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Velvet Assassin
Inspired by the fascinating story and unbreakable spirit of British secret agent Violette Szabo, players take control of Violette Summer, a beautiful World War II spy deep behind enemy lines with no support or official backing from the British Government.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“A highly underrated game for its time with a truly unique atmosphere.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“One of my favorite stealth games of all time. I love WWII games, I like the story arc, and I love the environments and mission settings. It's really, really, dark though. This shows the serious side of Nazi destruction and sadism that they don't usually make games about. I get…”
— a player, Steam review · 58 hrs played“Unable to get game to start passed the config menu, Installed the legacy Physx drivers, Which fixed the inital issue of it bing stuck on a white screen after clicking play. Now it just crashes to desktop, no onscreen error and it creates a crash dump each time in the games…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:35 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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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 |
| Player tags | Stealth · Action · Female Protagonist · World War II · Third Person · Singleplayer · Atmospheric · Assassin · Historical · Third-Person Shooter · Adventure · Difficult (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.playvelvetassassin.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP / Vista Processor: Singlecore CPU with 3GHZ Memory: 512MB RAM Graphics: Pixel Shader 3 Graphics Card with 256 MB VRAM (Geforce 6800 or ATI X1600) Hard Drive: 5GB Free Hard Disk Space Sound: Stereo Sound