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Original War cover art

Original War

Altar Games · Bohemia Interactive · 2014-01-27

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jun 15, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

7
playing now
95%
positive of 2.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Original War is a real-time strategy video game developed by Czech company Altar Interactive and released by Virgin Interactive on June 15, 2001. It was re-released in the United Kingdom under the budget Sold Out label in 2004, and was later re-released again by Good Old Games in 2008.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 16% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–130k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,166 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$1.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2014-06-19) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 33 of 54 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

5022026-08-06 23:00 — 13 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 11 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 15 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 29 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 18 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 36 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 28 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 35 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 18 players2026-08-20 21:00 — 32 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 39 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 41 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 12:00 — 22 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 37 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-262015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-12-22 — best price $0.992016-12-22 — best price $0.992017-09-30 — best price $4.992018-03-20 — best price $1.402018-10-29 — best price $1.402019-01-04 — best price $6.992019-09-12 — best price $0.992019-11-12 — best price $4.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-11-27 — best price $0.992021-04-05 — best price $4.992021-12-13 — best price $0.992022-05-10 — best price $4.992022-09-22 — best price $4.992022-11-23 — best price $0.992023-01-21 — best price $0.992023-04-04 — best price $4.992023-09-04 — best price $4.992023-11-29 — best price $4.992024-03-01 — best price $4.992024-05-27 — best price $1.992024-08-09 — best price $9.992024-11-13 — best price $1.992025-01-20 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-08 — best price $1.992025-08-18 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $9.992026-01-06 — best price $1.992026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-06-15 — best price $9.992026-08-11 — best price $1.992026-08-26 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3562026-05-31 — 22 pageviews2026-06-03 — 16 pageviews2026-06-06 — 19 pageviews2026-06-09 — 9 pageviews2026-06-12 — 19 pageviews2026-06-15 — 22 pageviews2026-06-18 — 10 pageviews2026-06-21 — 27 pageviews2026-06-24 — 16 pageviews2026-06-27 — 19 pageviews2026-06-30 — 25 pageviews2026-07-03 — 29 pageviews2026-07-06 — 20 pageviews2026-07-09 — 16 pageviews2026-07-12 — 17 pageviews2026-07-15 — 21 pageviews2026-07-18 — 14 pageviews2026-07-21 — 19 pageviews2026-07-24 — 19 pageviews2026-07-27 — 27 pageviews2026-07-30 — 11 pageviews2026-08-02 — 13 pageviews2026-08-05 — 9 pageviews2026-08-08 — 27 pageviews2026-08-11 — 20 pageviews2026-08-14 — 10 pageviews2026-08-17 — 19 pageviews2026-08-20 — 23 pageviews2026-08-23 — 16 pageviews2026-08-26 — 19 pageviews2026-08-28 — 26 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
73.2%
earned "To the Past"
4.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsCaptions available

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Russian, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,0152%59

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGRTSWarIndieSci-fiWargameStrategyDifficultReal-Time

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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