Warhammer 40K Games Reviews, Previews and Retrospectives
Warhammer 40K Games News and Features
Gladius refuses to die quietly. Seven years after launch, Proxy Studios has added another content drop to its long-running 4X strategy game. The Onslaught Pack is a small unit-focused expansion, bringing ten new units, one for each faction into the game. There are no new mechanics, no new factions, no campaign content. This is a targeted update for players who know exactly what they’re doing. Each unit is designed to fill a gap or expand a tactical option. Some push...
Mechanicus II has been officially revealed, and the Adeptus Mechanicus are returning with reinforcements. This sequel follows the unexpected success of the original game, which brought turn-based tactical combat and a haunting tech-priest soundtrack into the spotlight. Now, Bulwark Studios is expanding both the scope and the cast, with a second faction joining the campaign: the Leagues of Votann. The announcement trailer confirmed what many suspected. This is not a minor iteration. The sequel builds on the systems of the...
Slitherine has delivered the first-ever single-player campaign DLC for Battlesector. All prior content focused on multiplayer or skirmish additions – new units and factions. Deeds of the Fallen breaks that pattern. It gives solo players a serious narrative experience. This expansion takes place on Ashenfell, once an industrial world powered by lava flows. Now it lies cold, its manufactorums silent, its surface covered in ash and ice. Here, the Sisters of Battle lead a twelve-mission campaign against an Ork invasion....
Auroch Digital surprised everyone on May 22, 2025, by dropping Boltgun: Words of Vengeance, a free-to-play typing game set in the pixelated, violent world of Boltgun. The game lives on Steam now and has already earned positive reception for its novel twist on 40K action. Despite the title, this is not an FPS expansion. It’s a typing-based rail shooter, built around rapid typing challenges. You play as Malum Caedo fighting demonic cultists and Chaos daemons. Not with a bolter, but...
The first major narrative expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader arrives this month. Titled Lex Imperialis, it adds a new companion, a new faction, and a full story arc built around the Adeptus Arbites. Owlcat has chosen not to expand the galactic scale of the original campaign, but to deepen it, focusing on the legal and judicial spine of the Imperium, and what happens when that system is twisted beyond repair. Set within the Koronus Expanse, Lex Imperialis introduces a...
The Inquisition has returned to video games, this time in the hands of Owlcat Games. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy was revealed during Warhammer Skulls 2025 as a full-scale CRPG set in the dark underbelly of the Imperium. You begin as an acolyte, tasked with rooting out heresy in all its forms, with no guarantee of success, survival, or even clarity. This is not the first time the Inquisition has taken the spotlight. Inquisitor – Martyr already delivered a grim action...
Boltgun surprised a lot of people. The first game looked like a joke on the surface. Warhammer 40K crossed with pixel art and retro shooter aesthetics, but it nailed the tone, the speed, and the sheer violence of being a one-man walking exterminatus. You played as a Sternguard Veteran of the Ultramarines, delivering righteous fury through corridors of corrupted steel and heretic bone. And somehow, it all worked. Now Boltgun 2 is coming. The Warhammer Skulls announcement didn’t give a...
We flagged it back in April. We published a piece about one background image on LinkedIn that hinted something was moving inside Relic’s archives. Emona Capital’s representative stood in front of Warhammer World in Nottingham. Some called it noise. We didn’t. We said something was coming. Now it’s confirmed. Dawn of War: Definitive Edition is real. This is the 2004 classic, polished and repackaged. No gimmicks. No wild reinvention. It’s a serious rerelease of one of the most important real-time...
