Knowledge base · written for readers in Australia
Free-to-play desktop war games, explained entry by entry
A reference resource on one narrow subject: online first-person shooters set in the Second World War that run on a desktop computer and cost nothing to install. Each entry explains one concept — the money, the account, the hardware, the Australian rules — so you can read the part you need.
Published by KR Ultimate s.r.o. One product, Enlisted, is covered in detail and linked to commercially; the rest is general reference material that stands on its own.
How this site is paid for
Some links on StrataPoint are paid links. When a reader follows one to the Enlisted website and creates an account there, the advertiser pays KR Ultimate s.r.o. a commission for that registration. The game is free to install, and a paid link changes nothing about what a reader pays or receives — the commission comes out of the advertiser's own marketing budget.
Money buys the link; it does not buy the wording around it. The one product covered in product-level detail is the one with a commercial arrangement, stated openly rather than dressed up as a shortlist of winners. The full arrangement is set out on the affiliate disclosure page.
The category in four ideas
Four ideas sit underneath all of these games. Once they are clear, individual titles stop being surprising.
- The install is free; progression is the product
- Nothing is charged at the door; what is sold later is speed, variety and appearance inside a system of unlocks. Ask how bearable the game is when you spend nothing, because that is the version you can judge for free. See how free-to-play works.
- The account is the entry point, not the download
- These are online services: register, confirm an email address, install a client, sign in. The confirmation email is where most people get stuck. See accounts and email confirmation.
- Hardware sets the ceiling, and desktop is not a detail
- A title built for Windows, macOS or Linux will not run on a phone, and frame rate follows from the machine you own. See desktop hardware.
- Australian rules apply to the purchase, not the play
- Classification, household controls and consumer guarantees are where local law touches a game, mostly when money changes hands. See parental controls and consumer rights.
Entries in this knowledge base
Eight entries, grouped by the question they answer.
Category basics
The business model and the games themselves.
Before you sign up
What to settle before an account exists.
In Australia
Classification, controls and where to complain.
What “free to play” does to your money
A free download changes the order of your decisions, not whether you make them. In a paid game you decide once, before playing, at a price printed on the page; in a free-to-play game you decide repeatedly, after you are invested, in a currency the publisher invented.
So assess one of these games by playing it without spending: the unpaid version is the one you own, and anything bought later upgrades something already tested. The other half is bookkeeping, since small purchases in a converted currency are hard to total and easy to make by accident on a shared computer. If a charge appears that nobody recognises, Scamwatch explains how to report it.
The product covered in detail
Enlisted is a free-to-play online first-person shooter set during the Second World War, distributed for desktop computers. Its publisher describes it as a massively multiplayer game built around major campaigns of the war, with infantry combat alongside vehicles including tanks, aircraft and naval units. Registration and email confirmation are required before you can sign in and play.
That is the extent of what is stated here as fact: genre, setting, platform, vehicles, sign-up flow. Claims about how good it is or how many people play it are the publisher's marketing, not findings, and since feature lists change with each update, the vendor's own site is the only reliable place to check requirements and store contents. The full product profile sets out what is known and what is not.
The link below is a paid link. If you register on the Enlisted site after following it, the advertiser pays StrataPoint's publisher a commission for the referral. The game is free to install and your costs are unaffected.
Desktop-only, and why that matters first
Enlisted is distributed for desktop platforms — Windows, macOS and Linux — which rules out a phone or tablet. Settle that before creating an account. Three checks take a minute each: the operating system and its version, the free disk space for a client that grows with every update, and whether the graphics hardware is a discrete card or shares memory with the processor. No benchmark tool is needed: each platform reports all of it, and the hardware entry says where to look.
Australian reference points
Where this site touches law or public guidance it links to the body that publishes it, in that body's real role, rather than paraphrasing. Classification questions belong with Australian Classification, which runs the national scheme and its database of decisions. Household questions about chat and online safety are covered by the eSafety Commissioner. Money questions sit with the ACCC, which administers the Australian Consumer Law; a scam goes to Scamwatch at the National Anti-Scam Centre; a stolen account to the Australian Cyber Security Centre; and a privacy complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Nothing here is legal advice, and where the wording of a rule is the point, the regulator's page is the wording that counts.
Quick answers
The game is distributed free of charge and needs an account with a confirmed email address before you can sign in. Optional purchases are common in free-to-play games, and the vendor's own store pages are the only current source for what is sold, and at what price in AUD.
The version covered here is the desktop one, for Windows, macOS and Linux; a phone or tablet will not run it. Check the platform list on the vendor's site first, because an account is no use without a machine that can run the client.
Confirming proves the mailbox belongs to whoever registered, which makes a later password reset possible and stops an address being signed up by someone else. The sequence is set out in accounts and email confirmation.
Yes. A registration completed after following a paid link here earns the publisher, KR Ultimate s.r.o., a commission from the advertiser. It does not depend on anything you spend later, and nothing costs you more because you arrived through this site.
How entries are written
The method, in short
- Product statements come from the publisher's own description. Where it is silent, this site says so rather than filling the gap.
- Claims about law or guidance link to the Australian body that publishes them; anything unsourceable is left out.
- Coverage is narrow on purpose — one product in detail, reference material around it. There is no ranking, because one built on a single commercial relationship would not be worth reading.
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