Classic tank battle · iPhone, iPad, Mac

Steelhold: Offline Tank Battle

The classic tank battle, rebuilt. Hold your base against wave after wave of tanks, alone or with a friend on two devices, no internet.

  • Try it free
  • No ads
  • Plays offline
Boss fight with the Molten Tyrant: it fires down a corridor between lava pits at your tank. Caption: Beat the boss
iPhone screenshot: your tank fires from the gate of a stone fortress as enemy tanks close in. Caption: Defend your base
Night mission: only the area your tank lights up is visible, beside a dark pond. Caption: Hunt in the dark
  • 3campaigns
  • 140missions
  • 19boss fights
  • 2players, no internet
Classic tank battle

One base. Every tank wants it.

Brick crumbles. Steel holds, until it doesn't. Keep moving, keep firing, keep the eagle standing.

You drive with one thumb and fire with the other, and every brick, steel block, river and forest on the map is a decision, not decoration.

  • Steel Crusade80 missions, from the first skirmish to the final siege.
  • Iron Labyrinth30 missions, with night battles under fog of war.
  • INFERNO30 missions of lava, web and bone.
  • Endless OnslaughtWaves that keep coming until you stop.
iPad screenshot: your tank defends the fortress gate in a walled desert city. Caption: Defend your base
19 boss fights

Bosses with a plan.

Every boss fights its own way: a blitz shooter that never stops moving, a factory that builds its own escort, and on Hard, bosses whose shells punch through concrete.

The first run, the boss kills you. The second, you notice the pause before its salvo. The third, it is yours, and its plate hangs on your trophy wall in bronze, silver or gold.

Boss fight with the Molten Tyrant: it fires down a corridor between lava pits at your tank. Caption: Beat the boss
Day · Night · Lava

Dark nights. Hot lava.

At night you see only what your tank lights up, and you hunt by the light of your own gun.

Then the ground turns to lava: fire pits, giant webs and bone, and a road through them only if you make one.

Night mission: only the area your tank lights up is visible, beside a dark pond. Caption: Hunt in the dark
Your tank drives between lava pits toward stone walls. Caption: Cross the lava
Play together · no internet

Two devices. One base.

An iPhone, iPad or Mac links directly to the one beside it over Wi-Fi: no internet, no server, no account. Team up in Endless on shared lives, bring a fallen friend back with a heart crate, and climb your own Game Center board.

  • Your friend always joins free.
  • Works on a plane or a train: Wi-Fi on, no internet needed.

New in 1.3.3 No Full Version? Host a five-wave free trial together.

How to start a battle
Two iPhones show the same co-op battle, each player's tank marked. Caption: 2 phones, 1 base
The Play Together lobby on an iPhone: friend in, arena Mirror Pools, Start battle. Caption: Invite a friend
Airstrikes · lightning · drones

Call in backup.

Airstrikes, escort drones, auto-turrets, chain lightning, and a base repair that rebuilds your wall in one tap while the shells are still falling. Now and then a supply plane parachutes a crate down for you to reach.

Paint your tank with what you earn in battle, never sold: hulls, paint, glow, tracers, muzzle flash, tread dust and emblems. Your commander level climbs with every new mission cleared, all the way to Marshal.

Chain lightning from your tank strikes enemy tanks beside an escort drone. Caption: Call in backup
The hangar: a grid of tank hulls, Front Marshal selected. Caption: Paint your tank
Endless · no ads · offline

One more wave.

Endless Onslaught keeps sending waves until you stop. Orders earned in the campaigns make a run harder and its score bigger: heavier hulls, faster hunters, no air cover.

Game Center leaderboards track your furthest mission, best run and highest Endless wave on Easy, Medium and Hard. The first medal is called First Blood. One asks for 10,000 kills.

Endless battle at wave 24 among ponds, trees and brick walls. Caption: One more wave
20 seconds

See it move.

The App Store preview: bosses, airstrikes, night and lava.

Fair by design

Start free. Pay once.

Free download

Try it

  • The opening missions of Steel Crusade, real boss fights included
  • Join a friend's Play Together battle
  • Host a five-wave co-op trial 1.3.3
One purchase

Full Version

  • All three campaigns: 140 missions
  • Endless Onslaught
  • Hard difficulty, and the Slow, Fast and Turbo speeds
  • Host Play Together beyond the trial
  • Yours on every device with your Apple ID
  • No ads
  • No subscriptions
  • No energy timers

Optional tips in the game say thank you and never change how it plays.

iPhone · iPhone Duo · iPad · Mac

Touch, controller or keyboard.

Drive with one thumb and fire with the other, or pair a game controller or a keyboard. Several players can share one device, each with their own campaign, records and hangar.

1.3.3 On iPhone Duo the game fits the outer and the inner display. Stand it half-folded and the board sits above the fold, the controls below.

  • Touch
  • Game controller
  • Keyboard
  • iCloud progress
  • Game Center
Steelhold on the wide inner display of iPhone Duo: your tank at the fortress gate. Caption: Defend your base
iPhone Duo, inner display
Privacy

Data Not Collected.

No account, no ads, no tracking. Your progress lives on your device and in your own private iCloud, never on our servers.

Purchases and Game Center need a connection. The war does not.

Privacy policy
Steelhold app icon: a green tank inside a stone fortress

Hold the line.

Free to download. Play the opening missions before you pay anything.