Iron Swarm
Top-down tank arcade combat
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Iron Swarm is a top-down 2D tank arcade game for players who want sharp combat without loot boxes, virtual currency, energy timers, or pay-to-win mechanics.
CORE LOOP
Drive a tank through wave after wave of enemy armor. Every third wave brings a multi-phase boss encounter — Phase 1 fires single shots, Phase 2 adds charge attacks and 8-bullet ring bursts, Phase 3 escalates to 12-bullet rings and a 5-shot spread. Enemy speed scales with each cycle. There is no final wave — only how far you can go.
EIGHT HISTORICAL MISSIONS (v1.0)
Mission Mode is a curated set of 8 historical tank operations, each with bespoke rules, terrain, and a 2.5D sprite-stack visual treatment:
- Mission 01: Ghost of Mtsensk (Eastern Front, 1941)
- Mission 02: Iron Crossroads (Raseiniai, 1941)
- Mission 03: Red Tide at Prokhorovka (Kursk, 1943)
- Mission 04: Zvika Force (Golan Heights, 1973)
- Mission 05: Desert Stand (Longewala, 1971)
- Mission 06: Eagle Troop (73 Easting, 1991)
- Mission 07: People's Hero Tank (Korea, 1953)
- Mission 08: Iron Gate (Saigon, 1975)
Each mission ships with a unique BGM, custom HUD overlay, and a 3-star rating per round.
DAILY CHALLENGE
A new seeded run every 24 hours. Same starting conditions for every player on Earth. One attempt. One score. Local leaderboard tracks your best.
CONTROLS
Mobile: virtual twin-stick (left = move, right = aim and fire). Dedicated buttons for Homing Missile and Drone Strike.
Desktop: WASD to move, Spacebar to fire, M for missile, D for drone — keyboard-native feel.
POWER-UPS (earned in-game, never purchased)
- Health Pack — restores 50 HP instantly
- Speed Boost — 1.5x movement speed for 8 seconds
- Shield — absorbs all incoming damage for 10 seconds
- Rapid Fire — doubles fire rate for 8 seconds
- EMP Blast, Drone Strike, Burst Fire, Freeze Gun, Shield Bubble — situational tools that change how a round plays
BOSS REWARDS
Defeat a boss to crack open a Field Module chest. Power-ups now carry rarity tiers — and enemies can drop them mid-fight, so every wave is a gamble worth pushing.
2.5D VISUAL TREATMENT
Every mission and prop is rendered with a sprite-stack technique that gives 2D sprite art a volumetric feel — tanks have depth, walls cast slabs, props read as objects in space. Built on Flame engine with a 60fps target on every supported device.
ACCESSIBILITY
- Reduce Motion toggle (disables non-essential camera shake and hit-pause)
- High-contrast HUD option
- Text scale clamped to remain legible at every system text size
- Semantic labels on every menu control (PLAY, SETTINGS, PAUSE)
HONEST MONETIZATION
Free players get full access through Wave 10 of the campaign — including two complete boss encounters — with no account required.
Commander Pro removes the wave cap forever, opens all 8 historical missions, removes ads, and grants every current and future v1.x cosmetic tank skin at no additional cost. Choose what fits you: an annual subscription ($9.99/year, auto-renewing) or a one-time lifetime unlock ($24.99) that you buy once and keep forever.
One opt-in rewarded ad on the Game Over screen lets free players continue from the wave they died on. Never forced. Never mid-game. Never shown to Commander Pro players.
No loot boxes. No virtual currency. No energy timers. No pay-to-win.
PRIVACY
No account. No login. Your high scores and settings stay on your device, and the game is playable offline. To keep the lights on, the free tier shows ads and the app uses standard analytics and crash-reporting and purchase services (Unity LevelPlay/ironSource, AdMob, Firebase Crashlytics, RevenueCat). On first launch the app may ask permission to track for personalized ads — you can decline and still play everything. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.
UNIVERSAL APP
Plays on iPhone and iPad. Buy once, install on both.
Cartoon tank combat. No blood, no gore. Rated for ages 10 and up.
Mount up, Commander.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
If you have been playing 1.0.2, this update carries everything from 1.0.3, 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 at once. There is a lot in here.
- THE PROVING GROUND IS OPEN: the no-stakes practice mode is reachable at last, and it now runs the arena it designs. Nothing there is recorded — no score, no mastery, no season progress — and there is no run to lose. It no longer borrows Chapter 1's field conditions, no longer introduces itself as CHAPTER 1, no longer offers a NEXT ROUND it cannot serve, and it can no longer touch your campaign.
- RESUME SORTIE NOW RESUMES: leave a mission on round 3 and you come back on round 3, with your scoring intact and the briefing shown again. A resumed sortie counts as one attempt, and a clear time is the time you actually played.
- MISSION 2 ENDS WHEN IT IS WON: killing a single marked gun used to close rounds 2, 3 and 4 about a second and a half in. Every round now ends on its own win condition.
- THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SCREEN IS YOURS: the combat callouts that printed over your own tank are gone, the civilian-casualty alert is docked in a corner and quick to clear, and overlay cards no longer stack on each other. Screen readers lose nothing — every retired callout still announces through VoiceOver.
- COUNTED ONCE: a corrupt save flag can no longer silently disable a mission's mastery objectives forever, Season XP from an ad-revived run is banked once, and a replay no longer re-celebrates objectives you had already earned.
- THE FIELD MANUAL IS COMPLETE: all 18 hostiles, up from 12.
- SOUND AND ACCESSIBILITY: pausing and then switching apps no longer brings the music back under the pause overlay, the pre-play and menu cards stay readable at the largest system text sizes, and the chapter card speaks your language to VoiceOver instead of English.
Still no pay-to-win. Still yours offline.
Mount up, Commander.
The developer, Vu Cao, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
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- Location
- Identifiers
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- Location
- Identifiers
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Data Not Linked to You
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- Purchases
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Information
- Seller
- Vu Cao
- Size
- 188.7 MB
- Category
- Action
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Commander Pro (Lifetime) $24.99
- Copyright
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