Making History: The Great War
Released Jan 2015
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.
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Evaluation
Making History: The Great War launched on January 29, 2015 as a finished WWI grand strategy game. Its only DLC, The Red Army, was released on February 23, 2016. Since that DLC shipped, no further content for this specific title has been announced or released.
Developer activity after February 2016 shifted almost entirely to other titles in the Making History series — most notably Making History: The Second World War, which entered Early Access in October 2017 and officially released in April 2018. A post from October 2018 (NEWS-4) briefly mentioned an upcoming "Making History: The Great War Gold Edition," but this appears to have been quietly dropped, as no further announcements about it materialized and no such product appears in the store listing.
In April 2020, the developer announced Making History: The First World War (a separate successor title, App ID 959150), indicating that Muzzy Lane/Factus Games had moved on to a new WWI-themed game rather than continuing to update this one.
The last developer communication that touched on Making History: The Great War was a June 2017 patch (NEWS-8) addressing a Linux multiplayer bug. That was the final update to the base game. With one released DLC, no unreleased DLC on the store, no announced future content, and no developer communications about this title since mid-2017, the game is complete as of the Red Army DLC release date.
Evidence
The Red Army DLC released on February 23, 2016 — the only DLC for the game, and it has shipped.
Developer announced Making History: The First World War as a separate new Early Access title — a successor rather than an update to The Great War, confirming development had moved on.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Factus Games
Achievements
1
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer
About this game
The First World War ushered in the beginning of a new age. On battlefields across the globe, the remaining vestiges of the 19th Century were gruesomely attritted away as the introduction of new weapons favored defensive strategies that lead to massive casualties in futile attacks on fortified lines. Whole Nations mobilized as the citizenry became integral to the war effort, churning out the supplies necessary to keep their soldiers fighting and dying. This was total war and the national suffering seeded movements bent on rebellion and revolution.
Making History: The Great War offers a game filled with historical events and challenges of the WW1 era. Playing as the Head of State, you are responsible for managing all facets of your nation's economy, diplomacy and military. Your actions will influence world events as you lead your armies in the most in-depth WWI grand strategy game ever made.
Making History: The Great War offers a game filled with historical events and challenges of the WW1 era. Playing as the Head of State, you are responsible for managing all facets of your nation's economy, diplomacy and military. Your actions will influence world events as you lead your armies in the most in-depth WWI grand strategy game ever made.
- Play as any independent nation during the World War 1 era.
- Choose how best to control your conquests: colonies, protectorates or puppet states.
- Build trenches to grind down attacking forces.
- Soften up your enemies defenses with adjacent region Artillery bombardments.
- Bomb with Airships and BiPlanes, counter with Fighters and Anti-Air units.
- Control the seas and the lines of supply by waging Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, sinking both naval and trade vessels.
- Buy and sell in a global economy, trade for vital resources or manufactured goods.
- Expand your sphere of influence using foreign aid to increase ties with other nations.
- A sophisticated economic system designed to simulate the inter-dependency of technology, industry and war. You must produce the munitions to fire your big guns and food to feed your people.
- Employ government spending to keep the populations from radicalizing towards rebellion and ultimately, national collapse.
- Over 275 different nationalities represented, many with unique model sets.
- Hundreds of unit models representing the historic weapons of the period.
- Create customized scenarios with our detailed editor. Share your mods on Steam Workshop.
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Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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