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World War I
Developer Dark Fox
World War I is a real-time strategy based on the modified version of the well-known Blitzkrieg engine. From the Steam store page
197 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
83 positive · 30 negative
95% range 65–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 83 | 30 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 0 | 65 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
92 of 127 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
72% recommend · 83 yes, 33 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 116 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (197 of 270 positive).
Fans of the Blitzkrieg engine will find this game familiar and enjoyable. [1][2][3] The game is historically inaccurate, featuring tanks in 1914. [4][5][6] Some players report game-breaking bugs and crashes. [7][8][9]
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- [17]
Short note: my steam play time does not represent my actual play time spent in this game. Rating: bad (4/10) Introduction World War 1 is a typical "Blitzkrieg" type of RTS - you are getting limited amount of troops with that you have to fulfill certain objectives put into missions of a campaign. You do not have the ability to build a base and produce units, however the units you receive mostly get multiple tasks or …
- [1]
For diehard Blitzkrieg fans, it may be worth the few dollars. I'm enjoying it. But otherwise the engine is just too dated for me to recommend to someone who has no rose colored glasses. Also, after playing a few levels of the Entente campaign, I've noticed that unlike Blitzkrieg there are no persistant "core" units that gain experience and can be upgraded through the campaign. This makes it more of a series of set …
- [10]
Pros: +Atmosphere +Music +Challanges +Tactics +If you happen to at least a little bit to speak German, French and Russian, then occasional comical phrases thrown by random soldiers. +Ability to speed up and slow down the game, as well as a ♥♥♥♥ mode, during which you can still give orders. Cons: -Not the most historically accurate game -The easiest difficulty in this game feels like an extreme hardcore level in any …
- [18]
TL;DR An odd Blitzkrieg engine game which combines the classic slow-paced set-piece strategy of its predecessor with a bizzare approach to history and clunky unit balance. When I first saw this game, I nearly squeaked from joy. Not only was it an RTS about the First World War - a criminally underappreciated setting which was done well in only a handful of other games - but it was a First World War RTS in the classic …
- [2]
For the "Blitzkrieg" title fans only. This is not a bad game about the Great War, mind it! It is working with Windows 10, you have 3 major campaigns, for Germany, Russia, and French/England combined forces. And there is some additional campaign for the invasion in Russia in 1919, where you need to defend Mother Russia from the whole bunch of freebie-lovers, as a Red commander... However, if you're not familiar with …
Summarised from 34 of the 198 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
72% of the 116 Steam reviewers we collected recommend World War I. The complaint that keeps coming up: lacks historical accuracy. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 197 · most liked first“what happens when they run out of guys??” handshake meme between Game 3 World Series 2025 and World War I
neutral · AI labelView post →Um. The British tried in World War I. The "Turnip Winter?" The Allies declaring that food was fair game? Hundreds of thousands of deaths? People still go to, like, school and stuff, right?
neutral · AI labelView post →For diehard Blitzkrieg fans, it may be worth the few dollars. I'm enjoying it. But otherwise the engine is just too dated for me to recommend to someone who has no rose colored glasses. Also, after playing a few levels of the Entente campaign, I've noticed that unlike Blitzkrieg there are no persistant "core" units that gain experience and can be upgraded through the campaign. This makes it more of a series of set piece battles. There is a (free) Spanish Civil War mod for the first…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warframe, still a space ninja game (technically), is now drawing inspiration from World War I aftermath.site/warframe-old...
neutral · AI labelView post →Rally the Troops has added yet another World War I game to the line up: Verdun 1916: Steel Inferno. This is a CDG about the trench warfare around Verdun during World War I, designed by Walter Vejdo, with illustrations by Tardi. rally-the-troops.com/verdun
neutral · AI labelView post →New game: Cyclocross racer or World War I soldier
neutral · AI labelView post →In the house! The upcoming Queen of Spies, a solo game of espionage set in World War I, designed by Liz Davidson and David Thompson. I'm looking forward to exploring this one! :) #boardwargames #boardgames @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social @djackthompson.bsky.social @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →I too can play this game The title of which is a reference to a line from this poem, about World War I: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;" Where did Yeats get the phrase "things fall apart"? It's standard English idiom
neutral · AI labelView post →For the "Blitzkrieg" title fans only. This is not a bad game about the Great War, mind it! It is working with Windows 10, you have 3 major campaigns, for Germany, Russia, and French/England combined forces. And there is some additional campaign for the invasion in Russia in 1919, where you need to defend Mother Russia from the whole bunch of freebie-lovers, as a Red commander... However, if you're not familiar with the old Blitzkrieg, you'll see only the bad things, in all of the game's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blitzkreig engine based games are starting to become like digital collector items to me. You buy one, simply gotta have the others. It's very intriguing to see the various ideas the developers had in mind unfold in this engine. Even if the games weren't perfect in terms of execution of said ideas. World War One is one of those games that knew what it wanted to do but was rough around the edges in execution. Still, you couldn't hate the game for striving to be different. Even if it was at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short note: my steam play time does not represent my actual play time spent in this game. Rating: bad (4/10) Introduction World War 1 is a typical "Blitzkrieg" type of RTS - you are getting limited amount of troops with that you have to fulfill certain objectives put into missions of a campaign. You do not have the ability to build a base and produce units, however the units you receive mostly get multiple tasks or actions they can perform. Gameplay & Story: 5/10 The story is somewhat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun look at WW1, if you look older 90's early 2000's strategy games this one is for you. Do you like massive heaps of dead enemies all over the map, a challenging and sophisticated AI all in 2D strategy glory? This game is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTqCyRQ_E1w
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The national anthem tradition started here: 106 years ago, at Game 1 of the 1918 World Series (Red Sox vs. Cubs), the Star-Spangled Banner was played during the 7th-inning stretch while the United States was in World War I. ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Night: ‘Conscript’ Argues That World War I is Scarier Than Zombies (Minus World) hard-drive.net/news-games/g...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you can ignore the tanks, this is a pretty solid game about the first World War. I remember I was raging at the time of the game's release that they unrealistically depict the equipment used in that Great War, but after "Battlefield 1" I say it's okay for a video game. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792098623 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792644818
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve been working since the wee hours, walked the dog a couple of times, and now I’m shifting gears into writing #AllQuietBeneath. ✍️ Planning shirt is on. Coffee is ready. Time to tackle this World War I sci-fi game! Yo, Joe! 🪖🚀 #WriterLife #GameDesign
positive · AI labelView post →September 27, 2004 Just your run of the mill turn-based fantasy RPG published by Midway that’s set during World War I after the “bad” ending of the previous game where you fight the evil mage, Grigori Rasputin. Totally normal.
neutral · AI labelView post →1981 Atari Red Baron upright vector arcade game. Red Baron is a first-person game where the player assumes the role of a World War I pilot in a biplane that tries to take out other planes and tanks. Continued… #arcade #redbaron #biplane #1980s #atari
neutral · AI labelView post →The Longest Trench is a short historical game on World War I, presenting it as a string of battles. That small design really caught my attention and I would like to share several materials on it. I hope you will enjoy it! ▶️ theboardgameschronicle.com/2025/10/26/s... #UGG #Wargames #boardgames #WWI
positive · AI labelView post →The Great War: 1914-1918 Blue Byte / SSI, 1992 A World War I turn-based tactics/strategy game (similar to Blue Byte's Battle Isle) where two players act simultaneously on a split screen. #retrogaming #strategy
neutral · AI labelView post →If you are a Blitzkrieg fan, you'll like this game. Same mechanics, different time period.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I once participated in a neighborhood wide Water War with super soakers, water balloons, and garden hoses as static base defenses that was as pitched and game-changing as World War I was to all that came before. and much like WWI, we fought in trenches[ditches]
neutral · AI labelView post →September 27, 2004 Just your run of the mill turn-based fantasy JRPG published by Midway that’s set during World War I after the “bad” ending of the previous game where you fight the evil mage, Grigori Rasputin. Totally normal.
neutral · AI labelView post →If this means they can stop by the World War I memoraial and play the operation epic furious arcade game, I am sure they are for it.
neutral · AI labelView post →WARGAME RECON The far Seas - VUCA Simulations (2026) German Cruiser Operations in World War I Game Designer: M. Anderson and J. Bruncken vucasims.com/products/the...
neutral · AI labelView post →A small trick-tracking game about major World War I battle, which plays great with two or four players - this is Verdun, an unexpected discovery for me in last months. Let me present you its components and gameplay! theboardgameschronicle.com/2025/11/19/u... #DragonDawnProductions
positive · AI labelView post →Was just thinking about how many of the instructions could be salvaged for an analogous Germany during World War I game
neutral · AI labelView post →This is interesting: a game about the horrors experienced by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War I. Specifically about the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that Churchill devised.
neutral · AI labelView post →Program for the 1918 Ohio State-Michigan game, played a few weeks after the Nov. 11 ceasefire was signed ending World War I
neutral · AI labelView post →Our new update will include over 40 new diary entries. It covers historical and personal stories about the gas warfare and many other topics related to World War I. store.steampowered.com/news/app/863... #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Take control of infantry squads and tanks in a real-time tactics game set in The World War I. Two more days until my #RTS Tactics of World War I is released on Steam. #IndieGame #GameDev #screenshotsaturday
positive · AI labelView post →Only 4 days left until my #RTS Tactics of World War I is released on Steam. A game that puts you in the role of a military leader in the First World War. #IndieGames #IndieGame #GameDev A video clip of the game in action:
positive · AI labelView post →Wish there was a tutorial so i could atleast figure out what i should o
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: +Atmosphere +Music +Challanges +Tactics +If you happen to at least a little bit to speak German, French and Russian, then occasional comical phrases thrown by random soldiers. +Ability to speed up and slow down the game, as well as a ♥♥♥♥ mode, during which you can still give orders. Cons: -Not the most historically accurate game -The easiest difficulty in this game feels like an extreme hardcore level in any other average RTS -♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bridges!!! Just try getting a large group of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Plays like the orginal Blitzkrieg.....even if it does kinda lack in accuracy (first german mission im looking at you with your two late war tanks in 1914) fun and good for the price. ENJOY!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Iran is not the only player, though. Instead of one big cold war, we're going to have multiple smaller conflicts. It's multipolar geopolitics, reminiscent of the politics that led into World War I, and the game timer is climate change and other sorts of environmental degradation.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game. For a fact, this is historically accurate and I recommend it to people who pass by the world war 1 section in steam. I would rate it 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the image consultant in my brain: Glim do you really want to make yet another post about Super Mario 64, a game from the same century as World War I me: I've held onto this searing opinion for long enough, and the people have a right to know The Vanish Cap should have gotten its own music, damn it
neutral · AI labelView post →Splinterproof goggles worn #onthisday in 1917 by Royal Flying Corps Lieutenant H. F. Game when he was wounded in a crash landing in World War I. The manufacturers, the TripleRx Safety Glass Company, subsequently featured him in their advertising. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums
neutral · AI labelView post →To quote Yahtzee Croshaw, "You know, there's a theory that the popularity of violent war games in a community goes down the closer that community is to an actual war, in which case Animal Crossing is the best possible game for soldiers in World War I trenches." Same thing applies to this era.
neutral · AI labelView post →We finished the game!! There was an altercation at the concert, civil trials for the two lawsuits, Alban Berg died in World War I, no one figured out who the spy was, and the avant-garde decided to abandon Vienna and all moved to Berlin at the end
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like Blitzkrieg 1 on a smaller scale. Gameplay - Infantry, tanks, machine guns, AT-guns etc. pretty much share the same firing range. - Artillery range has been decreased in order to fit smaller scale battles. ( ex, a 152 mm howitzer has the same range as a mortar). You cannot use artillery to fire across the entire map like in other enigma engine games ( BK, M.Kursk & Barbarossa, Stalingrad etc.), although the game has some heavy art. pieces (fixed, cannot be moved/towed) that have the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Modded Blitzkrieg 1, but not bad.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nice game, slow paced music is nasty get head phones to jam out lol all in all nice game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“It’s easy to get firmly entrenched in this powerful character drama on the front lines of World War I”- Serena Nelson reviewed The Caribou Trail for AGH. adventuregamehotspot.com/review/6529/... via @AGHotspot #indiegame #adventuregame
neutral · AI labelView post →I will never forget the college professor who clocked me as a Leninist immediately because I was the only person in the capstone who blamed World War I on imperialism. Even though it was clearly the subtext of half of the assigned readings (that came to rote, game theory conclusions otherwise).
neutral · AI labelView post →World War I is an ancient game from 2005. It's a whopping 19 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. This was an "okay" WW1…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a new toy. Literally. It’s a Handley-Page O/400 bomber for the World War I aviation game “Wings of Glory”. I’ll be hanging out making “vroom, vroom” and “pew, pew” noises at home all night.
positive · AI labelView post →TL;DR An odd Blitzkrieg engine game which combines the classic slow-paced set-piece strategy of its predecessor with a bizzare approach to history and clunky unit balance. When I first saw this game, I nearly squeaked from joy. Not only was it an RTS about the First World War - a criminally underappreciated setting which was done well in only a handful of other games - but it was a First World War RTS in the classic Blitzkrieg engine. I love the visuals of it. Some people consider the engine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me just start you with this: Its blitzkrieg with a few minor cosmetic changes: Pros: +Like any RTS, is pretty fun to send waves of men charging at an enemy +Nice nostagliac feelings while playing Cons: -Historically Inaccurate, Tanks in 1914??? -wierd combat system, Tanks can get destroyed by rifles and machine guns??? -Bad graphics, but what do you expect? it was released in 2005! Im going to go over the aspects of the game: Gameplay: 7/10 Gets VERY repetitive over time, and by over…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game but sadly,it doesn't have a skirmish mode or multiplayer,but still this game is more accuracy then bf 1.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my great gandpa blair was in this war!! :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exactly what i was expecting from the Blitkreig Engine , but dont try run this game on windows 7 , all was well about 20mins into the game , then my PC had a seizure , i had to cold boot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After chapter 1 of the entente, the game crash back to desktop. :o(
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a setting I've been farting around with in my head since like 2015 that's in its equivalent of the year before World War I. It started as a Wizard School game where all the students were having premonition nightmares about artillery and mustard gas, but it's pretty different now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did a new All Quiet Beneath post drop on #HarlemUnbounding? Damn right it did! 👁️ Don’t know AQB? It’s my World War I alternate-history sci-fi game, and I’m building it piece by piece. Patrons follow the development journey: the highs, the lows, and the moments where I actively avoid writing. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →🤗 The TOC for the Routledge Companion to Video Games is 🔥🔥. Love that my new work on slavery and memory in the game Blackhaven will be grouped with @stefanaq.bsky.social’s. His book White Mythic Space 🔥 looked at depictions of soldiers of color in World War I games - here he’ll extend it to WW II.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think scifi games focus too much on letting people have a "balanced melee build," ranged weapons in the setting should probably be ruthless, charging a machine gunner with your cavalry saber should work about as well as it did in World War I. *Shrug* But every game tries to do it
neutral · AI labelView post →Your mission is clear, infiltrate enemy lines, commandeer a German aircraft, and finish your rescue mission. Jutland Skies, a new Atari 2600 game by Mirsad Sarajlic, is inspired by the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval clash of World War I. Debuting at the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is based on the life of an exotic dancer named Margaretha Zelle aka Mata Hari who was accused of being a spy and executed during World War I. Bally also produced 170 electromechanical Mata Hari machines and even 20 prototypes that had plastic playfields instead of wood. Continued…
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