Every shot reshapes the battlefield permanently. No two levels are ever the same — and the whole thing runs without a single network request.
Every explosion carves a physically accurate crater into the heightmap along the true bottom arc of the blast — a permanent scar, not a decal. Midpoint displacement builds a new landscape every round, and a landing-pad pass guarantees two flat footholds always exist, so no shape ever produces an impossible shot.
2,048-particle pool driving 6 blending layers per hit — white flash, inner pulse, a double-layered shockwave ring, physics debris, rising embers and smoke — sized per weapon so a Baby Missile and a Nuke never look alike. Blasts run wide and slow enough to watch, over a seven-layer detonation synthesised on the spot: the rip, the punch, shrapnel scattered across the stereo field and two delayed echoes coming back off the terrain. Every blast also leaves a persistent scorch decal on the ground, and the chunks it throws come to rest as rubble that stays planted on the surface — even after a later shell reshapes the hill beneath it.
Cannon shots and explosions are synthesised in real time — square-wave sweeps and filtered noise, no .wav files anywhere. Menu and battle each run a MOD tracker soundtrack through libxmp, mixed live into the audio stream.
Overcast, fog, rain, red-sky, moonless night and full thunderstorms — clouds drift with the wind, rain slants with it, and a storm bolt hits like a shell: it breaks a shield outright, and an unshielded tank goes up with the full death sequence.
Wheels spin, suspension flexes and the antenna sways as you drive the barrel. Below 60% HP the hull picks up dents and soot; below 30% it leaks smoke and sparks. Livery pattern varies by player slot, so shared colours never look like reskins.
Start every match with 5,000 credits and earn 300 more per confirmed hit. The armory has two racks — ordnance on the left, defensive systems on the right — with a rotating 3D model and a dossier typed onto a CRT for whatever you have selected. No penalty for a clean miss.
The energy dome is a 72-point arc clipped to the ground, shifting cyan → orange → red as it degrades. Shield cells raise its 40 HP up to 200; an aegis dome widens it and bleeds 20% off every hit; a mag field throws incoming shells back out before they land; reactive plates detonate outward and cancel a hit whole. Whichever system you engage takes the next hit first.
Enemy tanks walk their fire onto you. Each bot watches where its own shell landed and corrects the next shot from the miss — the artillery bracket — so a ridge or a cliff between you buys a turn or two, not the whole match. They also visit the armory: shield cells and reactive plates first, then ordnance that escalates with the level, up to a nuke deep into a run. Low skill barely learns and never touches the heavy stuff; high skill brackets in fast and saves the expensive shell for once it has your range.
Switch on a 15, 30 or 60 second turn clock and the shot leaves the barrel when it runs out, aimed however you left it — a drain bar under the HUD and a countdown that only appears in the last ten seconds. Every hit now writes what it actually cost: hull damage in red, shield in blue, a cancelled hit on a reactive plate in amber. A callsign banner sweeps in on your turn and on every elimination, so a six-tank squad never leaves you hunting for whose move it is.
The Lava Bomb is the only shell whose impact is the least of it. The drum splits and pyrogel runs along the surface, taking a column of ground at a time out to 78 px on each side — up slopes, down into gullies, following whatever the heightmap does. Anything standing in the front burns for as long as it stays there, the fire eats the terrain down as it passes, and what it leaves behind is embers still glowing in the soil long after the flames have gone. A shot that falls short can still finish the job.
Pause and save between shots and the run waits for you: the level, the round, whose turn it is, every crater already carved into the terrain and every shell and defence system still in each tank. CONTINUE appears on the main menu when there is something to come back to. The save is a continuation point, not a rewind — loading it consumes it, so a run you walk away from is still a run you can lose.
Four tabs — audio, video, game and accessibility — with the selected option explained in a line at the foot of the panel, so you never have to start a match to find out what a switch does. Master, music and effect levels; CRT scanlines, a soft backdrop and four steps of screen shake; turn clock and aim-guide modes. Accessibility carries reduced motion, which stills the shake, the full-screen flashes and every drifting background layer, and a colourblind-safe player set with no red-green pair in it.
Every level seeds sky, sun/moon, three parallax layers, biome ground props and an animated atmosphere pass from the same random seed as the terrain — so the scene always agrees with itself, and the silhouette, palette and weather change on every single level. The horizon can be a lit night-time skyline with windows switching on and off and roof beacons blinking out of phase, a dead forest of burnt trunks, or a burning apocalypse sky raining meteors behind the parallax over the volcanic and rock biomes.
The same missile, the same moment after impact, across every biome and every sky the generator can deal you. Terrain shape, palette, horizon and weather all hang off one seed, so no two rounds are fought on the same ground.
All 8 weapons, real numbers — select one to inspect
In game each one is built as a live wireframe — the MIRV bus separates its warheads, the cluster canister spills its bomblets — beside a dossier typed onto a green phosphor CRT
The backbone of every strategy — free and unlimited. Master the arc before spending a single credit.
The armory's other rack — four ways to still be there next turn
Raises the energy dome’s capacity and tops it back up. Stacks to 200 HP of shield.
Coil lanes orbiting the hull. A shell that enters the bubble is thrown straight back out — one charge per deflection, three lanes maximum.
A wider, faceted shell over the shield. Bleeds 20% off everything that gets through, per tier, up to three tiers.
Plates bolted to the flanks. Each one detonates outward and cancels a hit whole — damage, shield drain and all.
Blast radius, debris scatter, collapse speed and particle density are all per-biome constants — the same Nuke digs a very different hole in Crystal than it does in Sand.
| BIOME | HUD LABEL | BLAST RADIUS × | BEHAVIOUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal | CRYSTAL | 0.55× | The hardest terrain in the game — but shatters into sharp, far-flung shards |
| Rock | ROCK | 0.65× | Resistant granite — small, tight craters, heavy chunks that don’t travel |
| Volcanic | LAVA | 0.75× | Semi-hard lava rock — debris comes off glowing |
| Clay | CLAY | 0.85× | Wet and sticky — medium craters, a slow, reluctant collapse |
| Jungle | JUNGLE | 0.90× | Dense soil bound by roots — a normal crater, lush falling debris |
| Soil | GRASS | 1.00× | Baseline — the reference terrain every multiplier is measured against |
| Snow | SNOW | 1.10× | Softest terrain — triggers the longest-travelling avalanche slides |
| Sand | SAND | 1.35× | Loosest ground in the game — huge craters, debris scatters far and wide |
No login screen, no EULA to click through, no background process checking in with anyone. Compile it once and it will run exactly the same in ten years, on a machine with no internet connection at all — a small argument for both privacy and preservation.
There is no networking code anywhere in the codebase — no sockets, no HTTP client, nothing to reach out to. The one outward link is the SHARE button on the main menu, which hands a URL to your browser and nothing else.
Nothing is measured, logged remotely, or phoned home. What happens on your machine stays on your machine.
Every library it needs is linked statically and every image asset is embedded in the executable — the game runs from a single file, no install directory to keep intact.
Cannon fire and explosions are synthesised sample-by-sample at run time. The soundtrack is the only audio data on disk — everything else is generated math.
Three complete, independent input schemes — keyboard, mouse-drag aiming, and full touch.
| ← → | Adjust barrel angle |
| ↑ ↓ | Adjust shot power |
| Space | Fire |
| Tab | Cycle weapon |
| D | Cycle the engaged defence system |
| S | Share the game (main menu) |
| Enter | Confirm / buy in shop |
| Esc | Pause / close shop — the pause menu is where you save and exit |
Windows comes from the Microsoft Store and iPhone, iPad and Mac from the App Store, on one listing — a single purchase covers all three. Linux and Android install straight from here. Everything runs fully offline once it's on your machine, exactly like the rest of the game.