Partisans 1941
A new approach to the stealth tactics genre: Partisans 1941 combines stealth, action, resource management and base-building elements.
Take control of a group of Partisans resisting the German occupation Eastern Front during World War II.
Plan and initiate combat your way. Use tactical pause, study the environment and choose the best position to set up an ambush.
Build up your resistance camp hidden deep in the woods and find allies to join your cause. Form squads of unique Partisans and undertake diverse missions to undermine enemy forces and infrastructure, while securing resources desperately needed to sustain the resistance.
Experience a dramatic and unique chapter of World War II and become a Red Army commander behind enemy lines.
Features
Fresh approach to the stealth tactics genre. A new way to play real time tactics – mix of combat, stealth, ambushes and a variety of special items to bring chaos to the enemy ranks. Choose your own way of completing each mission.
Lead a squad of Partisans. Build a squad of your choice and level up your Partisans. Use your character’s strengths to find the right solution to different situations. Find and recruit new resistance members.
Experience the life of a resistance group. In between missions you witness the routine of a Partisan’s life – develop your base, prepare for the next assignments, ensure you have the resources for the Partisan’s survival. Keep your troops motivated.
Game Discussion
Steam User 31
Its a good Commandos-like game. Fun story is nice enough and the game play is fun. Its nice to kill Nazis.
Steam User 13
Partisans 1941 is an underrated gem for real-time tactics lovers.
Engaging story, great characters (each with unique abilities), and plenty of ways to approach missions — whether you love going full stealth or guns blazing. I personally went for stealth: quick kills, knives, and lots of mines. Super satisfying.
You'll need to think before acting — enemy patrols are sharp. Planning is everything.
I’d recommend it even to those new to the genre — it’s accessible, but still offers a solid challenge.
Minor bugs here and there, but nothing game-breaking.
Pro tip: save a lot, especially before risky moves. You’ll thank me later.
Only downside? No Italian translation after 5 years. I’m Italian and I can manage English, but it’s a shame others might miss out for such a simple reason.
Definitely a 9/10: would sneak through the forest and knife a Nazi again ;)
Steam User 12
It's a very good game for a Commandos nostalgic but I think some of the characters' special abilities aren't making any difference in game.
For eg: why are you having a sniper in your team but you can't use it in the most of the missions because you're suppose to go completely silent?
Other thing is that you can't see what is all about the mission ahead in order to chose your adequate squad members according to the mission's scope. I mean you're suppose to scout the territory before lunching a mission and then take specific people with you that are most suitable for the mission's demands. Many times I ended picking characters that I use them as carriers for supplies and actively play the mission with only 1 or 2 of the squad.
Overall the game was fun to play but by the half of it, it became a little bit boring to play and I couldn't wait to finish it faster. Definitely didn't sparkle my interest to start over in a different difficulty mode
Steam User 7
Great game. Unique Characters. Got on sale 85% off, and it's well worth $5 I spent.
Story progression goes great, until about the final 3-4 missions, where you are stuck with only using 3 characters.
Build up all game is getting this group together, then final missions you can only use 3 of the 8 unique units you get through the game. Very poor thought process to this.
The camp building is lack luster over time, as it doesn't really add to value, I liked that it was basic, but eventually the XP from random off missions was too minor to level up Alternate characters, and even the main characters you pick didnt get much XP from the missions.
Missions that would level up alts, and make them potentially useful through the campaign would have been the right way to go.
Overall great game. Plan replaying it if you want unique experiences with different characters.
After Campaign, you get a Missions mode, which is nice. You get to try all the characters and build them out a bit for those missions.
Steam User 7
Overall it's a fine game but I can't give it more than a 7/10
Good:
- It's fun' challenging but fun.
- You'll really have to use your brain, good
- You can approach things in many way
Bad:
- Stuffs' a bit janky
- UI and UX is a bit lackluster
- Despite its many keybinds, you can only configure like a half of them (you also don't know the other unconfigurable half, making keybinding conflict a certainty)
- Enviromental inconsistency. Some paths that seem traversible, and some fence that seem climbable aren't.
- Please add a skip dialogue option, you can only watch or skip the whole thing.
- Something's weird with save and load option when it come to enemies' positions.
- Randomness in camp operation is just annoying, it just encourage save scumming.
- Character's pathfinding are a bit weird. They seem to try to reach the designated position via the most dangerous pathway.
Steam User 14
Nazis are here to kill you so instead of trying to "debate them in the marketplace of ideas", you get to kill them.
Nazis don't care about facts, bullets don't care about their feelings.
Steam User 4
This is not exactly Commandos or Desperados, it just reminds me a lot of them. But the combat is little bit different. You cannot pause the game to plan the actions, just slow down time. More focus is on shooting, although you can get very far, just by stealthing through the levels. It was still a lot of fun systematically clearing the levels, planning how to kill all the germans and using every tool at my disposal.