Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Game
Game2011
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Developer Tripwire Interactive
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad and Rising Storm GOTY, now known as Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 GOTY on Steam, is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game set during World War II, developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. Released in September 2011, it is a sequel to Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41–45. The title focuses heavily on the Battle of Stalingrad and the Pacific Theater. The game is a… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
173 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
LovedLoved
146 positive · 20 negative
95% range 82–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 146 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
15,410 of 16,646 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
88% recommend · 153 yes, 21 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 174 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (35,326 of 38,154 positive).
Players praise the game's intense, realistic atmosphere and immersive details like suppression and character reactions. [1][2][3] Many note the community is small now, with few active servers and frequent bot matches. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize the game for being dated, buggy, or having poor gunplay and spawn camping. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
I sank a lot of hours into Red Orchestra 2 back in the day. In it's hey day, it was one of the most fun online games I had played. Sure, it was buggy and ran terribly (which it still does). But it had a solid community. Sadly, this community slowly disappeared and what is left is a shallow husk of what was once a great game. The people still playing are either try hard edge lords or people with no life whatsoever …
- [1]
>when you sprint for too long your character will yell out "i cant keep on going like this" >when you are under suppressive fire your character will call out for his family >when you get hit and start bleeding sometimes your character will call for his *mum* >when you see a dead body your character will panic and it will effect accuracy and reloading speed >when your team is lossing your character will yell "JUST …
- [3]
I don't think I've ever played another shooter that comes even close to capturing the chaos, horror and brutality of war like Red Orchestra 2 does. It's all the little things that make it work. Your weapon actually moves with you instead of being glued to the center of the screen, so aiming doesn't just happen automatically. You have to actually aim. The suppression system makes you actually feel like you need to …
- [11]
I will forever love this game, personally I think it stands the test of time, yes the graphics can be considered lacking compared to the modern era. However the gameplay and immersion is unmatched in my opinion. I mainly played Rising Storm, however RO2 is also gold. Cannot recommend this more.
- [2]
The most atmospheric and realistic WW2 online shooter. Authentic locations, combat gear and audio. Sound track is also very good! Intense combat everywhere. The tragedy of war will suddenly overwhelm you.
Summarised from 34 of the 182 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
88% of the 174 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm. The complaint that keeps coming up: small player base with few active servers. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The singleplayer campaign received a fairly negative reception due to the uninteresting gameplay, which was mostly caused by very poorly programmed AI opponents and teammates. A singleplayer game plays much like a multiplayer campaign except each team only has less than 12 players and the player assumes control of a bot when he dies, with no reinforcements to the teams.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 173 · most liked first>when you sprint for too long your character will yell out "i cant keep on going like this" >when you are under suppressive fire your character will call out for his family >when you get hit and start bleeding sometimes your character will call for his *mum* >when you see a dead body your character will panic and it will effect accuracy and reloading speed >when your team is lossing your character will yell "JUST KILL US ALREADY" mfw when i see all my team mate died by a MG42 and we are lossing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1.I get hevy machinegun 2.start kiling nazis as officer of red army 3.Go home 4. Start plaing red orchestra
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was really good when it came out, and had great gameplay for a multiplayer lobby. It is quite dated now, but still actually isn't that bad. I randomly hopped back in recently on a whim (after 10+ years) and gave it a go. The shooting still feels pretty satisfying, but the lobbies are kind of dead with most filled with bots (that are not very good either). Honestly, there really isn't a great reason to play this anymore, but I am still giving it an upvote as I realized I forgot to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A solid WW2 game. If you're tired of Iwo Jima in Battlefield, come experience something different here.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warning: Game full of alcoholic Russians yelling at 3 PM Nothing is more realistic than playing as Soviet and having a drunk Russian officer yelling and cursing at a German at 3 PM on a Tuesday, and that's worth 100% of your money
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most atmospheric and realistic WW2 online shooter. Authentic locations, combat gear and audio. Sound track is also very good! Intense combat everywhere. The tragedy of war will suddenly overwhelm you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's a masterpiece of a game. i enjoy the BOT play and you can STILL find servers with population. runs great on bazzite linux
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think I've ever played another shooter that comes even close to capturing the chaos, horror and brutality of war like Red Orchestra 2 does. It's all the little things that make it work. Your weapon actually moves with you instead of being glued to the center of the screen, so aiming doesn't just happen automatically. You have to actually aim. The suppression system makes you actually feel like you need to keep your head down. And then you get those moments where you're running with a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There used to be commanders who learnt Japanese speeches just to role play, and we loved them. So many games rolling the Americans using melee only.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →peak but theres usually only like 1 active server that hits full playercount and it crashes a lot (might be just my issue)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best WW2 shooters ever made from the progression and gameplay even down to the UI. I would give this game a solid 10/10 if it wasn't for the whitelisting requirements when making your own server. If Tripwire would come back and just whitelist even player-hosted servers this would still be the GOAT after all this time. Please Tripwire, I bet it could be done by an intern in an hour, and it's not like KF3 is working out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Best WW2 FPS ever. It has so many things that newer ones like squad 44 (P.S) cant even touch.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →14 year old game that still lives up to modern day game's standards.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game taught other developers how to create realistic gameplay and is the true foundation of all realistic war games. It's a masterpiece that even after all these years is still playable, and you won't notice its age because of its high quality and detail. Now, let's talk about the realistic gameplay: the movement and maneuvering. You'll feel like a real soldier on the battlefield. You'll feel the sensation of the rifle as you fire. This is in addition to the way you run with the rifle; the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've always wanted this game ever since I saw the banzai charge video, and now that I got it... There's no one to play with lmao seriously though, very realistic game for 2012
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I miss this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Orchestra 2 is one of the games of all time. Red Orchestra 3 when?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will forever love this game, personally I think it stands the test of time, yes the graphics can be considered lacking compared to the modern era. However the gameplay and immersion is unmatched in my opinion. I mainly played Rising Storm, however RO2 is also gold. Cannot recommend this more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →amazing game. the community are not dead and even if you cant find a server with people, there are always bot servers to play around in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I sank a lot of hours into Red Orchestra 2 back in the day. In it's hey day, it was one of the most fun online games I had played. Sure, it was buggy and ran terribly (which it still does). But it had a solid community. Sadly, this community slowly disappeared and what is left is a shallow husk of what was once a great game. The people still playing are either try hard edge lords or people with no life whatsoever that just cheese the game for a high death count. There's no longer any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best ww2 fps so far. Newer games have better graphic but game physics and fun is far from behind.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a combination of realism and arcade, I recommend u to play this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Legendary game. One of the best WW2 shooters of all time. Maps are awesome and immersive. I love everything about this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic game that's been untouched for the better
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A friend asked me long ago: How bad was WWII? I was struck by flashes of soldiers exploding in a thousand pieces, of people lying in the mud drowning in their own blood. I heard the echoes of the past; the deafening blast of artillery turning men into an amalgam of skin and blood; the cacophony of machine gun fire tearing human flesh like cheese grater. I slowly looked at my friend straight in the eyes and said with a trembling voice: You cannot and will never comprehend nor fathom the sheer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My rarest achievement is for getting 32 silenced revolver kills in Red Orchestra 2 (0.3% of players). Technically its not too difficult, but since its a shooter with a fairly low TTK, you don't normally use the sidearm much. Further the silenced revolver is a pristige varient that has to be ground out using the original revolver, and performs worse than the unsilenced, so there is no reason to get the achievement except for completionism sake.…
positive · AI labelView post →Awesome game that still holds up, though there are some tweaks you need to make in order for it to run properly on modern devices. (I may make a guide)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the best FPS I have ever played. No other FPS has the gameplay mechanics this has, the ones that try to copy it don't make it as fluid (ammo checks, cover system, staged reloads, omni directional sprinting, first person tank combat). I wish for RO3 and hope it is not COD'fied like so many FPS are now. Shame that it has so little players nowadays. Specially in Brazil servers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →as good as WW2 FPS's are gonna get in terms of art direction, we need more eastern front games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh Tripwire Interactive, I beg thy to make this game populated and popular once more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get banned from the only server in the game, just because one of the admins doesn't know how to play and is eliminating competitors :/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun ww2 mil-sim (at least I think its a mil sim). Hard to get the hang of at first but it is very fun and I rarely get mad when I die or even lose. Runs great, even on a laptop, only a little laggy if you choose to run ultra high graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this game while playing on a half-ass laptop, because I knew it could not run any newer games. Got back to my main PC and still playing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Masterpiece! 8/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An intense and realistic WWII shooter with authentic combat, immersive sound design, and gripping multiplayer battles that keep you engaged.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That's a good war game. There is a really good war atmosphere. But there is a deficiency. If the AI can be more clever and intelligent, it will be better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Orchestra 2 0.3% Silent Killer Get 32 Kills with the silenced Nagant Revolver Man what an awesome game, I miss it
positive · AI labelView post →Can't pass grain elevators in real life without shuddering, 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rising storm 2 has a place in my heart but sadly the game stopped working and ended in a horrible way. So I had to play this old gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →spent my entire time getting spawn camped, the gunplay is just not fun, they dont feel satisfying, they dont sound good, who tf knows how tank gameplay is, never ever get to see the things. it was 2.99, i honestly would rather just have the 2.99 back, completely different time periods but rising storm 2 vietnam is just better in everyway, the only reason i got this game was that it was ww2, and it was just ass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →buy this game pls i need more real players to shoot at
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun older multiplayer FPS! Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a well developed online First Person Shooter set entirely during the Battle of Stalingrad of 1942. All maps within the title are districts of the city, and every match contributes to the capture of the metropolis; quite an interesting merge to have an asymmetrical campaign like this. The gunplay itself is neither too casual nor too realistic, a balance thay allows players to enjoy the title however they desire with an extra…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is still awesome and aged like a good wine. Even after playing some Rising Storm 2 and HLL this gritty dark WWII game still rules and have a lively community. Recommend to every tactical shooter enjoyer. Moreover, there is not a single game on a market even now which depicted Battle of Stalingrad in such authentic and brutal house-to-house fighting as this one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way past it's hayday and pretty much dead and abandoned but beneath all that is one of the best if not the best realistic world war 2 shooters ever made, brutal mechanics and a beautifully terrifying environment that come together in a beautiful and gruesome dance, never loved the feeling of being a cog in a war machine more than i did in the frozen fields of Stalingrad or the charred sands and bunkers of Iwo jima.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most immersing FPS multiplayer game I've played so far. Chants and phrases, reactions to being underfire of the soldiers instead of the casual gamer voice chat make you more immersed than games such as Squad or Hell Let Loose and provide you with a feeling of being a human livestock in a warzone which feels like a slaughterhouse, trying to get ♥♥♥♥ your ♥♥♥♥ together, survive and kill in order to stay alive. Good game, thank you Tripwire.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Puts you into depressed state as Soviet/German soldier on the Eastern front, fighting for your life as a human. Still alive and kicking I love bolt actions in this game, one of the reasons to comeback sometimes
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad remains one of the most immersive and unforgiving World War II shooters ever made. There are no glowing outlines, no generous hit markers, and absolutely no concern for your emotional wellbeing. Combat is brutal. Crossing a street in Stalingrad feels less like moving between objectives and more like volunteering to become part of the scenery. Every ruined building hides potential danger, every machine gun nest controls entire sections of the map, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There isn't much I can add to what has already been said about this game. With that, I consider it a must have. Fun, and realistic enough to not be full of complete milsim-sweats (nothing against them). As for graphics, I'll paraphrase someone I heard "Stylized graphics age like fine wine, graphics that try to be realistic age like milk". This game is very much fine wine. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great atmosphere. Holds up well today.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the best WWII game I have ever played! No other game can hold a candle to this masterpiece! To us, Hell Let Loose, Battlefield 1, and all other milsims are complete and utter trash! There are nearly no historical inaccuracies in this game, and the ones that are in the game are fairly minor. The music and gameplay are so good that a simple 1-10 rating would be an insult to the entire playerbase; the arty is pure nightmare fuel! I've legitimately had nightmares of this game (mostly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like Team Fortress 2 if it also had PTSD, friendly-fire and larger-scale battles. Funnily, buying the Digital Deluxe Edition gives you 2 free hats for TF2 and despite the comparison it represents the realities of war like no other game has.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello fellow gamers! This game is really good, I have a lot of fun with it! Positives; Good player base, easy to find active servers online! Graphics are good and any potato can run it! Gameplay is smooth and addictive Atmosphere is awesome, music and ambiance 10/10 Negatives: Teams dont play well in squads, kind of confusing for new players Maps are small, imo maps should be bigger. AI is really dumb, (Yes, there are Bots, which help fill out matches when low pvp count)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another game with multiplayer curse if nobody plays its a dead game which you cant play.Those games need single campaign or at least developer dedicated bot support for its after lifespan.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I need this back in my life Tripwire
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2026, and I still miss this game so much. I have so many fond memories of it. It would be amazing to play it today, but all the players, me included, got RS2 Vietnam when it came out. I used to come back to Red Orchestra 2 because I still think it was better, but nope, most players never returned. Such a shame. I wish the devs brought it back to life one day somehow, like they're doing with Vietnam these days. 11/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i just love shooting those damn ruskies
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly this is how WWII shooters should be, it's gritty yet pretty realistic in terms of combat, equipment, weapons, etc. Some bugs exist of course, like getting stuck on terrain in some limited spots when trying to go prone or climb over a wall. But it's really minor. I do wish they had some kind of single player campaign mode, but other than that the game is still awesome. Certainly beats out a ton of the new releases hitting the market these days... Probably back when game developers…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fellow Red Orchestra 2 player! I was more invested into Rising Storm, but I'd give an arm and leg to play either at their prime again. 
positive · AI labelView post →The Best WW2 game ever made!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even tho this game is really old its still one of the greatest WW2 shooting game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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