Twin-stick controls
Left thumb drives, right thumb aims and fires. Choose a dynamic stick that appears wherever you touch, or fixed sticks pinned to the corners.
PANZO
Top-down tank battle. 100+ handcrafted levels. Free on Android.
Live demo — drive with WASD · aim with the mouse · click to fire drag to drive · tap to fire
100+ levels
2+ worlds
Plays offline
Gamepad ready
4 languages
No ads, no account
Mission briefing
A tank shooter that fits in one thumb
Panzo is a free 2D top-down tank game for Android. Every level is hand-built: enemy turrets guard the routes, tank patrols wake when you get close, and a single well-aimed shot into a barrel stack can clear a whole position. Drive, aim, shoot — nothing else to learn.
Barrels that really explode
Every barrel fires 25 blast rays over a 3-metre radius and chains into its neighbours. Park a shot in the right stack and the whole enemy position goes up with it.
Weapons you drive over
Roll across a laser gun or a rocket launcher and it is yours for the rest of the level — the laser doubles your rate of fire, the rocket doubles your punch.
Enemies with a plan
Turrets sweep their arc and lock on the moment you enter range. Tank patrols path around cover, close to firing distance, hold — then walk home if you break contact.
Stars, lives and second chances
Finish fast, finish untouched and finish with lives left for three stars. Medkits patch you up mid-fight; shields soak the next few hits.
Play anywhere, offline
The whole campaign runs on your phone. No account, no login, no connection needed — and it is light enough for older devices.
Campaign
Worlds to fight through
Each world has its own terrain, cover and enemy mix. Levels are scored out of three stars, and stars are the key to the next world.
Desert Storm
★★★ three stars a level
Green Valley
★★★ three stars a level
Next world
Coming soon
Arsenal
Guns and supplies
You start every level with the standard gun. What you find on the floor decides how the fight goes.
Normal Gun
- Damage 200
- Cooldown 1.0 s
- Sustained 200 dps
Laser Gun
- Damage 300
- Cooldown 0.5 s
- Sustained 600 dps
Rocket Gun
- Damage 450
- Cooldown 1.4 s
- Sustained ~320 dps
Barrel
- Blast radius 3 m
- Rays 25
- Chains yes
Medkit
Instant repair, capped at full health. Usually parked exactly where the shooting is worst.
Shield
A bubble that absorbs damage before it touches your health bar, with its own silver bar under it.
Extra life
Destroyed with lives left? You come straight back into the fight instead of restarting the level.
Know your targets
The opposition
Five enemy types, each with its own health, damage and behaviour. Clearing a level means destroying every one of them.
Cannon
Sweeps its arc, locks on at about 6 tiles. The bread-and-butter guard post.
- Health 500
- Damage 100 / 1.2 s
Rocket
Out-ranges you at ~7 tiles and hits harder than anything else — but aims slowly. Strafe and close in.
- Health 1200
- Damage 450 / 1.4 s
Panzer
Wakes at ~11 tiles, paths around cover, holds at ~5 tiles and shoots. Loses interest if you leave.
- Health 1100
- Damage 200 / 1.0 s
- Speed 1.3 m/s
Panzer 2
The bruiser. Slowest of the three, but the most health and the heaviest shell.
- Health 1200
- Damage 250 / 1.2 s
- Speed 1.2 m/s
Panzer 3
Fast and fast-firing. Comes at you first and keeps the pressure on while the heavies arrive.
- Health 1000
- Damage 150 / 0.9 s
- Speed 1.4 m/s
Your tank
Twice as fast as anything the enemy fields, which is the whole trick: back-pedal, circle, keep firing.
- Health 1100
- Damage 200 / 1.0 s
- Speed 2.6 m/s
Screenshots
Straight from the battlefield
Real levels from the campaign, shown at the same zoom you play at.
Controls
Touch, or a real controller
Panzo was built thumbs-first, then given full gamepad support: plug in or pair a controller and the on-screen sticks step aside.
- Dynamic sticks appear where you touch
- Static sticks pinned to the corners
- Gamepad left drives · right aims
- Buttons rebindable
- Deadzones & vibration adjustable
- Languages EN · العربية · हिन्दी · اردو
In development
Two features are already built into the game and will be switched on in a coming update:
Garage & skins
Five rarity tiers of tank paint — Default, Rare, Epic, Legendary and Mythic — plus team colours.
Online multiplayer
Arena deathmatch with a live kill feed and a scoreboard for kills, deaths and damage.
Rare Epic Legendary Mythic
Questions
Frequently asked
Is Panzo free to play?
Yes. Panzo is free to download and every level is included. Optional in-app items — a laser gun, a shield or an extra life — can be bought for a single level, but the whole campaign can be finished without spending anything.
Does Panzo work offline?
Yes. The single-player campaign runs entirely on your device, so you can play on a plane, on the metro or with mobile data off.
How many levels are there?
More than 100 handcrafted levels across multiple worlds, with more in development. Each level is scored from one to three stars, and Green Valley unlocks once you have earned enough stars in Desert Storm.
Can I play with a gamepad?
Yes. Panzo supports Bluetooth and USB controllers: the left stick drives, the right stick aims and fires. Buttons are rebindable, stick deadzones are adjustable and vibration can be turned off.
Which languages are supported?
English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu, including full right-to-left layout for Arabic and Urdu.
What does Panzo need to run?
Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) or newer. It is a lightweight 2D game built on libGDX, so it runs smoothly on older and low-end phones too.
Is there a multiplayer mode?
Online arena multiplayer is built and being tested, but it is not switched on in the public build yet. The current release is the single-player campaign.
Start the campaign
100+ levels, no ads between them, no account to create. Just a tank, a gun and a lot of barrels.
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