User 125
Girls und Panzer
Steam User 23
Anime warthunder
Steam User 18
So, many players would not like the anime/cartoonish look but it is actually good. It is not the first game like that. If you are fan of Girls und Panzer you will definitly love it. I really like the models of vehicels in game, they were quite detailed and nice looking. But i hope developer introduce more tanks, like more StugIII variants, JagTiger, Hetzer, Jagdpanzer IV, Nashron....
Bad about this game is, its short, terribly short. Campaign should be longer, there should be more campaigns from US, USSR....,
It is quite laggy when larger number of tanks appear, i do not know why, my pc run much much stronger games without problem.
AI is not particulary smart, i dare to say its dumb as a rock, especially your ally AI.
Game as mentioned laggs here and there but at least it didn't crash.
Lack of multiplayer, i guess this is one of game that should have multiplayer, to me it is not important since i prefer single player games.
If you read this, dear developer, please improve this game, more tanks, more missions.
Do i recommend it, well as i mentiioned before, if you like GuP then yes. If you are someone who see realism in everything then it is not for you. It is good arcade. I wish also its a tincy-bincy harder, more enemies. It is quite easy.
Steam User 15
A fun little weekend time waster of a game it gets points for showing a bit of the German side of WWII. That said its far too short only covering the invasion of Poland, the fall of France, and the Eastern Front until the battle of Kursk.
You won't be pulling off any sort of alternate history miracles either so everything is pretty much by the history book. Besides getting points for unlocking tanks, camos, crew, and crew skills you can expect to only really play through this game once unless you also want to grind out the crew stories.
I will say the crew skills don't seem to do much of anything as for example spotting distance bonuses seem to top out at only ~190 meters so I wouldn't put too much stress in hand picking your Panzer crew outside of if you like the way the characters look. The tank selection is solid and can provide some replayabiliy but they are only for the player tank.
The rest of your platoon will be locked into a whatever tank is appropriate for that mission's level and timeline.
The lone technical/gameplay issue I noted is that your crosshairs are not accurate and you will regularly target a tank to aim at say the hull and instead hit the turret. Aiming through heavy tree cover or buildings is very risky as you are more likely to hit them rather than the enemy tank.
Beyond that there is Steam Workshop access so maybe one day more missions will be added via mods but for now there are the required Girls Und Panzer mods for changing the characters. All in all an enjoyable game if you know what you are going in for.
Steam User 11
Fun arcade-y tank game with genuine challenging levels that require some strategy and trial and error to complete.
You control a commanding tank with 4 other A.I friendly tanks in which you can give basic formation commands. You crew members are all interchangeable with each member having different upgradable skills (loading speed increase, tank durability increase etc.). There are a good around of vehicles ranging from early french tanks to late war giants. I personally found aiming to be a little too "stiff" but it did not ruin the experience by any means. The DLC tanks do ruin the challenge early game so I would suggest beating the game normally then running through the the DLC vehicles.
There is also a small modding scene in the Steam Workshop with mods replacing crew members from various anime, and yes there is a GuP one.
If you like GuP and WoT, you'll probably like this.