Attentat 1942

It is a good first step in the direction of joining games, art, history and education. But I hope more polished and smoother steps will follow.

I really like the game with it's FMV and in the way that you interview people from the time to understand the story more, but progression feels strange. I got stuck and the only choice is to replay the interviews.

This was highly informative, historically accurate and a great piece of labor overall. I found myself completely losing track of time and getting immersed into this little game, caring very much about all characters and wanting to know everything about them. It's a good thing that mini games and interviews can be repeated as it's easy to miss certain things on the first attempt. Anyway loved it and hope to see more games like this in the future!

Very good game. Not much else to say. Can be completed in an afternoon. Runs great on Steam Deck.

I bought this game in discount, it was $14 MXN in august, but I waited till I got a new gaming laptop to try it.
It was kinda funny that a historical and interview game was the welcomer, but I dont regret on anything.
Even tho it could be seen as a graphic novel and minigames, its more than that: the interviews are realistic to the point the characters story telling feels extremely real, seeing the live expressions of each one as you make them questions is great, to the point I reflect a lot when I finally finished it; its a journey to the events of Heydrich attentat and how you investigate your grandfather's story.
I want to poin out that you need to be really meticulous in what you ask or either way you wont get all of the info you need, even if repeating the interview you wont know all you need to know.
The jumps between the character's faces, the historical footage and the in-game art/mini comics makes this even better, feeling it vivid and realistic to a point you feel another one of the characters.
Its worth your time, to explore and learn about one of the many stories about the ww2, and how this one story collects a great amount of other side stories of lots of people.
10/10 of a game, will try others of Charles Games definetly.

Good first game by Developer Charles Games (at least on Steam), which seems to be a group of people who came together in a Czech University.
A FMV interactive Movie educational history game about a (fictional) Biography about your grandma and grandpa's fate in the German WW2 occupation of the Czech Republic after the Munich Pact.
Not less or more content than in other FMV titles, I bought it together with their other FMV title "Svoboda 1945: Liberation" in a discounted bundle, well worth the sale price for this game's experience alone, haven't even played the other one yet and am already satisfied & it has a good Soundtrack, too.
Will probably take you around 4–6 hours to complete the whole story, maybe a little more if you have to replay some of the interviews to get all the (linear) achievements or even have to completely start over if you run out of Coins (minigame currency; you can replay them to get all of it, which can become tedious however) .
I liked this game even better than Beecarbonize, which is a simulation card game about climate change funded by the EU by the same studio and was also good (and is free, so try it out).
The Biggest Con is original language only available in Czech, not English, German etc. however, there are English and other subtitles and the sound fits the game and setting well, even if you can't understand it.
Also, sometimes you have to click on the speech bubbles to advance, so you have to read the subtitles anyway which kind of mitigates this.
I liked the beginning and mid game, but think the ending and outro had more potential.
All in all I really liked this game though and can recommend it, I'm looking forward to playing Svoboda 1945: Liberation and their other games I haven't played yet.
P.S. If you liked Attentat 1942, maybe also try Svoboda 1945: Liberation on Steam and Train to Sachsenhausen - which is a history-based game that relates to the dramatic events tied to the closing of Czech universities in November 1939 - for free on PC from the Developer's Website or on Google Play / IOS for mobile.

An interesting combination of FMV and mini-games, detailing a lesser-known scenario from World War II that took place in Czechoslovakia, through the lens of a fictionalized investigation. It's light on gameplay, but offers a fascinating story that's well put together. The minimal gameplay and lack of replayability is probably going to be a turnoff for some and that's fair, but I think this does a very good job at presenting a part of World War II that many people don't know about. I do wish that the videos were encoded at a higher bitrate as they are nicely shot and often artifact badly, though this has been improved in the follow-up game Svoboda: 1945 Liberation.