# Scorched: Total Recall — Tank Battle Resurrection

> Command and customize a unique tank squad against intelligent AI. (iPhone/iPad app by Imre Darics.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scorched-total-recall/id1173813257 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Imre Darics](https://appshunter.io/developer/1173813256)
- Category: Games, Action, Strategy
- Price: Free
- Rating: 3.57/5 from 143 App Store ratings · 39 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 123 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2017-11-29
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scorched-total-recall/id1173813257/reviews.md

## What is Scorched?

Become a real tank squad commander. Fight for glory on the battlefield. Choose from different armoured war machines and a variety of missiles. Develop your skills, your inner strategical instinct, and build your army through the battles against  the genius, artificial intelligence controlled enemy.

Your tank squad will be unique: you can build it from as many units as you wish and develop each machine in many ways. You will face battle situations and an increasingly clever AI mastermind - the challenge is to defeat it and conquer the battleground.

Scorched: Total Recall is part of a set of three games, together with Arena and Battlefield. The units you recruit into your personal army in this game will be transferable to  Arena or Battlefield. You can read more about the other games, our future plans and releases on the website of the game (www.purplehead.uk).

## Key features

- Command tank squads
- Choose armored war machines
- Variety of missiles
- Develop skills and strategy
- Build and customize army
- Battle AI enemy
- Transfer units to other games

## Recent user reviews (10 of 39)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scorched-total-recall/id1173813257/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Fun but tends to malfunction a lot on the Mac platform

*2024-08-12*

Fun short little game. Decent controls when they work. It’s difficult to select what you want on a iPhone 13 screen.

### 4/5 — Pretty good

*2023-08-15*

I was looking for the old scorched earth and found this. Simple and fun. I wish there were more variety early on. Worth the download. Will binge for a while.

### 5/5 — Scorched earth

*2023-03-20*

Fun game has few glitches but well worth the download but definitely glitches were it freezes

### 1/5 — Buggy

*2022-04-07, version 1.4*

Game is super buggy. Can’t seem to touch anything and make it work, just freezes

### 4/5 — Old school.

*2022-03-19*

Good fun.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2022-03-13, version 1.4*

First off it doesn’t even work properly. Never mind that it difficult to see the controls. How is this even up on the app store

### 1/5 — What is this!?!?

*2021-11-03*

The controls don’t even work, it doesn’t give you a view of the entire battlefield when you do figure out how to shoot, nothing like the old 5” floppy scorched earth from back in the day.  Load times lag big time too.  The old pc wasn’t even this slow.   Big fail.

### 1/5 — Couldn’t even get it to work

*2021-10-23, version 1.4*

Waste of time. Wouldn’t Los and the graphics and color scheme is awful. Deleted within 10 minutes of trying to play.

### 4/5 — It good

*2021-10-06, version 1.4*

Good game, sort of like the first one

### 5/5 — Perfect

*2021-07-22, version 1.4*

I love it

## Frequently asked questions about Scorched

### What is Scorched: Total Recall?

Scorched: Total Recall is a tank battle game where you command a unique tank squad. You'll fight against an intelligent AI enemy, developing your strategic skills and building your army through various battles.

### What are the key features of Scorched: Total Recall?

Key features include commanding diverse armored war machines, utilizing a variety of missiles, developing strategic instincts, and building a customizable army. The game also allows for unit transfer to other titles in the series.

### Is Scorched: Total Recall free to play?

The game is free to download and play. It offers in-app purchases, allowing players to enhance their experience or acquire items within the game.

### Can I transfer my army to other games?

Yes, units recruited into your personal army in Scorched: Total Recall are transferable to other games in the series, such as Arena and Battlefield. This allows for continuity across related titles.

### Who is the target audience for this game?

This game is designed for players who enjoy strategic combat, particularly those interested in tank warfare, army building, and challenging AI opponents. It appeals to those who like to develop tactical skills in a war-themed environment.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4 — 2018-07-31

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

The version 1.4 is on its way to you and it holds a few hopefully exciting improvements beyond ironing out the wrinkles of the last release.

Map, map, map! 
First of all the accidental clicks on levels have been sorted. You can discover the whole map with confidence, you will not start a battle unwittingly. 
The biggest change on Map is that the level limit hase been removed. You can play as much and as long as you like. I never thought that anyone would go beyond 170, but there was an obvious need so here you are.
An other change is that the little tank that shows the position on Map is not a static prop anymore. It follows your movement on map.

Challenge you!
I’ve already got questions regarding the stars above the levels on Map, and indeed their meaning was not too obvious. The stars belong to challanges and the first challenge that has been introduced was the Time Challenge - how quickly you can finish a battle. It has got a few mates now: Ammo Challenge - use only a limited number of ammunition; Collect Challenge - collect boxes; Survive Challenge - survive for a time; Destroy Challenge - destroy a special object on the battle ground;
and Multiplayer Challenge. This last one has not implemented fully. Basically it is a Time Challenge, but the players will be other human players - but not in this release.

Score boards
We have a few score boards throughout the game. You can compete with other players on daily and weekly scores, two hugely popular races, and also every level has got its own winners. We have a Best Battle competition as well, though it is a bit meaningless as it is hard to compare two different battles. I removed this competition and introduced a new one - Best Fighters. 
Best Fighters competition is aggregating the overall achievements over every rank and announces the top 3 winners, giving them a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.

### 1.3 — 2018-05-14

This is a minor upgrade, it brings a few graphical improvements, like more vicious and spectacular explosion effects, and a greatly refurbished golden crate prize wheel.

### 1.2 — 2018-02-26

The first major update that brings distinguishable units and a map with the same challenges for every player! 
Lets see the units at first, Tank, Cannon and Rocket Launcher. Previously the units were just a bit different, but now they are more distinguishable. 
The Tank is the base class of our warfares and has got 2 weapons, Shell and Big Shell. This is the most mobile unit, can climb up to a 75 degree slope, its engine quite strong so this unit is the fastest!
The Cannon is immobile, with no engine, but has got Bombs and Nukes, 2 very powerful weapons. Its effective range is more than the tank’s and its projectiles are stronger as well. It has the thickest armour of them all and its fire rate is also on the top.
The Rocket Launcher is a different animal with its special weapons. This unit has the thinnest armour and not so mobile as the tank, but its 5 different weapon classes make it the most deadliest warfare unit in the game. It has got multihead rockets, the Atom Rocket and the indescribable Big Daddy to say the least. And of course these rockets go the farthest.

The next improvement is the Map and the Score boards. Previously one fight came after the other and it was not that exciting. Adding this new scene you can see now the place of the battles on an actual map and every battle will be just the same for every player!

### 1.1 — 2017-12-20

In this release we fixed a few bugs that we got reports about during the first few weeks.

### 1.0 — 2017-11-29

No release notes.

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