World War I (shortened WWI) was a global war took place mainly in Asia and Europe from 1914 to 1918. There are few video games available with the setting of World War I compared to World War II. These video games are military-based and enable players to choose their side from available and jump into the game to battle against rival faction, nation, or territory to defeat them. WWI involved over twenty countries and fought for more than four years. WWI acts as a bit unconventional in the video game setting, lets the player go for war, and these games don’t have the same free running battle scenario that the First-person Shooter World War II video games had, because of the relative stagnation of the Western-themed. During the war, players can use the enormous arsenal of weaponry in order to defeat the rival nation and struggle to restore the peace in the land. The games use the World War I setting, typically uses the Strategy, Real-time Tactics, and RTS elements. Players have access to military-based vehicles, weaponry, equipment, and items, which they can use while playing the game.

14 Best World War I Games

#1 Castlevania: Bloodlines

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Castlevania: Bloodlines is a Side-scroll, Platform, and Single-player video game created and published by Konami in 1994. The storyline of the game concerns the legendary vampire known as Elizabeth Bartley, who is the niece of Dracula, suddenly appears in the twentieth century. Plotting the brutal conflict to find and bring back her uncle to life, she orchestrates the starting of WWI. The son of Quincy Morris, named John and his buddy Eric Lecarde take stand against evil. Together, they must find a way to fend off the full recreation of Dracula. There are several levels and the player needs to take down enemies to earn points while gathering gems to power special weapons. In each stage, the player can move from a side-scroll perspective and face off the sub-boss battle in the middle of each stage with main boss fight at the level’s end. During the game, the player can use some items which may increases the power of the weapons used by the player in battle. Castlevania: Bloodlines includes prominent features, superb gameplay, and old-school graphics, Castlevania: Bloodlines is the best game to play.

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#2 The Last Express

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The Last Express is an Adventure and Single-player video game created by Smoke Car Productions and published by Interplay Entertainment. The game puts the player in charge of the protagonist, who is an American with a task to join the Orient Express, days before the start of WWI. It comes with the non-linear storyline and the events in the game conducted within real-time. The player controls the character from a first-person perspective to explore the environment of the train while cut-scenes being conducted in a third-person viewpoint. The environment of the game takes place in the entirely within real-time. The storyline of the game is set in 1914, on the final journey made by the Orient Express from Paris to Constantinople. Most events of the game appear in the train, consisting of two baggage vehicles, two sleeping cars, a restaurant car, and a private car. The player must explore the world, interact with NPCs, and struggle to solve the complex puzzles to move to the next levels. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and smooth controls, The Last Express is the best game to play.

#3 Valiant Hearts: The Great War

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Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a masterpiece when we talk about the Action-Adventure, Puzzle Platform, and Stealth games. This brilliant game is inspired by the letters sent by the World War 1 vets from both sides. Valiant Hearts: The Great War features four main characters and allows you to switch between them when needed. The basic objective of the game is to help a young German soldier find his love, survive, sacrifice and maintain friendships throughout the game-play and kill the enemies at the same time. The main antagonist of the game is Baron Von Dorf, a general in German army who turns the life of the young soldier upside down by dragging him into places where nobody else would go ever want to go. You must act according to the story and go through a number of harsh situations, use your skills, weapons and wit to defeat enemies and finally get together with your family. Valiant Hearts: The Great War with an amazing World War 1 setting, battles between the German and French armies, amazing visuals, a great story and an engaging game-play, is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Try it out for an amazing gaming experience with a different touch. You’ll definitely like it a lot.

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#4 Assassin’s Creed: Origins

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Assassin’s Creed: Origins is an Action-Adventure, Third-person Perspective, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Stealth element developed and published by Ubisoft. It is the 10th title in the series of Assassin’s Creed and serves as the successor to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate released in 2015. The plot takes place in the Ancient Egypt during the period of Ptolemaic and revolves around the fictional history of real-world events. The story of the game focuses on the centuries-long battle between the Order of the Ancients and the Brotherhood of Assassins. The Order of the Ancients wants peace through forceful imposition while the Brotherhood of Assassins wants peace by promoting the liberty. The player takes on the role of the protagonist and can explore the fictional landscapes from a third-person view. The ultimate task is to complete a variety of quests to progress through the story, earn experience points, and unlock new skills. He can freely roam the environment on horseback, foot, camel-back, boat and more. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Assassin’s Creed: Origins is the best game to play and enjoy.

#5 Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is an Action-Adventure, Psychological Horror and Single-player video game created by Silicon Knights and published by Nintendo. The gameplay is much similar to the title Resident Evil series. The game features several characters and allows you select your character with the statistics, who is tasked to return her or his family’s mansion situated in Rhode Island to investigate the murder of the grandfather. In the game, you have to compete against a supernatural entity and their minions who are struggling to enslave the humanity. You act as the protagonist and can manipulate the world to fulfill your tasks from a third-person perspective. You will receive points for complete the tasks and can use them to unlock additional content. There are four different alignment Rune effect such as Red spells effect, Blue spells effect, Green spells effect and more. To make the game more thrilling, it combines multiple elements such as Puzzle-solving, Metroidvania, and Horror-Survival. With prominent features, immersive gameplay, breathtaking environment and original soundtracks, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is the best game to play.

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#6 The Darkness

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The Darkness is a First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game based on the comic book of the same name developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by 2K Games. The game takes place in the fictional world threatened by horror, and it puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Jackie Estacado. On the twenty-first birthday of the protagonist, he is targeted for assassination by his uncle named as Paulie Franchetti, revolving around a failed task to recover the money. As the protagonist hiding in a bathroom, a dark force that has lived with his family for several years controls the body of the protagonist and kills the remaining mobsters. Using his abilities, the player needs to destroy the business of Paulie by slaughtering his drug peddler such as Dutch Oven Harry, and more. There are a variety of missions available, and the player has to complete each one to progress through the game. The player can use a variety of weapons to take down his targets and earn experience points that can be used to unlock further weapons and missions. With brilliant gameplay, excellent mechanics, and addictive story, The Darkness is the best game to play and enjoy.

#7 Darkest of Days

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Darkest of Days is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, and Single-player video game published by Phantom EFX and developed by 8monkey Labs. The game takes place in the stunning environment where the player assumes the role of the protagonist named as Alexander Morris, a soldier battling in a battalion of General Custer during the Battle of Little Big Horn, in the starting of the game. During the battle, Custer was killed, and Morris was wounded and save by a man in advanced armour and taken through a portal to another dimension. After that, the protagonist finds himself in the Kronotek’s headquarter, an organization manages to create the time travel technology. A person tells the protagonist that the founder of the organization has gone missing and the disturbances have begun through history. The player can explore the stunning landscape from a first-person perspective, use a huge arsenal of weaponry to battle enemies and kill them to earn points and save the Doctor Koell. Darkest of Days includes prominent features such as Compelling Storyline, Futuristic Weapons, Sci-fi Environment, Non-player Characters, and more. Try it out.

#8 Verdun

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Verdun is a great Tactical, multiplayer Online First Person Shooter video game set in the World War 1 Era and offers a totally unique game-play experience that immerses you with the immensely blasting nature of the game. The game features historically accurate and quite realistic venues, WW1 weaponry other aesthetics that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. Verdun pushes you right in the middle of the 1916’s infamous battle of Verdun, France and allows you to be part of a 32 player squad and tasks you to defend and capture a number of trenches in order to attack and kill the enemies.by using the WW1 era weaponry, tactics and courage you are required to complete the game objectives. Just like the above mentioned names, Verdun allows you to select your character from 4 main classes (Rifleman, Machine Gunner, NCO and Ganadier) and act according to the skill set of the selected player character. Verdun offers a great realistic World War1 experience, along with a wonderfully immersive game-play, Squad-based Warfare, a great setting, beautiful visuals and a lot of other great things. For an awesome FPS Multiplayer and Tactical experience, do try it out.

#9 Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar

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Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar is a 2nd Expansion Pack for Battlefield 1 and introduces improved mechanics, graphics and controls. The expansion pack lets you get into the biggest front of the war with the Russian army in the most thrilling and extensive battlefield. The game mainly focuses on the first-person shooter elements and brings a fantastic gameplay, in which the player can take on the role of the protagonist to complete a set of missions and earn points, rewards and bonuses. There are six new multiplayer maps available to explore, and the game features two new operations including Brusilov Offensive. Up to 11 new weapons are present to unlock using the points and use them on the battlefield to hunt down enemies and earn points. Up to 64 players can play against enemies simultaneously or can compete against each other to show off their shooting abilities. With advanced graphics, smooth control, and brilliant sound effects, Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar is the best expansion pack to play.

#10 Supremacy 1914

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Supremacy 1914 is a Multiplayer, Browser-based and Real-time Strategy video game by Bytro Labs. The game revolves around the resource management, combat, and province upgrades and takes place during the WWI. There are different terrains, and the player can select one of them to start his game. The aim of the player is to battle against other terrains controlled by other players around the globe or Computer. The game uses map view, and the playeruses to zoom in and out features, and he can view the upgrades using a province view. The world is distributed into several provinces, and each offers a set of towns and roads connecting to the nearest province. Each country has its unique color to recognize the same in the whole game. The game takes place in several maps such as Europe 1914, Europe 1910, The Great War, and Battle for Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and more. With exciting gameplay, superb mechanics, and wonderful features, Supremacy 1914 is the best RTS game to play and enjoy.

#11 Supreme Ruler: Cold War

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Supreme Ruler: Cold War is an amazing Real Time Strategy video game by BattleGoat Studios. The game takes you to the Cold War Era and allows you to head USA or USSR, Engage yourself into the most epic Campaigns ever, Control the whole nations, Use your best skills like Diplomacy, Trade, Espionage, Influence the policies of other nations, Research and develop new technologies to have an edge over your rivals, Grow economies by the use of intellect and your best strategic approach, Train massive armies, develop military tech, etc. Alongside all the above mentioned responsibilities, you must ensure that your country gets through all difficulties, easily and safely. With superb visuals, a great addictive game-play and epic quests, Supreme Ruler: Cold War is one marvelous game to play and enjoy.

#12 World War I

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World War I is a Real-time Strategy, WWI, and Single-player video game developed by Dark Fox and published by 1C Company for Microsoft Windows. According to the storyline, humanity didn’t know any military wars similar to WWI, and the interests of several countries got involved.

In the game, dreadnaughts, aviation, tanks, and chemical weapons are used in conflicts. The battles have become massive, and the world war has started for four years, causing three massive empires vanished from the map of the world. The game covers all these historical events of 1914-1918 in more than thirty challenging missions categorized into three different campaigns and one chapter.

#13 March of War: StormSiege

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March of War: StormSiege is an Expansion Pack for Action and Strategy video game March of War developed by ISOTX. The game features Co-op, Single-player and Online Multiplayer modes and it focuses on the remote chain of islands in the Pacific covered by a massive typhoon. According to the storyline, some wreckage was found suggesting a terrible weapon may bury at this storm’s heart. The world’s nation now races to be the first to take over it. The game serves as a single-player expansion for MMO and Turn-based Strategy game, comprising three missions. The only first mission is available in the game as Beachhead. The game is played from an isometric perspective, and the player commands his team in the stunning environment to face off brutal rivals from all over the world. The battle takes place in a turn-based system, in which the player will deploy his soldier to attack the opposing team and kill his member to advance. March of War: StormSiege includes awesome mechanics, superb graphics, and brilliant music. Check it out, and have fun.

#14 WWI: The Great War

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WWI: The Great War is an Isometric Perspective, Strategy, Historical Events, and Single-player Tactical video game created by Lesta Studio and published by Buka Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. The game mainly revolves around the RTS (Real-time Strategy) genre and offers the similar gameplay style to Age of Empires, which tells the history of the WWI (World War II). There are different campaigns such as Germany, Britain, France, Russia, etc. and the player can select one of them to start the game. Each campaign has a set of authentic units with real weaponry and attributes. The game is played from an isometric perspective, and the primary objective of the player is to command his units, attack enemies and take down them to earn points which can be used to upgrade weaponry and more. There are server quests that the player has to complete to reach the end of the game. It has both Single-player and Multiplayer options, and the Single-player game type offers three modes such as Missions, Random Maps, and Campaigns. Check it out, if you love playing RTS games.