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War Thunder
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
49 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“War Thunder is, at its core, a wonderful idea like no other. My playtime and the money I have spent in it shows it scratches an itch that I cannot find anywhere else. But the enshittification of this game in the last…”
“The relationship between Gaijin Entertainment and the player base has gotten to the point where it genuinely seems to be abusive. The most frustrating thing about this game is that, while it has a solid gameplay…”
“A great game ruined by a terrible company. I have a disgusting amount of hours in this game (over 4k), and it is truly unique in its category. Despite all of its flaws the base game is fun and very replayable. The…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this.
3 of the 103 reviews raise this.
23 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“they are stealing peoples data through anti-cheat, using calssified military documents to refute bug reports, making insanely OP vehicles like the BMPT cost $70 and then not even balencing them. TLDR: The snail grows…”
“Just dont, your life is more worth it friend. War Thunder used to be something special. It had a unique mix of realism and accessibility, and for a while it genuinely felt rewarding to play. That version of the game is…”
“War Thunder is, at its core, a wonderful idea like no other. My playtime and the money I have spent in it shows it scratches an itch that I cannot find anywhere else. But the enshittification of this game in the last…”
22 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“they are stealing peoples data through anti-cheat, using calssified military documents to refute bug reports, making insanely OP vehicles like the BMPT cost $70 and then not even balencing them. TLDR: The snail grows…”
“War Thunder is, at its core, a wonderful idea like no other. My playtime and the money I have spent in it shows it scratches an itch that I cannot find anywhere else. But the enshittification of this game in the last…”
“Company run by greed, corruption and illegal activity, a company who treats their players as nothing more than just income and thinks they can get away with openly scamming and screwing over them for profit with no…”
18 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“War Thunder is, at its core, a wonderful idea like no other. My playtime and the money I have spent in it shows it scratches an itch that I cannot find anywhere else. But the enshittification of this game in the last…”
“Company run by greed, corruption and illegal activity, a company who treats their players as nothing more than just income and thinks they can get away with openly scamming and screwing over them for profit with no…”
“Bad developer cherry picking sources to adjust reality to their biases. Also reportedly they have used kernel level anticheat to extract files from players systems. And VR doesn't work on Linux”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Just dont, your life is more worth it friend. War Thunder used to be something special. It had a unique mix of realism and accessibility, and for a while it genuinely felt rewarding to play. That version of the game is…”
“terrible game, fix your balance, fix your rewards, fix your P2W”
“This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding why Gaijin is so rotten. https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1simpbk/exgaijin_cm_13_years_former_employees_retained/…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Just dont, your life is more worth it friend. War Thunder used to be something special. It had a unique mix of realism and accessibility, and for a while it genuinely felt rewarding to play. That version of the game is…”
“The steady decline in quality of life in this game is really frustrating, all the other complaints aside. Lack of genuine competition is the only thing keeping the game going right now.”
“The relationship between Gaijin Entertainment and the player base has gotten to the point where it genuinely seems to be abusive. The most frustrating thing about this game is that, while it has a solid gameplay…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 64.0% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“a game developed by the russian deepstate to make western youth kill themselves. the ingame economy is garbage. i'm angry when i play it. i've spent hundreds of dollars i'll never get back. i'll be back tomorrow.”
— a player, Steam review · 1,193 hrs played“the only safe way to play this game is after a lobotomy cuz if you think too hard about what happened none of it makes sense great game though”
— a player, Steam review · 4,365 hrs played“I am writing this review as someone who has played War Thunder since the very beginning, before it came to Steam around 2012. I have spent a lot of real money on it and experienced both the good sides and many of the bad ones. I will start with the positives and finish with the…”
— a player, Steam review · 4,203 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:00 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Screenshot Competition – Changing Tides!
Welcome to the 234th War Thunder Steam Screenshot Competition! We really enjoyed seeing all of your screenshots that you submitted last week! This week we’re featuring amphibious vehicles! These often
Work-In-Progress: The M7 Tank
we’re very pleased to share a new work in progress vehicle with you, currently being crafted by War Thunder artists. This is the American M7 medium tank, a project developed right alongside the Sherma
Update 2.57.1.48
— a bug that caused the pylons with 2x AGM-154A1 JSOW to not display has been fixed. ( Report ). I-16 type 5 — a bug that caused the landing gear to appear deployed when spawning in the air has been f
Update 2.57.1.43
— a bug that caused the aircraft to be hidden from the tech tree when the test-drive was active has been fixed. ( Report ). ☢MiG-29SMT (9-19) — a bug that caused chaff to be missing from the available
Scimitar Strike: Scimitar Mk.2
Scimitar Mk.2: An Event Vehicle Light Tank for Great Britain at Rank VI At a glance: High speed and reversible transmission 30 mm cannon with APDS rounds Additional composite armor elements and slat a
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Massively Multiplayer, Simulation, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · Simulation · Vehicular Combat · Combat · World War II · Flight · VR · War · Military · Tanks · Multiplayer · Naval Combat (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer |
| Languages | English * , German * , French * , Italian * , Spanish - Spain * , Simplified Chinese, Russian * , Japanese * , Polish * , Czech * , Turkish * , Portuguese - Portugal, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Tr… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 91 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000,000 – 50,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://warthunder.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (64bit) Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p. DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 70 GB available space VR Support: SteamVR. Keyboard or gamepad required