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Attentat 1942

Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure told through the eyes of World War 2 survivors. Many moral dilemmas and existential struggles await you on your way to discover the troubled past of your family. Written and made by professional historians. It's 1942 and Reinhard Heydrich, the ruler of the Nazi occupied Czech lands appointed by Hitler, was assassinated. Nazi retaliation was brutal. Your grandpa was among the victims, sent to a concentration camp. But why? What role did he play in the attack? Why didn’t he tell his family? Was he brave or reckless? Immerse yourself in a story a

Release date
December 22, 2022
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Windows, macOS, Linux
Developer
Charles Games
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Charles Games
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Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure told through the eyes of World War 2 survivors. Many moral dilemmas and existential struggles await you on your way to discover the troubled past of your family. Written and made by professional historians. It's 1942 and Reinhard Heydrich, the ruler of the Nazi occupied Czech lands appointed by Hitler, was assassinated. Nazi retaliation was brutal. Your grandpa was among the victims, sent to a concentration camp.

But why? What role did he play in the attack? Why didn’t he tell his family? Was he brave or reckless? Immerse yourself in a story about love, friendship and heroism among the horrors of a world conflict. Confront witnesses, experience the everyday life under Nazi rule and uncover the fate of your family in this award-winning game about World War II. dive into deep-branching dialogues, where your choices matter experience history through interactive comics and memories, hide resistance leaflets from the Gestapo or flee from a Nazi prison explore rare digitized film footage and historical items About Us Charles Games is a Prague-based studio focused on exploring the narrative possibilities of video games with strong emphasis on serious games.

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★ 5.6/10GOG · 72 ratings
GOGLast checked November 3, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
This is an amazing, important experience. Meticulous research, moving and authentic. This isn't a game so much as a choice driven interactive history class. Your…
★ 3 / 5
Disclaimers: I'm Czech, and I have grown up in the Sudetenland, though much, much, much later after the history described here. I also purchased this…
★ 4 / 5
This "game2 is more like a interaktive movie about the 2ww . I am from denmark and have a always had a interest about the…
★ 4 / 5
The importance of games like these cannot be understated. They help preserve the memory of such a tragic time in particularly European and in more…
★ 5 / 5
To start this is a very short and narriative driven game, they have some small mini games and tasks sprinkled throught but overall this is…
★ 4 / 5
‘Attentat 1942’ is a choice-matter adventure game/edutainment, in which you play a grandchild of World War II survivors. Set in Prague in 2001, you investigate…
★ 5 / 5
It is a very interesting game. I grew up in Europe, in different countries. In tenth grade, I moved to Munich, Germany where I studied…
★ 5 / 5
I wish there were more initiatives like this involving historical games

Most recent8

★ 5 / 5
To start this is a very short and narriative driven game, they have some small mini games and tasks sprinkled throught but overall this is…
★ 4 / 5
The importance of games like these cannot be understated. They help preserve the memory of such a tragic time in particularly European and in more…
★ 4 / 5
This "game2 is more like a interaktive movie about the 2ww . I am from denmark and have a always had a interest about the…
★ 5 / 5
It is a very interesting game. I grew up in Europe, in different countries. In tenth grade, I moved to Munich, Germany where I studied…
★ 1 / 5
Thought you could construct rooms and choose options like steel or wood doors, but you can only choose to go swimming in the pool or…
★ 5 / 5
It's a wonderful story, knowing what I do about my maternal grandparents and their lives during the war, (luckily they were never deported, my grandfather…
★ 5 / 5
I wish there were more initiatives like this involving historical games
★ 5 / 5
Beauty lies within you and daddy's hearts my dear Grandmother.

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