Fit check
Is The Great War: Western Front™ worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- World War I history fans who want to direct both campaigns and individual battles
- Strategy players who prefer managing research and resources between real-time engagements
- Players seeking skirmish or multiplayer modes alongside a historical campaign
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a purely real-time strategy game may hit a wall when theatre decisions switch to turn-based management.
- Players who want short, self-contained battles may find the campaign's persistent terrain and wider war decisions too involved.
- Players looking for a fantasy, science-fiction, or World War II setting will find a focused 1914–1919 Western Front scenario instead.
Our take on The Great War: Western Front™
The bounce point arrives when battlefield command gives way to theatre management. Players focused on immediate unit control must also handle deployments, research, resources, faction choices, and decisions whose effects can carry into later encounters.
What is The Great War: Western Front™?
Command either the Allied Nations or Central Powers across the Western Front from 1914 to 1919.
The game combines turn-based theatre management with real-time battlefield command: deploy forces, research technologies, manage resources, construct trench networks, and direct infantry, artillery, tanks, and assaults. Weather affects artillery and unit movement, while earlier battles leave lasting damage on later battlefields. Four modes are included: Campaign, Historical Battles, Skirmish, and Multiplayer. Faction abilities and gameplay styles differ, and technology choices can change the timing of developments such as poison gas and tanks. The Victory Edition also contains a digital field guide, a 31-track soundtrack, and five wallpapers.
How The Great War: Western Front™ plays
- 01Dual command layers
- Manage theatre-wide deployments and research in turns, then direct units during real-time engagements.
- 02Persistent battlefields
- Previous fighting leaves craters, destruction, and trench networks on locations revisited later.
- 03Changing conditions
- Rain and snow alter artillery performance and how units move across the battlefield.
- 04Four game modes
- Campaign, Historical Battles, Skirmish, and Multiplayer cover connected war progression, set-piece scenarios, custom battles, and competition.
- 05Two opposing factions
- The Allied Nations and Central Powers have different abilities and gameplay styles.
- 06Victory Edition extras
- The edition includes a digital field guide, a 31-track soundtrack, and five wallpapers.
The Great War: Western Front™ compared to similar games
Men of War: Assault Squad focuses on World War II and combines large-scale strategy with direct, hands-on combat. The Great War: Western Front instead covers the 1914–1919 Western Front, adds turn-based theatre decisions, and includes persistent battlefield changes, trench construction, research, and weather effects.
The Great War: Western Front™: platforms & release
Is The Great War: Western Front™ worth it?
It is worth it if: world War I history fans who want to direct both campaigns and individual battles. Skip it if: players seeking a purely real-time strategy game may hit a wall when theatre decisions switch to turn-based management.
Where can I download The Great War: Western Front™?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Great War: Western Front™'s store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Great War: Western Front™ on?
Windows only.
