Original War on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.

Original War is a strategy, rts and sci-fi game developed by Altar Games and published by Bohemia Interactive.
Released on January 27th 2014 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Russian, Japanese and Polish.

It has received 2,019 reviews of which 1,916 were positive and 103 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Original War into these genres:

Strategy RTS Sci-fi Singleplayer Real-Time with Pause Time Travel RPG Indie Multiplayer Story Rich Difficult War 2D Wargame Real-Time Atmospheric Moddable Co-op Online Co-Op PvP

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP/7/8/10
Processor: Intel Pentium® III - 900MHz
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible with alteast 64 MB of VRAM
Storage: 1 GB available space

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March 2025

Both GoG and Steam versions are missing the audio files for the original Czech dubbing, even though there's settings for different localisations. [url=https://original-war.net/files.php?c=18]You can download the missing files here and just drop them into the install folder. As for the game itself, it might come off as a Red Alert copycat, but that's way off the mark. With the typical eurojank ambition to outdo every possible competition in gamedesign it ends up being one of the most complex strategy games I've ever played. Over the years the jank parts of it also got ironed out and it's a higly polished, moddable game now (with workshop support!!!), with modernized graphics options, new interface, modern controls... Least autistic eurojank strategy game be like: >complex damage system instead of just HP for every unit >every unit is a named unique unit with stats for physical and engineering ability >you can level up all of them, making every single soldier like a warcraft 3 hero >highground vision advantage, bushes and crawling like in Commandos >you get RPG choices and branching in the campaign mode >the more soldiers you keep alive the more veterans you'll have for the final mission >1st mission, game is already trying to play mind tricks on you >story is both americans and soviets going back in time 2 million years to cancel the 21st century Yep, this game is absolute cinema.

Dec. 2024

A very good game, I'm positively shocked how much content is in this hidden gem from 2001

Aug. 2024

Actual peak strategy game that i have been playing since around 2003 and i always return to.

June 2024

It's old school fun. Not amazing but well designed

April 2024

This game is great. I got it on a bin of oldies back when brick and mortar game stores were more popular and i fell in love with it, a long time ago. I never forgot about this game and I have played thousands of hours of games throughout my life. The game is an RTS with the particularity that your characters are unique and if they die, they're dead. You get new characters during missions, but mostly you wanna use the same characters as you level them up from level to level. Humans are your best resource and losing one is huge, so you wanna keep them alive to see them take part in the story. Tanks are modular and you can change engine, chassis and gun depending on what you need for the moment. Each human has a job that you can change, so for instance, if you get a really good human that's both a scientist and a mechanic, you can use them to research all the technologies, then dress them as a mechanic and use them to drive a tank. It's this sort of modular approach on both the vehicle and the professional that makes me love this game so much. The writing is ok, but not spectacular. I like how they managed to capture the idiosyncrasies of the Russian and American ways of thinking. For instance, the Russians have this excessive communist propaganda and a military system rotten with corruption (bases are named after communist leaders and there's one mission where you literally have a communist quiz in order to complete all the objectives), but also the brotherhood through hardship seen in typical Russian soldier movies. The Americans have the usual ignorance of other cultures and abudant arrogance towards others that are not Americans, but also the characteristic diversity and respect for the individuality. In the good ending the Americans and the Russians find common ground and work together to prevent war. Honestly you can see the writing is not done by Americans or Russians exclusively and that's why it can honestly represent both the strengths and the flaws in the idiosyncratic thought of both nations. I do believe that neither Americans nor Russians could have displayed this level of awareness of themselves and others, something that is characteristic of "superpower mentality". You can see the writers are very aware of both cultures. The voice acting is sometimes really good and sometimes really terrible, the latter in particular for the Russian and Arab voice actors. All in all this game is worth playing if you can get past the dated graphics and you enjoy RTS games and wish they were a little more RPG-like. I wish Bohemian continued this unique style of RTS with RPG elements and honestly it would make me happy to see Bohemian succeed as a games studio. It's sad that they never added the Arabs as a full fledged faction, but i understand at the time this game was made the company was still young. Special mention of the kick ass ASCII videos for the Russian campaign. That was and still is both a technological marvel and a fenomenal art expression in itself. Anyone can do ASCII drawings, but videos? Very well done and terribly underrated.

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9.99€

9.0

1,916

103

Online players

Developer

Altar Games

Publisher

Bohemia Interactive

Release 27 Jan 2014

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