TankRat

TankRat is an upcoming game scheduled for 15 January 2027, set in a dying world where flesh has given way to steel. Its announced premise presents a landscape defined by desolation and by the presence of corrupted mech-monsters. These enemies do not simply inhabit the setting as background detail: they are described as swarms, making the wasteland a place shaped by hostile, repeated encounters. The game’s central situation is therefore one of survival amid a world whose organic life, or at least its visible identity, has been overtaken by machinery. The catalogue description establishes that atmosphere without supplying a separate historical setting or named faction.

The announced activity loop is expressed through four linked actions: search and destroy, scavenge and dismantle, then rebuild yourself from the wreckage. Search and destroy gives the journey an active objective, while scavenge and dismantle describe what happens after contact with the mechanical threats. Wreckage is not merely a record of battles. It is the material from which further survival is built. The wording makes recovery central to progress: destroyed machines leave behind components or resources, and those remnants can be turned toward reconstruction. No particular weapons, body parts, statistics, crafting system, or combat perspective has been identified in the catalogue entry.

That transformation is summarized by the line, "What you take becomes what you are." In context, the sentence connects scavenging to identity. The player is not presented as a fixed survivor moving unchanged through the world; the announced premise instead emphasizes becoming through whatever is recovered. The exact form of that change is not specified, but its principle is clear: taking material from the wasteland affects the reconstruction of the self. This gives the setting’s steel imagery a functional role. Steel is both the condition of the world and the substance of adaptation, binding exploration, destruction, salvage, and rebuilding into one stated concept.

The destination is Highpoint, and reaching it supplies the aim named for TankRat. Survival is not described as an end; the instruction is to survive the wasteland and make it to Highpoint. That pairing gives the journey a direction across the desolated land, even though the catalogue does not explain what Highpoint is or why it matters. The description consequently defines TankRat through its pressure and process: a steel-stricken world, swarming corrupted machines, wreckage to reclaim, and a survivor whose rebuilt form reflects what has been taken. Its release date is 15 January 2027.