Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Valiant Hearts: The Great War tells the story of four people whose lives come together as they all search for different things during World War I, aka, The Great War. The story begins in 1914 as the war is about to break out. Karl, one of our main characters, is deported from France since he’s German, breaking up his family. His father-in-law, Emile, is soon called up by the French forces to fight on the front lines. Emile is injured in battle and becomes a POW where Karl’s unit is stationed. Karl is working for the infamous Baron Von Dorf, our villain in the game. When the camp is attacked, E...

I don’t want to give too much away, but Valiant Hearts: The Great War is significant in many ways. It not only gives us a rewarding and engaging way to see the horrors of war as it pertains to this particular likable cast of characters, but it also educates us on one of the most significant events in history. Ubisoft Montpellier could have just delivered a good game and called it a day, but they went above and beyond the call of duty to add context to the proceedings, and that is quite the commendable effort.

Valiant Hearts: The Great War delivers a moving story that will surely leave an impression on you. The UbiART engine delivers another great artistic showpiece telling a story through animation, a powerful and harrowing musical score and documentary-like narration. Valiant Hearts doesn't depict what war may have been like, it makes you feel it.

There are hundreds upon hundreds of games about war. Yet despite the subject matter’s ubiquity, there is a distinct lack of variety in the way it’s handled: you shoot people, you sneak behind people so you can stab them in the back, or you slaughter countless people with the press of a single button. These gleeful and fetishized acts of violence are the hallmarks of a pervasively popular genre. But Valiant Hearts: The Great War isn’t about any of these things. It doesn’t care about headshots or kill-streaks, and it certainly has no interest in making you feel like an efficient and well-oiled k...

Valiant Hearts is a gut-wrenching journey about the brutality of war that reminds us all just how important friendship is in this world.

All blood runs red.

Valiant Hearts focuses on how lives are torn apart, how strangers become saviors, and how madness thrives. It’s a small-scale human perspective of the war, which tries to salvage those little acts of love and heroism from a world overwhelmed by violence. There’s not much of a challenge or a reason to revisit once you’ve finished, but the story alone is worth experiencing. Ultimately, it’s a game about warfare that’s more interested in the people and their experiences, than bullets and their targets. I could’ve done without some of the footnotes and heavy-handed narration, but it remains a beau...

A refreshing slant at the handling of a tough subject, Valiant hearts is touching and poignant WWI game.

Valiant Hearts is a confused game, but also a brave one tackling difficult subject matter.

Valiant Hearts is confident in its direction and thoughtful in its design. As a puzzle-focused, story-driven experience it isn't going to be for everyone, but those who relish the days of LucasArts' point-and-click adventures will certainly find a lot to enjoy here — doubly so if you are a history buff. The puzzles are clever, the story is moving, the music is haunting, and the characters are well-realized. But most of all, Valiant Hearts is yet another triumph for the UbiArt Framework, which continues to impress at nearly every turn. This game is absolutely gorgeous, even as it depicts the ho...

“Valiant Hearts: The Great War doesn’t do enough with its puzzle-solving gameplay or its story to make the trip worthwhile.”

Valiant Hearts: The Great War is a puzzle adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montpellier and published by Ubisoft. The game is inspired by letters written in WW1 taking you on an emotional gripping story about sacrifice, love, survival and friendship. It centers around 4 characters and a dog all on the battlefield, where they all connect together throughout the story to help a young German soldier named Karl find his wife and child.