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The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
The Great War: Western Front™ is a strategy, rts and world war i game
developed by Petroglyph
and published by Frontier Foundry.
Released on March 30th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.
It has received 2,934 reviews of which 1,982 were positive and 952 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 13 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Recommended
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I wholeheartedly believe that you should ignore the mixed and negative reviews of this game if you are looking for, or are interested in a Strategy and Tactics game centered around what WW1 is notorious for; *gritty, brutal, terrible, and deeply dependent on each strategic choice you make* This is no Call to Arms, but it does not NEED to be. It is the perfect mix of deep strategy with need for tactical prowess (which is easy to attain after a few dozen hours). Where each decision, emplacement, artillery strike at the tactical level; combined with your access to supply, buffs from buildings, and need for intelligence at the strategic level that makes this game *just* complex enough - while also making each choice in the research tree, strategic map movement, and special decisions equally and entirely important to winning or losing. Paired with the *Better Persistence* mod in the workshop, watching each battlefield evolve while the bodies pile up and the craters turn a beautiful landscape into a hellish mudhole is exactly what WW1 buffs and/or enthusiasts need from a game centered around the gritty brutality of the war. Yes, thousands will die - but you have no option but to charge into the enemy trenches with overwhelming force. The game forces you combine 19th century tactics with 20th century technology. Yes, many battles will end in a stalemate. Yes, constant artillery barrages are tough to maintain - and even more annoying to weather out. . . Yes, sometimes one mistake or poorly timed charge will wipe your reserves and force you to spend all your supply. That is just WW1. If you are looking for a Strategy Game centered around what makes WW1, WW1. . . Well this is your best bet.
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Do you like doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? Do you like attritional warfare? Do you like timing artillery? The game is for you Game can get old quick unless you enjoy the above.
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I think there is confusion over what this game is trying to be hence the mixed review score. This game is not company of heroes. It's more like a tabletop WW1 game that has a graphical representation of the battle phase. If you want deep strategy where planning and executing a plan while the enemy also is trying to do the same you will definitely enjoy this. The tactics are WW1 though so go in expecting to fight a ww1 style campaign. I really admire the devs for making a game that's very niche like this. It will really only appeal to period fans who enjoy complex strategy but if you fall into that Catagory you will love this.
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This game is a unique and troubling reflection on WW1. Before playing this game, I often wondered how WW1 generals could commit so many millions to slaughter. After my second play through, I realized I was doing the same thing. We need to capture this new objective dictated by the government? Send in 8 divisions. We only lost 2 on trainee mode, so victory. It was not until that fateful second play through that I understood. This game is not a game as you would traditionally understand it. It's a perfectly fun strategy game in its own right. There are countless gripes I could bring up. But every time I begin to complain, the nagging specter of history stops me. The AI is easily thrown off, commits forces in suicidal actions, and is easily bogged down. Similar to countless WW1 generals. The supply system is frustrating and exorbitantly difficult to triage; as was the sustainment of the great war. The maps get samey and you often find yourself fighting on the same maps; similar to how there were over 3 battles at Arras. This game is the most brutal examination of the hardest part of the first world war: the vicious reality of commanding thousands to their deaths, with no good solutions and no good plan. Even with the hindsight of history, this game will have you committing to the same insanity of Hague, Ludendorf, and von Moltke before you realize it. I recommend this game to any history buff and strategy game fan. Paired with a listen through of Blueprint to Armageddon, you will find yourself learning and experiencing at a level previously unachievable.
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It's like the Total War series finally giving WW1 a try. I noticed a slew of reviews mentioning that the game is repetitive and kinda boring... well... yeah, that's kinda the point. It's WW1 trench warfare on the Western Front. It will be a grind; don't get attached to your troops because you will suffer hideous casualties. Eventually you develop poison gas (hooray war crimes!) and rickety old tanks and silly-looking biplanes, and they help a bit... but ultimately, you're fighting one of the most horrendous yet pointless slaughters in human history. Machine guns and barbed wire and artillery barrages are going to ruin your day. The game plays out a lot like the Total War series. You have a gameboard-like map with your armies, you maneuver them around and attack enemy armies. It starts in either 1914 (shortly after the Marne and Race to the Sea) or in 1916 as the stalemate is starting to get tedious, and those tanks and poison gasses are about to become a thing. When you attack (or get attacked...) you get a setup phase to lay out your trench networks and machine gun nests (the teaser video shows some of this). Then the fight begins and you get to watch your boys get shot to pieces by enemy machine guns and artillery. The trench works persist, so as you keep fighting over the same small stretch of land, it will be increasingly covered in trenches and bomb blasts. You "win" by capturing an enemy capital zone (Paris for the Allies, Kreuznach for Germany); this is practically impossible due to the nature of the war but there is an alternative! Each side starts with a "National Will", a number representing their desire to keep fighting. Winning and losing battles causes this number to go up or down, as does inflicting/suffering unusually heavy casualties, capturing enemy territory, and random world events based loosely on actual events (like the sinking of the Lusitania). When any side drops to zero National Will, they surrender and the war ends. It's not a perfect game though. There are glitches and crashes to desktop, although they're generally infrequent for me. There also isn't a lot of variance in the maps - there's maybe 5-6 of them, so you'll see the same maps over and over. The maps also don't really change for the particular place you're fighting - Paris uses the same map as the fields outside Compiegne. The AI isn't great either - you'll have weird instances of the AI throwing wave after wave at the same spot in your line without bothering to try to find alternative paths. Likewise, pathfinding can be weird, like troops ordered to run into a trench will run towards it only to stop and run backwards and swirl around like a school of fish - giving the enemy more time to shoot at them. If you're looking for the dynamic battles of WW2 or ancient history, this game is definitely not going to scratch that itch. Maybe eventually these guys will cover the Eastern Front or Middle Eastern Front of WW1, and those would be more like that, but this game isn't that. This is the meat grinder of northern France.
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The Great War: Western Front™ is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.
The Great War: Western Front™ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 34.99€ on Steam.
The Great War: Western Front™ received 1,982 positive votes out of a total of 2,934 achieving a rating of 6.60.
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The Great War: Western Front™ was developed by Petroglyph and published by Frontier Foundry.
The Great War: Western Front™ is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Great War: Western Front™ is not playable on MacOS.
The Great War: Western Front™ is not playable on Linux.
The Great War: Western Front™ offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The Great War: Western Front™ offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 2 DLCs available for The Great War: Western Front™. Explore additional content available for The Great War: Western Front™ on Steam.
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The Great War: Western Front™ does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Online players
40
Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Frontier Foundry
Release
30 Mar 2023
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