

We’ll be able to explore uncharted worlds, find relics of lost civilizations, and bring new worlds into the Emperor’s light-or more likely to fall into heresy. Rogue Trader will cast us as the captain of a gigantic voidship on the edge of the Imperium, heir to a dynastic tradition of settlers and traders. Expect complicated character progression and combat, endless hours of playtime, and an expanding cast of characters so deep they should come with some kind of warning signage for divers.
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Owlcat knows how to make a CRPG, having released Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. The character creation in the Gamescom trailer (opens in new tab) shows a press-ganged prisoner whose selected background explains how you ended up imprisoned before being recruited into the Inquisition: “Someone overheard you expressing disgust at the weird taste of corpse starch and reported you to a foreman.”ĭarktide promises to be as grim and grimy as a 40K game should be, with its heroes, explicitly called “rejects”, treated as cannon fodder and having to use “skull decoders” to interface with machinery as they struggle across an awful gothic industrial nightmare of a city. It’s also clear that Fatshark understands the setting.

Perhaps even more so, if you’re swinging a chainsword. Like the Vermintide games, Darktide is four-player co-op with seeing hordes of enemies, and what we’ve seen so far suggests it’ll be every bit as brutal. Vermintide 2 had the best first-person combat since Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, and that’s reason enough to be excited for developer Fatshark’s take on 40K. These are the four I’m most excited about. Whether you’re into real-time shootybangs or turn-based thinkyplans, co-op action or competitive sports sims, there might be a Warhammer game for you. It’s great to have Warhammer games covering so many bases.
