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Join 50v50 WWI battles, coordinate in a nine-player squad, and fight through trenches with period guns, tanks, and bayonets.
Released 31 Aug 2022
Coordinate Nine-Soldier Squads
Charge Through Trenches
Parry Bayonet Strikes
Set in the muddy trenches of WW1, Beyond The Wire is a 50v50 multiplayer FPS that immerses players in the desperate & brutal circumstances of the Great War. Featuring an arsenal of historic weapons, ten massive maps, ten playable factions, era-specific tanks, & a brutal melee combat system.
Developed by Redstone Interactive · Published by Offworld









Beyond The Wire is a large-scale multiplayer first-person shooter set on the Western Front of World War I. Players fight for factions from the Central Powers or Entente, taking on roles such as rifleman, medic, sniper, or infantry officer.
Teams of up to 50 players are divided into squads, with a commander overseeing the battle. Players coordinate with squadmates and navigate open battlefields, trenches, and enemy emplacements using tactics and cover.
Factions offer different equipment, vehicles, and maps. Players can use period-inspired firearms, select era-specific tanks, and engage in close-quarters melee combat with weapons such as bayonets and clubs; a parry system allows a counterattack against an incoming melee strike.
Players who praise Beyond The Wire often point to its World War I atmosphere, tense trench fighting, and close-quarters combat, with some also highlighting its sound and sense of realism. Many reviews also stress that the multiplayer experience depends on finding other players, and lament sparse matches and the lack of a substantial solo or PvE option.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–100 |
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| Multiplayer | Beyond The Wire is a multiplayer-only FPS centered on online PvP. Official descriptions state matches support up to 100 real players in 50v50 battles, with each side split into nine-person squads and a commander. Reviews also mention lower-population matches such as 25v25, 10v10, and bot-filled servers when player counts are low. No single-player campaign is described. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support or multiplayer mod features are mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |