Over The Top: WWI Reviews

Game is extremely fun, but only when you're on a server which has 100+ players; which there's usually only one server with 100+ on at a time. Really fun to see a peaceful field turn into a network of trenches. Game crashes fairly frequently for me at least, but not to the point of unplayability. Players are usually hilarious. I recommend you don't play as an officer if you don't know what you're doing, because the whole team is relying on officers in this game. If you can't aim, try and play as a machine gunner, supper fun. Also, some people say it's dead, that's not true as of time of posting.

unfortunately, game is dead. never any full servers anymore and whats left are never NA, meaning too much lag to be worth playing. was fun whilst the NA servers were still alive but thats no longer the case

Was great upon release, but got ruined to hell by exploiters/hackers. Many updates against this, but people still suck. Game is also incredibly dead, unfortunately. It's sad. This game had sooo much potential if it wasn't for the former mentioned ailments.

it was a really fun game for the 3 or so months it lasted. I'm sitting here on a friday night looking at a server browser with only 2 active servers. one for eu and one for na and the player count of both of them add up to one full server. I wish I could recommend this game but its only worth while if you don't mind playing with bots.

Dead Developers, Over The Top: WWI is honestly an amazing game. It’s fun, intense, addicting, and very well developed. Most of the comments and reviews say the same thing: a lot of people genuinely love this game. Please invest more in marketing. The online player count has dropped dramatically and it keeps going down. It used to have thousands of players, and now it’s barely around 300 online. That’s sad to see because the game deserves way more attention. Please promote it heavily on all social media platforms. Work with YouTubers, streamers, and gaming creators so more people can try the game and spread the word. This is a great WWI game with a lot of potential. Please don’t let it fade away, let more people around the world know about it. We all love this game!

Spawn timers do not work. Sometimes the spawn timer is over and it gives another spawn timer. Tying to jump against a mesh has this old skool collision problem. The momentum is interrupted by the collision to mesh. Sometimes jumping over a terrain, it slings the player character back to its original position. Invulnerable tanks, or some tanks are way too durable, because someone is constantly repairing behind or inside the tank mesh. Either split the tank model to pieces, so the engineer needs to repair the tank from different angles, or something else. The game needs anti-tank mines and satchel charges to blow up the tanks instantly. You have to hit multiple times the input to get the grenade to your hand. Also other aspects need multiple inputs to get it to work, as if there are some constant timers which are set for unknown reasons. Why? Airplanes receive least or no damage from small arms fire, which is against WW1 experience. The field cannon armour plate ignores machine gun fire. People carrying armour plates should not be able to run or sprint. Pistol accuracy should be greatly downgraded. Put on the map a coloured area, where players are not allowed to go. It is against planning, when you need to constantly face "return to battlefield" when trying to figure out some tactical manoeuvres. To use airplanes and tanks, you should have currency, which is gathered by experience points. For example, using an airplane should cost 10 000 cash, and if a player gets 1000 exp from a match, he could fly a plane once in 10 matches. Carrying armour and special weapons should also have cash limitations, or they can be used once in a match. If you die, you lose the special kit, and you are reduced to basic infantry and weaponry. This allows other people to play the kits also and not always the same campers and exploiters. This also would force people to consider more carefully when using special kits. Placing portable machine guns should take time. The game has hitreg and syncing problems. Bolt action rifles: Sometimes shooting a guy from 2 meters away, while the hit finder covers the whole enemy player character, the bullet does not hit. Where does it go? Sometimes you even need to take the lead to somebody who is running 2 meters away, as if either the bullet travels 1m/h or the hit boxes warps, or there are some generic hitreg problems. A bolt action rifle has this strange little "nudge" when firing the gun, as if it animates a finger and movement of the bolt inside the weapon, I do not know. The game has problems in every single area you could imagine, in technical aspects and in game design wise. It is fun for a while, but then these problems start to annoy me quite a lot. The player pool is very small, and usually the same faces exploit the same stuff constantly. But the initiative to create this kind of game is appreciated. A little bit of humour, clunky mechanics, which some describe realism. I do not think there is any realism in this game. But this is better than modern BF games and in this game it feels a bit of war.

Fun, but already has lost most of its players in just 2 months of its release unfortunately.

It's a good game, the players are normally funny, shouting whatever nonsense whilst charging into battle, it's just a shame that the game has died so quickly. At the time of posting this there are only 170 players in-game, when I checked the night before there was only around 250 players. Considering it only released in March 2026, dying in around 7 weeks has got to be some sort of achievement. It was fun whilst it lasted! I would come back to this game if the player count jumped again.

First off it's a dead game. Even during peak hours on a Saturday the game struggles to get over 200 active players and with multiplayer servers that can hold 200 max players there's almost never any full servers. And so the empty spots on a server are filled in with bots and the bots can range from being useless and stupid as hell to having amazing sniper level accuracy and be super annoying. There are maps that are fun to play and balanced and others that are the opposite and unbalanced for one team or the other. Like the position of artillery guns where 1 team has artillery guns in a more centralized location near their main spawn area giving them a easy view of the entire map while the other teams artillery guns are very off to the right making it impossible for their guns to hit anything on half the map. And others maps like Crossroads where there's a big artillery gun at C that allows one team to shoot and kill the other teams tanks before they can even get out of spawn or get across the giant empty field to attack any control points. Devs are super slow to add new content and even slower to ban the cheaters, players don't use mics or work together at all ever. And any player who do use a mic 99% of the time are blasting loud music. Bugs bugs bugs everywhere. Aimbot cheaters are a growing problem. You can be killed through the ground and from across the map from random bullets and explosions. Teammates trolling and destroy friendly building objects or digging holes / trenches in engineer work areas. Engineers building defenses on the last point almost never use any tactics and just resort to digging trenches or building dirt mounds. I at least managed to get my moneys worth out of it before the player base entirely died off but now it's just not that fun. There was other multiplayer servers like a zombie survival server against wave after wave after wave of bots which was actually alot of fun but with so few players getting on anymore you're stuck playing 1 server all the time and cant do anything else. Overall pretty meh game. Save your money and spend it on something else.

200 idiots digging randomly with shovels screaming obscenities at each other only to get lit up by machine guns, mustard gas, tanks, and planes. Did it serve any useful purpose? Probably not. Is it fun? You betcha. Remember kids: if Tolkien wasn't scared schittless by this war, we'd have never gotten The Lord Of The Rings!