Making History: The Great War

The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.

Making History: The Great War is a strategy, simulation and world war i game developed by Muzzy Lane Software and Factus Games and published by Factus Games.
Released on January 29th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 3 languages: English, German and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 448 reviews of which 340 were positive and 108 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Making History: The Great War into these genres:

Strategy Simulation World War I Grand Strategy Indie Historical War Turn-Based Strategy Moddable Sandbox Military Multiplayer Singleplayer Replay Value World War II Alternate History Tactical Turn-Based Management 4X

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Processor: Pentium 4 or better
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-Compliant, Shader 2.0 3D Video Card
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Windows-Compliant Keyboard & Mouse

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (PowerPC not supported)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

While the game could use a lot more polish (you can't load a save without exiting and relaunching the game client, wtf?) and suffers some technical issues ("Out of Memory" crash etc...), it has the intermediate level of complexity in empire management and the stress-free turn based nature that I'm looking for. A good middle ground between the simplicity of (new) Total War titles, and the "spreadsheet simulator" Paradox games.

Feb. 2024

good game

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28.99€

7.2

340

108

Online players

Developer

Muzzy Lane Software, Factus Games

Publisher

Factus Games

Release 29 Jan 2015

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