Gary Grigsby's War in the East
Released Jul 2015
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
89% positive · 580 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $79.99 Green Man Gaming Steam key $79.99
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Evaluation
Gary Grigsby's War in the East launched on Steam on July 9, 2015, arriving with both of its DLC packs (Lost Battles and Don to the Danube) already released on the same day. The game received a series of substantial feature patches and balance updates from 2016 through mid-2018, with the last official update (v1.11.03) released on June 15, 2018. No further updates to this game have been posted since that date.
The developer's attention shifted to the franchise's future: in February 2021, 2by3 Games began teasing War in the East 2 with community After Action Reports, and on December 10, 2021, War in the East 2 launched on Steam as a complete overhaul and successor to this title. The developer explicitly described War in the East 2 as "a complete overhaul and improvement of the original War in the East." This signals that the original game's development had concluded and successor work had shipped.
Both DLC entries are released, no unreleased DLC exists, no future content has been announced for this title, and developer communication for this specific game effectively ended in June 2018. The game launched as a finished product with its DLC included from day one, and all subsequent post-launch patches have now been delivered. This is a complete, self-contained strategy game.
Evidence
War in the East 2 launched on Steam as a complete overhaul and successor to the original game, indicating the original's development cycle had concluded and resources moved to the sequel.
Final official patch (v1.11.03) released for War in the East. No further updates have been posted after this date.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Matrix Games
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer
About this game
War on an Epic scale from Moscow to Berlin – this is War in the East!
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East represents a truly epic representation of the Second World War on the Eastern Front and is unparalleled in its scale, detail, and ambition!
Features
- 5 major campaigns starting at 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1941 (Alternate victory) all extending to Summer 1945
- 11 scenarios range in length from 10 turns to 25 turns
- Map stretches from 100 miles west of Berlin to Ural mountains and from 150 miles north of Leningrad in the north to Bulgaria and Baku in the south
- 10 miles per hex with weekly IGOUGO turns
- Play against the AI (either side) or watch the AI simulate the war by itself, with 5 categories of help levels for each side to adjust the difficulty level
- Includes traditional Play by Email and Server based PBEM+ systems
- Full service scenario and data editor with CSV export/import functionality
- Detailed stats of ground elements and aircraft affecting in game performance
- Up to roughly 4000 units in the game database with the ability to create many more! Division sized maneuver units with thousands of battalion and regiment sized support units
- Many different classes of support units like artillery, engineer, ski, anti-tank, pioneer, tank destroyer, and much more
- German Corps/Army/Army Group HQ's and Soviet Army/Front HQ's
- Air units are generally organized as groups and can run both night and day air missions, complete with night fighters
- Manually upgrade aircraft within units or automate new aircraft allocation
- Detailed production with Russian factory evacuations realistically modeled with production penalties and rebuilding delays
- Extensive spreadsheets and reports representing tons of data and information
- Detailed yet automated accounting for support personnel and supplies/fuel/ammunition Losses in individual vehicles and squads Display of the various modifiers affecting how efficiently units receive what they need
- More than 500 historical commanders with a detailed promotion and rating system
- Leaders can be dismissed, executed, fired, killed in action 8 rating fields measuring different attributes from combat skill to political rating
- Very detailed system to account for troops/vehicles that are disrupted, disabled and fatigued Accurate modeling of the need for training units before entering combat
- Detailed weather zones and ice levels for rivers with the option to randomize or fix weather patterns for each scenario
- Intricate Fog of War rules and unit detection levels - units are rated based on their ability to conceal themselves and their ability to recon other units
- Includes two major optional rules allowing you to adjust the First Winter Blizzard Effect and the Soviet Combat Doctrine.
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Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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