Indie · January 27, 2014

Original War (2014)

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An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral. American scientists working for Department of Defense find out that this mineral is in fact identical to the substance used to power an extraterrestrial artifact in their possession. This object is called the EON (Extraterrestrial Object Nexus). It was found in 1919 by Colonel Emerson near the site of the Tunguska explosion. Emerson was the commander of a US military unit in charge of transporting US war supplies from the city of Vladivostok to the Eastern front during World War I. DoD Experiments have shown that items placed in the capsule are transported hundreds of thousands of years back in time. The American scientists were not able to understand its construction, nor could they manage to synthesize its fuel. Eventually, the machine - classified Top Secret - was stored, pending further advances in human science.

Indie releases from 2014

27 Indie titles launched in 2014 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 179
  • RTS · 161
  • Sci-fi · 153
  • Singleplayer · 152
  • Real-Time with Pause · 149
  • Time Travel · 141
  • RPG · 135
  • Indie · 133
  • Multiplayer · 132
  • Story Rich · 127
  • Difficult · 119
  • War · 115
  • 2D · 110
  • Wargame · 108
  • Real-Time · 106

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.0k Steam reviewsTop 95% in Indie
Positive rating95% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 23%
Metacritic61/100Genre average 77 — top 98% of Indie titles
Engagement hours19 h averageTop 33% for session depth among Indie

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (9)

  • English volume_up
  • French volume_up
  • Italian
  • German volume_up
  • Spanish - Spain volume_up
  • Czech volume_up
  • Russian
  • Japanese
  • Polish volume_up

Full audio (6)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Polish

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • LAN PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • LAN Co-op

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Accessibility

  • Captions available

Other

  • Single-player

Reception Metrics

Steam community

95%Overwhelmingly Positive · 2.0k reviews

1.9k positive · 101 negative

Metacritic

61/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

8.9/10

Curator recommendations

1.8k

Release & Availability

Release dateJan 27, 2014
DeveloperAltar Games
PublisherBohemia Interactive
Base price$1.99 -80%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

19h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

1h

Typical completion time

Achievements

59

Steam unlocks available

Content Notes

Please be advised that this game contains explicit depictions of violence, including scenes of killing, destruction, and corpses. It is intended for a mature audience only. Player discretion is advised.

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Original War