The Great War: Western Front™

The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.

The Great War: Western Front™ is a strategy, rts and world war i game developed by Petroglyph and published by Frontier Foundry.
Released on March 30th 2023 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 2,686 reviews of which 1,829 were positive and 857 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 8.74€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Great War: Western Front™ into these genres:

Strategy RTS World War I Turn-Based Strategy Real Time Tactics Historical Grand Strategy Military Singleplayer Tactical Wargame War Multiplayer PvP Tanks PvE

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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

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 13 GB available space
Additional Notes: SSD Recommended

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

I don't normally write reviews - most of the games I play are already either mostly positive or above. I see a lot of comments about bugs and abandonware. So far, after playing through 3 and a half campaigns, The only 'bug' I've experienced, is when you're moving your troops through the trenches, and if the trench is full, they get stuck or go over the top (and the timing is wrong, they get nailed). Seems like more of a design feature than a bug to me. One design feature that I would like to change (and there is a mod for this) is sending your troops over the top - sometimes they run around and come out in single file, but the time it takes them to do that, half your suppression barrage has already been fired. As for abandonware - Pffft. The game is complete and once you play it a bit, it has a deceptive amount of depth. Want cheaper artillery rounds? Get the artillery shell cache - half price artillery barrages, but just hope they don't blow up your cache. The AI will counterattack your trenches - he doesn't just sit there and roll over. Brilliant. I love that. I saw someone say just use artillery to suppress and rush and there's no real use for tanks. That's great, if you're artillery is in range for the whole map, and you have enough of it to suppress the trenches behind the ones you are rushing, otherwise you'll be writing a lot of letters home to the families of your dead troops. Tanks however, can draw fire further up the map to give your guys a chance to break through. Or you can use bombers to blow up the MG nests, if you have enough supply left. Careful management of your supplies is crucial to a win. Spend too much on artillery and you won't have enough left for the necessary troops and barrages and bombers. Spend too much on siege bombardments, same thing. Spend too much gold on supply depots, run out of coin. Same thing on defence - MG nests are essential, but where you place them is just as important. Put them in the front trench, and they'll be the first thing to go. Get carried away and put them everywhere, and you have no troops, or not enough troops left. Which will be a real surprise when you see that first enemy tank on the battlefield and he rolls right over you. And if you still find the game too easy, go and customise the difficulty and make the AI really aggressive, but keep his health the same as your troops (or not, give him more). Good luck. This game is absolutely worth it. I got it on special for $15 AUD, and after playing it, I would have happily spent double that. I don't see why people are calling it abandonware - the game has everything it needs, and based on what I know about WW1 (which is a lot more than most people) it's one of the better WW1 games out there. And I haven't experienced any bugs or crashes. Ignore the reviews about abandonware and bugs, and go over the top and take some trenches.

Aug. 2024

A worthy strategy game for World War I enthusiasts. The only issue is that simulating World War I can be a bit... repetitive, for lack of a better word. In the early game especially, your tactics are the same almost every battle: line up a dozen or so squads in your trenches, bombard the hell out of the enemy trenches, then send your men over the top and watch as 40% of them get cut down before reaching the enemy and another 20% get cut down fighting them. Repeat two or three more times to capture a single tile on the map, IF you didn't lose too many men. It gets better in the late game when you unlock different tactics and armor to make breakthroughs easier. But it'll be quite a few hours in your campaign before you get to that point. Still, I find the game fulfills its purpose well.

July 2024

If it was possible, this would be a mixed one for me. A lot of other reviews mention the devs "abandoned" the game. Once you know the context it makes sense and unlike others, I applaud the devs for what they did do. They had a bad release. The game shipped with a lot of bugs and it didn't sell well. The devs stuck around long enough to fix all of the major bugs. Are there still some minor ones? Sure, but they are more of a minor annoyance and will rarely impact your game play. Keep this in mind when reading older reviews, especially the negative ones that mention major bugs or cheating/crappy AI. Even after this was all fixed, the bad release doomed the game. Devs are a business and they had to move on. Apparently, they had planned a ton of DLC, but for what it's worth it's not a bad game. As I said, they stuck around long enough to squash the major bugs and added features / QOL improvements that most were asking for. Most devs would have dropped it instead of doing that, so good on them for that at least. As others have stated, gameplay can get repetitive, but i think that is the nature of the kind of war you are fighting more than anything. Most of the stuff that people wanted, like persistent battlefields are there (kind of, but not in the exact way most wanted it) and the Workshop has some mods that fix it further and make it so bodies and craters stick around. That being said, in closing, do not pay $35 for this game or whatever asinine price they have listed. If you want to criticize the devs do it for grossly overpricing the game. If you like WWI though or just want to try a different style of RTS that hasn't been done before, grab it on sale. It's 65% off during the current summer sale and it is definitely worth that price.

March 2024

TLDR: All in all a decent game. Grab it on sale if you enjoy slow thoughtful combat. Probably not for you if you prefer the reflex/APM style tactical combat like Star Craft. Unit path finding isn't great and definitely the most frustrating aspect of the game. But late game most frustrations are dissipated and you have enough tools that combat becomes interesting and fun Good but not Great. Definitely captures the slog of a war that WW1 was. Most of my issues stem from the poor path finding that most people are complaining about. Occasionally a unit will get obliterated and I won't understand what happened to them which is frustrating. But ultimately, it's a decent game. Learning to use artillery, researching tanks, and learning to exploit trench blind spots is what takes the game from a real dumb grind to tactically puzzle that you need to work through. The time limit is dumb and I wish you could turn it off, but you've eventually become much more effective in tactical battles that it won't be a factor. Espionage was a bit of let down and wasn't really worth investing research in. The later espionage tech can be useful but it's just too much wasted research points in order to get there. Tanks are the game changer and definitely make combat more interesting.

Jan. 2024

Lot's of reviews mention a problem with trenches only firing in one direction. I got this game during the 2023 winter sale and this is no longer an issue. Overall the game has plenty of little problems. I have had problems with crashing, path-finding issues, and visual glitches. However overall the game is still fun, the battle system does simulate what I would describe as the feel of a battle on the western front. I would recommend if you enjoy a historical RTS. Just be prepared it is rough around the edges. I rate it the best WW1 RTS because it's the only one I know of.

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-75% 34.99€ 8.74€

6.6

1,829

857

Online players

126

Developer

Petroglyph

Publisher

Frontier Foundry

Release 30 Mar 2023

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