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Tank Universal

Dialogue Design · 2008-08-21

Steam

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 21, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Tank Universal is an action FPS tank wargame inspired by Tron and Battlezone. Explore a rich virtual sci-fi 3D world, and take part in large-scale tank combat between your AI allies and the forces of an evil dictator.

Tank Universal is an Action Indie game released in 2008, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (60% of 448 reviews).

0
playing now
60%
positive of 448 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Tank Universal is a computer game developed by New Zealand studio Dialogue Design and published by Meridian4. It currently features a 20-level single player campaign as well as a skirmish mode. Its graphical style has been described as "Tron-like", while its gameplay takes inspiration from the classic Atari title Battlezone. As of August 21, 2008, it is available on Valve's Steam digital distribution service.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 28,023 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 18k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 448 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.50 at Steam (2014-02-03) · bundled 14×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.502015-01-012021-12-012015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-03-09 — best price $1.242015-08-17 — best price $0.992015-11-16 — best price $0.992016-01-15 — best price $1.242016-03-07 — best price $0.742016-04-14 — best price $0.502016-07-11 — best price $4.992016-07-27 — best price $0.992016-08-26 — best price $0.992016-10-03 — best price $4.992016-11-07 — best price $0.992016-11-29 — best price $4.992017-01-02 — best price $4.992017-02-23 — best price $1.002017-03-20 — best price $4.992017-04-17 — best price $0.952017-05-08 — best price $4.992017-07-05 — best price $4.992017-09-05 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992017-12-20 — best price $0.992018-02-12 — best price $4.992018-03-19 — best price $4.992018-04-27 — best price $4.992018-06-21 — best price $0.992018-09-24 — best price $0.742018-11-27 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $0.992019-05-06 — best price $1.002019-09-23 — best price $0.992019-12-19 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.992020-11-25 — best price $0.992021-02-11 — best price $0.992021-09-20 — best price $0.992021-12-01 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

702026-06-01 — 0 pageviews2026-06-05 — 3 pageviews2026-06-09 — 4 pageviews2026-06-13 — 1 pageviews2026-06-17 — 1 pageviews2026-06-21 — 4 pageviews2026-06-25 — 1 pageviews2026-06-29 — 1 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1 pageviews2026-07-07 — 2 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-15 — 2 pageviews2026-07-19 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-31 — 1 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-09 — 4 pageviews2026-08-13 — 2 pageviews2026-08-18 — 2 pageviews2026-08-22 — 1 pageviews2026-08-27 — 2 pageviews2026-08-31 — 3 pageviews2026-09-04 — 2 pageviews2026-09-08 — 1 pageviews2026-09-12 — 7 pageviews2026-09-17 — 0 pageviews2026-09-21 — 1 pageviews2026-09-25 — 2 pageviews2026-09-29 — 1 pageviews2026-10-03 — 1 pageviews2026-10-07 — 1 pageviews2026-10-11 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

27
achievements tracked
53.8%
earned "Bit Brain"
13.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7827%27

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DFPSTanksActionSci-fiWargameColorfulStylizedSimulationStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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