Games like Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks

The Squirrel's verdictBoth put you in the driver's seat of tank-focused business management, but Tank Mechanic Simulator swaps manufacturing and contracts for hands-on restoration: stripping rust, sandblasting, painting, and reassembly. Reviews describe the mechanical depth as shallow, closer to a cleanup-and-paint job than true repair simulation, but the core loop is complete and shipped rather than mid-development.

Not for you if you wanted actual mechanical complexity rather than sandblasting and repainting, or you need historically detailed tank models.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth games sell strategic depth around vehicle combat, then struggle to deliver it cleanly. Total Conflict: Resistance splits into a battle simulator praised for strong infantry AI and a strategic layer reviewers call poorly designed and confusing. Anyone who liked Tanks' tactical promise but wanted the actual fighting to feel sharper may find that half here, if they tolerate the rest.

Not for you if you want the strategic layer to be as solid as the combat, or you have no patience for confusing tutorials and unbalanced custom battles.

The Squirrel's verdictLike Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks, Gunsmith puts you running an arms manufacturing business with contracts, materials sourcing, and factory logistics. It swaps tanks for guns and bullets, pushing deeper into production-line intricacy that reviewers with manufacturing backgrounds call unmatched. The promised ethical/political layer stays thin, and median playtime runs about 26 hours, no co-op.

Not for you if you want the ethical dilemma of choosing buyers front and center, need co-op, or want tanks rather than guns and bullets.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth are production-chain management games where you build supply lines to fulfill contracts using researched technology. Automation Empire trades tank manufacturing for general factory building, with no combat or negotiation layer. It suits players who wanted Arms Trade Tycoon's production side without the contract restrictions, though reviews note limited building options and repetitive worlds once tech is unlocked.

Not for you if you want ongoing content variety, since reviews describe each new world as the same loop with minor changes and no real late-game challenge.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth put you in charge of a national economy under a management-sim lens, with tech and production decisions instead of tank blueprints specifically. WWE expands the scope to full national GDP, resources, and politics rather than a single manufacturing contract loop. It suits players who wanted more systemic depth than Tanks offered, at the cost of a steeper, less guided interface.

Not for you if you want a focused vehicle-design loop rather than juggling GDP, resources, and political mechanics across an entire nation.

The Squirrel's verdictLike Tanks, World of Fate promises an ambitious strategy concept — world domination through a map-based interface — but reviewers describe the same gap between idea and execution: buggy AI, no tutorial, and systems that fail as your empire grows. It adds co-op at $9.99, for players still willing to bet on concept over polish.

Not for you if you need working AI, functional base-capture, and a tutorial — median playtime here is under two hours.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth put you on the business side of the weapons trade, but Arms Dealer trades tank manufacturing and contracts for global arms trafficking, travel, and manipulating governments into wars for profit. It's shorter (median 4.3 hours), released in 2015, and reviews describe thin content and shallow systems rather than restrictive depth.

Not for you if you want manufacturing and technology customization rather than travel-and-sell trading, or need active current-state updates.

The Squirrel's verdictBoth center tanks and customization, but the loop differs: Arms Trade Tycoon is business and contracts, Armored Battle Crew is direct combat with crew multitasking across turret, driving, and repairs, WW1 setting, vehicle upgrades and cosmetics. Fits players who want to fight in the tank rather than manage its production.

Not for you if you need reliable controls and mission variety — reviews cite steering glitches, a thin tutorial, and repetitive capture-point objectives, matching its Mostly Negative rating.