Day of Defeat

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%2003

The verdict

A classic 2003 GoldSrc WWII team shooter that still has a small, mostly older community and runs on anything. Skip it if you need busy servers, modern polish, or prefer the Source version.

Great for

Nostalgic players and WW2 fans who like old-school, teamwork-based objective shooters and low system requirements

Main risk

Few populated servers, high ping, and a dated game that DoD: Source does better

What players love

Classic, still-fun WWII gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“There’s something pure about its design — no unnecessary mechanics, no overcomplicated systems, just tight WWII multiplayer built around teamwork and positioning.”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗

“20 something years later, still one of the best FPS games.”
Steam review · 394.6 h played ↗

“It still plays briskly and is very fun today; over two decades they've produced a ton of maps.”
Steam review · translated · 0.7 h played ↗

Loyal, mature community still playing

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“The community of guys (and gals) who play this game are hard to beat ! made a lot of friends all over this country and other countries.”
Steam review · 1154.8 h played ↗

“many players that I have met in my first 60 minutes of playing were very helpful in showing me the ropes”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗

“When played online, you meet older players not little kids whose parents never supervise them.”
Steam review · 424.8 h played ↗

Nostalgia and variety of weapons and maps

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“An excellent game with a very good variety of weapons, a large variety of maps, and not many flaws at all.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

“The game that got me into gaming as a kid. Iconic game and genre defining.”
Steam review · 35.5 h played ↗

Realistic, tactical feel with weighty recoil

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“great gun mechanics, much prefer the recoil system in this game compared to counter strike's”
Steam review · 12.4 h played ↗

“Slow pace, heavy weapons, one mistake means death.”
Steam review · translated · 12.2 h played ↗

Easy to pick up, CS-like and fast respawns

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Probably the easiest goldsrc shooter to get into as a newcomer.”
Steam review · 45 h played ↗

“A classic FPS, easy to pick up, fun to play. Plays similar to counter-strike 1.6.”
Steam review · 41.4 h played ↗

Runs on almost any PC

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“it always easily runs on quite any computer - so lots of fun without heavy duty demands”
Steam review · 6358.2 h played ↗

“Great for slow pcs.”
Steam review · 12 h played ↗

“it's one of the few games that don't lag but just fly.”
Steam review · translated · 7.2 h played ↗

What players complain about

Servers are dead or nearly empty

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“this game is now practically dead. I only saw 2 active servers, one that was humans vs bots and the other was a 4 players combat.”
Steam review · 8.8 h played ↗

“This game is almost dead, 95% of the servers are empty all the time.”
Steam review · 159.6 h played ↗

“The online is dead, and if there are servers, they're only bots.”
Steam review · translated · 0.1 h played ↗

Dated graphics and gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Maps feel small, gameplay (especially weapon handling) feels outdated”
Steam review · 49.6 h played ↗

“it doesn't hold up if you've done any gaming of any sort since then.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

Day of Defeat: Source is better

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Just go play Day of Defeat: Source. This is the worse version of that game, with less servers”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“Sadly, there is really no reason to play this instead of the source version of Day of Defeat.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

“100% without a doubt get day of defeat source instead.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

Mouse and camera bugs, broken UI scaling

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“I move my mouse and it returns to it's original position, so, I literally can't look around”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“ungodly UI scaling, stay away if you own a 4k display”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“At 1920x1080 the HUD is very tiny. It's extremely annoying.”
Steam review · translated · 17.2 h played ↗

High ping and foreign servers

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“the servers with the most players are over 200 ping.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

“Server ping never drops below 1000, and optimization is so-so.”
Steam review · translated · 0.2 h played ↗

Cheaters, bans and toxic admins

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“Most of the "community" that is still active is cheating.”
Steam review · 60.7 h played ↗

“I got banned from the most active server on this game for "swearing".”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Steam doesn’t list requirements for this game.

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