After starting out on the Western Front with the release of the first authentic WW1 FPS Verdun back in April 2015, we expanded to the Eastern Front with the standalone expansion Tannenberg in 2019. The WW1 Game Series throws players into intense warfare inspired by the chaos and fury of iconic battles from the First World War. Combined, Verdun and Tannenberg have sold over 1,600,000 copies – this novel and under-served setting has proven popular with the gaming community!

Players choose from a variety of historically accurate squads and weapons, with more available to unlock through playing the game, before diving into the mud and blood splattered battlefields of dynamic multiplayer warfare.

Every game is built on a base of thorough research and receives post-release support bringing new content and challenges for our players. The games in the series are linked, but each one is standalone and provides a different experience, reflecting the nature of the fighting in the different theaters of the war.

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During the development of Verdun, we at the game studios M2H and Blackmill Games shared a common vision: an authentic World War One game that would offer something different to the typical First Person Shooter. Every title in the WW1 Game series is the product of exhaustive research and careful recreation of details from uniforms to weapon models.

The challenging trench-warfare in a WW1 setting, combined with tactical gameplay along with the different squad types and roles, creates a unique diversity in gameplay. After a successful Early Access period on Steam, Verdun was released on PC in 2015, with Xbox One and PS4 releases following in 2016 and 2017. After a number of free expansions and updates for Verdun development began on a standalone expansion set on the Eastern Front. This was Tannenberg, which emerged from Early Access into full PC release in early 2019. Later that year a free Verdun Remastered update was released on consoles which greatly enhanced the game and added all the free content which had expanded the PC version over the years. Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases of Tannenberg followed soon after in 2020.

Verdun and Tannenberg have been produced in collaboration with Unity and Firelight Technologies (FMOD). Special thanks go to C&Rsenal and The Great War.

Blackmill Games is a studio specialized in Unity3D game development. It was founded in 2013 by Jos Hoebe, a software engineer with a broad set of game design and development skills. The studio gained experience in the mod-scene and with the development of the music game MokMok. Verdun demonstrates the affinity Blackmill Games has with authentic historical games, the studio puts the user experience first and makes sure that this is the driving force behind every step of the design decision-making process. It didn’t make the European Develop 100 2013 for nothing!

M2H are veterans when it comes to developing games. In 2009, the brothers Hergaarden founded their studio, specializing in 3D Unity multiplayer games. This bold approach resulted in many successful Android, iOS, Web and Standalone games. Their mobile games have been downloaded more than 20 million times already, and there are over 2 million unique monthly visitors to their web portal Wooglie.com, which hosts third-party Unity games as well as their own self-developed games. Top titles include their switcheroo multiplayer party game Marooners – available on mobile devices, Steam, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch- and high-octane racing stunt game Crash Drive 2, which started out as a mobile release before making the jump to Steam and Switch! M2H has won several Dutch Global Game Jam awards for their games including an audience and jury award.