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What Enlisted costs, and what you get for nothing

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By Richard Hill, editor and director of publicationPublished 6 min read

The game is free. The question worth asking is not whether you can play without paying — you can — but what paying actually buys, and whether that bothers you.

What costs nothing

Enlisted is free to download and free to play. All four nations are open to you without paying. Squads, weapons and upgrades are earned through play. No part of the game is locked behind a paywall in the sense of being unreachable without money.

Three columns. Spending nothing, in green: the game and all four nations are free, and squads, weapons and upgrades are earned by playing. Battle pass, in amber: seasonal, with a free track and a paid track, and rewards tied to a window of time. Buying outright, in red: premium squads and packs, with starter packs listed on Steam between 4.99 and 34.99 US dollars, and gold as the premium currency.
Figure 1. The three routes to getting things. Prices are the figures the Steam store page carried at the time of writing. Original diagram drawn for this guide.

Direct purchases

Premium squads and packs are sold outright. At the time of writing the Steam store page listed starter packs between US$4.99 and US$34.99. Prices, bundles and regional pricing change; treat that as an order of magnitude and check the store before you buy.

Gold

Gold is the premium currency. Broadly, it shortens the grind rather than removing it: it buys time, and occasionally convenience, rather than content that is otherwise unreachable.

Battle passes

The game runs seasonal battle passes with a free track and a paid track. Wikipedia records that the publisher usually runs nine or ten of them in a year. The thing to understand about a battle pass is not the price but the shape: its rewards are tied to a window of time, so they expire if you stop playing. That converts a purchase into a mild obligation to keep playing, which some people find fine and others find corrosive.

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Is it pay-to-win?

Reviewers disagree, and we are not going to smooth that over because an advertiser pays for this page. XboxEra scored the game 5 out of 10 and criticised its progression as pay-to-win. Penny Arcade, reviewing the same mechanics, called it “an absolute blast” and “the best WWII shooter”.

Our own reading, offered as opinion rather than fact: paying does not unlock content that is otherwise closed to you, and it does not buy a weapon that cannot be earned. What it buys is time, and sometimes a squad that is convenient rather than strictly stronger. Whether that crosses your line is a judgement only you can make.

The useful thing about a free game is that you can make that judgement after playing rather than before.

Practical spending advice

  1. Spend nothing for the first several hours. Find out whether the squad mechanic suits you at all. It is a distinctive game and it does not suit everybody.
  2. Do not buy a battle pass in the last week of a season. You are buying a window of time; buy it when the window is wide.
  3. Be wary of buying a tank early. A vehicle crew takes a line-up slot that would otherwise hold infantry, and infantry capture points.
  4. Check the price on the day. Everything above was accurate when written and prices move.
No promises

We have no guaranteed outcome to sell you and no deadline to invent. This is a free game with optional purchases. If you spend money on it you may not enjoy it, and it is a purchase like any other. See our editorial policy on what we refuse to do.

Sources

Prices, the free-to-play model and in-app purchase ranges come from the official Enlisted Steam store page. The battle-pass cadence and the cited XboxEra and Penny Arcade reviews come from the Wikipedia article “Enlisted (video game)”. Both consulted on 21 September 2026.

Where this guide is wrong

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