Fit check
Is Making History: The First World War worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who want to manage an entire nation rather than focus only on battlefield actions
- History enthusiasts interested in First World War politics, technology, and alternative outcomes
- Players who enjoy turn-based campaigns combining warfare, trade, diplomacy, and domestic policy
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking fast-paced action instead of turn-based decisions across a whole nation
- Players who prefer a narrow military campaign rather than managing economic, political, diplomatic, and territorial systems
- Players looking for a setting outside the First World War era
Our take on Making History: The First World War
Its global scale trades immediate battlefield focus for national administration. Economies, populations, diplomacy, infrastructure, and military preparation all compete for attention, placing individual conflicts within a wider management structure.
What is Making History: The First World War?
Lead any independent nation of the First World War era in a turn-based global strategy game.
Manage the economy, military, domestic policies, colonies, protectorates, and puppet states across more than 2000 land and water regions. Develop cities, factories, research centers, railroads, fortresses, trenches, and coastal defenses while trading resources through the World Market. Mobilize trained reserves, deploy infantry, armor, aircraft, submarines, naval mines, and artillery, and respond to regional identities, unrest, radicalism, and revolutions. Diplomacy includes treaties, financial aid, and relations with other nations. Hundreds of scripted events follow the war’s historical context, while alternative paths create different outcomes. A technology tree covers pre-industrial through machine-age research.
How Making History: The First World War plays
- 01Global War Map
- The campaign spans over 2000 land and water regions across the world’s continents and seas.
- 02National Management
- Players set economic, military, and domestic policies for an independent nation.
- 03Empire Administration
- Colonies, protectorates, puppet states, and liberated territories can be governed or reorganized.
- 04Industrial Development
- Cities can produce several output types and add factories, research centers, health facilities, and manufacturing sites.
- 05Military Mobilization
- Trained reserves can be called up for war and later reduced in strength so manpower returns to civilian work.
- 06WWI Warfare
- Combat includes artillery bombardment, infantry and armored invasions, aircraft, observation balloons, submarines, mines, trenches, and machine guns.
- 07Population Politics
- Nationality, culture, religion, ethnicity, policy, and ideology affect support, unrest, and possible revolutions.
- 08Historical Alternatives
- Hundreds of scripted events provide a wartime framework while supporting divergent outcomes.
- 09Technology Research
- A research tree covers science, industry, and military production from pre-industrial technology to the machine age.
Making History: The First World War compared to similar games
Xenonauts focuses on a multinational organization, small squads, persistent soldiers, and alien defense, while this game puts the player in charge of an entire WWI-era nation. Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation centers on managing vast armies across a galactic setting, whereas this game combines global war with domestic policy, trade, demographics, and historical events. Old World follows empires across multiple generations, while this game centers on the First World War and alternative historical paths.
Making History: The First World War: platforms & release
Is Making History: The First World War worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who want to manage an entire nation rather than focus only on battlefield actions. Skip it if: players seeking fast-paced action instead of turn-based decisions across a whole nation.
Where can I download Making History: The First World War?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Making History: The First World War's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Making History: The First World War on?
Windows and Linux.
