The Great War: Western Front™

I didn’t enjoy The Great War: Western Front. It feels unfinished. The graphics are poor and feel like a mobile game. It seems like the developers abandoned it. Very few new updates were added. It’s not what I expected. It’s a World War I game, which is cool, and it’s rare for developers to take that risk, so the idea is solid. Some things are done well. The battlefields stay as you leave them, with craters and trenches, which is nice. But the animations and graphics are weak, there isn’t enough content, and the gameplay gets repetitive quickly. The idea is good, but the execution falls short. Wont Recommend it.

It's really close to real life trench hell of the western front so be prepared for a slow and steady meat grinder.

I love it when the French try to take Verdun for the 8th time (Auto-Resolve sees it as a Great-Victory)

good game

it a good game but doesn't gets boring quick due to there only being 2 factions

es una verguenza de juego, it's a shame, tiene unos graficos ridiculos, como de hace 20 años, y la jugabilidad es muy muy basica. creo que solo vive de la epoca historica pero ni asi merece pena jugarlo. me la colaron bien con la primera guerra mundial.

Sehr atmosphärisch und mit vielen historischen Ereignissen auch ziemlich stimmungsvoll. Wenn man als Buchhalter des Krieges, den Schrecken der Grabenkämpfe erleben will und mit Hilfe von Forschung die Facetten des industriellen Tötens (Giftgas, Schrapnellladungen, Flammenwerfer etc.) kennen lernen möchte, so ist dieses Spiel ein Versuch Wert. Ich empfehle gerade zum Handling mit den Tanks im Spiel, ein Tutorial-Video auf YT anzuschauen. Diese funktioneren nämlich anders. Sie dienen eher als schnelle Plänkler, wie als fahrende Festungen.

Not worth $35, still fun. I only recommend buying when it's on sale. Despite this probably being one of the "best" ww1 strategy games, it's still super clunky with many bugs and issues. Aside from not being very realistic (In terms of battle tactics, which I feel is a large appeal of strategy games, if I wanted action and spectacle I'd play Battlefield 1), there are still many bugs and very clunky cases. -the infantry AI is extremely Buggy. A Perfect trench assault, where the entire enemy trench is being suppressed by my artillery, will fail just because my trench was super close to theirs, they will stumble and take forever to move those few feet when in normal cases if they are moving over larger distances they can run like Usain Bolt over multiple trenches..? -Field Artillery units should also be able to be killed relatively quickly, with a few bullets or so, not take an entire unit of 225 Soldiers all tossing grenades like it's some armored vehicle. -Tanks should have much more resistance to small-arms fire, how are my heavy tanks dying to some rifle fire?? -Machinegun pillboxes take zero damage from field-artillery and can't be dealt with by normal infantry, and my heavy tanks with cannons can't even target them, they can only be dealt with Siege Artillery and Flamethrowers for some reason, I doesn't make sense why I can't just flank them with a tank and a small group of infantry. I mean did WW2 soldiers on D-Day not assault the Bunkers at Normandy? I'm sure these pillboxes are less advanced than their 1940s Counterparts. -It's not necessarily missing any elements that make the game unrealistic or break my immersion, but it seems weird that the indirect-fire artillery is a late-game "Siege Artillery" technology, when indirect fire from artillery was one of the main factors that resulted in Trench Warfare, instead in this game, half the war you use direct-fire vulnerable field artillery, which can definitely have a fun gameplay niche but feels like an oversight that also dramatically changes in-game battle tactics to real-world battle tactics. -Another thing that breaks immersion and is really not realistic at all, you can overwhelm the enemy, take their command trench and everything else, but because of some mechanic regarding the "stars" on the tile, it won't actually move the units on the map and dynamically change the frontline. I think this is some sort of crutch to hide the limited number of battlemaps, as the "stalemateness" of the war should be reflected by just making defense super easy and offense super hard, not adding stars that mean you have to fight and overwhelm the enemy from the same trench from multiple battles... Like i've already taken this trench dude lol In summary, the strategies and battle tactics in game feels like the Devs just cut corners to make something functional, but this resulted in some frustrating concepts that stray further away from what I'd imagine a person would want to experience in a "Strategy" game.