Quick I need you guys to recommend games where you play as a commie and you get to kill Nazis
Quick I need you guys to recommend games where you play as a commie and you get to kill Nazis
There has at be at least one
Outside
GMs are a bitch and a half though
Skill issue
I tried outside once but the sun burnt me so I got scared and went home
Well of course, you're an Owl. Try night time.
Tonight We Riot
It's a very short arcade game, but the devs are comrades and should be supported.
I played it a tiny bit but my little rioter buddies got killed and it made me sad
Need to git gud at organizing so you can keep your comrades safe
Better to die for a better future than live for the profits of the rich, if you are given just those two choices (of course living for a better future is always preferred where possible, which it usually is).
Partisans 1941. It's a stealth real time tactical game that takes place behind German lines in the USSR during Operation Barbarossa. You play as the Soviets, obviously.
There's resource management and RPG elements, story is so far so good. I stopped playing because there's a new path of exile season lol.
Its so good. My game is fucked tho, my screen flickers and has the worst graphical glitches i've ever seen if I open the menu during a mission. I am glad I beat the game before this started
Are we including Tabletop games? Because The Hammer and The Stake is an rpg about fighting literal capitalist vampires in 1920s Hungary
Thank you for this, it's going straight into my to-run list
Hearts of Iron 4
If you're going for pure volume, this is the one
I love when I'm able to turn the tide of the war by just being commie czechoslovakia and sitting in my fortress killing millions of germans and allowing the soviets to take berlin in 41 easy.
Red Alert
Red Faction Guerilla, though I guess you're mostly killing Neolibs being imperialist.
Wolfenstein of course. I actually like the 2000s reboot where you killed occult Nazis.
The Saboteur as others have said is great. Irish bombmaker killing Nazis. It's impossible to describe how fun that game is. You run around with a beautiful British spy in fast 1940s cars and your hideout is literally the Moulin Rouge. As you "liberate" districts they turn coloured. It ain't accurate but you can justify it as turning parts of Paris into "no-go" zones for the Nazis.
Ambition: A minuet in power, is a semi visual novel that lets you play as a young woman adrift in Paris intrigue in the 1790s, and lets you take down the king and hook up with Saint-Just as a romance option.
Just cause lets you take down the fash, though it's mostly cold war fash.
There's an old Hex game I recall that takes place in the Russian Civil War, in case you want to kill black hundreds instead of standard Nazis.
Victoria 3 lets you do communist revolutions, and if you're doing world conquering, you'll undoubtedly fight a bunch of literal fascist countries.
Though I mean, the Paradox game doing the most literal playing as Soviets and killing Nazis would be Hearts of Iron.
You need to give The Saboteur a play. One of the forgotten games that personally I thought was great but sold like crap.
I loved my pirated copy of this when it came out
Cod 2 soviet campaign
Not cod 1 or cod 5
Hammer & Sickle is a relatively obscure Russian turn-based tactics game, sort of a quasi-sequel to Silent Storm, which is somewhat better known.
It's 1949, you're a Soviet agent infiltrating into the Allied Occupation Zone and stumbling onto a neo-fascist plot to do a bunch of false-flag attacks and start WW3. It's pretty cool, but kind of janky and obtuse, and needs a bunch of mods to even run on a modern operating system.
There's an Easter egg in the Silent Storm games: the trashcans look like they have American flags in them.
Men of War
Red Faction Guerilla
Red Orchestra and its sequel
Rising storm 2 vietnam you play as either the NLF or PAVN and set up punjee sticks for unsuspecting yanks.
I still remember the time I was playing with the NLF, I grabbed the grenade launcher of a dead yankee and shoot it to an helicopter that was taking off.
Such a cool game. The community... not so much.
Specifically the second and fourth games in the series: Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm 2
Call of Duty: World at War
Though, unfortunately it's only half the game
The other half is fighting the Japanese in the Pacific theater
I honestly can't think of anything else off the top of my head
Reznov is the absolute coolest character they ever had in that series.
You'll unfortunately have to put up with unending amerikkkan exceptionalism and the weird bits of nazi humanization and the soviets being painted as brutal savages for some reason.
I think you can do it in Dwarf Fortress, kind of
You can beat the tar out of Measurehead as a communard in Disco Elysium
Same in Rimworld, though it requires mods. Still, very fun to redistribute the means of respiration (among others) to our people.
Did a anarcho communist vampire run last month. It was very fun.
Command and Conquer: Red Alert.
I sometimes play ARMA3 with a group that portrays various eastern bloc forces in cold war scenarios against burderland and it's cronies.
Call of Duty 2
Partisans 1941, real time tactics game about german invasion of the ussr.
Minecraft?
caves of qud
Merits a double post: Hunting Yankee, from our friends in the DPRK. Can't get any more on-the-nose than that.
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It was very satisfying to roundhouse kick that nazi mfer
Funny how DE does a great job of showing how RPGs can go beyond combat for roleplaying, but at the same time the few instances where you can do violence are pretty satisfying.
DE lategame
Wish there was some way I could absolutely fuck up the mercs in the tribunal
Steel Division 2 is an RTS on a large scale level with combined arms mechanics and some deckbuilding, just only play Soviet divisions and enjoy the Nazi fragging.
TERFENSTEIN 3D
i completed that game a while back. unfortunately the game is very flawed imo:
- you must beat the game in one seating as the dev didn't bother to implement a save/load feature.
then again it took me 30 minutes to an hour to beat it so justified? idk - 99.9% of the health pickups found in the game heal you by only a measly 1 HP. there's only like, 2 health pickups i've found throughout the game that heals you more than that.
- later levels rely greatly on just fucking zerg rushing the player. you'll be forced to huddle in rooms and lure enemies so you don't end up dying.
- the enemies (terfs obv) speak some other language than english. disappointing, since i figured the birthplace of the english language wholly embraced the terf ideology, thus making a perfect setting.
- the ending felt disappointing imo. you exit the concentration camp and... it just ends. nothing like the "YEAH!" scene from wolf3d. hell, no post-game story dialogue either. it just goes back to the main menu.
- you must beat the game in one seating as the dev didn't bother to implement a save/load feature.
I enjoyed Blade of Agony recently
Silent Storm! An X-COM like game from early 2000.
You can personalize your own commando, recluit from all the allied nations and wreak havoc over the nazis with an incredible enviromental destruction system (for the time).
incredible enviromental destruction system (for the time)
I's honestly still pretty incredible, even today - it occasionally overpowers the game's engine when you blow up an entire building and have to wait like a minute for the game to recover (and running it on a modern system doesn't help, I assume it's single-threaded like a lot of older games, so modern CPUs in practice don't provide any extra power for it), but it's still very impressive.
I wish we lived in the timeline where simulationist stuff like this was further developed instead of everyone focusing on graphics fidelity, and Silent Storm and Red Faction: Guerilla were early examples that have since been surpassed, but unfortunately, they kind of are still the top-of-the-line, even after all these years... there's Teardown, I guess, but I don't know of many other modern games to have particularly extensive destruction.
Didn't know that it was that demanding!
And yes, you are right is still very impressive. From the technical to the gameplay perspective.
And Guerilla is another gem. Loved to bring down everything on the map. Let's hope that environmental destruction makes a comeback.
