Weltkrieg 1: Firestorm

Weltkrieg 1: Firestorm Review: A WWI Open Beta With Ads and No Shop Yet

6v6 and 10v10 on the Western Front, With Tanks and Four Classes

The pitch is Battlefield 1 shrunk to a phone: BIX TEAM's March 2025 teaser, which VGTimes' Vladislav Nikolaev covered on March 22, showed first- and third-person fighting and named four classes — Assault, Medic, Sniper and Machine Gunner — plus playable tanks, with the studio saying it wanted a fast, dynamic shooter rather than a war simulator. The open beta matches that: 6v6 and 10v10 lobbies, Team Deathmatch and Ultimate Conquest, the objective mode where teams capture and hold positions, on maps of mud, craters, broken trees and fortified trenches. Factions are the British and German Empires, each with special classes beyond the standard four, and the tanks are period machines — the store screenshots show a Renault FT and a British rhomboid — that can push a defensive line or change a match's rhythm. Progression is a Career with a War Path of numbered levels; the screenshots show one at level 31.

From a Summer 2025 Promise to an Open Beta Still Without iOS

The dates tell the studio's size. The teaser promised iOS and Android for summer 2025; what happened was a regional beta in select Asian markets that summer, an October 2025 playtest and then the worldwide Android open beta on April 16, 2026, with iOS listed as not yet announced. Five months on, the September 17, 2026 update is substantial for a small team: full controller support, stationary machine guns placed across the maps, new soldier models for both empires including the special classes, new weapon models built for a Loadout system the notes call coming soon, English, Russian and Spanish localisation, and smoother core movement. The player verdict is the one soft number on the page: 100,000-plus installs and a 3.5 rating on Google Play, with no individual reviews surfaced on the listing to say why. Version and Android floor are listed as varying by device.

Free With Ads, No In-App Purchases, Teen for Blood

The economy is unfinished, and that cuts both ways. Google Play carries a Contains-ads badge and no in-app purchase badge: there is nothing to buy, no currency and no battle pass, and the Loadout system is the first place a shop would logically appear. BIX TEAM LTD of Herzliya, Israel, supports the game from support@bixteam.net, and Google's data-safety card is the heaviest item on the page — Location, Personal info and three other data types both collected and shared with third parties, more than most shooters declare. Rated Teen for violence and blood. No size or minimum Android version is published, and there is no App Store listing to compare. Treat it as what the studio calls it: an open beta whose rules, weapons and prices can change with each update, playable for free today on any Android phone the store allows.