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Both games are made by the same studio and share a family resemblance — historically inspired vehicles, tiered progression, team battles, a shop. They play nothing alike. The tank game is a close-quarters game about armour angles and line of sight. The naval game is a long-range game about concealment and patience.
World of Tanks
15-a-side tank combat where a hit that lands on a badly angled plate does nothing at all. Armour geometry, shell types, spotting mechanics and the credit economy, explained.
Read the guide →World of Warships
12-a-side naval combat fought at ranges where you often cannot see what is shooting at you. Concealment, citadels, torpedoes, carriers and submarines, explained.
Read the guide →Which one should you play?
A side-by-side comparison of pace, match length, learning curve, time cost and how punishing each game is when you make a mistake.
Compare them →Your first twenty hours
What to do in the tutorial, which tiers to stay in, the settings worth changing on day one, and the five mistakes almost every new player makes.
Get started →What “free to play” costs
Premium accounts, gold and doubloons, randomised containers, and your rights as an EU consumer buying digital content. The honest version.
See the breakdown →Glossary
Overmatch, citadel, bloom, tracking, HESH, matchmaking spread. Thirty-odd bits of jargon translated into ordinary English.
Look something up →Try World of Tanks
Free to download and free to play. You can reach the mid tiers and decide whether the game is for you without spending anything.
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Try World of Warships
Also free to download and free to play, with a separate account and a completely different rhythm to the tank game.
Play World of Warships freePartner linkPartner link to the World of Warships offer. If you register through it we may earn a commission from the advertiser; it costs you nothing extra and the game remains free to play. How we are funded
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Published 21 September 2026. Written and edited by Karen Lee. Where anything here differs from the information published by the game's operator, the operator's own information is the one that counts.