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How to play

Objective

Each round, tanks take turns firing at each other across destructible terrain. The last tank standing wins the round. Damage, kills and round wins earn points and cash; the highest score after the final round takes the campaign.

Setup

1. Press Play now to start straight away with the current setup (you against three AI tanks the first time).
2. Or adjust the setup below it first: add or remove commanders, set each to Human or an AI level (Rookie, Gunner, Sharpshooter, Ace), and pick rounds, starting cash, wind, edges and battlefield. Then press Start game.
3. For local multiplayer, set more than one commander to Human. On a human's turn, hand them the keyboard, mouse or phone.

Your setup is remembered in this browser for next time.

Aiming and wind

Set the barrel angle and the shot power, then fire. Shells arc under gravity and drift with the wind: the wind bar at the top shows its direction and strength. Wind can shift between turns, so read it every time. Your maximum power drops as your tank loses health. After a shot, a faint trail of your last shot (if enabled) helps you correct the next one.

Between rounds, spend your cash in the armory on weapons, shields, parachutes, fuel and repair kits.

Keyboard and mouse

← →

Rotate barrel (hold Shift for fine control)

↑ ↓

Adjust power

Space / Enter

Fire

Q / E

Cycle weapons, or click the weapon name for the full list

A / D

Drive (uses fuel)

S / R

Raise shield / use repair kit

Mouse

Drag from your tank to aim; the wheel adjusts power

Esc / P, M

Pause, mute

Touch

Drag

Anywhere on the battlefield to steer the aim line; pulling farther from your tank adds power

◀ ▶ − +

Hold to fine-tune angle and power; tap for single steps

Weapon

Tap the weapon name for the full list

⛽ ◀ ▶

Hold to drive (uses fuel)

⬡ ✚

Raise shield / use repair kit

❚❚

Pause; the pause screen also lists the controls

Still stuck? See Help and bug reports.

Supported browsers and devices

• Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. JavaScript must be enabled.
• Play with keyboard and mouse, or entirely by touch. Gamepads are not supported.
• Phones work in both orientations. Landscape gives a bigger battlefield; in portrait on a small phone the battlefield is small.
• The full-screen button appears only where the browser supports it (not in Safari on iPhone). On phones and tablets you can add the game to your Home Screen to play without the browser toolbar.
• On iPhone and iPad, game sound plays even with the silent switch on; use the in-game mute button.
• Leaving the page during a match pauses the game.

About and credits

Made by Larry Ludlow, inspired by the DOS-era artillery classics. All game code, terrain, tank art and synthesized sound effects are original to this game; there are no third-party images or audio files.

Fonts: Chakra Petch by Cadson Demak and Inter by Rasmus Andersson, both licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Help and bug reports

Email help@charredplanet.com with questions, bug reports or feedback.

For a bug, please include:

• your device and browser (for example, “iPhone 15, Safari” or “Windows laptop, Chrome”),
• what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead,
• a screenshot if you can.

Privacy

Charred Planet has no accounts, no cookies of its own, no ads and no game server. Your matches run entirely in your browser and are not sent to us.

Saved in your browser

The game stores a few preferences in your browser's local storage: your setup (commander names, colors and battle options), whether sound is muted, and whether you dismissed or accepted the Home Screen offer. They stay on your device; clear this site's data in your browser settings to remove them.

Services the site uses

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• Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits using a script Cloudflare adds to the page. It records page views, referring site, browser, device type, country and page-load performance, without cookies and without building a profile of you.
• Google Fonts serves the game's two fonts, so your browser requests them from Google, which receives your IP address and browser user agent.

See Cloudflare's privacy policy and Google Fonts' privacy FAQ for how they handle that data. Questions: help@charredplanet.com.

Last updated November 2026.