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The Great War: Western Front™

Petroglyph · Frontier Foundry · 2023-03-30

SteamEpic Games Store

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 30, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

25
playing now
66%
positive of 3.3k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$34.99
steam price (US)

25 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

The Great War: Western Front is a real-time strategy video game based on the First World War. Developed by Petroglyph Games and published by Frontier Foundry, the game was released in March 2023 for Windows PC.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 162 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~20/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (802 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 66k–148k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,284 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GameBillet$6.01-83%
Gamesplanet$6.69-81%
Humble Store$6.99-80%
IndieGala$6.99-80%
WinGameStore$6.99-80%
GamersGate$7.00-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$34.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.20 at GameBillet (2025-12-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 132 of 177 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
57157120232026Week of 2023-03-01: 241 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 571 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 231 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

84142026-08-11 19:00 — 60 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 46 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 31 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 64 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 40 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 38 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 73 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 64 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 49 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 84 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 47 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 42 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 55 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 30 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 37 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 55 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 37 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 34 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 63 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 45 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 47 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 37 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 48 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 46 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 59 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 25 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$4.462023-02-032026-08-262023-02-03 — best price $34.992023-05-08 — best price $30.522023-07-01 — best price $26.242023-08-26 — best price $34.992023-10-16 — best price $19.532023-11-20 — best price $18.842023-12-20 — best price $17.492024-02-02 — best price $17.492024-02-29 — best price $34.992024-04-01 — best price $12.242024-05-16 — best price $32.092024-07-08 — best price $26.992024-08-06 — best price $10.492024-09-09 — best price $9.432024-10-11 — best price $8.472024-11-26 — best price $9.042024-12-19 — best price $6.852025-01-04 — best price $7.522025-01-31 — best price $10.502025-02-23 — best price $6.112025-03-20 — best price $34.992025-04-20 — best price $5.952025-05-20 — best price $6.992025-06-18 — best price $34.992025-07-14 — best price $5.442025-08-26 — best price $6.992025-10-10 — best price $6.292025-11-19 — best price $32.192025-12-08 — best price $26.992026-01-16 — best price $5.792026-02-16 — best price $5.952026-03-18 — best price $5.912026-04-17 — best price $5.772026-05-20 — best price $5.772026-06-12 — best price $7.002026-07-12 — best price $34.992026-08-11 — best price $6.992026-08-26 — best price $6.01
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

132212026-05-30 — 34 pageviews2026-06-02 — 33 pageviews2026-06-05 — 21 pageviews2026-06-08 — 39 pageviews2026-06-11 — 36 pageviews2026-06-14 — 29 pageviews2026-06-17 — 25 pageviews2026-06-20 — 26 pageviews2026-06-23 — 30 pageviews2026-06-26 — 132 pageviews2026-06-29 — 23 pageviews2026-07-02 — 37 pageviews2026-07-05 — 29 pageviews2026-07-08 — 24 pageviews2026-07-11 — 35 pageviews2026-07-14 — 28 pageviews2026-07-17 — 28 pageviews2026-07-20 — 37 pageviews2026-07-23 — 43 pageviews2026-07-26 — 31 pageviews2026-07-29 — 47 pageviews2026-08-01 — 26 pageviews2026-08-04 — 24 pageviews2026-08-07 — 24 pageviews2026-08-10 — 37 pageviews2026-08-13 — 30 pageviews2026-08-16 — 47 pageviews2026-08-19 — 37 pageviews2026-08-22 — 28 pageviews2026-08-25 — 41 pageviews2026-08-27 — 33 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

12
achievements tracked
49.6%
earned "Earth Shattering"
2.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

PvPRTSWarTanksWargameMilitaryStrategyTacticalHistoricalMultiplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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