Janky Tanks Demo

Janky Tanks is a local multiplayer combat game that lets users play with tanks against each other until they either drown or they are thrown out of the screen.

Local multiplayer games had their day, but we haven’t seen them in quite a while. There are a few that still exist and a few developers are working on some new ones, but for the most part it’s a dying genre. With the advent of the Internet and more serious multiplayer games, not a lot of people are still playing these titles on the same screen.

Sure, we still have split-screen, but that’s not the same. Facing your friends on the same screen, in the same small map, until you manage to defeat them all brings a certain satisfaction that you don’t get from playing a multiplayer game with someone you don’t know, over the Internet.

The gameplay in Janky Tanks seems simple enough, but it’s in fact much more complicated. Most likely you’re going to get crushed in the first few matches until you figure out how the tanks are being controlled.

The easy answer is that you don’t control the tanks. You can just hope to control the blowback from firing the cannon and a couple of lateral engines. That’s pretty much it. From time to time a power-up falls from the sky, but getting to is almost impossible.

The goals of the players are to either push the enemies outside the map (if they don’t fall themselves) or to be the last one alive when the water starts rising. It’s a surviving game, more than anything.

Janky Tanks is built on the Unity engine and it’s pretty light on the system requirements, so even players with older PCs will be able to try it. The strong suite for the game is not the way it looks, but the way the physics works. You can imagine that it’s the most important feature.

The demo version only comes with a single set of levels, but it’s more than enough to figure out if you like it.