Fit check
Is Frontline: Western Front worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- World War Two strategy fans who want historical units and battlefields
- Players who prefer turn-based hex-grid command over real-time combat
- Solo strategists looking for campaigns alongside sandbox scenarios
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking diplomacy, city building, or long-term empire management rather than battlefield objectives
- Players who prefer fast real-time action over deliberate squad positioning and tactical planning
- Players looking for a science-fiction military setting instead of World War Two
Our take on Frontline: Western Front
Rather than centering on empire growth or broad resource management, this strategy game narrows its structure to hex-based battles, squad coordination, historical objectives, and unit abilities across World War Two campaigns.
What is Frontline: Western Front?
Command Allied or German forces in a hex-based World War Two strategy game covering battles from Italy to Normandy.
Direct squads, coordinate attacks, capture objectives, and study enemy tactics across historical maps, countries, cities, and battles. Units gain experience and unlock behaviors and abilities such as camouflage, sabotage, overwatch, smoke, artillery barrages, transport, and infantry charges. The game includes more than 100 unique units, 15 campaigns, sandbox scenarios, reinforcements, zoom controls, and campaigns featuring Sicily, Cassino, D-Day, Anzio, and Caen. Battles use realistic topography and active abilities, with scenarios allowing different approaches to victory.
How Frontline: Western Front plays
- 01Historical campaigns
- Campaigns cover Allied landings and battles in Sicily, Cassino, Normandy, Anzio, and Caen.
- 02Unit progression
- Units gain experience and acquire new behaviors and battlefield abilities.
- 03Large unit roster
- The game includes more than 100 distinct military units.
- 04Sandbox scenarios
- Fifteen campaigns are accompanied by scenarios with open-ended objectives.
- 05Combat abilities
- Available abilities include camouflage, sabotage, smoke, artillery barrages, transport, and infantry charges.
- 06Historical battlefields
- Maps use real-world topography and represent historical countries, cities, and units.
Frontline: Western Front compared to similar games
Xenonauts also focuses on small-unit, turn-based military strategy, but places multinational forces against extraterrestrials during a Cold War-era alien invasion and includes technology recovery. Frontline: Western Front instead uses Allied and German forces, historical World War Two locations, and campaigns spanning Italy to Normandy.
Frontline: Western Front: platforms & release
Is Frontline: Western Front worth it?
It is worth it if: world War Two strategy fans who want historical units and battlefields. Skip it if: players seeking diplomacy, city building, or long-term empire management rather than battlefield objectives.
Where can I download Frontline: Western Front?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Frontline: Western Front's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Frontline: Western Front on?
Windows only.
