I play Enlisted through Gaijin's Launcher rather than Steam's Launcher so my hours on the review won't be correct.

Enlisted is balanced around the sort of realism that one could expect from War Thunder's Realistic Battles mode, where bullets and explosions are lethal and reckless positioning will punish you. Enlisted features War Thunder's vehicle combat systems with some arcade tweaks for gameplay purposes. If you know how to use the tanks in that game, you'll feel right at home here.

In this game, you spawn a squad of soldiers to control, you can play as one while the others follow your orders. You can switch between them at will as long as they are still alive and it gives you options for dealing with each situation. Each soldier can be kitted out with weapons you've unlocked via the research tree in a similar fashion to War Thunder where you gain research as you gain experience points. The Battle Rating of a weapon shows you roughly how strong it can be and the system exists to reduce unfair matchups like making someone with bolt-action rifles fight assault rifles. As you advance through the tree, you gain access to more powerful weaponry and advance in Battle Rating of those weapons.

As of writing, you will start with BR 1 squads within the factions: USA (USA, Commonwealth Forces), United Axis Army (Germany and Italy), USSR (Russia), and Imperial Japan. There are infantry squads, armored personnel carriers, tanks of various types, fighter planes, attacker planes, and jets in the game. You gain experience and research for the faction you are playing in that match.

Like Gaijin's other offerings, this game mainly focuses on objective areas being captured and it works well enough. Unlike War Thunder's settings, you will recognize the battlefields of Enlisted easily, including places like: Normandy, North Africa, Gare-de-Saint Lo, and more.

While I have spent money on this game for premium squads and more squad slots, I've never felt like I needed to purchase premium account time to grind things out before and I can't say the same for War Thunder, if that means anything to you. I appreciate the in-game item awards of Enlisted far more than War Thunder as well. Battle passes in Enlisted are simple in comparison to WT as it only requires you complete simple challenges that you could easily do without knowing beforehand. In short, I'd say that Enlisted respects the time put in far more than War Thunder.

You should give this one a try, I recommend it. If you're a fan of ForgottenWeapons.com, you'll love this one, I think.