Posted on: December 15, 2024
Chlopez87
Games: 32 Reviews: 3
A+
Beauty lies within you and daddy's hearts my dear Grandmother.
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Attentat 1942
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Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure told through the eyes of World War 2 survivors. Many moral dilemmas and existential struggles await you on your way to discover the troubled past of your family. Written and made by professional historians.
It's 1942 and Reinhard Heydrich, the ruler of the Nazi occupied Czech lands appointed by Hitler, was assassinated. Nazi retaliation was brutal. Your grandpa was among the victims, sent to a concentration camp.
But why? What role did he play in the attack? Why didn’t he tell his family? Was he brave or reckless?
Immerse yourself in a story about love, friendship and heroism among the horrors of a world conflict. Confront witnesses, experience the everyday life under Nazi rule and uncover the fate of your family in this award-winning game about World War II.
About Us
Charles Games is a Prague-based studio focused on exploring the narrative possibilities of video games with strong emphasis on serious games.
It's 1942 and Reinhard Heydrich, the ruler of the Nazi occupied Czech lands appointed by Hitler, was assassinated. Nazi retaliation was brutal. Your grandpa was among the victims, sent to a concentration camp.
But why? What role did he play in the attack? Why didn’t he tell his family? Was he brave or reckless?
Immerse yourself in a story about love, friendship and heroism among the horrors of a world conflict. Confront witnesses, experience the everyday life under Nazi rule and uncover the fate of your family in this award-winning game about World War II.
- dive into deep-branching dialogues, where your choices matter
- experience history through interactive comics and memories, hide resistance leaflets from the Gestapo or flee from a Nazi prison
- explore rare digitized film footage and historical items
About Us
Charles Games is a Prague-based studio focused on exploring the narrative possibilities of video games with strong emphasis on serious games.
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
This game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, depictions of events relating to World War 2 and Nazi-occupation from the civilian perspective.
Recommended system requirements:
This game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, depictions of events relating to World War 2 and Nazi-occupation from the civilian perspective.
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2.5 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
4.5 h Completionist
3 h All Styles
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RPG Fan
88%
A great historical narrative for a difficult time period.
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8/10
While it fails at being a game, Attentat 1942 succeeds at being an experience. It sacrifices all aspects of player choice and interactivity at the expense of delivering a compelling and interesting story. It can be praised for exploring an aspect and setting of a famous conflict that most games wouldn't touch on.
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70/100
Attentat 1942 provides an insightful history lesson into the events of the Czechoslovakian occupation, while its cinematic interviews prove a crucial gateway into understanding the impact those events had on human life. It doesn't provide the interactivity of Her Story or This War of Mine, but it's pleasing to see the game format being used to educate.
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Posted on: September 7, 2024
rtaylor352
Verified ownerGames: 263 Reviews: 2
No propaganda at all, but a game?
I got this game on sale out of a weird curiosity because I've been on a WW2 kick lately to learn all I can about it. I was wondering if it might be like the strategic "Through The Darkest of Times" game that I enjoyed but it was more like an interactive FMV/ graphic novel. Quick and to the point, you probably won't enjoy this game unless you have a profound interest in WW2 history. And not what happened in battles, but day-to-day life. It's a quick play, I finished in the game in just over two hours, and even with my interest in the genre I never felt hooked on what was going on. The spoken language is all in Czech so you have to follow subtitles. And at times there's a lot of reading involved, like when you find diaries from your grandparents. Interactivity is minimal, some random mini-games interspersed with Q & A interviews with filmed actors. If you really like WW2 history and have a few hours to spend, and find it on sale for < $5, go ahead and grab it. But for the love of god, please change the thumbnail graphic. What game puts someone's sad and forlorn looking grandmother on it as a marketing tool?
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Posted on: December 29, 2023
shylock.596
Verified ownerGames: 756 Reviews: 103
Has A Few Warts But Great Story
Attentat 1942 is certainly a unique game. There are elements of visual novels; puzzle games; adventure games; as well as going from FMV to comic panels and back again. For the most part it really blends nicely. You basically interview people in FMV form and try to piece together info about your grandfather’s past. Sometimes the game will switch to a comic panel form when you are reliving their stories and you will have a variety of tasks to do such as hide items; plan escape routes; choose what to get rid of before the Gestapo come knocking; and more. One thing I didn’t like was that you pretty much have to replay certain interviews to get all of the info. I was hoping that you would only have to if you failed certain parts but overall I don’t see how you can do some of them in one go. You can skip parts so you don’t have to redo the whole thing but I was still mildly annoyed. Also I got the feeling during some of the puzzle parts that you could screw up and still get to proceed. I got this feeling based on some of the text making it sound like you made a poor choice but made out unscathed anyway. If true it makes the choices pointless as there is no negative consequences. The game’s strong suit was the history though. It did a fantastic job of blending fictional characters with real history as well as finding ways to weave facts into the game play. For instance my favourite part was a point where you had to choose what to dispose of in a characters desk as he was worried the Gestapo would be visiting soon. Whether you choose to keep an item or get rid of it the game informs you of whether that item was problematic or not and why. You also earn coins which can be sued to redo interviews but I never could figure out why you earned coins or didn’t nor could I figure out why you earned a certain amount for some things but wildly different amounts for others. Overall I think the coin system could have been removed without any effect.
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Posted on: March 31, 2023
MrElixer
Games: 424 Reviews: 47
Fantastic game if you're a goy.
As goyim it takes a game like this to really move me. Nothing says sad like that old lady.
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