Battlefield™ V
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ActionFPSMultiplayerSingleplayerWorld War IIShooter

5,390 playing

Peak in the last 24 hours: 5,390

Peak in the last 7 days: 6,626

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Game description

This is the ultimate Battlefield V experience. Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with the complete arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets plus the best customization content of Year 1 and 2.

Basic info

DeveloperDICE
PublisherElectronic Arts
PlatformsWindows
Steam DeckUnsupported
Release dateOct 22, 2020
Price

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Minimum specs

OS64-bit Windows 10
ProcessorAMD FX-8350/ Core i5 6600K
Memory8 GB
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1050 / NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 660 2GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 / HD 7850 2GB
Storage50 GB
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Review Analysis Score

Based on 357 reviews from the past 1 year

62.5/ 100
Bottom 20%

Steam rating: Mostly Positive (71%)

Review analysis summary (Reviewed Oct 20, 2026)

Beautiful but troubled, this WWII shooter scores 62.5, held back by cheaters and launch problems.

👍 Strengths

85 reviews say it is fun, praising the gameplay as challenging and rewarding, and some say it gave them years of enjoyment. 54 praise the graphics and lighting, and some single out the destruction and sound design. Visuals & Sound ranks 455th of 1249. 30 enjoy the single player story mode, describing well crafted chapters that show different sides of the war. Gameplay ranks 634th of 1396.

👎 Where it falls short

Tech & Support appears in 37% of analyzed reviews and ranks 1267th of 1399. 41 reviews say cheaters ruin matches and the anti-cheat fails to stop them, and a few report locked out accounts or bans they consider unfair. 27 report bugs and crashes, including launch failures tied to an anti-cheat error, infinite loading and lost save progress. 21 criticize developer support, saying the game was abandoned before more fronts arrived and that updates broke things. Pricing & Fairness ranks 1254th of 1399, and Content Volume ranks 833rd of 1351.

Representative reviews Original reviews ↗

“10/10 rating, very good gameplay and graphics, challenging and rewarding” · 85 reviews
“graphics so beautiful you forget what reality is” · 54 reviews
“gunplay extremely smooth, satisfying mechanics like sliding and pulling” · 24 reviews

How it holds up

−50+5

Controls, difficulty, progression and depth
Mentioned in 32% of reviews · Top 50% of the games we've analyzed

Controls & feel +2.03 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle
Positive “gunplay extremely smooth, satisfying mechanics like sliding and pulling” · 24 reviews
Negative “random recoil system made gunplay really hard” · 9 reviews

Progression 4% · Difficulty 5% · Onboarding 6% · Freedom 3% · Strategy 6%

Plot, characters and the world
Mentioned in 45% of reviews · Bottom 20% of the games we've analyzed

World +1.72 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is
Positive “great atmosphere as the originator of large-scale battle games” · 19 reviews
Negative “historically inaccurate portrayal, disrespects Soviet contributions and victims” · 12 reviews

Story 31% · Characters 1%

How much there is to do, variety and replay value
Mentioned in 22% of reviews · Bottom 40% of the games we've analyzed

Variety -0.50 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition
Negative “same formula repeated across entries, feels like historical skins on identical game” · 9 reviews
Positive “classic Battlefield maps and features, better than Battlefield 6” · 3 reviews

Volume 15% · Replayability 1%

Graphics, art style, music and sound
Mentioned in 33% of reviews · Top 40% of the games we've analyzed

Visuals +3.60 · Graphics, art style, and animation
Positive “graphics so beautiful you forget what reality is” · 54 reviews
Negative “graphics feel alright, not the best in Battlefield series” · 3 reviews

Audio 15%

Playing with others, the community and servers
Mentioned in 33% of reviews · Bottom 30% of the games we've analyzed

Playing together +1.96 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals
Positive “teamwork mechanics are engaging, squad play is rewarding” · 18 reviews
Negative “online multiplayer has no experience and is not fun” · 2 reviews

Community 13% · Servers & Connection 8%

Pricing, cheaters, balance and matchmaking
Mentioned in 39% of reviews · Bottom 20% of the games we've analyzed

Anti-cheat -0.68 · How common cheaters are and how well they're stopped
Negative “widespread cheaters and smurfs ruining matches” · 41 reviews
Positive “cheaters have decreased significantly” · 1 review

Pricing 8% · Balance 13% · Matchmaking 7%

Bugs, performance and developer support
Mentioned in 37% of reviews · Bottom 10% of the games we've analyzed

Developer support -0.70 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players
Negative “EA app anti-cheat broken, game unplayable, devs unresponsive” · 21 reviews
Positive “servers still open 8 years after release” · 1 review

Stability 16% · Performance 10%

Grey means too few reviews mention it to trust. — means almost no reviews mention it.

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