On The Western Front

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

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 will have to pick and choose where to dedicate your time. It is a bloody slog, just like the Great War itself.

Quirky niche titles, my favourite. When they work, that is. And this one doesn't. For no obvious reason all the sounds in the game are completely broken for me; the music and all SFX have this grainy interference noise to them as if my headphones' cable has interference, yet nothing else on my PC is affected at all. It's blatant and painful on the ears, and I think I'm being reasonable in saying I don't want to play a mute game just because it's broken. Vsync wouldn't fix it, there were no sound quality settings, so who knows, all I know is that 100% of all audio sources were broken and unbearable. I even found the music folder and could hear all the music files just fine, so it's an engine-level problem. Every time I click a button, the game becomes a 0/10 experience. To get to the minimum time to review a game I decided to at least hop in to see the gameplay. I'm not going to critique it from lack of understanding, I'm aware I've not done the tutorials. My main critique here is...why the square maps? I look at it and don't feel like I'm on any particular front, it's just a generic square map in the middle of a "WW1-ish" place. I can tolerate hearts of iron 2 and 3, I can tolera…

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.

great game 8/10

Cool game, great vision, but I cant recommend the game in this state. Resolution is broken and doesnt have scaling for monitors above 1080p, dev has stated "unfortunately there's nothing I can do".