Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Eight chapters take B.J. Blazkowicz through two connected missions in Bavaria, combining first-person firefights, new weapons and pipe-climbing. For a standalone single-player prequel, ≈ $0.85 at GAMIVO is the recorded low for this offer, making it a timely option if this particular Wolfenstein story is what you want to play. At $19.99 from GAMIVO, this standalone single-player prequel offers intense firefights and two connected stories at the offer’s recorded low.

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90%Steam Reviews18.3K reviews76Metacritic/10078OpenCritic/100

Released: May 4, 2015

FPS · Action · World War II · Gore · Alternate History

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01About Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a standalone prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, pairing first-person combat with a story told across eight chapters. As B.J. Blazkowicz, fight through Bavaria in 1946, wield new weapons and use metal pipes to climb walls or take down enemies at close range. Steam players rate the game 90%% positive from 18,261 reviews. Released May 4, 2015. Supported interface languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Russian.

Credits

Composer

Mick Gordon

Developer

MachineGames

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Steam player reviews

90%positiveVery Positive18,261 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$3.592024-10-28 · FanaticalBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
English	Yes	Yes	Yes
French	Yes	Yes	Yes
Italian	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Spanish	Yes	Yes	Yes
Polish	Yes	Yes	—
Russian	Yes	Yes	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-25

02Before you buy

Standalone prequel

This standalone prequel tells its story across eight chapters and two interconnected plots.

Mode and languages

The Steam PC version has single-player and full controller support. English, French, Italian and Spanish have full audio and subtitles; Simplified and Traditional Chinese have subtitles.

03Frequently asked questions

Where does it fit in the series?

It is a standalone prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order.

What is the story about?

In 1946, B.J. Blazkowicz searches Bavaria for the coordinates to General Deathshead’s compound.

What weapons and abilities stand out?

Weapons include a bolt-action rifle, a shotgun and the grenade-launching Kampfpistole. Dual metal pipes can help you climb walls or attack enemies up close.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

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

06/06/2017

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is six hours of a prank getting out of hand. You play as B.J., a man who's last name I can never spell right without looking it up. B.J. and his partner Wesley must sneak into Castle Wolfenstein and steal the documents that contain the location of Deathhead's compound. Unfortunately they didn't bring their lederhosen and steins so their cover was blown right away. B.J. and Wesley are imprisoned by the infamous Rudi Jager, the second in command to Helga Von Schabbs who is the leader of the SS paranormal division. But B.J. escapes with the help of a lead pipe and then once again goes on a rampage while reciting poetry because live journal hasn't been invented yet. Old Blood is a prequel to 'The New Order.' taking place in 1946, so you get to see more of that neat WW2 stuff that you only got a glimpse of during the prologue to the New Order. But because of that it feels kind of limited in what you can see save for a new enemy later on, but basically everything you saw in the prologue of The New Order is what you're going to be running into during Old Blood. Combat has always been Wolfenstein's strong point, for obvious reasons. Although there's an emphasis on stealth with basic but useful sneaking mechanics as well as the return of commanders that can bring in reinforcements with alerted. It sort of gets in the way of the gunplay in Old Fart. There's this weight of aggression and viciousness when fighting the angry men with stylish uniforms, where you have to think cautiously if you want to go on the offensive or stay on defense. But there are so many sequences where they encourage stealth, I just kind of started ignoring stealth just to get in some of that sweet sweet gun play. I suggest playing the game on Uber to get the full experience. It's not really all that hard, but it just forces you to play smarter, going out of your way to ambush and outmaneuver your enemy, it's obvious that you'll get shot more the closer you get, mix that with the damage increase for Uber and you're basically risking getting punched in the face by a very upset Mike Tyson, except his fists are bullets and you are a baby. The game is shorter than the first, I got six hours out of it on the hardest difficulty, but it usually goes on sale. I mean I Stole it from a sleeping man. got it on sale. But if you're going to ask me. “Dirk, you handsome man with no flaws. Which one do I pick between New Order and Old Blood?” I would tell you to get New Order and also thank you for the compliment. It's not a bad game, but you'll get more bang for your buck if you get New Order instead, considering it's basically twice as long as Old Blood is. Hufflepuff: The Old Wizard, gets 7 large Aryan men speaking in poetry out of, I dunno, 8? Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son. The curator: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Dickbuttexperience#curationShow moreShow less

6.1 hours at review699 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

06/17/2017

Horrible optimization for all AMD cards. If you have AMD, don't buy it, period. 20 frames/sec cap. It's the middle of 2017 and the devs still didn't patch it.Show moreShow less

0.4 hours at review55 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

05/05/2015

nein out of tenShow moreShow less

6.5 hours at review699 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/20/2021

New Order was a solid, if flawed, modern reboot of a classic FPS. Old Blood takes all of the flaws of New Order and builds an entire game around them. Want to just shoot some nazis, robots, or nazi robots? No, clearly what you really want is to skulk around in sewers for hours on end and deal with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stealth system for nearly every combat encounter because breaking stealth will cause enemies to spawn endlessly and make the ensuing firefight a borderline impossible nightmare. The story is garbage fluff, somehow all of the characters feel even less real than in the last game, and BJ's war-weary monologues were enough to make his character somewhat poignant for one game. Not two. It is the definition of a cash grab prequel trying desperately to coast on the coattails of its predecessor's success. It has absolutely nothing of value to add, and can't even figure out what made the previous game good in the first place. It is at worst soulless, and at best, completely unremarkable.Show moreShow less

8.3 hours at review47 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

05/05/2015

There's really not much to say here, but there's enough to bother writing a review. Ultimately, if you liked The New Order, you'll probably like this too, because it's basically the same formula, hence being a standalone expansion. If you didn't like The New Order, there's not a lot here to change your mind. If you don't know what Wolfenstein is at all (what are you, some kind of commie?), here's the scoop: You kill Nazis. Lots of Nazis. So many Nazis that there's a point in the game where Roosevelt himself rises from his wheelchair, clad with sciencey robot legs, and goes "Damn, son, that's a lot of Nazis". That doesn't actually happen (or at least I'm assuming it doesn't; if it does then screw Machine Games for stealing my idea before I thought of it, and I'm sorry for the spoilers), I'm just giving Machine Games ideas for the next Wolfenstein. The Roosevelt part, not the Nazis part. You really do kill a lot of Nazis. You can sneak past them, you can gun them all down, nobody really cares as long as you kill them all, and pick up some gold along the way because Nazis are well known for hiding their gold in sewer grates in their prison facilities. So what's the problem, then? That sounds great - how could any red blooded freedom fighter not like it? Well, the only (admittedly minor) issue is ID Tech 5. The thing about ID Tech 5 is that it was a fantastic concept for its time, allowing the underpowered PS3 and 360 to have decent looking textures by streaming them from massive single texture files with the idea that they could have unique textures for everything using that, instead of just repeating textures. For console owners, this meant RAGE was one of the better looking games on those platforms. The problem is, PC owners never had an issue with that, and even at the time of release of RAGE most games had generally better texture quality, because the megatexture approach ultimately means a sacrifice of quantity over quality for the sake of keeping file sizes down (not that it does much, since even this game is a whopping 30+ GB). What this means for The Old Blood is that while the game is perfectly capable of producing beautiful graphics when it's in control of the situation, the moment you start looking around and admiring the scenery you start running into things like this, even on the highest possible settings. http://imgur.com/a/TqWFA Now, these aren't necessarily "bad" textures, they're just underwhelming, and they ultimately completely undermine the purpose of megatextures. The idea is presumably that since everything looks "unique", there's more incentive to look around and admire the scenery due to the added realism. But what's the point if everything you see when you go off the beaten path just looks like it's still using textures that were taken from Doom 3? Nevermind the fact that if you play this game in the stealthy way you inevitably end up spending a lot of time hiding behind walls, giving you plenty of time to notice just how crummy they look (and in the third screenshot with the switchbox, you're frequently forced to stand there in a fixed viewpoint holding the Use key until the door activates, forcing you to look at those textures no matter how you choose to play the game). And despite the fact that the textures are so underwhelming, the game still has pretty bad performance issues, with people with GTX 970s and high-power processors struggling to meet 60 FPS (which the game is capped at, due to engine limits, from what I'm aware of - which is still rather silly since there are plenty of other engines that go well past made both before and after ID Tech 5). I personally manage around 40-60 FPS most of the time on a GTX 970 and an i5 3570k OC'd to 4.4 GHz with the game running at the highest settings (pushed a little further, since for some reason even setting the game to Ultra doesn't fully activate some of the graphical functions), which is passable, but doesn't really seem necessary. Ultimately, the graphics in this game aren't anything that couldn't be done more or less in an engine like Unreal 3 or 4 with double the performance, and ID Tech 5 just seems like a total waste that's only still being used because they don't want to admit what a failure it is. Now that we've entered the PS4 and the Xbone generation, these textures aren't even that spectacular by console standards. I don't know what engine I would recommend instead, but anything but ID Tech 5 would be fine by me. In the end, this isn't a negative review, it's more of a rant. The game is still just as fun as it was in The New Order, and if you have the PC to handle it I would absolutely recommend it. But I really, really hate ID Tech 5 and I want it to die. It was awful in RAGE, it was awful in The Evil Within, it was awful in The New Order, and now it's still awful in The Old Blood.Show moreShow less

11.9 hours at review344 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

09/30/2015

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is an adventure FPS game, developed by MachineGames, and then published by Bethesda. This game was released in early 2015 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. It was released as a standalone expansion pack for Wolfenstein: The New Order, which was released in 2014. You play the role of a war veteran by the name of Blazkowicz, also known as B.J. The game play has almost no changes from the New Order. You play through the game in the first person perspective, as you navigate through levels of Nazi bases, compounds and castles. As with The New Order, you have a health monitor, and armour monitors. You are able to increase these beyond their "Maximum" capacity by going into "Overload" mode, by collecting armour scraps and health packs which are scattered around all of the levels. The Old Blood includes all of the weapons found in the first game, and the return of your trusty pipe. I really enjoyed that this game allows you to take a stealthy approach to a few of the levels if you so desired to; although that's not usually the Wolfenstein way. The badass mechanic of being able to dual wield certain weapons makes a return too, I just love carrying around two assault rifles, there is literally nothing more daunting than that for an enemy I can imagine. Also as with the New Order, as you progress through the game you will unlock perks as rewards for completing certain challenges, for instance one of the challenges requires you to kill a specific amount of enemies with your assault rifle, once you do, you are rewarded with being able to carry more ammunition for the weapon, I find this to be a really interesting way of being able to upgrade your character without leaving the player to have to do it themselves - and also encourages the player to maybe change their play style a little bit too. The graphics in The Old Blood are identical to The New Order, it's made in the same engine, and the realistic graphics are stunning, sadly though, we still have the same problems with texture poppins. All of the enemy soldiers are really nicely designed; the lighting is perfect throughout the whole game. The story is a prequel to The New Order, you are sent on a mission to infiltrate Castle Wolfenstein to obtain a document which has the location of General Wilhelm in it. You meet some intriguing characters along the way; one of my favorites would have to be the German brute, Rudi. This game sets up The New Order if you want to play them chronologically, but really I still felt the full effect of the story playing them in the order that they were released. There is also an element of decision making in some of the scenes too; the games gives you choices as to who lives and who survives as you progress further - something which a lot of FPS games miss. The Old Blood is fully voice acted with the same actors as the original game; you cannot fault any of it, it's just very well done. It was a little bit of a shame when doing a stealth mission that enemy guards don't really pay any attention to any noise you make when moving around though. I found the game to be pretty easy when playing on the medium settings; the hardest level I found to get past, would have to be level one, there is a huge amount of stealth involved, and you have to time everything perfectly or else you just get wrecked. I was quite surprised that they started out on such a high difficulty, but once you get past that level, there isn't any real tough parts to the game, the gun play is simple to get a hang of, and you'll be slaughtering Nazi’s with ease by the last levels. However, there are options to ramp up the difficulty to absurd amounts, something which people may want to try out if they are FPS veterans. All of the levels in The Old Blood have various ways of traversing and progressing throughout. There are also a large amount of collectibles to find, and plenty of documents, letters, and other little bits of interactive items to discover which adds another level of story and lore to the game. I was also happy to see a couple of Easter eggs included in the game too. You are able to explore pretty much everywhere on most levels, and there is reason to, whether it be for the above mentioned collectables, extra ammo or health packs (because you WILL need them). Wolfenstein: The Old Blood only took me just under four hours to complete; granted this is a standalone expansion; and isn't actually priced as a full release title, I was still a little unhappy that it was only four hours long. However, there is a lot of replay ability in the fact that you can ramp up the difficulty; and you may even just want to start the game on a higher difficulty since you can always drop it down should you start hitting a brick wall - that may well get you another few hours out of it; and also if you start hunting for the achievements and collectables, you may be able to get around ten hours of content from this game. I had no major technical problems, but even my rig was not able to churn out this game on full settings on a 4k resolution. I dropped it down to 1080 and stuck the settings on full and was able to get a steady 60 FPS most of the time. There were moments where it dropped to around 50 fps in some scenes, however this is to be expected with the quality of graphics and how much it had to render such as water/underwater scenes. There are a few guides online as to how configure the settings to get the best graphical display in comparison with performance which you should check out, since this game is a demanding one on your rigs. To sum up, I had a lot of fun whilst playing The Old Blood; it does a lot of things right, much like The New Order and I really cannot wait to see what this series has next. The only downside I feel was the length of the story, so if you can pick this game up on sale, you have a real must buy, however I am still going to recommend it because it is just more of the same good stuff from the previous game. FPS fans should not miss out on this series reboot. Tom's Score Card 1) Stay away 2) Only recommended when on sale 3) Recommended 4) Highly recommended 5) This is a must play If you found this review helpful, please consider giving it a thumbs up. 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3.8 hours at review279 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

12/17/2017

Stealth sections, man. The Old Blood pays homage to the truly old-school, pre-3D Wolfensteins in its early prison escape portions, and I can see why they wanted to have that, to try and make you feel like a badass who gets out on only your wits and makeshift tools. But... It's not very good. There aren't any interesting tricks to it, to be frank, you just watch enemy patterns and timing, then go through the trial and error of hoping you got it right. And there's error. A lot of it. And that's too bad, because the longer The Old Blood goes on, the better it gets. By the end, I was having a ball with cutting my way through enemies and dual-wielding to cut down NAME OF ENEMY REMOVED FOR SPOILERS. But that was after a long progression where the enemy throws hordes of enemies at you, each one capable of crippling you in an instant, and reloading and returning to the fray over and over. So it's a long slog to get to that point. And the plot is- well, it's standard Nazi occultism nonsense. Though well-presented, acted, and thought out, the actual setting of superNazi Germany just isn't as interesting as The New Order. The Old Blood relies on stealth much more than its forebear, which is too bad, because that was easily the weakest part. And it's not like you get a toybox. But by the end, you're down to fun run and gun, and it all feels like it was worth it... but getting to that point is a tough slog. The arsenal and enemies are only really slightly adjusted from The New Order as well, so the running and gunning still relies on you using cover and luring AI enemies into hallways of death, and then walking over the dully gunned down mountain of corpses. It's a tough call - do I recommend this game despite the first third being weak and frustrating, given that the final third is a delight? Well, there are a lot of good shooters out there, and I don't have to compromise as a result. If you really liked The New Order, go back and play this. If you really like shooters in general and have exhausted all the better ones, go back and play this. But it wouldn't be high on my recommendations. I wouldn't say it's a waste of one's time to play by far, but it's a lot of really rough gameplay in an appealing but unchallenging wrapper. So I just can't recommend it. I wouldn't necessarily tell people not to play it, but there's just a lot of better gun games out there. Finished the game on "I Am Death Incarnate!" (Hard) and got what collectibles I could. Finished a number of the "Classic Wolfenstein" bonus stages but boy, are those a bunch of boring slogs. Sorry, Wolfenstein 3D, you were great, you just haven't aged well.Show moreShow less

11.4 hours at review34 people found this helpful

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