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The game runs on the Unity engine and was created by independent studios M2H and Blackmill Games. It is also still a work in progress, with the developers continuing to release updates. A free expansion, ''Horrors of War'', was released in March 2016.
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* [[Deadly Gas]]: Poison gas is very much a danger, making the use of gas masks a necessity if you don't want to suffer a painful death. Said gas also conveniently serves as a smokescreen.▼
* [[Highly-Conspicuous Uniform]]: French soldiers tend to have uniforms that are glaringly blue. Which is [[Truth in Television]], given how this more or less happened during the actual Great War.
* [[Imperial Germany]]: One of the playable factions in the game.
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: This is a game where it's horrifically easy to die.
* [[Obvious Beta]]: ''Verdun'' has undergone several updates over time hand continues to be in development even after being released.
* [[Real Is Brown]]: Downplayed, though the overall color palette is fittingly muted.
▲* [[Deadly Gas]]: Poison gas is very much a danger, making the use of gas masks a necessity if you don't want to suffer a painful death. Said gas also conveniently serves as a smokescreen.
* [[Selective Historical Armory]]: Averted. All the weapons available in-game are what would have commonly been available to soldiers during the Great War.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The developers have done their research, which shows in-game. Whether it's the bolt-action rifles used, the kinds of trenches deployed or even the particular gear soldiers would have had on them at the time. The maps themselves are based on actual battlefields in the Western Front.
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