All Quiet in the Trenches

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t

---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape

---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Human
☐ Lizards

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding

---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☑ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs


I'll start by saying even in it's current state, this is a fun game, giving it a thumbs up cause i can see this game can get better, in it's current form the game is very short, and there do tend to be some bugs, mainly when i last played there will sometimes be some combat bugs where you are locked into combat, but i see they've mostly fixed this with their latest updates, but sometimes long turns just go on and on.. my major complaint if i really had to have one though with this game is, Playing defensive battles seem to actually be the hardest, i've had more teammates die in the defensive battles than i have in offensive battles, which is funny to me, considering that in ww1 going over the top was probably the deadliest part of ww1 along with the technology of the time, why it ground down into massive trench warfare. Not sure if the devs read reviews but that's be my major complaint is defensive battles are harder to survive in than in the offensive ones, at least in my playthrough.

For the future not sure if they're going this route but i'd like to see if we can have a bit of alt history where if you manage to do good with your squadmates, keep morale up, balance between your commanding officers reputation, winning the offensive battles, if we could take paris before the americans arrive, would make for a more interesting game, than just playing to an outcome you know is going to happen.

I like all the different characters you do meet when you lose men for replacements or add more to your squad, how they have their own personalities, it was very fun watching this prussian born, from a family of military officers, educated as a doctor, show up his first day, going from, we'll win this war in 1 month to, I'm so done with the war, just get me out of here, not sure if they'll go for this but i think it'd be a pretty fun easter egg to add in adolf hitler since he was part of ww1 and his participation in the war did shape his views, and seeing as how people's personalities and views change in this game would be interesting.


Tldr: Worth a try if you got the money, and hopefully they'll add more story as time goes on.

Estimated 2 years in early access is crazy but probably won't even be enough for this game to get finished

Don't let my low amount of play at the time of review take away from my thoughts, instantly the thing that becomes visible is the polish and replayability. Having not enjoyed games for the last few years this struck a chord and I have truly had fun. I made it to the end of the early access at home leave while only losing one soldier (Unfortunately the medic Framm) I still have to mention the incredible skill ceiling with "very fair" RNG. This straight to developers if somehow you read this, the balance is phenomenal and the game is difficult, please make adgustments to these with care. Though this is not a concern to me as the entire project is dripping with love.

Absolutely phenomenal game, but its not for everyone. Fair warning - this is not your typical tactical/strategy game. This is much close to This War Of Mine / Gloria Victis Siege Survival type of deal. You are not going to change outcome of war or even a battle. You can try to get more favorable outcome, but thats about it. Its really a resource management / simulator type of gameplay. If you are into it - you gonna love this game!

very epic the combat system is really unique and i like it alot

Really fun game, although I beat it in under 5 hours. Not exactly worth $25. Hopefully will be expanded in the future

This game has good concepts but needs a lot of work before it is actually fun. You need a lot of imagination to make it enjoyable in its current state.

At a bare minimum it needs proper animations for wounded (transporting men over your shoulder like in xcom, rewards for saving men wounded from other squads, an animation that makes them actually look wounded as opposed to having a sore side), a more satisfying combat system, an actual way to interpret how many rations you have to work with, and missions that last longer so you actually have time experience FUN aspects of the game like looting, using machine guns, etc. (which is really the only content the game has to offer at this point). As it stands the game is repeatedly hopping between cover and "shooting" at enemies but it feels like you are never actually fighting them, just shooting nerf guns at each other. I played for 4 hours and I saw dozens of french but I feel like my squad only killed 2 enemies after like 5 battles? You have decent ideas but a long way to go to make this game fun to play. I would not advise anyone spend money on it in its current state.

With that being said, this is the type of strategy game I have dreamed about playing for a while--you manage a single squad who is a small part of a much bigger war, and while you can make small impacts in battles (BTW I feel like you need to not make every single battle scripted, so that the player actually has fun playing them) your overall focus is simply keeping your men alive. I am encouraged that they are seemingly adding content at a rapid rate. I hope that the tiny dev team (I'm pretty sure it's just a small friend group) can motivate themselves to work on this project for years to come and potentially find a publisher to fund them, because that's what it will take for this game to reach its potential.

A great game in general. Only a few little bugs with the NPC's but doesn't affect the game play or story too much.

Fun game, completed the first of many playthroughs, this game is a GEM!!!! While it may be short, I love the mechanics and the gameplay, but the characters are also great. 10/10, greatest of games.

The greatest and most realistic world war one game out there, you will find no other game similar, I truly think its a groundbreaking achievement in what its able to accomplish, and im excited to see where it goes moving forward, if you want a sign to buy the game, this is that sign, you will not be disapointed with the character dialogue, the tense and tactical combat, and attempting to manage pleasing your Leutenant and tending for the needs of your men.

From the very bottom of my heart I thank the development team for their hard work, for creating the best world war one game on the market right now.

An interesting concept that attempts to replicate the type of story told through the novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front' hence the similarities of the names.

The commanding officer proves to be comically villainous to the detriment of the story. For what I hoped would be an educational experience, it continues to push the 'lions lead by donkeys' narrative with the enlisted man worked like a dog while the officer lounges in his tent and relays near-suicidal orders from up top during offensives.

The combat is an OK abstraction but repeats a lot of tropes: you will be ordered to charge machine gun nests; you will have artillery landing on your own soldiers; you will be made to engage manned trenchlines. On the other hand, you will not be made to wear steel helmets to protect you from debris; you will not follow a creeping barrage; you will not be assisted by aerial reconnaissance in taking objectives; and you most definitely will not reach the enemy's trenchline and find out that taking it was never the problem - holding it while supplies and reinforcements try to navigate No Man's Land which is zeroed in by enemy artillery is.

The controls for your soldiers in combat are insufficient too. Your squad, much like the armies of 1914, have to move as a cohesive formation, greatly limiting your options. This persists until the end of the game in 1916, so I'm certain it's a gameplay limitation and not actually making a statement on the evolution of tactics by way of delegation to fireteams. This means even basic maneuvers like flanking a machine gun position are not possible, so when you inevitably take a loss it results in frustration at the engine rather than feeling shocked that my six man blob had somebody gunned down.

What you're left with, then, is the stories told while in the trenches or in the camp behind lines. And I can't help but feel these stories sit as what somebody's idea of World War 1 is rather than the reality of it. Instead of pulling bloated corpses off the top of trenchlines and dealing with the flies, mosquitos, and maggots in the summer heat, you recon for an enemy sniper. It's not the rain or mud drowning soldiers, necessitating duckboard to be replaced and laid down - it's your commanding officer making you dig a communications trench. Your soldiers will speak for eons about their family and origins, but never the crippling boredom of sitting around in the midst of war or waking up in a cold sweat from combat trauma. In fact, I don't think I saw a single mention of shell shock or perhaps even more darkly self-harm. Even the artillery is lacklustre - the Battle of the Somme used just under 170 shells per second in the week long bombardment prior to the offensive. Picture being a German, sitting in your bunker, listening to that through the night, desperately hoping the ceiling doesn't cave in on you - hence the origin of the term 'shellshock'.

So long tirade aside, I can't recommend this game from an educational perspective. This game is a repetition of the echoes of pop history, an attempt to evoke emotions from you by repeating the same post-hindsight analysis of every amateur World War 1 historian. It was the mass-scale industrial nature of it, the unprecedented evolution in tactics and strategy paved in blood, the psychological impact on all whether officer or enlisted that made it so horrifying, not the imagined f*ck f*ck games of the officers on the enlisted.

so freaking good. nourished every inch of my body.

Brutal, unforgiving, heartbreking, all you would expect from a game in the Great War setting, more or less historically accurate. I loved it and when you achieve to survive attack after attack and always bring your men to safety it feels amazing. it's still in development but what you recieve right now it's worth the time and money; i hope that in the future there will be more content (maybe other nations, other theatres of war like Russia, Italy or Bulgaria, a little variation in the battlefields, maybe also using different corps like artillery or cavalry, i think all of these would grant more depth to a wonderful game) because it's a really good game and it should be more famous.

Keeps getting better with every update!

Still need some improvement about movement and game basics. I like the idea and how they applied it to gameplay but it is laggy. Still need more improvement to make it easier.

This game looks like difficult at first seen but believe me it has simple mechanics.

ıf you like to being german officer in trenches and command your soldiers just try this.

But if you want a smooth gameplay you should still wait.

conclussion: just buy this to support them they are really doing someting good.


Note to dev: I offered free Turkish translate but I had negative answer thats pitty.


Türk oyuncular için inceleme:

Fikir güzel oyun da fena değil eğlenceli. Hem etik hem zor hem de önemli kararlar almak zorunda kaldığımız bir subayız bu oyunda. oynanış biraz sıkıntılı ama bu adamlar bunu düzeltebilirse ki öyle yapacaklarına inanıyorum bu oyun çok keyifli bir oyun olabilir.

Bu arada bu oyunu Türkçe oynayamıyorsanız sorumluları yapımcılar. Ben öneride bulundum ama olumsuz. Sanırım daha başka şeylere odaklanacaklarmış.

good game just needs to be extended to 1918 and have more features, like rewards for upgrading the trench

This is the first review I have ever written for a game. I feel compelled to write this because, in my opinion, this is the crappiest game to ever disgrace the Steam platform. I attempted to return this garbage and obtain a refund within the requisite time period, but Steam (in its infinite, money grubbing, wisdom) declined to issue a refund. Now, every time I sign in to Steam, I see this absolute crap in my library, and I am reminded of how I was completely screwed by Steam and whatever crap-ass developer made this useless, lame, repetitive, boring game. Cheers!

This game is relatively difficult, but I thought it was fun.

Currently only 1 year in the game.

First and foremost, I want to express how much I love this game. The storytelling is masterful, capturing the harrowing realities of life in the trenches during World War I in a compelling and immersive way. The attention to historical detail and emotional depth makes this game truly stand out.

That said, I believe there’s an opportunity to enhance the experience with more dynamic events and gameplay elements. Below are some ideas that could expand the gameplay:

Serious Events:

Prison Escape: Soldiers may get captured, leading to a choice between a stealth approach or direct assault to rescue them.
Spy Among the Ranks: Suspecting one of your soldiers is a spy, players can investigate, punish, or ignore the issue, affecting morale.
Disease Outbreak: A disease spreads, forcing players to choose between quarantining the sick or treating everyone at a cost.
Deserter Crisis: A soldier attempts to desert, and players must decide whether to punish or show leniency.
Fun and Lighthearted Events:

Rat Races: Soldiers organize rat races, and players can choose to allow or discourage the event.
Lost Boots: A soldier loses their boots, sparking laughter, and players can replace them or let the soldier improvise.
Mascot Madness: A stray animal becomes the squad's mascot, boosting morale or conserving resources.
Improvised Band: Soldiers create a makeshift band, and players decide whether to encourage creativity or maintain discipline.
Wholesome Events:

Birthday Surprise: A soldier’s birthday arrives, and players can either celebrate with resources or promise a future celebration.
Lucky Charm: A soldier finds a lucky charm, which could improve camaraderie.
Villager Relations:

Secret Passage: Grateful villagers reveal hidden tunnels for supply runs or evading enemy lines.
Harvest Help: Villagers share food, boosting morale and replenishing supplies.
Betrayal: Hostile villagers inform the enemy, leading to an ambush.
Character-Specific Events:

Quartermaster Relations: Strengthening ties with the quartermaster could grant extra supplies.
Nurse Relations: Building a bond with the nurse could improve medical care.
Gameplay Function Suggestions:

Deploying Your Whole Squad: Allow players to choose where to position the squad within the trench system before each battle, adding strategic depth.
Training for New Traits: Soldiers could gain new traits like marksman, toughness, or field medic through training, enhancing combat effectiveness.
Training to Remove Negative Traits: Soldiers could remove traits like fear or insomniac through rest, rehabilitation, or mentorship, improving morale and performance.
I apologize for the length of these suggestions but wanted to ensure all aspects were covered. I hope this review proves useful to the developers. Keep up the great work, and if you ever need more ideas, I’m happy to share!

Amazing game right now, with just 1 year of the war.

So much potential.... Would love more men in battles and more visceral combat effects and sounds, to better reflect the horrors of WW1 battlefields.

Overall pretty satisfied with what this early access offers.

Congrats to the devs, you are creating something amazing, keep it up!

Constantly being updated, a fun squad based game. Machine gun update really lowers the chance of a clean run, but then it was meant to.

A serious Game set in the trenches of the first world war. Despite early access, a well - rounded experience already.

The idea is good, but the game itself is still rough around the edges. I've lost 5 men in a single game due to bullshit. 2 "direct hit" grenades on the same group of french soldiers and not even a single injured one and my guys losing a close combat trying to move to a new position and then retreating THROUGH THE SAME CLOSE COMBAT ACROSS THE MAP LOSING ME THE OBJECTIVE.
Also sometimes the AI German allies are more in the way than actually being useful, yeah they sometimes throw a nade that hits a few frenchies, but overall the german rifles are complete shite, because i can count on one hand the amount of kills or downs my squad has got with rifles even when the enemy is 3m away and flanked :)
I really enjoy the concept and the trench and camp management but the combat is a bit scuffed, looking forward to the future of this game.

The game is a bug fest. You command it to apply first aid to an injured soldier, and all it does is move back and forth. It makes me want to pull my hair out—9 turns, and it just keeps doing this.

Very good gameplay and nice story, wich needs to continue further.

A very unique game, I can't wait for the full release.

great story

This game is amazing! There is so much potential for this game going forwards, as well as others in this style!

Good Story

Very good story! I love the art style

A good game to play if you're interested in ww1.

Can't wait for this game to leave EA.

Interesting story based game with some tactical and turn based elements. The need to balance the objective vs the men you come to like (despite their quirks) is a fun challenge.

History. It's terrible at times. But if we do not learn about it, we are doomed to repeat it.

This little German studio made an attempt to capture the grief or war. They did not use grand action, but they did that very subtle. And if you read between the lines, you understand how terrifying this part of history can be.

Good story, haven't played the most recent patches but good game all around!

I usually don't review early access games, as there's room for improvement (or stagnation) that could impact the final product, but All Quiet in the Trenches is an interesting indie game, trying to simulate the challenges of leading a small squad of men during the nightmare trench war of WWI.

The visual style is very interesting, the stories and incidents that come up during play add a lot to the atmosphere and the sense of disorientation and helpnessness during the battle sequences really reminded me of the famous "run along the trenches" sequence in the film 1917, shells exploding all around, the ground shaking, people scrambling to get to the next trench.

With more events and some randomization this could turn into a unique gaming experience in the sim genre. The asking price might put some people off, but the devs seem very active, there's been some updates and another one is just around the corner and, overall, there are resons to be optimistic about the future of All Quiet in the Trenches.

Again, with the caveat that it's still in early access, I think it's worth a look.

This game is amazing, it uses aspects from visual novel and Turn-based combat games to tell a story about a squad of German soldiers fighting for their lives in one of the most destructive wars in Modern history. I can't wait to see the finished product!

This game is amazing and fresh. Everything you do has consequences negative or positive. The combat is nothing i've ever seen before. it's a fun and new style of combat that I've never seen before. There is never a you will win or you will lose moment as even if three of your soldiers were injured you can still recover and fight back.

I have barely scratched the surface of this game, but the soundtrack has already been stuck in my head.

Great game.

its very fun fore the most part but it gets hard when you need to choose whats best and maybe disapoint the leutenant
9,5/10

great concept and gameplay, just needs more time finish the rest of the war

the game is good needs a little more work on the pve i feel and would like to have more people in the squad. the commander feels really tough for no reason haven been able to ask for a break even at some of the highest prestige

Pretty fun. Hopefully they finish it.

I really liked this game. Surprised that people complain about soldiers "whining to much". With regular incoming artillery shelling, looses of teammates in combat, and routine of the war - when soldier don't know when the war will end for him (other than he got wounded or killed)- morale goes down, and this is pretty good reflected in this game I think.

It's a really good concept but doesn't quite make it work. Particularly at this price.

The stuff that happens out of combat is good when you're kind of getting the backgrounds of your troops and building rapport with them. That's well done.

In combat though you feel as though nothing that's going on actually impacts you. That is, there's combat going on all around you but your men as a group are following your decisions to just move here and there. There's no sense of the chaos of combat or action or anything like that. It's more like you're reading a 'choose your own adventure' book with unrelated graphics happening on the screen.

I get that a large part of the game is balancing the desires of your superiors vs keeping your men alive but I find it hard to believe that WW1 officers were THAT dickish. I think the balance could have been softer or maybe the superiors didn't need to be painted as the antagonists. That's just me maybe.

What made me refund though was the games wonky save system. You can't manually save, and the game only does an autosave after each chapter, which is about 45 minutes of time. This isn't a game where you have a separate action phase going on where saving might not be feasible from a programming perspective. This is an entirely strategic, turn based game which has turns that last one day each. There's no reason saves should be handled the way they are.

I'm iffy on games that don't let me manually save, but if you insist on it then your autosave better be 100% and on point and I'd better not even know that saves are an issue I need to worry about. If you insist on handling it, then handle it. Don't make me lose playtime because of weird save problems and mechanics.

I started the game liking the interesting combat and little troops I control
Got depression when 1 died
10 out of 10 would get depression again

I'm tired of the soldiers in my troop. We are not here to play. We are here for war. Why are they whining so much? Really annoying. What a waste of my time and money. Not fun at all. The UI also need much improvement.

Field commander mad at you for not taking the trench with 3 squads of Frenchmen in it? Extra duty for you. Watched 3 of your men die to a grenade and other one to disease? Extra duty for you. Rats eating all the food supplies? Extra duty for you. Field hospital full? Extra duty for you. Latrine full of shit? Extra duty for you. French lady mad at you cause her son died in the war? Extra duty for you. Watch your soldiers lose their minds, and can't do anything about it? Extra duty for you.

10/10 Game

i love this game and i cant wait to see all the content to come, very excited to see the later years of the war and how it will change the game play in battle with the development of gas and out side of it in dealing with the attrition of the war its self. i highly recommend any war history enthusiast to check this game out, new updates adding content come out very often its a great game and a great dev team i cant wait to see this game at its full form.

I was a bit disappointed with how short the game is so far, only about 2.5 hours of content, just over the refund window...

Hoping they finish it soon.

love