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On The Western Front

On The Western Front

January, 1915. The Race to the Sea is over. The Great War has just begun. You are the commander of a single division in the meat grinder that is the Western Front. Lead your men over the top as you attempt to break the stalemate that is to claim the lives of millions over the course of years.

Released Aug 7, 2025 Developer Aggroblakh Platforms Windows · Mac StrategyIndieEarly AccessSimulationWorld War I
View on Steam ↗ $13.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

84.4%positive90 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“This is a wargame, its not a casual experience. If you come into this with that mindset then you will have a good time. It is slow, grindy, and simulation heavy. There are lot of small but very impactful choices happening minute to minute that all ask for your attention but you…”

— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Having learned deep games that look like arse such as Dwarf Fortress I can absolutely see the appeal.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“I thought I previously positively reviewed this but suppose I forgot. I really love a lot of the works this developer makes. They're so detailed and a breath of fresh air to being unlike most games that could compare.”

— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

15achievements
0.0%median completion
0.0%rarest: Trial By Fire
1.8% of players 1.3% of players 1.1% of players 0.7% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 1.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
1.8%Intelligence Expert — Capture 5,000 prisoners.
1.3%Distinguished Service — Earn 50,000 Valour points.
1.1%Ruler of Ashes — Destroy 50 enemy structures of any type via shellfire.
Rarest badges of honor
0.0%Trial By Fire — Promote 5 NCOs by training units to Veteran status.
0.0%You Shall Not Pass! — Hold all four fortresses in the Verdun sector as France by Nov. 11, 1918.
0.0%Cadorna Who? — Break through a sector without any mountain units in the field.

Latest official news

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Aug 23, 2026
Update - August 23

Hi all, Managed to carve out some time this past week to address a couple of issues. Bugfixes/Changes: Tweaked tolerances of contested tiles during offensives. Units will no longer act on their own du

Apr 05, 2026
Hotfix - April 5

Hi all, Fixed a few minor bugs that were affecting field supply dumps. Bugfixes/Changes: Fixed issue in which manually-issued field supply dump resupply orders were not properly causing units to retur

Dec 13, 2025
Update - Dec. 12

Hi all, Got around to fixing the Pilot experience issue that a few of you have reported in the forums. It wasn't really broken, it was just unbalanced. Namely, things like shooting down enemy pilots o

Oct 06, 2025
Update - Oct. 6

Hi all, Fixed a few more bugs that had been reported in the discussion forums. Bugfixes/Changes: Fixed issue in which animated sprites would not appear in-game until the game timer was started and uni

Aug 27, 2025
Hotfix - Aug. 26

Hi all, A much needed hotfix, as this patch fixes a crash bug that is relatively easy to recreate under the right circumstances. I also relaxed the restrictions on tiles for Watch Duty orders, since a

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsStrategy · Indie · Early Access · Simulation · World War I · War · Historical · Wargame · Grand Strategy · Real Time Tactics · Real-Time with Pause · Management (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements15
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/10 Processor: 1.6 Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+ DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Anything will do