Free to playGear Up Build a tank, break the arena
Assemble a battle machine from a million possible parts and take it into online multiplayer mayhem.
Is Gear Up worth it?
Gear Up is worth it if…
- you like building your own vehicles and testing strange combinations
- you want quick, chaotic arcade matches rather than slow, careful play
- you have a group of friends to fill the arena with
- you enjoy PvP where a weird build can beat a practiced one
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A garage with a million bad ideas
Every tank starts as a pile of choices. Rumbling caterpillar tracks or crawling spider legs? A jetpack for quick escapes or go-kart tires that burn rubber across the arena? You can even deploy the body of a submarine. Then comes the armament: a minigun, a flamethrower, a thundering bronze cannon, a tesla generator or a barrage of missiles, with proximity mines for anyone who prefers ambushes to aim.
The parts interact. A heavier body slows your turning, faster wheels trade traction for speed, and stealth generators let you blend into the background before striking. Over a million combinations means your machine is unlikely to look or fight like anyone else's.
Fast, messy arcade battles
Matches are quick and loud: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Conquest, with up to 16 players online. The arcade physics keep things loose and unpredictable, so plans fall apart in funny ways and half the fun is watching your custom contraption wobble, flip and keep shooting anyway.
You unlock new parts by scoring points in matches, so experimenting with builds is part of the loop rather than a grind. Leaderboards give you something to climb if rivalry is your thing. It is a simple shooter at heart, and that is the point: pick a loadout, drop into the arena, and one more match is always tempting.
What should you know before playing?
Can you play it solo?
The game is built around online multiplayer, and there is no singleplayer mode to fall back on. Playing alone works, but the arena depends on other people being there, and the player count is low these days. The game shines brightest when you bring your own group: several people can fill a match together and make it lively again. If you have friends willing to join, you will get far more out of it than queuing solo.
How deep does the tank building go?
Very deep. There are over a million combinations of propulsion, bodies and weapons, and the choices genuinely change how a machine handles: heavy bodies affect turning and weapon flexibility, faster wheels cost you traction on some terrain. One thing to know: the default part storage is small, which can be mildly annoying when you are testing a lot of designs at once.
What are the game modes like?
Classic shooter modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Conquest, for up to 16 players online. There is no ranked structure, but leaderboards track how you stack up. Matches are short and arcade-paced, so a session can be one quick battle or an evening of rebuilding your tank between rounds and coming back with something new.
