ShellShock Live

peak, but the game isnt getting updated anymore

is fun but againt higher player is not fair they have more powerfull weapon

Why my review and opinion about the game is (or might be) important?

I played this game for YEARS and I have over 600 hours in it, I know most of the strategies and tricks a player can use in the game, I am high level player that experienced the game enough to write precise and accurate review of the game. I hope these arguments convince you!

PROS:

-Lots of weapons to choose from, which can be leveled up and upgraded to new,better form.
-Ability to customize your lobbies in online matches. Game has to offer many options to customize your own lobby which makes playing the game unique and original every time you play it.
-Ability to customize player's tank and profile (dogtag) There is ton of dogtags to choose from, sadly theres not much tanks parts. There is also option to buy yourself a victory tune that plays when you win.
-Player can upgrade his tank stats, there are 4 tank upgrade paths player can max:
1. Tracks
2. Hull
3. Gun
4. Luck
-There are 2 currencies in game- Gears,Customization points.
Gears can buy you: weapons,tank parts, (some) dogtags or items (usable/consumable)
Customization points can buy you minor tank decorations like headlights or most of the dogtags.

CONS:

-Game is completly abandoned, no updates or news for years.
-Game is dying more and more each day, mostly due to lack of updates and improvements which the game NEEDS.
-Community and report system. In most cases players are kind and nice to each other, but sometimes children roam the lobbies and troll players-quitting mid game,doing friendly fire,insulting others for no reason and there is a lot more of toxic behaviour such players do, and the saddest thing is that the dev did NOTHING to prevent this-report system is a big lie, reported players dont suffer ANY penalty for their actions.
-Wave of cheaters, lately cheaters flooded this game and use obvious cheats that absolutely ruin fun from game.Nothing can be done about this either thanks to dev.
-Clans. This 'feature' is completly pointless, it has no meaning at all and does nothing.
-Customization points grind, Its extremely hard to get a decent amount of this currency and the only way to speed up this process is to pay with real money...
-Game has many bugs which haven't been fixed for a very long time, some even mess up with projectiles trajectory or skip player's turn.
-Some features such as "random map theme" dont work as they should, map theme is not random as it should be, but its in the default blue color. (always)

Summary

Game is a nice choice to play with friends you can trust, or if you want to risk meeting toxic or nice players, it has many customization options and decent amount of weapons and upgrades. Its biggest issue is lack of updates which makes game more and more boring, and broken report system which slowly kills the game by letting cheaters in.

Yo momma so goated in her game choices, that she's playing SHELL SHOCK L I V E !

Really great game to play with friends!!

Tank go shoot shoot with funni weapon + Math
very fun, especially with friends :D

I've been playing this game for YEARS, since before it ever came to Steam. I don't intend to quit but I can't recommend it to anyone who values honesty and fairness in their games. ShellShock Live is being trashed by hackers and cheaters, more every day. These people have been reported but nothing comes of it because the creator doesn't care about their game. If you buy this game, be prepared to deal with a bunch of bs every time you play.

Completely shellshocked by the time it takes to reach max level. You can play this for a long time before unlocking everything but its hard to win against people who literaly calculate the exact angle they need to fuck you up. The single player is pretty fun too but watch out for those later levels. Youre gonna sit there for a while...

A really fun game! It kept me hooked, and I couldn't stop playing for hours.

Great game with great gameplay mechanics. Its a shame it barely gets any updates anymore, it was a lot of fun in its prime. Lobbies are more scarce now though and its mainly higher level players so being a low level puts you at a severe disadvantage due to very few low level lobbies

The masculine urge to shoot cats and rainbows out of a tank.

Unfortunately while this game shows a lot of promise, it takes all the things that made Scorched Earth great and flushes them down the toilet.

The round buying and money system is gone. Instead you gain ever more powerful weapons as you rank up and you get 10 or so weapons RANDOMLY assigned to you at the start of each match from your pool of unlocks. This ensures that there will never be an even playing field between you and your opponent. It also pretty much kills a lot of the strategy.

You can gain some nostalgia from this, but it's frankly kind of a weak attempt at Scorched Earth with a really pretty coat of paint. It might scratch an itch, but there isn't really much to keep you around.

Very Simple and straight forward game, so many weapons and game modes to choose from, Love it 10/10

its goood as f broo just instal it

i bought it because their was a old doom era computer game that was a lot like this. its good cheap fun

i bought a real tank after this and terrorised 16 countries

its a great game to play with friends

sometimes i like to take my shirt off n shoot around for hours, pretending like i was in WW2. cool game ig

Good game lvling is a bit slow

ShellShock Live:

Fun Multiplayer Party Game

[*]No Online Player-base

good game fun casual tank game physics angles

Nice and chill game sadly quite dead now hard for new players to get going

Great multiplayer game. A good few players and nice progression.

love this game, hate game night.

Got this game for myself and a couple friends. Starts out slow, but a variety of gamemodes and a seemingly endless supply of unlockable and upgradeable weapons allows for an ever changing experience that never seems to get old. My only suggestion would be to add more settings to private games such as armor or tread max level maximums or minimums to give lower players a chance to fight.

This is a very good game. It's one of the first game's I've ever played that implement multiplayer, but doesn't make it needed to play with friends to have a conversation. This is the most friendly fan base I know and in a match you never know what you're going to be chatting about. Just a disclaimer though, this game is not for those with short attention span, because in some game modes a match can take more than half an hour, and if you're unlucky and die first, you need to watch the whole match to get the experience. Trust me you wan't the experience, because it's when you level up you unlock most of the weapons, and the level scaling is harsh, the first 70/100 levels are not so hard, but just so you level 78 needs around 900,000-1,000,000 experience, and yes this is a lot but level 100 needs over 9,000,000 experience in total, and just to put in perspective how much that is, the most I've gotten from single match that spanned for more than a hour is around 5,000, so don't expect it would be easy to get to level 100, you'll need around 1000 thousand hours, because I'm at level 78-79 and I've almost played 90 hours.

In conclusion you'll probably not finish this game that is about shooting at each other with a large array of weapons, because level 1000 which is the final level, craves that you play for hundreds of hours. But don't be scared away by this, personally I give it a 8,5/10, very good but I'm not spending these 900 hours just to get all achievements and weapons.
You should by this if you have time on your side and can play/watch matches that are over 30 minutes. And remeber to chat about something, because it's very likely that someone will reply and a start a conversation

Highly addicting, and fun to play with friends!

ok game, but sadly none of my friends play it so I dont either nowadays

Quick to learn, punishingly hard to master. Shell Shock Live is an incredibly simple game, yet with intensely complicated weapons. There are already hundreds of weapons you can own and within those weapons multiple levels to the weapons adding even more types of weapons. The main game is simple, move on a 2D plane with limited movement for that turn, pick a weapon and shoot at your enemy. That's it, yet it takes hundreds of hours to get okay at the game, another game to mess around with friends.

8/10
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It's classic tank game from the flash era, but with the absurd arsenal of worms.
There's not much else to say; if that sentence sounds like your thing, you'll like shellshock.

I quite enjoy the experience system for both weapons and tanks. You slowly gain both weapon xx every time you deal damage with them, and tank xp when you deal damage in general. This encourages you to used weapons you don't naturally gravitate to in order to see what they evolve into. This can be a two-way street though, since the xp gain is damage based; this tends make good weapons easy to level and worse/niche weapons take forever to level up.

My only gripe is with how the devs handled the gears. The items in the shop take an absurd amount of gears to obtain. They are on the order of hundreds of gears, where you get an average of 3 per 20 minute match.
You used to be able to buy gears with money... but some update made it no longer "pay to win" (in their words)(so to speak). Now you only buy cosmetic tokens (a new-ish addition), which you also only earn 10 or so in a day while stuff costs hundreds in the shop.
The balancing of the currencies just feels way to grindy and bad.

6/10 solid fun with friends. Always a good time to boot up a few rounds of Shellshock with the bros.

Very good, very nice

cant level up in solo

Fun game. Or SHELL I say, SHOCKingly fun....




You can laugh now.

Stupid fun tank battling with friends.

It's really neat how you level up and unlock stuff, even in private lobbies with friends.

This is one of those games you tell yourself you’ll just dip into for a quick look—maybe five or ten minutes, tops. But then something magical happens: you take your first turn, then another, and suddenly you’re hooked, bargaining with yourself for "just one more turn." Before you know it, hours have passed, and you're completely engrossed in a world you had no intention of staying in for so long.

The gameplay is so seamless, so well-crafted, that it effortlessly pulls you into its rhythm. Each decision feels meaningful, each turn packed with potential, and the hours slip away as you strategize, experiment, and immerse yourself in this incredible experience. It’s the kind of fun that’s not just enjoyable but borderline addictive—in the best way possible.

If you’re looking for a game that will truly captivate your attention and challenge your sense of time management, this is it. Just be warned: you might go in for a quick peek and end up staying for the whole show. Highly recommend this one—it’s an absolute delight.

good learnig curve and kinda addicting

I used to play this game back in 2016-2018. Back when the hype for it had reached my eyes and its probable peak had been reached.

Let's just say that this game is still great and still holds up after all this time.
Even if you get targeted at the start of a match and are the first one to die, the game is still fun to watch.
Can't say that about some games, so a game like that is definitely high up there, don't you think?

This game is great to play if you also want to do something like watch a YouTube video on the side or something. That's what I do anyway. Sometimes the music is a bit repetitive, but it's still good, so I never turn it off. It's as casual as you want it to be, especially with all the gameplay modifiers, though I never play on the others, I just like the default of shooting more or less visually pleasing things and testing my accuracy.
Just creating a lobby and waiting for some randoms to show up, all the people I've played with have been casual and chill. You might have a different experience though, as I usually name my lobbies with "casual" in the title so that people know they can just join for the hell of it.

No idea what my experience was back when I originally got the game all those years ago, but I remember SSundee getting me into it, back when he peaked lol. I liked the game back then.
My old Steam account that I had gotten stolen back in 2020, and subsequently got back 4 years later says I have 19 achievements done, so I know I played it a fair bit at the very least.

Very cool game and I really like it. Ive been playing since 2020 and its still really fun would definitely recommend to other people looking for a fun and chill online game to try out.

GAME SUCKS BALLS BUT MAN IT FUN

here recently doing a security dive into this game we have found out that it opens SVC host (which it shouldnt) tries to do an appx deployment and for some reason gets your secureboot state and bios version.

some of this is common info and cool and all, but also it's inside many registrys that it shouldnt.

Why does a game need cmd line level stuff?

kChamp, this is a shameful thing.

edited: found out it's LITERALLY cryptomining through debug stuff and looking at what its sending in and out.

fun side scroll tank game, you should go through practice alone before jumping into multiplayer. Tons of weapons and upgrade variety

I noticed a lot of other reviews mention the fact that they wish there was a player vs ai mode besides the training in single player but there is. it's not nearly as good as online but it does deserve to be mentioned.

ShellShock is an amazing game for whenever you just want to relax and shoot some tanks. the community for the most part is really nice too and you can have really good laughs during your time playing.
the beginning is quite grindy which can be annoying but once you start to unlock more weapons and upgrades the game becomes more enjoyable the more you play and i highly recommend at least trying the game out if it looks like your cup of tea.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Quite honestly, if you like this type of game, just go out and buy almost any of the worms games. This is Worms but in less balanced and with a worse play experience overall.

Let's start off with the good points though:
- very wide array of weapons
- rather open upgrade system
- easy to pick up
- great to quickly hop into a game with friends that isn't supposed to take ages

And with the negatives:
- Tank Level system takes literal ages, the XP one needs for lvl 100 is heavily overblown. By the time one reaches level 100 to unlock the final weapon, the game is either completely stale or you have only played it from time to time over a span of multiple years
- the "ranked" system is placebo
- weapon levels are weird. One levels weapons by hitting them, which in itself is not a bad idea, but having lower level weapons than your opponent basically decides a round before it starts.
- You basically NEED to have people around the same level as you are in both weapon and tank level. Match against someone with 20 levels (out of 100) above and the game is basically not playable.
- To expand on the previous point, level gaps get increasingly larger, eg reaching lvl 70 requires about 30k XP, level 100 requires about 880k. While this easens "running away" with levels, even a few levels are a difference that's frustrating to obtain.
- The single player missions for the most part are either too easy or require quite a bit of good RNG for the most part. There isn't much in the game to skill check at all.

All in all, it's fine if you want to play it with friends but then again, the worms games will do the same in a better and more balanced way. It's a game that is inexpensive, but many of you will probably not ever use all of the content, because it takes 100s of hours to even unlock every single weapon.

Doesn,t need good graphics, and is super fun to play.

honestly, i didn't expect such a "simple" game to pull me in like it does, but it's actually really enjoyable. and whilst it requires some skill, it's also perfect for a relaxing evening. plus, suprisingly, the community is extremely nice. everyone is just there to have a good time and land the coolest trickshot.

got back to it after, like, 4 years of not playing it and it's just as enjoyable.

What's the point of having a gun when you can't aim?

tank fires gun. good game

do not download, After a few hundred hours this game is dying and no one moderates the game. Hackers now freely have started to roam and 90 percent of people are toxic and racist

Great game. its fun but will take awhile to get the good weapons.