A blue Karst heavy tank fires across a grass field at dusk; an enemy tank burns beside it.

Isometric Studio Gamers presents

Last Tank Standing

Heavy tanks are almost impossible to kill from the front, so don’t fight them there. Real-time tank tactics in an alternate 1926 — platoons, terrain and the flank.

Watch the trailer Steam listing coming soon

Real-time tactics
Single-player
Windows PC
Mouse & keyboard

Announcement trailer · 1:19 Captured in-engine. Every frame is the shipping renderer.

The game

No base building. No resource race. Just the army you brought and the ground you fight on.

Last Tank Standing is a real-time tactics game about armoured warfare in an alternate 1920s. You command platoons of tanks, infantry and artillery, and try to get your guns onto the sides and rear of the enemy before they do the same to you.

You spend your budget on an army before the battle, then fight with what you bought. Most battles at the standard size are over in about five minutes; the biggest run up to a twenty-minute clock.

Pause at any moment and keep giving orders — or slow the war to half speed and watch it unfold.

35Campaign missions
30Skirmish battlefields
18Unit types, two factions
29Steam achievements

How it plays

Read the ground. Win the flank.

A Karst medium platoon catches three red Compact heavy tanks side-on at the edge of a pine forest. — Pinewood · flank kill

01 · Directional armour

Armour has a front, sides and a rear

Every armoured vehicle carries different armour on each face, and every gun has a penetration value. Hover an enemy with a squad selected and the game tells you which face you’ll hit — and whether you’ll get through.

Pick a platoon to fire on a Bastion heavy tank

Front176—

Side92—

Rear46—

Penetration vs. armour from the game’s unit tables. In battle, range and special rounds shift the odds.

A blue three-tank platoon advances in a staggered line across open grass. — Karst Dominion · Bastion platoon

02 · Squads

Platoons, not single units

Each unit is a squad of 2 to 16 vehicles or soldiers, and you watch it shrink as it takes losses. The Karst Dominion and the Iron Compact each field nine unit types:

Heavy, medium and light tanks
Tank destroyers and scout cars
Rifle squads and anti-tank teams
Mortars and howitzers — indirect fire with travel time and scatter

Most units carry one special ability on a cooldown — a sabot round, a smoke screen, a creeping barrage. Squads that survive gain rank mid-battle and shoot faster and truer.

A red Compact column crosses a forest clearing while hidden Karst units wait in the treeline. — Pinewood crossroads · ambush

03 · Fog of war

You only see what your squads see

Forests and towns hide units, ridges block line of sight, and rivers push armour onto bridges and fords. Scout cars and infantry find the enemy before their guns find you.

The AI plays under the same fog of war and gives the same orders you can. Hold more capture zones than the enemy and their tickets drain — so sitting back never works.

The Operation front map: blue Karst sectors on the left, orange enemy territory on the right, with three battlegroups and attack arrows.

04 · Operation mode

A whole front, one turn at a time

Operation mode is a turn-based front map between your headquarters and the enemy’s. Raise up to four armies at a depot and order each to attack, move or hold. Every attack is fought as a real-time battle, and whatever survives keeps its losses, kills and rank.

Sectors pay income and armies cost upkeep, so you can’t just keep buying. The enemy counter-attacks your weak points — and if your headquarters falls, the operation is lost.

A campaign mission with the objective tracker and a radio message from the Marshal at the top of the screen. — The Iron Harvest · Forcing the Delta

05 · The Iron Wars

Three campaigns. One officer. Fifteen years.

Follow Dara Venn from border captain to general of the defense, across a war between the Karst Dominion and the Iron Compact — the foundry league that doesn’t declare wars, it buys them.

Missions earn up to three stars. Squads that do well become named veteran platoons and carry into the next mission; the ones you lose are listed in a memorial.

1926

The Border War

The eastern marches rise in revolt — with rifles no march-town forge ever made. Peel the mask back, and force the Compact to stand and be beaten in the open.

7 missions

1931

The Iron Harvest

Strike first. Lead the spearhead into the Amber Marches and reach the Highwall before General Varga’s corps lands to “protect” it. Conquest does not stay clean.

12 missions

1941

The Long Watch

The Compact comes in person. Marshal-of-Iron Krieg lands on your coast, and there is nowhere left to fall back to. Hold. Turn. Break them.

16 missions

06 · More ways to fight

Skirmish, siege & the daily

Skirmish

30 maps across steppe, forest, highland, river and town. Choose weather, time of day, factions, budgets and AI skill — or go three- and four-way free-for-all on twelve of them.

A mortar barrage lands on an enemy wave crossing a causeway.

Endless siege

Hold a position against waves that keep getting bigger, on five purpose-built maps. Your best scores are saved.

Karst platoons crest the rim of a highland mesa onto enemy guns.

Daily challenge

One fixed battle per day — the same map and armies for everyone on that date. Retry as often as you like and beat your own best.

Screenshots

From the front

System requirements

Built to run almost anywhere

Minimum

OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
Processor: Dual-core 2.5 GHz (Core i3-6100 class)
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: WebGL2-capable GPU, GTX 650 / Intel HD 520 class
Storage: 500 MB

Be the last tank standing

The Steam listing is coming soon. Want to know the day wishlists open? Drop us a line and we’ll tell you.

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The studio

Isometric Studio Gamers

We’re an independent studio making strategy games you read from above — the angle where every ridge, treeline and flank is visible, and every decision is yours.

Last Tank Standing is our first release: a tactics game built around one honest idea — that position beats numbers. No base building, no unit spam, and an AI that plays by the same rules you do.

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