Too few WWI games

inb4 Verdun - it looks like crap

I really dont know why, almost all WWI games are strategy games or flight simulator games, but there are very little or none FPS games of WWI...

Darkest of Days had a WW1 segment, and Necrovision has WW1 gameplay with a horror twist (have not played Necrovision, only a demo)

Would love for a WW1 strategy game

Probably because WW1 was, at least on the western 'interesting' front, not 'exciting' enough for a modern gamer, and no one cares about the eastern front because no one cares about Austria-Hungary or Russia before 1941. Also the obvious lack of interest in history. I bet you, in say 20-30 years, no one will give a shit about WW2 anymore. And of course the gaming industry is extremely cautious not to leave its comfort zone.

As for games, Darkest Hour has a 1914 scenario (grand strategy), and if I remember correctly, there was a WW1 mod for BF 1942, never tried it though.

I'm waiting for Ubisoft's Valiant Hearts - it should be released this year.

One of reasons for rarity of WWI games is that action game set in this time most likely will consist of sitting in a trench and waiting until you are gassed, and if you try to leave the trench you're immediately blown up by artillery or shot down by machine guns - doesn't look fun to me.
There are some strategies and flight sims about WWI though.

WWI? Meh. WWII is the shit.

Verdun?

WW I was a bloody, pointless conflict(similar to WW II in that aspect), but waged with pretty primitive weaponry, in which the main tactic of fighting for infantry based land warfare was the trench stalemate. For that reason, many battles lasted for weeks at a time, were very heavy on casualties on BOTH sides and very often had no definitive winners, as no side would give up an inch of ground to the other. Supreme example of this is the battle of Verdun. You can see how such a game(if it would choose to be true to it's source material) would be VERY BORING. If you really want to play something that has gameplay in that era(although not exclusively), you can try Darkest of Days. Not a great game, but I think it's the best you can get.

Battlefield 1918?
It's a mod for battlefield 1942 (full game not the free one from origin)

"Wings" all time greatest wwi game, immensly fun. It's free to download for amiga emúlator but at HD remake is on it's way: http://cinemawarewings.com/

y u want ww1?

We already pretend that the common soldier was running around with fully auto weapons in most WW2 games, despite bolt action, and some semi-auto being the most prevalent. (iir the M14 semi-auto rifle, not the M16, was still the primary firearm of US troops up until later in the Vietnam war when the M16 was fully deployed.)

It gets even harder to pretend that people weren't just using bolt action rifles back in WW1 ---- and sitting around in trenches for weeks at a time. Neither of which makes for action packed FPS game play.

One thing I find interested about playing my current favorite FPS RO2/RS is if you pick a "common soldier" they'll get a bolt action rifle.

Because there aren't nazis on those

c:

Verdun is a great game, still in early access but extremely great. I really like it, hardcore rifle match with strategic elements

Isn't Necrovision about WWI? (haven't played it myself,but heard it's kinda fun)

Too white.

i think you missed the golden age of gaming... 2000-2010 !

ww2 games were everywhere! i am so sick of that sub-genre that i want to play as a biologically enhanced nazi super soldier and take everyone down, including game developers who makes ww2 themed games.

Ageod War World One Gold, Hps simulations france 14, steam and iron... They are all excellent, but france 14 is very time consuming. France 14 is also rather for advanced gorgnards not for someone who never played a wargame before. There is also Jutland which i don't like too much but it has 3D, and ageod pride of nations timeline includes ww1 too, as does the 2 paradox victorias and natrix guns of august. There are probably some operational art of war scenarios as well.

Iron Storm is set in alternative 1964, where WWI is still going.

simple nazi content in them so not thats elwhy so much companies don't do them but there are great games like wolfenstein

trenched warfare is not the most interesting experience probably

Supremacy 1914

The comments about the First World War not being "exciting" enough for the 140 character generation are probably most correct.

But we're also forgetting the profound difference in meaning between the two world wars. There's a reason arch-leftist Studs Terkel called the Second World War "The Good War". There was the perception of clear morally bad enemies and clear casus belli. There is no question about who started WWII and why the US joined in. It was the closest to a moral crusade you'll ever find in war.

The First World War, however, is murky and clouded. It's hard to assign blame for its beginning, the only countries you can say didn't have a hand in it were Britain and the US. It's hard to assign moral labels for the sides. Who are the "good guys" and who are the "bad guys"? That's unclear.

It lacks the obvious categorization of WW2. There's no easy "Good vs Bad" of video game fair: "Allies vs Nazis" (the Nazis are bad) or "US vs Terrorists" or "Law Enforcement vs Criminals" or even a simple "Us vs Them".

So, how do you present a STORY which will be interesting to the 140 character generation? Lets consider that before we try to adapt the gameplay.

As for the gameplay, there's a reason Verdun is on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs and not on the PS4. There is a different demographic which takes the time and effort to play video games on a computer, a more patient more thoughtful demographic. Ones who can appreciate that not everything is accomplished with a twitch.