Games like On The Western Front
If On The Western Front is your kind of game, the closest matches are Victoria II, Terra Invicta and Making History: The First World War — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
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Victoria II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Top pick for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Terra Invicta
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Second-strongest match for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with On The Western Front.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
Making History: The First World War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with On The Western Front.
Third-strongest match for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
A turn-based WWI Grand Strategy game. Rush to field new modern weaponry and survive the horrendous attrition battles. Join the global conflict between the Great Powers of the age and forge a new world order for freedom or tyranny.
Supreme Ruler The Great War
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Ranked #4 for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. BattleGoat Studios invites you to travel back to 1914 and select from more than 50 playable regions at the onset of World War I, as European powers struggle to survive and new technologies transform warfare.
NationWar:Chronicles | 国战:列国志传
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Ranked #5 for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
This is a sandbox game that is deeply rooted in the rich historical information of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The story of the game unfolds slowly in the eighth century BC on the vast and mysterious land of China.
Last Train Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with On The Western Front.
Ranked #6 for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
The Great War: Western Front™
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
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.
Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Ranked #8 for On The Western Front fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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World Boxing Manager
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with On The Western Front.
World Boxing Manager is a game in which you develop and manage the careers of young, hungry boxers desperate for glory. You scout and recruit fighters from a pool of amateurs who come to train at your gym - it's up to you to decide who to mold into championship material.
Verdun
WHY THIS
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Merciless trench warfare immerses you and your squad in intense battles of attack and defense. Verdun is the first multiplayer FPS set in an authentic World War One setting offering a rarely seen battlefield experience.
Tannenberg
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Experience authentic First World War action with 64 player battles of maneuver on the Eastern Front. Grab your rifle, ready your sabre and keep your gas mask close as you prepare to play a part in one of the most significant conflicts in history!
Strategic Command: World War I
WHY THIS
Shares supply and logistics and an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
Strategic Command: World War I is a new chapter in the Strategic Command Franchise. Relive this momentous conflict from the opening shots of 1914 to the final offensives. Strategic Command: World War I covers all the main aspects and theatres of the war.
Battlefield™ 1
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Battlefield™ 1 takes you back to The Great War, WW1, where new technology and worldwide conflict changed the face of warfare forever.
Commander: The Great War
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
Take Command and Secure Victory in the Great War! Commander – The Great War features a Grand Campaign covering the whole war from the invasion of Belgium on August 5, 1914 to the Armistice on the 11th of November 1918 in addition to 16 different unit types including Infantry, Cavalry, Armoured Cars and Tanks, Artillery, and much more!
Hearts of Iron IV
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Reviewers of On The Western Front cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with On The Western Front.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below On The Western Front at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with On The Western Front.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Indie with On The Western Front.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Indie with On The Western Front.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with On The Western Front.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under On The Western Front on Steam right now. Shares Indie with On The Western Front.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with On The Western Front.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with On The Western Front.
Start your own Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria with Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria Simulator!
One-armed robber
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with On The Western Front.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
KARDS - The WW2 Card Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
KARDS, The World War II Card Game, combines traditional CCG gameplay with innovative mechanics inspired by classic strategy games and real battlefield tactics. Take command and challenge other players in grand-scale warfare on the ground, air, or seas.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Aggroblakh, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
World Boxing Manager
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with On The Western Front.
Another title from Aggroblakh, the studio behind On The Western Front. Shares Strategy and Simulation with On The Western Front.
World Boxing Manager is a game in which you develop and manage the careers of young, hungry boxers desperate for glory. You scout and recruit fighters from a pool of amateurs who come to train at your gym - it's up to you to decide who to mold into championship material.
Building Block Heroes
WHY THIS
Another title from Aggroblakh, the studio behind On The Western Front. Shares Indie with On The Western Front.
Building Block Heroes is a puzzle block platformer (with boss fights!) in which you use coloured blocks to build pathways around each level. Grab a friend and construct your own means to save the Jollyfolk!
Building Block Heroes: Rush Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Aggroblakh, the studio behind On The Western Front. Shares Indie with On The Western Front.
Building Block Heroes: Rush Edition is a faster-paced stand-alone expansion for Building Block Heroes, made for those who enjoyed the core mechanics of the original but preferred a pick-up-and-play experience!
Pop Balloons and Drop People
WHY THIS
Another title from Aggroblakh, the studio behind On The Western Front. Shares Strategy and Indie with On The Western Front.
A short and colorful incremental game about popping different types of balloons and dropping people of all colors.
Frequently asked about On The Western Front
- How much does On The Western Front cost?
- On The Western Front is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to On The Western Front?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside On The Western Front are Victoria II, Terra Invicta, Making History: The First World War.
- Who developed On The Western Front?
- On The Western Front was developed by Aggroblakh.
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