
- 65/100
- Players10 ratings
- 81/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic27 critic reviews
- 74/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 71/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 2.81/5
- Player reviews
- 82% positive7,562 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$29.99
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2020 · Alter Games · Indie · Real-time tactics
Partisans 1941
Partisans is a real-time tactical strategy with non-linear type of storytelling. This game is about soviet partisans and their activity during World war II. It’s focused on harsh reality in those times, when many people became reluctant heroes, and every feat required its price, and sometimes this price was extremely high.
- Released
- 14 October 2020
- Platforms
- LinuxWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- IndieReal-time tacticsStrategySurvivalTacticalTactical role-playingWorld War II
- Developers
- Alter Games
- Publishers
- Daedalic Entertainment
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionHistoricalStealthWarfare
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Country
- Russia
- Age ratings
- GRAC 15+
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain) and 1 more
- Time to beat
- 17hmain story25hcompletionist
About
Partisans 1941 (Russian: Партизаны 1941) is a real-time tactics video game developed by Alter Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment in 2020. Players control Soviet partisans fighting against invading German troops during World War II.
Players say
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game has many similarities to Commandos 2. Players control a group of Soviet partisans during Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. The enemy soldiers have cones of vision that the partisans must stay out of to maintain stealth. The partisans are equipped with tools for distraction and silent killing alongside more conventional and louder weapons.
In contrast to Commandos 2, this game features a resource management sub-game. The partisans don't start off fully equipped and have to scavenge weapons from their enemies. More partisans can be unlocked, each of whom has specialties.
Development
It was developed in Russia. Daedalic Entertainment released it on October 14, 2020. Alter Games released paid DLC in April 2021 that adds seven missions that are separate from the campaign and a horde mode where players attempt to survive against waves of attacking Nazi soldiers.
Reception
Partisans 1941 received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 62% of critics. PC Gamer enjoyed how the stealth elements were important but not so much that they turned it into a puzzle game that is instantly lost as soon as the partisans are detected, which they called "a winning formula". Comparing it to Desperados III, Rock Paper Shotgun said it is less flashy but is immersive, has an interesting setting, and includes fun management elements.
Wargamer praised the combat and said it "offers a great, if simple, stealth experience". They were less enthused about the story and said some maps were not as well designed as the XCOM or Company of Heroes games.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Downloadable content
- Partisans 1941: Back Into Battle
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