# Cold War Assault Remastered

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Cold War Assault Remastered and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend this free, open-source remaster of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Assault for its depth, fun online play, and the clean source release by Bohemia Interactive.

## Why people recommend it

- Clean open source release by developer (4 comments): "This is great, I wish more studios would do the same with their games, and also under the GPL3.0" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675713)) "they cleaned it up and ported to Windows x64 and Linux x64" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638980)) "I applaud BIS for doing such a clean open source release." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670705))
- Depth and fun online play (3 comments): "even now im amazed how much depth this game has , many many fun nights online" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674839)) "I thought it was fun/interesting as well!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677604)) "this was the best of the lot IMHO" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671136))

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- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Cold War Assault Remastered", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cold-war-assault-remastered/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).