Hills of Steel is a 2D side-scrolling action tank game with both singleplayer and real-time 1v1 and 2v2 multiplayer game modes - or at least that's what the game wants us to think. Matchmaking takes just a few seconds, so it's unlikely we're fighting other players.

The core gameplay is still an enjoyable experience, however, and the physics-based combat ensures a bit of randomized fun due to the huge recoil from firing our cannon.

Winning rewards us with stars used to instantly unlock lootboxes that give us tank cards, cosmetics, and gold, which is used to unlock new tanks and level them up. All of this can be bought instantly through iAPs too, which means PvP isn't competitive.

The monetization won't annoy you if you stick to the singleplayer game-mode, but I AM missing a friend or guild system for friendly PvP battles.