Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere! (Part 2)

More of GMT’s Digital Offerings that allow you to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.

As I noted in our first article, we have created, in cooperation with individual programmers and digital game platforms, numerous ways for customers to experience our boardgames on your digital devices. We’ve done this for one large, underlying reason: We want players to be able to engage with and experience the learning, fun, challenge, and historical insights of our boardgames with other players from around the world on digital platforms where they can play the games generally much more quickly than they can on their physical game tables.

The Pyramid of Digital Game Options GMT Offers:

• Computer Games. We discussed these in our last installment of this series.
• Online Multi-player Games that enforce the boardgame rules but have no solo AI opponents. We’ll talk about these today.
• Traditional VASSAL and TableTop Simulator Game Modules. We’ll feature these in our next installment of the series.

Free-to-Play Online Games

Today we’ll talk about all of the Free-to-Play Games that we have authorized to be published on Popular Online Platforms. First, a few notes about these games:

• Most GMT Games on online free-to-play platforms look and play like the boardgame. You can play them multi-player with friends or multi-handed “hot seat” solo, but there is no AI built in, so there is no “against the computer” solo play.
• A nice feature of Rally the Troops, one of the platforms listed below, especially if you want to familiarize yourself with gameplay before you play yourself, is that you can “Watch” a game in progress or “Review” a completed game.
• All we ask for those of you who play our games online is that at least one of you who are playing owns the physical boardgame. That’s how it would be if you were meeting friends face to face to play – ONE of you would bring the game. But there’s no requirement that all players own the game to play online. We WANT you to use online free-to-play options to “try before you buy” our boardgames.

Here’s the list of games we have authorized that are currently available on free-to-play online platforms:

Rally the Troops.com

GMT Games Available to play for free on Rally the Troops as of April 21, 2025:

1989: Dawn of Freedom (2-player Card-driven game (CDG) set in Eastern Europe in 1989)

Andean Abyss (1-4 player COIN series game on the struggle for power in Columbia in the 1990s )

Nevsky (1-2-player Levy & Campaign series game about the clash between Latin Teutonic and Orthodox Russian powers along the Baltic frontier in the mid-13^th-Century.)

Plantagenet (1-2-player Levy & Campaign series game of the War of the Roses)

Red Flag Over Paris (2-player Card-driven game on the Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune, 1871. )

Time of Crisis (1-4 player Strategy game of Ancient Rome)

Vijayanagara (1-3 player Irregular Conflict Series game of Medieval India, 1290-1398.

Washington’s War (Strategic 2-player CDG about the American Revolution.)

Wilderness War (Strategic 2-player CDG about the French & Indian Wars)

BoardGame Arena

GMT Games Official Implementations that you can play FREE on BoardGame Arena

A Gest of Robin Hood (2-player game in our Irregular Conflict Series)

Bayonets & Tomahawks (2-player strategic CDG on The French and Indian War)

Space Empires (1-4 player 4X Space game. One of our all-time best-sellers.)

Talon (1-2 player game of Tactical Space Combat)

Unconditional Surrender (1-3 player game of WWII in Europe)

TableTopia

GMT Games that you can play FREE on TableTopia:

A Gest of Robin Hood

Down in Flames

Paths of Glory (just released!)

Red Dust Rebellion

Tank Duel

The Plum Island Horror

GMT Games that you can play FREE on 18xx.games

I should note that we also have a couple GMT Games that you can play as PREMIUM experiences on TableTopia (these are not free):

Dominant Species

Thunder Alley

I hope this article and “all in one place” listing of games gives you insight into what’s available to you for our free-to-play digital games offerings. We want all of you to have plenty of options to find your favorite ways to “Play GMT Games Anytime, Anywhere.”

Next Time: VASSAL, TableTop Simulator Module, Cyberboard  for almost all of our games, plus Solo Apps!

Enjoy the games! – Gene

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