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Making History: The Great War

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App ID 279140
App Type Game
Developer ,
Publisher Factus Games
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Last Changenumber 29654191
Last Record Update 19 June 2025 – 17:18:47 UTC ()
Release Date 29 January 2015 – 22:07:13 UTC ()
❓ 71.87%
450 reviews
6
In-Game

The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.

Additional Information

Developer Muzzy Lane Software
metacritic_name Making History: The Great War
controller_support partial
GameManualURL https://store.steampowered.com/manual/279140/
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
LegacyKeyRegistrationMethod registry
LegacyKeyRegistryLocation HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\TestApp279140\SteamKey
ShowCDKeyOnLaunch Yes [view your cd keys in client]
SupportsCDKeyCopyToClipboard Yes [view your cd keys in client]
ReleaseState released
Publisher Factus Games
Store Release Date 29 January 2015 – 22:07:22 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 29 January 2015 – 22:07:13 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 29 October 2022 – 17:16:20 UTC () (1667063780)
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review_score 6
review_percentage 76
Detected Technologies (?) Qt SDK, SDL SDK, Vorbis SDK
First seen on SteamDB 6 February 2014 – 17:37:07 UTC (), in changelist #393661

Supported Languages

3 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes
German Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes

Tags

💡 Strategy 🖥️ Simulation 🎖️ World War I 🛡️ Grand Strategy 🌱 Indie 📜 Historical ⚔️ War 🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🛠️ Moddable 🧱 Sandbox 🪖 Military 🕹️ Multiplayer 👤 Singleplayer 🔄 Replay Value 🪂 World War II 🕰️ Alternate History 🤔 Tactical 🎲 Turn-Based 💼 Management 🗺️ 4X

Categories

Single-player Cross-Platform Multiplayer Steam Trading Cards Steam Workshop Includes level editor Family Sharing Multi-player

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support Native Steam Controller

Assets

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small_capsule
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header_image
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library_assets_full
library_capsule ↴
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library_hero ↴
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library_logo ↴
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Assets
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page_background_pathapp/279140
timestamp29 October 2022 – 17:16:35 UTC
Trailers
2031777 ↴
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2037031 ↴
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228982 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2008 Redist No size
228984 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980VC 2012 Redist No size
228990 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist No size
279141 Windows TGW content win32 1.53 GiB 393.16 MiB
279142 macOS TGW content mac 1.45 GiB 362.06 MiB
279143 Linux TGW content linux 1.59 GiB 415.49 MiB

Total size on disk is 4.57 GiB and total download size is 1.14 GiB.

Total size on disk is 1.53 GiB and total download size is 393.16 MiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 3068415 7 September 2018 – 15:27:32 UTC

Other

Name Value
overridescddb 1
baselanguages English, German
workshopdepot Making History: The Great War (279140)
privatebranches 1
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