Danger CloseWW1

Available nowiPhone & iPad · The Western Front

Danger Close: WW1

The line is counting on your barrage.

You command the guns behind the trench. The infantry in front of them are counting on you. Put your shells on the enemy — and mind how close you drop them to your own men.

Download on theApp Store — Danger Close: WW1 for iPhone and iPad

Free three-wave campaign. Optional one-time Unlimited Campaign unlock.

Danger Close: WW1 app icon — a field gun firing at dusk above barbed-wire trenches
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Dispatches from the field

Captured from version 1.1.0 on iPhone. Scroll sideways for more.

  • Wave 2 on a green countryside field: enemy tank and soldiers advance toward the trench while two field guns wait behind it. Shell buttons for H.E., shrapnel and gas sit beside Fire All.
    Command the battery
  • Later wave in rain on a grey, smoke-darkened field. Enemy morale is at three of three and the trench holds 24 of 24 men.
    The grey field
  • After-action report for Mons and the Great Retreat listing losses and enemies eliminated, with requisition options for another gun, gun drill, rangefinding and shrapnel shell.
    After action
  • Wave 7 under rain on a muddy brown-grey field as the enemy advances on the trench line.
    Dusk on the line
  • Danger Close title card, posted 1914, explaining tap-to-fire, Fire All, shell types and requisition, with Take Command, Unlimited Campaign unlock and Restore Purchases buttons.
    Take command

Field briefing

Hold three assaults. Break their morale.

Place the barrage
Tap the field to fire the next ready gun, or Fire All to send every ready gun at once. Shells scatter around the aim point, so leave yourself a margin.
Choose the shell
High explosive when armour comes forward, shrapnel for men in the open, and gas once it reaches the battery. Switch between them as the wave changes.
Requisition between waves
Spend what headquarters sends on another gun, faster drill, better rangefinding, new shells, or reinforcements for the trench.
Friendly fire counts
Your own line sits just in front of the guns. Rounds dropped short fall on your own soldiers, and the trench remembers every one of them.

A changing front

The field ages with the campaign.

The war starts in bright countryside. As the campaign goes on, the land turns to ochre and mud, and then to smoke and slate. It happens on its own as the waves advance — there is nothing to set.

  1. Countryside
  2. Ochre & mud
  3. Smoke & slate

Campaign & purchase

Free to fight. Optional to continue.

The complete three-wave campaign is free. If you want the enemy to keep coming, Unlimited Campaign is an optional, one-time in-app purchase that continues past the free campaign with increasingly difficult formations. Your local price is shown in the App Store.

Purchases can be restored on devices signed in to the purchasing Apple Account. See WW1 support for restore steps and refunds, and the WW1 privacy policy for how purchases are handled.

No ads, analytics, or account. A historical Western Front setting, told through earth, ink and smoke.

Download on theApp Store — Danger Close: WW1 for iPhone and iPad