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Tank Buddies – Casual Game Review
Tank Buddies is a Casual/Entertainment/Action game from Kiseki Games Pty Ltd, first launched in 28th November 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 928+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tank Buddies Stand Out
Shoot, evade, and collect Power ups in this fun and adorable shooter game.
Upgrade your tanks and summon Tank Buddies to fight alongside you.
Together nothing can stop you from defeating the baddies and taking down the big bosses!
- 5 awesome tanks to collect with unique charge attacks and support types
- Loads of challenging missions to complete
- Adorable enemies and epic big bosses to fight
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tank Buddies is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th May 2020
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Tank Buddies is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great game but we purchased an item three times and all three times it never came through so developer either give us our three purchases of medium bolts like we paid for.
We lost our progress we were on that guy shooting lazer cannons.
Too bad too, because we didnt see where we could pay to do so, either…..Unfortunate…. We cant be bothered to be bombarded like that, so after a few plays, Ive DELETED it! Let us pay and get of the ads, and Ill give this 5 stars.
Real cheap fun. Love it. Good balanced game.
Very nice and generous Dev that has created an Awesome Shmup. Im about to get our 3rd Prestige and leveling up seem slow at first tho with some grinding and time you should be wiping out waves with the best of em. Thank You June 12th 2018 The gameplay iz more balance with the Devs correction of keeping your Tank Buddies after you prestige. With all the leveling up and prestigious amounts of heArtwork put into this Cute em Up you are sure to have a Funtaztic time blastin away the baddies and Bosses. Thank You Very Much Kiseki GamesFor Your Cool iOS Creation SHMUP.
Im incredibly impressed by this game. First off, its free and the ads are optional – you can watch some 30 second slots to double coins after a run for example. So yeah theres literally no reason not to give it a try to see if its for you. This game successfully created an experience where you are only dragging and releasing your finger. No other buttons or anything. This has its occasional drawbacks when you are sort of forced to fire your special weapon, but the special recharges so quickly it really doesnt matter. Id recommend to new users to fine-tune sensitivity in settings until you find the perfect fit. Its a bit of a grind to unlock all the characters (unless you pay), but honestly its not THAT much tougher than we would expect any game with unlockable characters to be. We mean it was harder to unlock all the characters in N64 smash back in the day, for example. All in all a great arcade game to waste some time on. Good job devs.
(This has been re-edited so some bugs can be fixed right now. The concepts we made are still things we want added.) lately Ive noticed some bugs that kind of bothered us when playing the game. Almost all of them are harmless there were 2 that are. 1. Lack of sprites- in most cases when Im being focused on trying to survive, we noticed that most of the enemies both didnt bounce around (excluding the ramming tanks) or the treads were not moving as theyre supposed to. The same goes to one boss that looks like a bull; Both the body and threads were not moving, making it feel like an incomplete boss to us. 2. The shield losing its texture- for some odd reason whenever we get a certain amount of shields, it begins losing parts of its details overtime. It really doesnt do anything but we thought its something that should be fixed. 3. Daily challenges/ outside coins not being made or generated- sometimes when we come back to the app it doesnt generate any coins and bolts saying that Ive been away for 30-45 minuets even thought we left way longer than it says. The same goes for the challenge system where its supposed to make a new one after completing it but hardly makes any progress at all. 4. Skipping bosses/ no level progress(?)- Im not sure if the stage is still going or it mightve skipped a boss and did not count as progress, resetting the level to the start. We find this a problem as it consumes all of your time and starts all over again, wasting time to complete it again. Or maybe it was still going and nothing really happened. 5. Empty space- may not sound like much but this kind of bug lasts for quite a while; so long that most of your support tanks or power ups even when theyre at max die out in a couple of seconds later, which causes you to lose a lot of power. This can become an annoyance after going trough them a few times. We hope these bugs get fixed to make the game feel smooth and fair. Good luck to you all! B(w)d.
This a great game. Destroying waves of enemies and upgrading your tanks is very satisfying, however, once you unlock Felix (the best tank), you become way too overpowered. Once you realize that the shield power up allows you to kill entire waves of enemies just by touching them, and once you realize that Felixs fully charged special (SPC) ability can pretty much kill ANY boss instantly at a close range, the game starts to become boring. Im only on level 90 or so, but the levels arent getting more challenging fast enough. Im clearing every enemy that is spawned in a level without even trying. In short, this game is very entertaining and super addicting at first, but once you unlock all the tanks and learn how the game works, it becomes boring simply because you become too powerful and the enemies only getting slightly more powerful each level.
Every time you die it sits there and doesnt hit restart. We have to restart the game every time by closing and reopening. It is a cool game just has annoying glitches.
Great game but we.T feels so repetitive after you reach a certain level. The same 3 or 4 bosses, same enemies, they just get more health as you progress. Please add more content so we can play more and support.
We love this game and it is fun to play.
Our husband and our 7 year old were having so much fun we had to download it, too. Now, we cant put it down.
This game is great, but it easily becomes boring and repetitive over time. We reccomend adding some more enemies, such as an enemy that might spring to different sides, waits a bit, then repeats, or maybe an enemy that moves at 0.5x normal speed but is only killed with specials.
Wish bolts were easier to come by, however we do like that ads are not as prominent. We wish you would watch ads for gears.
Great game! Love it! But we wish bolts would show up more. Also can you add a Terminator as one of the tank buddies or the enemies? Also we like how you dont display adds every time you die and instead display add after you die several times. Can you add an upgrade to increase fire rate and not the fire rate power up thing. Also can you do seasonal updates like for christmas you could add Santa hats or Santa suits on some of the enemies or for Halloween put pumpkins on the sides of the path and dress the enemies up as monsters or for Valentines Day dress some enemies up like angels or for St. Patricks day dress some enemies up as leprechauns and add clovers to the side of the path or for Presidents Day dress some of the enemies as past presidents or for- Okey! You get the idea! You could also have those red laser walls with enemy on each side one lane thinner and make it move from side to side. Hope we gave you developers an idea.
SOOOO ADDICTING we CANT STOP PLAYING BUT MAKE THE LEVELING UP QUICKER PLSSS.
QueegQueeg 08 December 2017 we think a tutorial or some practice would help.The game could be more fun if we understood what we are supposed to do.we play to relieve stress and not to add stress.we gave it 3 stars only because of the bonus coins you receive watching ads!! Without the bonus coins,we wouldnt be able to play for very long! Thank You.
Similar is structure to Temple Run, this game has a lot of promise but runs out of steam just when its getting good. Two big problems. As you level up your tanks guns you dont notice a satisfying level of difference in your power. There is not much feeling of progression as a result. Second, past a certain point early in game play there are no new enemies. This game could have been great if leveling made weak enemies easy while new enemies need are added as you progress so you continue to feel the need to level. As it is now, there is no incentive at all to keep grinding. Temple run kept us going for maybe a month of casual leveling. We tapped this game out in maybe five days. Fun while it lasted, but it could have been a lot better without a lot more development.
Hey theres this glitch where when we bought bubbles it glitched out and we cant play as bubbles because we cant move the tank menu now and we only can play as the cat tank please fix it.
You do not unlock the tanks by getting to the level it says on them. You buy them with gears and they start with that level of upgrades. Please stop giving the game bad reviews because you dont understand how getting new tanks works.
Fun game, super easy to get sucked in. A lot of ads though.
We just got this game today, and we already love it. Its extremely fun to play. Its fun moving around and shooting enemies at the same time. Also, having the other tanks on your side is the definition of chaos in a good way. The soundtrack is really good, too. Its very upbeat and goes very well with the game. There are a few minor problems, though. First of all, we dont like how you need so many bolts to unlock the other tanks. Secondly, this game can be pretty unforgiving at times, usually if you are new to the game. Once you get used to the controls, though, its not so bad. This is a very good game, with smooth controls and addictive gameplay, with only a few minor flaws.
It's a great game but we reached level 10 and it still makes us buy the character. Fix and we will be satisfied.
Its a really good game, but Im at level 12 and bubbles still isnt available. Pls fix this.
We have played this game for a good bit we got to level 13 but didnt give us the tank It said we unlocked at level 10 which really is a bunch of bs because ti says unlocks at level 10 idk if its a bug or Im doing something wrong but it needs to be fixed.
The first tank you get is trash and once we reached level 11 Bubbles still wasnt unlocked even though he is supposed to be unlocked at level 10.
We like the game but we will stop playing it because of the annoying ads after each 2 games.
We have gotten to level 25, but it won't give us Bubbles or L33z. Try to fix the problem, still, the game is phenomenal.
This is an awesome game, its hard but very fun.
This game is a must-play if you enjoy cute tanks and action.
So you start out with nothing and then you get better but the fun part is the boss battles. There hard but sooooooo fun im only lvl three but we see how good of a game this could be by adding characters Maybe that cost coins??? We love this game.
This is the best game Ive played in this genre. Theres no limits on how much you can play, everything and every upgrade in the game can be unlocked, just by playing the game, they dont force you to watch ads, and when you do choose to watch a add the reward they give you is worth your time, The upgrade system is very nice. Game runs very smooth no connection issues, so far no complaints whatsoever. 5 stars.
We have gotten to level 10 in our game in both our tank (usagi) and in the boss fight but It still does not unlock bubbles yet it says it unlocks at level ten.By now the game say we should have the laser tank but eh still a good game.
We think that this game is pretty good. The graphics are great and the game is pretty fun. The one thing we would say is that there needs to be more than just the one mode, then we would give it 5 stars.
We love how you can easily play to win and unlock everything without having to pay to play. Our only issue is we cant see any of the buttons that say upgrade. In order to upgrade we had to tap randomly under the perk icon until we hit the button. If this can be fixed Ill give 5 stars.
The gameplay is fun and we like it but when they say you have to reach a certain level unlock other tanks we have and it still says we have to use the gears to unlock it and any time we try to play an ad to keep going it plays another ad right after and then we instantly am put in the loss screen without the second chance and sometimes when we start the game it will spawn us inside a tank and we die instantly without even being able to see the screen yet.
The game is a fun bullet hell, but it is lacking in some aspects. It seems to be greedy when it comes to ads. Every other time you die, it plays an ad. On top of this, you can watch an ad to keep going, and it has in app purchases! But the main thing that actually effects gameplay itself, is that it's very hard to see opponents attacks. Sometimes they will phase through your bullets and become very hard to spot, until it's too late. So it does need a bit of work.
The game is fun, but there are too many ads. We spent as much of not more time watching ads than playing the game. No game, no matter how good, is worth keeping around if half the time spent on it literally has nothing to do with the game.
Crashes immediately on launch. Really.
The game menu is stupid buggy. We cant see any of the buttons to upgrade anything so we have to press all over the screen until we get the right button and then it tells us we need more of the currency, but not how much we need? Not only that, but if you happen to scroll down too much in the menu the screen will actually glitch out and bug out on you. Game looks and feels fun, we just cant do anything past the menu. Bad part on you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.4
- Size: 134.71 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kiseki Games Pty Ltd
Last updated: 30th May 2020 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: Kiseki Games Pty Ltd