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Sniper Elite 5
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
61 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The only way too play this is on Authentic Difficulty. This game is a LOT of fun!”
“It’s a solid game— Forget standing in one spot like it’s a budget arcade shooter. The maps are wide open, packed with objectives, kill targets, collectibles, and enough side content to derail your original plan within…”
“Love this series and this game is no different with the enjoyable combat and impressive world design. As always Authentic Difficulty is a nice challenge and tackling it perfectly is so satisfying. The Hitler DLCs are…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“It almost felt more like a hitman game than sniper elite. Almost all the maps are super compact preventing me from being able to be a sniper. I felt like stealth and melee was so much more important than my rifle, on…”
“You can finally play as the good guys in Axis Invasion Mode”
“Love this series and this game is no different with the enjoyable combat and impressive world design. As always Authentic Difficulty is a nice challenge and tackling it perfectly is so satisfying. The Hitler DLCs are…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Love this series and this game is no different with the enjoyable combat and impressive world design. As always Authentic Difficulty is a nice challenge and tackling it perfectly is so satisfying. The Hitler DLCs are…”
“Played the odd sniper elite, this one seems to take all the best bits of the others and looks very pretty doing so, recommend playing this even if you haven't played the others”
“bad story but fun game play love the graphix and the invation mode a 100% a game to play looking for a quick fix”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“It's a fun game, but after a few missions, it starts to feel like a repeat of the ones before. If the game goes on sale, I'd definitely pick it up for fans of the series.”
“A solid game, good map design, customizable stealth and combat difficulties, and most importantly a HUGE value when it goes on sale (Deep discounts). Game is enjoyable in the same way the old Thief games were enjoyable,…”
“SOLID GAME. Imagine Hitman but WWII era and more open maps, more enemies and more just stuff to do in game. Solid game. Id say it is about an 8/10 for the first 6 hours. I played with a friend the whole time. I did not…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The only way too play this is on Authentic Difficulty. This game is a LOT of fun!”
“It’s a solid game— Forget standing in one spot like it’s a budget arcade shooter. The maps are wide open, packed with objectives, kill targets, collectibles, and enough side content to derail your original plan within…”
“Love this series and this game is no different with the enjoyable combat and impressive world design. As always Authentic Difficulty is a nice challenge and tackling it perfectly is so satisfying. The Hitler DLCs are…”
19 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Did anyone on the team behind Sniper Elite 5 actually play their own game? The movement feels unbelievably stiff — Karl handles like he’s pushing 80 instead of being a trained WWII operative. Reloading a pistol takes…”
“They broke the whole point of the game and just made a worst game design ever. ''Go to the church and kill a nazi, that ain't gonna show himself to snipe him''. I have a feeling that I bought a new ''Hitman'' game, not…”
“It almost felt more like a hitman game than sniper elite. Almost all the maps are super compact preventing me from being able to be a sniper. I felt like stealth and melee was so much more important than my rifle, on…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“It almost felt more like a hitman game than sniper elite. Almost all the maps are super compact preventing me from being able to be a sniper. I felt like stealth and melee was so much more important than my rifle, on…”
“Is not bad, decent to buy on sale though only a hard maybe at full price(I would not). I like the weapon customization and it is a huge plus over previous games. Axis invasion is interesting and I am glad I can just…”
“Hell, these maps are huge, I just shoot and loot for 3 hours and find out there's like 30%-40% undiscovered area, though I still like them more than SE4's. Collectible letters in SE4 has better writing. I know, I love…”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Its not the best stealth game out there, but its not a bad stealth game either, the mechanics feels a little clucky at times, and the story isn't that great neither, but overall I think if you like snipers you'll have…”
“bad story but fun game play love the graphix and the invation mode a 100% a game to play looking for a quick fix”
“I love meeting all the heckin Black Womyn Resistance fighters in 1940s France. Wholesome Chungus This is what we fight the Freakin ebol N* zis for!! Vive La France! Reddit Plantinum Award for sure”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“It's a fun game, but after a few missions, it starts to feel like a repeat of the ones before. If the game goes on sale, I'd definitely pick it up for fans of the series.”
“Okish game, but too much recycled content”
“It is a very good game even if some maps feels the same. 8/10 a notch under Hitman World of Assassination PS : I didn't play any DLCs of Sniper Elite 5 and I didn't play resistance or Sniper Elite 4 but I'll try 4 soon”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Game gets buggy really quickly, ive noticed infinite reloads, broken collectibles, ammo disappearing from my inventory and much more. you cant play the game when there is 900 germans and a sniper jager trying to kill…”
“I love playing a sneaky sniper in games and Sniper Elite 5 is the best sneaky sniper simulator money can buy. The semi-open world game design allows a wide variety of approaches to mission design and really encourages…”
“My dad and I have been a long time fan of the sniper elite series, from watching him play the first one on our old Hp home computer when I was younger, to playing survival with him with the cross platform in 5. Sure,…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“It's in line with other sniper elite games. Whether you want to be sneaky beaky or go guns blazing, that's completely up to you.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“After having played all the Sniper Elite games (except V2 and Resistance) I have to say that Sniper Elite 5 is by far the best in the series, altough I have absolutely no idea how would it be possible to do Missions in Stealth from Mission 3 and onwards, it is a very…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“I was going to give it a postive review, until my internet went out and I realized the game wont start single player unless you are on the internet.”
— a player, Steam review · 104 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:48 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | Singleplayer · Sniper · Stealth · Multiplayer · Action · World War II · Co-op · Shooter · Third-Person Shooter · Adventure · Gore · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 71 |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://sniperelitegames.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel CPU Core i3-8100 or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX12 capable GPU with 4GB VRAM Storage: 85 GB available space