Pocket Tanks Deluxe

Last updated on June 3rd, 2023 at 11:45 pm

Pocket Tanks Deluxe

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Pocket Tanks Deluxe is one of the best $4.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Blitwise Productions, LLC, Pocket Tanks Deluxe is a Family game with a content rating of 9+.
It was released on 15th April 2009 with the latest update 21st October 2022

Whether you are a fan of Family, Strategy, or Entertainment games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.

Rating

277 people have rated 2.7.3

You can download the game Pocket Tanks Deluxe from APP STORE.

Description

"The Ultimate One-on-One Artillery Game" – Now with cross-platform WiFi and Online Play!

Pocket Tanks is the fast-paced artillery game that is simple to learn, and fun to master. The perfect quick game for friends and family, you’ll find yourself hooked for hours of play! Bury your opponent in a mound of dirt, or assail him with a barrage of bullets. Visit the Weapon Shop before battle to arm yourself for the struggle, or try the Target Practice mode to learn all the weapons and the best tactics to win.

Experience the thrill of launching volley after volley of powerful and fun weapons across the battlefield, using very simple controls. Select your angle, power, and FIRE! Your arsenal of unique and useful weapons includes: Napalm, Firecracker, Skipper, Cruiser, Dirt Mover, and dozens more! This is the light-hearted game of heavy artillery for everyone.


Features:

  • Large scrolling battlefields
  • Universal app; looks great on iPhone or iPad
  • WiFi, real-time matches on a local network
  • Online, turn based play. Battle your friends around the world at your own pace.

Deluxe Adds:

-100 exciting new weapons (145 total with all free packs)

  • Jump Jets for moving your tank around
  • Bouncy Dirt for creating reflective terrain
  • Digger for tunneling your tank underground
  • Support for weapon expansion packs, both paid and FREE!

Plus…

Mud Pie
Cannon Ball
Fission Bomb
Popcorn
Mega Cruiser
Pillow Fight
Hot Foot
Volcano
Pedestal
Lightning Strike
Gravity Well
Funnel
Snowballs
Collide-o-scope
Side Kick
Nanobots
Warp Gate

And a whole lot more!


Note from the author:

I have been writing artillery games since 1993. I created Pocket Tanks in 2001, and thanks to the many loyal fans, it is still in active development to this very day. Please join me in my quest to make Pocket Tanks a classic artillery game that stands the test of time. Thanks to all who have supported BlitWise over the years.

-Michael P. Welch
Author of DX-Ball & Scorched Tanks

Millions of downloads, over a decade of fun!

For the PC/Mac versions visit:
www.blitwise.com

Updated on 21st October 2022

  • 5 weapons – Spark Pack

The Spark Pack fuses our latest tech with the classic artillery "lava flow" effect for a fun new twist on a old-school favorite. We are pushing our creativity to the limits with weapons in this release, but keep an eye out for new features and more in the coming months. Thanks for supporting Pocket Tanks over the years. There is plenty more on the way!

Pocket Tanks Deluxe Reviews

(1/9/23) Most people might look at the seemingly older art style n simplistic UI/controls and shrug this game off.. But theres so much history behind it. So many nights as a kid staying up quietly passing the phone to your best friend in 2P battling trying to not wake anyone in the house. The excitement of a new weapon pack dropping n testing new projectiles over and over again. Pocket Tanks is the perfect example of being able to have the most fun in a (PC but admittedly more phone based) game without mind boggling complicated game mechanics, stories, etc. We recently recalled this game from our past and we were beyond excited to see the developers still continuing to update the game after (if memory stands correct) over two decades!! We are excited to see this games future. Nothing more exciting than seeing new weapons to test, but the ability to play with more people would be a game changer (maybe up to four at a time {teams..?}). As well as new terrain styles and increased map sizing for longer range battles would be incredibly. Props and a chefs kiss to the developers of one of our favorite childhood games that we will forever come back to that we recommend to ANYONE who likes playing phone games . TL;DR you got a tank on one side, you got a tank on the other. V A S T and incredibly fun weapon selection of different varieties to shoot at your adversary. Randomized terrain and wind variables to increase skill based artillery. Unreasonably fun and easy to learn, fun to master mechanics and gameplay. Developers that actually care. Highly recommend.


Our five stars says it all! Love this game, especially online and two players. Our whole family plays this game. We’ve been playing ever since in came out for iPad years ago!


We’ve been playing this game since 5th grade, Im in the Marines now and we still play this game. Its seriously just the best phone game ever created. We just wish more people knew about it.


Pocket tanks is our favorite game and we have a lot of fun playing online and with friends. But we have to take away a star because it is pay to win. You can buy weapon packs in the game and its not like theyre at least balanced. They are very overpowered weapons. Every time we go against someone that owns them we forfeit because we dont even stand a chance because their score will be over 1,000 while ours is 300. Theres this one guy named bigvally who we hate playing against the most. We hate this guy with a passion just because of his stupid weapons its Just unfair. How is this gam even fun for you if youre guaranteed the win?


This game is great to pick up and put down at anytime for people who dont like games that take a lot of time investment. The rounds are short (about 5 minutes) once you start getting familiar with the game. The game needs some quality of life improvements such as finding weapons by search in weapons selector (if you have a lot of weapon packs) and a different background so that we can actually see obstructions on the field that dont contrast well with black. Knocking 1 star off for that.


We love this game a lot, we have most of the dlc weapon packs, we just havent played in a while. Wanted to play it today but it doesnt load. The green bar nearly fills up but freezes and doesnt move. We’ve tried relaunching it several times.


How do you mess up a game this simple. They keep adding more purchases instead of more accessible features. Another paywalled pay to win. For this simple game. Wow.


We grew up playing this game around 2004 on the pc version . What we like about this mobile version are the updates on new weapons and a few other things . It still has the same feel as it did back then . Amazing simple game over all .


We love this game and have played it daily for probably over a decade! However, one feature we think we’d all really benefit from is having a "nudge" option to remind people when it is their turn after a day or so goes by. AND we wish the game didnt force-stop music that we are playing when we open the app!


Its a decent game but how the computer is so accurate even at level 1 we dont know. They are alway dead on or just off from dead on every shot, even if you move, doesnt help. Playing level 1 is like level 10. No difference.


For those of us who played the original Scorched Earth in 1991, Pocket Tanks Deluxe is a heart-felt and (mostly) faithful tribute to that classic, and there are some genuinely clever weapons and gadgets included. There are, however, some design decisions or technical limitations that prevent this game from taking the title of "Mother of All Games": namely, the restriction of only ever having one opponent available. Gone are the days of wild 10-player carnage, and impromptu alliances and betrayals and while it may have been difficult to implement additional players when Pocket Tanks was first developed, in the 20 years since, other more recent "Scorch-likes" have upped the player counts as technology improved. Even if multiple opponents were added to the Vs AI or Local Play modes only, this game would remain on our device for years to come. As it stands, it’s a nice but fleeting reminder of those days of DOS, long gone by.


Had this game on PC since early 2000s. On iOS and Android since release. Love it!


One of the first games we ever got on the App Store, back when we had an iPod touch. Still love it. Great nostalgia. Huge selection of weapons with the deluxe pack and even more for a bit of cash.


Online needs to implement a timer. Completely unplayable as it is.


We have been playing this for years and it doesn’t get old. Seeing other plays tactics is fun. Many play and stick with you for a long time. Best tanks game out there. Suggestion to developer: add in game chat somehow. It would be neat to chat with some of these guys we have been playing with.


Its a great game. For having simple graphics its a really entertaining game. Us and some buddies of ours love playing against each other and well be going at it for an hour or two. The only thing we wish would be put into the game is the ability to create a custom game. For example, you could add that your tank could move 10 times instead of 4. Or you could make it so that there are 20 volleys instead of 10. Kinda like how you can add wind or change the size of the explosion. Thanks for the great game!


Im not sure about the other platforms, but on iOS the terrain in online matches are all set to hills. It really invalidates a lot of the weapons that are built for line-of-sight. Could use more options for match settings in online matches.


Love pocket tanks but can we please get super dx ball on the iPhone? We’ve been wanting that since our first itouch!


This is a great and polished put game, but the newer weapons are lacking, the recent few release were a disappointment. The latest release cost 4 dollars, we dont remember the other releases being that expensive, we remember them being 99 cents. Be nice if we can try them out before buying, of course theres a sandbox type but how am we supposed to know which weapon is new and which is old. WiFi or Bluetooth games lag.


All of a sudden this app wont load!!!! We even uninstalled it, and had to repurchase it for $4.99 again and it still wont load. Fix the game ASAP or we want a refund! No one pay for this until an update is released.


Have played this game (the original) pretty much every day going on 20 years. Super fun. Also, your move Eric.


We remember playing this on our old iMac g3 nearly 20 years ago! Its amazing that it is still being worked on by the developer! Kudos to you!


Been playing this game since It first came out love love love it simple yet complex so fun thank you for keeping your servers up to this day.


We’ve been playing this game for such a long time and always enjoy it! Id love to see some new tank colors like black and white or even a make your own color option. Also some time type of stats so you can see how many games youve won and lost against CPUs. That would be sweet!


We’ve been playing this game for many years…. One of the best 2D games out there.


We have been playing since we were 5, and to this day we find it amusing to open the game once a week, its especially great that Michael Welch still gives the game attention even after all these years and keeps developing items for it. We always appreciated a blitwise game in leisure time :)


Im so happy this game is still getting updates and is not forgotten. We can remember playing this game as a very young kid, and it makes us so happy to be able to still play it to this day so thank you!


Our father and we have played this game together since it first came out. Im glad to see theyre still making weapon packs. Keep them coming please. We love Barbed wire and Puzzle Box!


We found this game in 2011. We played it originally with our friend in class. It was so much fun. We miss those days. However we started playing again and we cant believe only a couple packs have come out after we stopped playing. We really was hoping for something more. Anyway super fun game play this.


Playing on an iPhone 7, iOS 13.6. Wont load the game, loading screen stuck for (so far) two hours.


We have the deluxe version and it freezes on the iPad…


We love this game! Reminds us of sitting around with a group of people and doing challenges and little tournament battles! Thanks for the continued app support.


  1. Please bring in more/new Weapon Packs, we have them all but wish there were more available, its been years since any new packs have come out. 2. Allow the players to change their usernames for online play. Awesome game overall!!

We love this game and we play it everyday . But there needs to be more weapons coming out frequently . When the next update comes , we expect more packs to get new and good weapons .


More features as simple as even tank colors would be a refreshing addition. Heres our main ideas for what can be added: -Obviously more tank colors -A terrain editor to allow for custom terrain maps -Custom weapon selection in private matches as an option -Health custom mode where you try to drain the opponent of their life bar Minor improvements: -Tank movement is either moving too far or not at all, a fuel tank system for it would be nice -Power bar can be a bit weird with distancing shots -Make custom private games where we get to choose weapons and who starts As someone who has bought everything we really do love the game and will continue supporting the game but these minor improvements and new features would be amazing for the player base :)


We’ve been playing this game ever since it was on PC way back when during our computer classes in middle school. Always a blast and we love the crazy weapons.


One of the first games we downloaded on our very first iPhone! Love it.


We’ve been playing this game since 2012 and this is the best ever! We love the variety this game has in its artillery. The graphics and mechanics in this game are done very well! All and all this is just a fantastic game!


The best artillery strategy game we have ever played love it to death will keep playing this forever its amazing.


Hoping they will add some options for more moves and even the option to move at the end of a turn instead!


Update March 1 2020 we cant get enough of this game and playing over Wi-Fi, for us, has been great. We play against myself and against our son. We do like it on the iPad better. Dev, buddy, could you give us a few more free packs? Our wife busted us for buying this but Ill take it on the chin for this classic. 2020-02-17 we should be on a first name basis with the dev. Im not sure of the date but its been a long time. Im not sure but we think we might have beta tested the first release. Thats how long its been. We were there on the first round of weapons and remember when the next round came out and it was all new and we loved it. Its been so many years and we remember asking if it would come out for the iPad and we remember being told that it probably wont anytime soon and it didnt. Over the years, we’ve seen other games similar and played them but they werent anything like Pocket Tanks. We had the Deluxe version for the PC as soon as it was available. We no longer have that computer and we cant find our original copy and we’ve been putting off getting it on the iPad because we went on disability and cant afford the big dollar items anymore, but we had to break down and buy the deluxe version. We miss so many things that we were used to having that just arent on the free version. We were always waiting for the latest pack back then. Dev, we know its been a long time and we used to chat with you all the time and just want to say sorry for not keeping in touch. Yes there could be some new features but we just gotta day: this game has stood the test of time and all the games that came after it still has not found the recipe that works like this game. We’ve got it now – maybe cant get all the packs but the ones that we started with way back when should be there we hope. Beautiful game wonderful memories.


WHAT DO WE WANT? IN GAME CHAT AND NO MORE DOUBLE WEAPON!!! WHEN DO WE WABT IT? NOW!! WHAT DO WE WANT? IN GAME CHAT AND NO MORE DOUBLE WEAPONS!!!! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!!!


This game has kept us entertained for a very long time Just recently we’ve gotten back to playing it and we continue to wince as we hover our finger over the fire button hoping to hit our opponent. Please never stop making this game great.


Our brother and we have been playing this game since nearly the beginning and there has always been a version of it on our computer, even when we didnt have access to the internet. So glad to have found the app. Weve played several hundred rounds by the time of this writing, thanks to not having to be in the same room anymore.


We love this game its one of those childhood games! When we saw the mini update with the description of new weapons coming soon. That made us really happy, knowing they are still keeping this game alive! We for sure thought the developers stopped working on this game. We really hope they continue to add more weapons! They could do so much. Ideas: Polish the Game Different game modes. Examples: 2v2, 3v3 etc. Different Map backgrounds Achievements with rewards Tank customization New sounds Theres so much they can added and keep this game alive! Hopefully they do.


We’ve been playing this game for almost two decades on various platforms, and as of today, its out of our purgatory folder (where apps not optimized for iPhone X reside) and back on top. We own every weapons pack, and us and our kids (who are now grown) are once again playing this together.


Though it seems a unnecessary to make the loading screen slightly longer (unless Im imagining it), and while we dont have any interest in other games, Im glad Pocket Tanks still gets attention. Its our go-to game when brushing our teeth.


We remember playing this in high school and its still a favorite little physics game. Us and buddies used to pass time in class shooting tanks.


Im not pleased with one feature on version 2.4.3 – the auto zoom in when selecting to fire weapon. We zoom out manually, then it zooms in automatically. If we wanted to zoom in, we would do it manually. Give us an option to disable that. Otherwise, this is a great game. Have been playing it for almost as long as it has been around.

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