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An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.

Original War is a strategy, rts and sci-fi game developed by Altar Games and published by Bohemia Interactive.
Released on January 27th 2014 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Russian, Japanese and Polish.

It has received 2,030 reviews of which 1,928 were positive and 102 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount, but you can find it for 0.47€ on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified Original War into these genres:

Strategy RTS Sci-fi Singleplayer Real-Time with Pause Time Travel RPG Indie Multiplayer Story Rich Difficult War 2D Wargame Real-Time Atmospheric Moddable Co-op Online Co-Op PvP

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Pentium® III - 900MHz
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible with alteast 64 MB of VRAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

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June 2025

Original War is an interesting game. At its core it is a strategy game with base building and ressource gathering. But unlike most such games where soldiers are endlessly reproducable, here soldiers are your most valuable ressource. You have a fixed number of them and almost everything needs soldiers. Constructing buildings and gathering ressources is done by them. If you want to research upgrades soldiers need to be tasked with research; you need tanks, someone needs to build them. And drive them. Some tasks can be automated later in a game but all automated options tend to be less efficient than using soldiers. So it remains a constant balancing issue. Pretty cool, imo. The story campaigns have a quirky little time travel gimmick of fighting in prehistoric siberia but beyond that is pretty generic. A miracle mineral has been found in siberia and an aggressive russian regime convinces the American government to use a ludicrous plan. They dig up an alien time machine from Area 51 and send an expedition on a one-way trip 2 million years into the past where their job is to mine all of the mineral, transport it to modern American soil und rebury all of it there. An alternate timeline happens, Russians learn of american time travel shenanegans and this time they have the time machine and send an army to stop the american mission to keep the mineral. War happens. On the technical level the game was clearly low-budget but most of the issues that caused have been fixed over the years by owsupport, a dedicated fan group that took over support for the game. The game's graphics are simple but timeless which works in its favor. The only thing that really remains is the dialogues. While the voice actors are not bad, at times the dialogue sounds weird, clearly bad direction. Also the occasional difference between what is said and what subtitles say is said. A special mention to the english voice acting: for cost reasons the developers used european voice actors which leads to several fake american accents, which can be bothersome to some.

May 2025

One of the most unique RTS games with interesting game mechanics and perfect story. You either never heard of this game or you're life long fan and it's one of your favorite games - there's no between.

April 2025

Both GoG and Steam versions are missing the audio files for the original Czech dubbing, even though there's settings for different localisations. [url=https://original-war.net/files.php?c=18]You can download the missing files here and just drop them into the install folder. As for the game itself, it might come off as a Red Alert copycat, but that's way off the mark. With the typical eurojank ambition to outdo every possible competition in gamedesign it ends up being one of the most complex strategy games I've ever played. Over the years the jank parts of it also got ironed out and it's a higly polished, moddable game now (with workshop support!!!), with modernized graphics options, new interface, modern controls... What makes this one of the most autistic strategy games? [*]complex damage system instead of just HP for every unit [*]every unit is a named unique unit with stats for physical and engineering ability [*]you can level up all of them, making every single soldier like a warcraft 3 hero [*]highground vision advantage, bushes and crawling like in Commandos [*]you get RPG choices and branching in the campaign mode [*]the more soldiers you keep alive the more veterans you'll have for the final mission [*]1st mission, game is already trying to play mind tricks on you [*]story is both americans and soviets going back in time 2 million years to cancel the 21st century Yep, this game is absolute cinema.

March 2025

LOVED IT! This game has a great storyline, engaging gameplay, good mechanics and overall is very enjoyable. Finished it a few times (thanks to multiple endings!) and its just one of those games with strong emotional connection even after many years. Totally recommended for anyone who likes tactical strategy games.

Aug. 2024

Actual peak strategy game that i have been playing since around 2003 and i always return to.

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Original War is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.

Original War is currently available at a 80% discount. You can purchase it for 1.99€ on Steam.

Original War received 1,928 positive votes out of a total of 2,030 achieving an impressive rating of 9.04.

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Original War was developed by Altar Games and published by Bohemia Interactive.

Original War is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Original War is not playable on MacOS.

Original War is not playable on Linux.

Original War offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Original War offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Original War does not currently offer any DLC.

Original War is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Original War does not support Steam Remote Play.

Original War is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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