Tanks 2026 — a game by Vorting

A tank battle in the spirit of the 8-bit classics, written from scratch. Defend your base across 35 new stages, or in a RANDOM campaign where the enemies hunt you. Get through without losing a tank to earn rewards you keep. Alone or with a friend, in pixel art or HD.

Add to your Steam wishlist Coming to Steam · December 2026

What's in it

CLASSIC: 35 new stages, every fifth one a picture.
RANDOM: the field fills the screen, every run is a new campaign, and the enemies raid your base and hunt you.
Clear all 35 stages on one difficulty without losing a tank, and pick one of two rewards to keep.
Two players on one screen, on keyboards or pads: DualSense and Xbox, each with its own button prompts.
Two looks: pixel art, or HD with its own font and fuller sound. Switch at any time.
English, Ukrainian and Russian, plus a joke translation in the style of early-2000s bootleg games.

Screenshots

Two players on one stage, a bomb setting off six explosions at once

A RANDOM stage across the whole screen, a tank calling COME HERE! to the enemies

A wide RANDOM field with an explosion and many enemy tanks

Two players, a raven dropping its gifts, and an explosion

The second stage, an explosion next to the base

The REWARDS screen, all 35 stages on EASY cleared and a reward to pick

Platforms

Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) and macOS on Apple Silicon.

Support

Found a bug or have a question? Until the release, write to me on LinkedIn. After it, use the game's discussions on Steam.

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Credits

Thanks to the authors whose free work is in the game:

Libraries

Made with AI

I used AI tools to make some of the content in this game:

the sprites, in both the pixel and the HD look, and the HD font;
the music: my own tunes, played by a generator written with AI help;
most of the sound effects, and the HD versions of all of them;
the announcer's voice, made with Piper, an open-source text-to-speech tool;
the translations.

The store art is built from these sprites, and the trailer's narrator uses the announcer's voice. I checked all of it by hand. Nothing is generated by AI while you play.

Dev diary

Updates to my game Tanks 2026 before its Steam release · DOU What changed before the Steam release: pixel and HD looks, and voice commands through the DualSense mic. Behind the scenes, CI runs 1,171 tests on every PR and builds for macOS and Windows from one version tag (UA). I vibe-coded the tank game from my childhood in Java 21 and Swing: DualSense, two-player mode and anti-power-ups · DOU A childhood tank game rebuilt from scratch in Java 21 and Swing, no game engine: two-player mode, a DualSense with rumble, and anti-power-ups like a raven that steals your bonus (UA).