Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
For a player drawn to tactical Stalingrad combat, careful weapon handling, cover and tank crews, the recorded low makes this a fitting moment to try the game. At Kinguin, ≈ $1.61 is the site's tracked low for this offer, and the mix of multiplayer battles and solo modes gives you more than one way to engage with its WWII setting.At $19.99 from Kinguin, this is a timely entry into its tactical Stalingrad battles at the site's recorded low.
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93%Steam Reviews24.9K reviews
Released: Sep 13, 2011
World War II · Realistic · FPS · Multiplayer · Wargame
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01About Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm puts you in the Battle of Stalingrad, where German and Soviet forces clash in tactical combat. Fight from first-person cover, handle detailed WWII weapons, and crew tanks across battles ranging from quick firefights to demanding multiplayer modes such as Countdown and Territory.Player rating: 93%% positive from 24,899 reviews.The Steam PC version lists single-player and multiplayer.
Credits
Composer
Sam Hulick
Developer
Tripwire Interactive
Publisher
Tripwire Interactive
Steam player reviews
93%positiveVery Positive24,899 Steam reviews
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$2.992025-08-07 · HHumble StoreBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.
Language support
Language
Interface
Subtitles
Audio
English
Yes
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Yes
French
Yes
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German
Yes
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Yes
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Russian
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Polish
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Play modes
The Steam PC version lists both multiplayer and single-player, as well as co-op support.
Language
English and Russian have full audio. Listed interface languages are English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
03Frequently asked questions
What conflict does the game cover?
It focuses on the Battle of Stalingrad and surrounding operations from July 1942 to February 1943.
Which multiplayer modes are included?
Multiplayer modes include Firefight, Countdown and Territory; Countdown uses a single-life format.
Is Rising Storm included?
The description says purchases through this Steam page contain all Rising Storm multiplayer content.
Popular Steam reviews
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Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
You spend the majority of your time sitting in a disgusting ditch filled with the shattered corpses of your fallen comrades, as well as those still unfortunate to be "alive", if you can even use that term to describe what is left of those wretches. As you crawl through soggy trenches, you can hear the shouts of orders being given and soldiers being slain, either blown to torn meat by mortar explosions or cut in half from machine gun fire. You are not a man, you are a frightened rabbit that dashes from cover to cover, whispering wishes of survival for but a few more seconds while pieces of concrete are chipped away around you by enemy sharp shooters. In the worst of times, you are a worm that crawls in the mud, lest a rifleman spots your shape in the distance. There is no salvation from a tank. Death can come from nowhere at all.
Stay away fom windows.
Also, you can't drop more than five feet without breaking a leg. It's fine though, since your small pack of two bandages offers you a second chance at life. Try not too die to quickly, and remember to check your magazine. You can also modify your sights and give out commands. There are a variety of classes to choose from. Choose wisely, and don't be afraid to loot corpses; they don't need anything anymore anyway.
Stay away from windows.
There is also a morale system, where you slowly lose your mind if you are under a barrage of enemy rounds, or if you see an ally get half of their face blown off and fall to the ground screaming in agony for a good minute or so before bleeding out. The result is blurred and discolored sight. I think I got this when I saw a guy get his legs shot off and watched him crawl about an inch away from cover before getting taken out by a sniper.
Stay away from windows.
In all seriousness, this game has a great deal of work put into detail and animations, but there remain some optimization issues. They're not bad, and a someone with an excellent PC might never even notice them.
Rising Storm and Red Orchestra 2 have different dynamics, although the mechanics are exactly the same, if that makes any sense.
If there is one thing I have to ABSOLUTELY give this game credit for, is that it has a personality. A very grim personality, but it's better than the typical "♥♥♥♥ yeah" jingoism many games go for.
There is nothing more satisfying than watching an enemy tank blow to bits.
The singleplayer is good practice, but the AI is really ditzy. The soldiers do not show a lot of initiative and tanks commanders seem to forget that tanks can't climb walls.
Also, about the window thing: I was waiting for my squad to move up and about seven of them decided march right in front of a window in a factory. A machine gunner across the chasm opened up on them and killed them all. It was really unpleasant to watch them panic and stumble and run into each other while being shot to pieces.Show moreShow less
7.6 hours at review942 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Love the game and have since the original RO. On the newest update there was an updated terms of service. This service says that in order to now even use the game, you have to accept the terms. This new term I have a problem with though, is that they now reserve the right to install essentially adware onto your computer to be able to in-game target you for ads. This changes the game from something I paid for, which now in the modern digital market means it was a "premium(therefore no ads)" game, and turned it into a "non-premium" game that now can feature ads and take my info. So if possible, I want my money back because RO2 is no longer the game I paid for, as I can't play it without accepting the new terms. and giving away my info.Show moreShow less
260 hours at review787 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
TItle is misleading, there are no instruments you can play at all.
Instead I got PTSD.Show moreShow less
2 hours at review822 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Great Game, Not So Great Anti-Cheat Software.
"PunkBuster Review"
A section of the EULA of PunkBuster on March 19, 2015.
"Licensee acknowledges that use of PunkBuster software may be required for playing games that integrate PunkBuster software technology and that Licensor has no control over any such requirements. Licensee also acknowledges and agrees that PunkBuster software is self-updating, which means that future updates will, from time to time and without any notice, automatically be downloaded and installed as a normal and expected function of PunkBuster software.
Licensee further acknowledges and accepts that PunkBuster software may be considered invasive. Licensee understands that
PunkBuster software inspects and reports information about the computer on which it is installed to other connected computers and Licensee agrees to allow PunkBuster software to inspect and report such information about the computer on which Licensee installs PunkBuster software. Licensee understands and agrees that the information that may be inspected and reported by PunkBuster software includes, but is not limited to, Licensee's Internet Protocol Address, devices and any files residing on the hard-drive and in the memory of the computer on which PunkBuster software is installed. Licensee acknowledges and agrees that if Licensee does not want Licensor to collect and process such information, Licensee should not use the PunkBuster software. Further,
Licensee consents to allow PunkBuster software to transfer actual screenshots taken of Licensee's computer during the operation of PunkBuster software for possible publication. Licensee understands that the purpose and goal of PunkBuster is to ensure a cheat-free environment for all participants in online games.
Licensee agrees that the invasive nature of PunkBuster software is necessary to meet this purpose and goal.
Licensee agrees that any harm or lack of privacy resulting from the installation and use of PunkBuster software is not as valuable to Licensee as the potential ability to play interactive online games with the benefits afforded by using PunkBuster software."
Oddly enough there's no mention of this on the store page, not even a link to the EULA of PunkBuster.
Official Site of PunkBusterShow moreShow less
206.5 hours at review206 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Red Orchestra 2 is pretty cool, I guess. I mean, if you like having post traumatic stress disorder.
RO2:RS:MTV, is the sequel to Red Orchestra, which in turn is a sequel to an Unreal tournament 2004 mod called Red Orchestra, which in turn is a prequel to Battlefield: bad company 2: Vietnam.
The game takes place during WW2, a time in history when it was okay to wear a fedora, and it was only this time, so cut it out. Red Orchestra 2 focuses heavily on multiplayer, which is bad for me because that means I have to talk to people, which is bad for them because they can't understand meth induced slurring. Even with its multiplayer focus, the game manages to carry a narrative, and that narrative is "We should probably stop having these wars, guys."
The game takes no liberties with the horrors that are war, screams of pain are constant, cries for mercy will haunt you, and realism mode is so immersive you can smell the vodka off Gregor's breath.
For Christ sakes Gregor, brush your teeth you crazy Ivan.
The game is not about ideologies, you won't be getting a Medal of Honor type story about how country A saved the world from country B. The game is about soldiers, the men who fought and died in the worlds biggest game of finger points. Bang Bang.
None of the four factions involved are idolized or demonized. The game also has nation specific voices, so Germans speak German, Russians speak Russian, Americans speak American, and the Japanese speak in some language I've never heard of. Though I managed to pick up on some of their phrases. Like "Tuskete" means "Help me." and "Banzai" means "Put on some 3D glasses, because I'm coming right at you."
But that aside, with all the blood and carnage and butt stabbing. Is the game fun to play? I would say yes.
It's an acquired taste, like beer or semen. It makes no efforts into easing in the casual crowed, or as I like to call them: the weak.
It demands that you learn how to play it, it demands that you work together with your new virtual cartoon pals, and it demands that you learn how to use the rod that makes bullets magically appear to kill the people you're pointing at. I call them bang sticks.
There is also a multiplayer campaign mode, which is probably the coolest idea a multiplayer game has had since Chromehounds, or Mech assault, or Armored Core. I would like more robots in my games please, but I digress. Players join a server and choose a side, this will be your side unless you're a filthy traitor and go turn coat. It adds a fictional narrative to a game about a real war, like American Marines defending Iwo Jima from a massive Japanese counter attack, or Russians once again fighting in Stalingrad against Super Hitler and his army of Nazi Zombies.
Somebody should a game about that, that sounds pretty cool, but I don't think Nazi Zombies™ would catch on.
Should you play Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad: Rising Storm: Flags of our Fathers: Gods and Generals: The Reckoning: Army of the Dead: Escape from LA: The Simpsons Movie?
I give it two thumbs up, It's a familiar formula while feeling completely different. It will turn off the more casual video game players, but who needs them anyway? This game is for manly men, like me, just me really.
I give it 2 Vietnam war flash backs, out of 2. The plastic nubs on the end of shoe laces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
Oh yeah, and I got one of those Curator things now.
I update it from time to time, and when I do I usually regret updating it, but here you go.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dickbuttexperience#curationShow moreShow less
23 hours at review538 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Careful every body they are selling this and not mentioning that the entire single player mode (the entire game basically ) is missing and is not availble even from the publisher who refuse to release it.
you are buying only a multiplayer server game nothing else.
very dishonest of them but hey its steam after all
good game thoughShow moreShow less
1 hours at review145 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Spent twenty minutes in a ditch with twenty other guys while being suppressed by machine guns and snipers. Commander ordered us to charge and played the Beegees through his mic. Got to shoot nazis while listening to disco. Disco Commander got banned from the server shortly after. NeverForget/10Show moreShow less
34.2 hours at review510 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Its a dead game, but if you were one of the lucky ones that played it during its peak, you know there will never be anything quite like it, at least not for the foreseeable futureShow moreShow less
348.3 hours at review100 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Starting the game for the first time, join a random server and pick russians. Me and 2 teammates charge through the battlefield. We get pinned down by a german machine gunner and decide to turn back. The moment we start running back we get killed by a friendly machine gunner. Didn't think this game was THIS realistic.
10/10 for realismShow moreShow less
4.2 hours at review501 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
i loved the game when it had 1000+ players and played different maps, now its populated with the same people playing the same maps over and over again making the game no longer fun and never playing the pacific campaign.
i would give it a thumbs up, but the playerbase's choice of sameness kills the game for me. and yes, playerbases can ruin a good game
RIP red orchestra 2011-2020
10/26/2022
update:
at around 5PM, i wanted to play one or two games and immediately saw that the highest player count in a server is 25 max and the rest is less than 10. the game is dead now.Show moreShow less
230.5 hours at review68 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
