Attentat 1942

Attentat 1942

Fair · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $10.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 3.9h to 100%
Value
$4.40/hr
Reviews
93% of 508 positive
It needs 6% off ($10.38) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.38 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.40/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 329 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

Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, HD Graphics 4000 or better, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 74 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 64 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STASIS: BONE TOTEM ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats This Bed We Made ($24.99, scores 54).

More about Attentat 1942

The press gave it 76; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 329 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

54% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 10:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This project about the Czech experience in WW2 manages to combine historical documentation with personal narratives and enough interaction to still feel like a game. The story is uses fictional characters but is based on real experiences. The voice acting is skillful and not overly dramatic. I was not expecting to be drawn in as much as I was, but uncovering the mystery and hearing the personal stories was very...
Fennec FoxRecommendedafter 2.5hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Gameplay options - for FMV game this is, you could say, creative, but still - be aware that this is FMV. Limits of genre dictates a lot in here. Story - you don't want to play this without some mental preparations - actors very believable and story, if it's not familiar, easily will not let you "in peace" afterwards. Maybe, after good ending. I felt really good after getting good ending. It's a solid short game with...
kwestRecommendedafter 3.0h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
+ Good representation of an awful time in history. + Encyclopedia with lots of information. Horrible information that everyone needs to read. + Cutscenes are cool. + Jakub Hein. - Would have been good to be able to interact further with some items, like photo albums, listen to music records etc. - Coin system is annoying and superfluous. - Gameplay elements like these minigames are not fun. They are also not...
Slippin TimmyRecommendedafter 9.3hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Attentat 1942 scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/676630/attentat-1942
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics76
Players93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 508 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCharles Games
PublisherCharles Games
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17