Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

Fair · Shooter · 2006

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews▼
88% of 2,542
Critics
81 players 7 higher
Genre rank
Top 21% Shooter

Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.

Time and effort

To 100%
44h
Achievements
44

Price and sales

Sales
85 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.24 March 2019
Sale every
49d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.49 at Humbleall-time low $0.74 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
5 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
75% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

19% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

85 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hell Let Loose ($49.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm ($19.99, scores 55).

More about Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

5 of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 466 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Cost per hour, est. length~$0.83/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Refunds5 of 370 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Fight in the theatre of war that changed the world forever. Battle alongside your compatriots on some of the most inhospitable environments of the Eastern Front in Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Red Orchestra places you in the most realistic WWII first-person multi-player combat to date on the PC, allowing the player to fight through...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB DX9 Compliant, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).

Cite this score

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Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1200/red-orchestra-ostfront-41-45
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+7
Critics81
Players88
Metacritic critics · 2,542 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTripwire Interactive
PublisherTripwire Interactive
GenreShooter
Released2006
Completionist44h100%, HowLongToBeat
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements44