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Game
Game2006
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Developer Tripwire Interactive
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41–45 is a 2006 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game based on its predecessor Red Orchestra: Combined Arms. After winning the Make Something Unreal contest, the team behind the original Red Orchestra started the game studio Tripwire Interactive and developed Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41–45 as their first project. Set on the Eastern Front during World War II between 1941 and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
174 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
82
LovedLoved
131 positive · 29 negative
95% range 75–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 131 | 29 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 10 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,077 of 1,237 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 140 yes, 29 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 169 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (2,229 of 2,543 positive).
Players praise the game's realistic and immersive depiction of the Eastern Front. [1][2][3]
Liked
Representative posts
- [14]
Dead game. Edit - I have been informed the darkest hour mod for this game is still very much active.
- [1]
The most realistic game about the Second World War, the story of how good triumphed over evil, glory to the Red Army! Russia will win, the enemy will be defeated.
- [2]
The original Red Orchestra is completely different from its sequel. It has animations, atmosphere and gameplay that all come together to push players to play more careful and use teamwork instead of run around as though game were a random team death match game. The game is much slower. It has slower animations that are more detailed and weapons have a much smaller field of view. This makes it so that aiming means …
- [3]
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, developed and published by Tripwire Interactive, is a unique and unflinchingly realistic World War II first-person shooter that challenges conventional FPS expectations in favor of gritty authenticity and tactical depth. Originally born from a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, Ostfront 41-45 matured into a full standalone title that centers on the brutal Eastern Front conflict between …
- [11]
You have to play it with the Darkest Hour mod or you wont find any players. The Game is great but the Players are way to toxic. You will learn a lot of new Insults! Have fun!
Summarised from 34 of the 184 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 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 sits at 82% positive across 160 opinionated reactions from 2 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC version received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Red Orchestra won Computer Games Magazine's 2004 "Best Mod" award. Ostfront 41–45 was a runner-up for Computer Games Magazine's list of the top 10 computer games of 2006.
From the “Critical reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 174 · most liked firstGame older than most of the steam c0mmunity
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend buying this game so you can play the Darkest Hour mod. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280/Darkest_Hour_Europe_4445/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a pure nostalgia trip. Also the tank combat is very intuitive for a game so old.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →idk why i can write a review for this i dont even own the game what
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead game. Good game, but dead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just bought this game to play the darkest hour mod and no one was even playing, not even in the vanilla game. F uck my Nazi life bro.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was playing Red Orchestra when the news had reported we killed Bin Laden. Real OGs remember the 5 minute load times per match.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to talk about this game so that the new people who want to buy this game in this current year : First of all the game is best ww2 game you can play and the mechanism are best and also the game's map are also good. Now talk about server so if you want to play this game rather then joining multiplayer in this game try darkest hour mod which is available freely on steam workshop you can see in this store page where you are seeing red orchestra game and yes you have to buy red orchestra…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is ok. not enough servers and the ones that are are run by cheaters that run the server. fun only if you like to be their targets. no achievement servers
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The original Red Orchestra is completely different from its sequel. It has animations, atmosphere and gameplay that all come together to push players to play more careful and use teamwork instead of run around as though game were a random team death match game. The game is much slower. It has slower animations that are more detailed and weapons have a much smaller field of view. This makes it so that aiming means committing to being vulnerable and firing a commitment to being defenseless for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have way more hours in this than Steam shows. Easily one of the best WW2 shooters of the early 2000's in terms of realism, atmosphere, and gunplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the fact that multiplayer is practically dead at the moment, I recommend this game. It's the pioneer of hardcore tactical shooters along with other games, and currently compared to more modern games it may seem old or clumsy, but in 2006 there weren't many games like thIs, only iron sight without crosshair and with "floating zone", 1 or 2 shot kills, a lot of gore, and especially the Soviet front, since in general practically 90% of the WW2 fps that exist are about the typical US…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drove a convoy truck full of my allies into a river where we all died. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Publisher is full of SJWs. Do not support Leftwing grifters.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is currently kinda dead in most days of the week, but there's still some good folk playing it in the weekends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love shooting my teammates
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, developed and published by Tripwire Interactive, is a unique and unflinchingly realistic World War II first-person shooter that challenges conventional FPS expectations in favor of gritty authenticity and tactical depth. Originally born from a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, Ostfront 41-45 matured into a full standalone title that centers on the brutal Eastern Front conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Released in 2006, it marked a departure from…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You have to play it with the Darkest Hour mod or you wont find any players. The Game is great but the Players are way to toxic. You will learn a lot of new Insults! Have fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once in a while, in the life of a gamer, a game comes along against which the rest of an entire genre will be measured. Such a game entered into my life in the summer of 2006, and it had a weird name: Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. A squad-based, multiplayer-focused first person shooter set in the Eastern Front of the Second World War; in a sea of arcade-style, story-based World War Two shooters, and at the dawn of the perk-obsessed nascent modern warfare trend we've yet to ditch, Red Orchestra…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead game. Edit - I have been informed the darkest hour mod for this game is still very much active.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 stands as a raw, uncompromising depiction of World War II’s Eastern Front — a far cry from the bombastic action found in most mainstream shooters. With a firm commitment to realism, tactical pacing, and team-oriented gameplay, this title carved out a niche that still resonates with fans of authentic military simulations. Developed by Tripwire Interactive and born from a celebrated Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, Red Orchestra offers a brutal and rewarding experience…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me feel so happy or it made me feel like my balls were be mowed by a chain saw and I was gonna acculty break my skull against my wall and I still play so clearly its good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, lots of childhood memories, very re-playable vs bots.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is nothing but the rhythm of explosions, more or less distant, more or less violent, and the cries of madmen, to be classified later, according to the outcome of the battle, as the cries of heroes or of murderers. And there are the cries of the wounded, of the agonizingly dying, shrieking as they stare at a part of their body reduced to pulp, the cries of men touched by the shock of battle before everybody else, who run in any and every direction, howling like banshees. There are the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i love the way you can WW2 Tank battles without have to pay money you get good Tanks and stuff!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get this than play darkest hour, its a free mod for the game on steam. The mod is more active and has way more content.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was a freshman in high school when this came out, and this game single handedly got me into milsim shooters. After playing the CODs and MOHs of the time, playing this was such a refreshing and visceral experience. Glad to get this back in my library, brings back so many memories.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →server down - cannot play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bland, dull & above all sluggish - attrition gameplay. Band of Attrition: Day of Defeat, Red Orchestra, Rising Storm, Verdun, Tannenberg, Isonzo, Post Scriptum, Squad, Beyond The Wire, Hell Let Loose, Enlisted… what did I miss? Thumbs down for firing John Gibson<3
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best WWII FPS ever. Better than RO2. I stopped playing before the big mods came out, and I don't think anyone plays any of the RO games these days. Clunky infantry movement, but great shooting, tanking, and maps. Nothing but good memories of Red Orchestra!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best WW2 multiplayer FPS games i ever played. It had everything, tanks, apc´s , arty , big maps and some sort of realism. Had lots of fun in this game, nothing worse then getting shot in the legs or even getting your weapon shot out of your hand ^^. Great community , with insane custom maps and content. In my opinion the Game series unfortunately, did a bit of a step back, by abondening tanks and ground vehicles more and more, even though they added helis in the latest game. If I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe this was amazing for it's time considering there was literally nothing else like this but pretty much aged horribly compared to it's sequel. Very dead and outdated game with barely anybody playing it. The sequel is far better and improves on almost everything!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there's like 5 people in total still playing this game neat experience tho
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My Red Orchestra reading list so far: • Trepper, “The Great Game” (Red Orchestra ringleader memoir) • CIA, “The Rotte Kapell” (CIA internal history the Red Orchestra) • Foote, “Handbook for Spies” (Memoir of orchestra member) • Matthews, “An Impeccable Spy” (Bio of orchestra member Richard Sorge)
neutral · AI labelView post →Where it all started, also Darkest Hour mod etc.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic. Play with bots. The game itself is a bit more hardcore than Battlefield. Still very enjoyable. I like it much more than RO2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the best war video game on the market. nothing has come close to it. nearly 20 years later
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing old school game! FPS and milsim enjoyers should get it for the few bucks it cost :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On one hand it's a realistic hardcore shooter, but on the other hand it gets boring to play very quickly + no one plays it anymore
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was a great game. It allowed you to play as a first person shooter on either side German or Russian and different roles and weapons. Yet, also allowed you to play tank vs tank. Great all around game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →post scriptium on steroids
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good clean WWII sinmulation.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pure Nostalgia. Amazing game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the worst game ever made horrible graphics 0/10 horrible trash unrealist trash gameplay 0/10 makes u get a headache and super bad headache horrible AI spamming 1 and 2 switch between tank modes to stop them from moving it's better to kill them buggy unrealistic aim down sights inaccurate weapons that is not realistic AI gains Aimbot at random times and 1 shots you. The only way to win is by playing like a german ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Torstenstock or like playing like a French ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Shinta or like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Takes patience, but once you learn the controls a fascinating one-on-one depiction of WWII East Front warfare. Good mechanics, real-time response is good, and familiarity with era-specific armaments, battle groupings, and more make this for a realistic experience. You'll like it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a sad tale really, playing this all the time back in 2006 and 2007. Awesome, made regular RO friends but where are they now. Where are all the players now. Played 30min recently just to remind myself and it made me smile, good times back then.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WW2 better than modern AAA Game is still wonderful nearly 2 decades on, very attentive to details, full of features other AAA video game titles still miss today. Also, the boxed game I bought at a Brick & Mortar had fake Dog Tags :D 10/10 game A must buy for WW2 Shooter fans, and the Tanks are more detailed than War Thunder. The mods Darkest Hour and Mare Nostrum give this game such a beautiful expansion that makes it well worth the price of admission.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gunplay feels really good for its age, runs very well and is insanely cheap on sale. However the bots are stupid beyond repair. They'll walk up right next to you and dismiss you most of the time. It's very slightly bewildering in a sense, but that's because they're made as a filler for when there's not enough players. Fun experience for two or three hours divided in a couple of months, then I dropped this. I do install it again and come back to it rarely, because of a couple of maps. They're…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please buy this game and play the Darkes hour Mod It is 10x better than that overrated game Hell let loose even with this games age
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a tear of nostalgia
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our game is out next week! If you liked Red Orchestra or Rising Storm then this is definitely up your street! #gameart #gamedev #gamedevelopment #pcgaming #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The game itself does not seem bad, but as i should have expected from a game of this age, there is virtually nobody playing this game, ever, barring a few events occassionally, i never really got to experience the game very much, it looked pretty good, a shame nevertheless
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The rise of global fascism is due to one specific swedish game developer" i agree the battlefield 2 spiritual sequels were cracked but i think blaming DICE for Red Orchestra and Insurgency fans is a bit much
neutral · AI labelView post →A very good addition to an old and good game :) Regularly updated is pretty nice too! Been having fun whackin' the waps as the US!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a lot of trouble adding more than 32 bots. I have tried almost everything by searching on forums, watching video tutorials on YouTube, but it was all in vain. Will the configuration file not be able to add bots in 2025?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very enjoyable game with offline mp bots
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need this game in order to play Darkest Hour mod, so you should buy this game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280/Darkest_Hour_Europe_4445/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frustrating weapon mechanics, poor shooting accuracy and unenjoyable gameplay
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its fun, ro2 is probably the better game to play. Not very active
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably not worth it full price, as nobody plays this anymore. But its a cool game.
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