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War Thunder

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Overview

Who made it, when it came out, and how players rate it overall and right now

Developer
Gaijin Entertainment
Publisher
Gaijin Network Ltd
Released
Aug 15, 2013
Genres
Action · Massively Multiplayer · Simulation · Free To Play
Steam store page
Open
All-time positive
72%
Steam rating
Mostly Positive
Last 30 days
75%▲ 3 pts
English reviews
329,694
Last updated
Oct 30, 2026

The Good

The most praised themes, as a share of all this game's reviews

Content & grind17%
“Amazing game love it, its very easy and simple to learn and play very easy to grind easy free to play”
Gameplay & combat14%
“It's a great game, with some great graphics, gameplay, physics, overall a really good war game”
Graphics & art10%
“Fun game, great graphics, great physics”
Price & monetization8%
“mostly good game worth the price of free”
Developers & updates7%
“Love it, Devs are awesome, forums are awesome, still going strong playing this game, and the fact that its free to play is amazing”

The Bad

The most common complaints, as a share of all this game's reviews

Price & monetization20%
“Instead of fixing the game they release broken P2W premium vehicles for $70, unplayable and boring maps and copy paste empty tech trees”
Content & grind18%
“the grind is just not worth the time”
Developers & updates15%
“it's been completely ruined by greed, terrible balance, and developer favoritism”
Bugs & crashes11%
“got turned unplayable are just too much”
Community9%
“This game has been progressively ruined by corporate greed and blatant robery of the player base for years”

Recent complaints

Top complaints in reviews from the last 30 days (Sep 30 to Oct 30), to spot new problems or recent fixes

Content & grind10%
“Most tiers are unbalanced and unplayable the grind as f2p is awful”
Price & monetization10%
“gaijin is a fucking greedy ass company who only gives a fuck about making money and they made japan so bad”

Opinions over time

Percent positive each month, with the number of reviews below. The dashed line is the all-time score, and the last point covers the last 30 days.

Monthly % positiveFlagged monthAll-time score (72%)
Flagged events (red dots): months with a surge of negative reviews or a sharp drop in score.
  • May 2023 (negative surge): 5,935 reviews, 34% positive vs a usual 75%, 2,997 more negative reviews than usual
  • Jun 2026 (negative surge): 6,226 reviews, 38% positive vs a usual 74%, 2,732 more negative reviews than usual

Playtime

Percent positive by how many hours reviewers had played when they wrote their review

A low score under 2 hours often means a rough first impression, a bad launch, or performance problems.


Review Randomizer

A random review from this game's sample, which leans toward reviews other players found helpful

Not recommended · 4,299 h played · May 2014
If I was as bad at my job as the dev's of this game are at theirs I would get fired immediately. Watching the dev's slowly kill there game adding every vehicle to every tech tree while posting dev blogs about how difficult it is as if they couldn't just not do it is pretty funny.