The Great War: Western Front™
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 80% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($6.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 85% ($5.24)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $5.24. That was April 2025. It has been discounted 35 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $6.99 at 80 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Ancient Warfare: The Han Dynasty ($16.99, scores 13).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 18 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 619 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 32 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
50% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
87 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 19:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Great War: Western Front™ scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2109370/the-great-war-western-frontReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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