Single-player tank action adventure game TankRat will launch for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on January 15, 2027, publisher Kepler Interactive and developer Alpha Channel announced.
“Blistering, eviscerating combat is at TankRat‘s core, but we’ve also infused it with what we love as a studio—the Tankrats are a homage to miniature ‘kitbashing,’ the world is an ode to 20th century [science-fiction], and playing the game feels like mech action at its finest,” said Alpha Channel creative director Daniel Ebanks in a press release. “We’re psyched to let players get their hands on these and geek out about the same things we do. See you in the ECA.”
Here is an overview of the game, via Kepler Interactive:
About
In the aftermath of a war that reduced the world’s most fantastic city to ash, the Event Containment Area (ECA) stands as a monument to humanity’s ambition and ruin.
A wasteland of twisted metal husks, the remnants of mankind’s greed spread like mechanical cancer across the world. Only steel remains, humans having to project their consciousness into mechanical “Shells,” powerful drones that can salvage and control armored tanks of a lost age.
You are Whitaker, a Sleepwalker—a digitized consciousness inhabiting a Needle, a hardened drone built to endure the storms and horrors of the ECA. And your survival will be earned, one kill at a time.
Welcome to the end of the world, it’s time to hunt TankRats.
Key Features
- Become What You Break – Shift seamlessly between the agile Needle and powerful combat Tanks as you explore the ECA’s Dead Zone. You must traverse what remains of a once advanced society to scavenge all the materials you can to upgrade your machine. Dismantle enemies, strip their wreckage for weapons, armor, and tech, and graft their parts onto your own rig. Every trip through the wasteland is a chance to rebuild, respec, and come back stronger.
- Tear Through Metal – Blast through swarms of corrupted drones and mech-monsters in fast-paced, brutal vehicular combat across shifting battlefield conditions. The Dead Zone’s greatest terrors are the TankRats, wandering remnants of lost Sleepwalkers, twisted by the Shroud and time itself. You’ll need to exploit every weakness to bring these metal titans down. The only way out is through, and the only way through, is to destroy everything in your path.
- Rise Above the Ruins – The fabled city in the sky, Highpoint. A whispered truth buried in the ashes of a lost civilization. You don’t know why, but you know with absolute clarity that the only reason you fight is to uncover the truth behind the Shroud, a radioactive storm that warps time, memory, and reality itself. What are you willing to give to make it to the promised land, and what will you do if you don’t like the truth you find there?
Watch a new trailer below.