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Somme Trench

Somme Trench is an interactive historical-military novel by Andrew J. Schaefer, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects. You play as a fresh British…

31 December 2014

Somme Trench is an indie developed by Andrew Schaefer, released 31 December 2014 on Android and iOS.

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What Somme Trench is

Somme Trench is an indie game developed by Andrew Schaefer and released in 2014. It was published by Hosted Games. It is available on Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Somme Trench is an interactive historical-military novel by Andrew J. Schaefer, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects. You play as a fresh British infantryman at the Battle of the Somme, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War One.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action, drama and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Somme Trench launched on 31 December 2014, within three weeks of The Talos Principle, Resident Evil HD Remaster, Elite: Dangerous and LISA.

Released around the same time: The Talos Principle, Resident Evil HD Remaster, Elite: Dangerous, LISA.

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When did Somme Trench come out?
Somme Trench was released on 31 December 2014 for Android and iOS.

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