Tank Mechanic Simulator
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $0.80/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 570 / Radeon HD 6970, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 60 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 71 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Forest ($19.99, scores 85) beats it on value, while it beats House Flipper ($24.99, scores 75).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 820 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
91% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
41 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Super fun game, easy to learn if you complete the tutorial. If you like WWII era tanks, this game is a great insight into the vehicles you see in movies, books and other games.
I played this game for 10 hours straight. Skipped the tutorial and I'm still leaning new things so dont do that. I spent an hour fixing up a T34 and had a blast the whole time. I love this game
very easy to paly, without any challenges need to be a real cases, with hard to get upgrades. i just palyed form few times and i got every upgrade and all repairs could be hacked
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Tank Mechanic Simulator scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/407130/tank-mechanic-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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