Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 (Classic)

Common complaint I see is that the game is slow. Above the zoom buttons on your screen, there is a nondescript slider which adjusts the animation speed and is on Slowest by default. You're welcome. Now, I actually haven't played this game before '26 and I came here looking to scratch the Wh40k Armageddon itch - love that game, but it scales into stupid huge proportions pretty quick. Dawn of War, on the other hand, feels a little too small no matter the mods. This thing right here - this is the sweet spot! Persistent units are a HUGE plus, and the game has a bunch of quality of life features that pleasantly surprised me and now I don't understand why they haven't become more commonplace, like the "1 tile grace" where adjusting your unit one tile to get the shot doesn't deplete an entire action, or how INCREDIBLY intuitive air units are with their "click unit to fly higher, click its tile to fly lower" - this is just genius and if it had made its way into Achtung Spitfire, that thing might even be fun to play. Yadda yadda, great game, stupid cheap, outdated but charming visuals (you can't tell from the screens, but the walking animations are... kinda cute, actually!), f*ck Ork Flyboys.

Exactly as I remember it. Have the original CD for this still too

The game that got me into warhammer, does rely on RNG but with careful planning you can minimize this. Sad that the game did not get any more content but maybe if Total war is successful we can get a new Epic game.

not only still holds up, but even better than i remembered acted fmv's after most battles not super difficult but a fun sandbox to try things out and not get punished absolutely worth $5

Its a classic for a reason.

The crazy 90s cinematics alone are worth buying this game. Commissar Holt should've gotten a model and a data sheet as reward for his performance in this game. I played this many years ago and pined for a workable version of it to replay. I have now completed playing it through and I enjoyed the flavor of this, but it is a tedious game, too. Imagine random ork boyz popping your chimera with some desultory bolter fire, but two to three batteries of basilisks required to wipe the same squad of boyz. It's a good game with lots of flavor and tons of unit options if you can stomach the older interface and sometimes tedious game play.

I played Final Liberation in the late 90s and remember it fondly. The fact is, if you like 4X games, then you will enjoy this 3X. You will expand (i.e., earn points and purchase units), explore (i.e., select one of several pathways on the globe to engage the orc horde, defeat greater and more robust opponents, until you finally face-off the War-Boss), and exterminate (i.e., there are many, many battles, and the Space Marine of the 90s were not comparable to the 11th edition Adeptus Astartes... you will be surprised when the Space Marine are routed... WTFudge! There is not Exploit... You do not negotiate with the Xeno! I highly recommend this game.

Back from a time when gameplay and graphics were both given equal footing, this absolute classic returns. Whilst the units may be a little less smooth to modern eyes, this is more than made up for the replayability as you try different unit combos lollopping across the campaign map. The only shame is that the obviously planned expansions never game to fruition. Hopefully some enterprising souls can come up with a way of doing this.

Nothing short of amazing. This is the way Epic Warhammer 40K should be!

This was the first warhammer game I played, got me into the hobby so to say. This remaster is bringing back that nostalgic game from the 90s (including its flaws). There were some small bugs and crashes, but nothing too major for me. The FMV cutscenes are poor quality (resolution issue? I honestly have no clue) Would still love a remake to update it towards the 2026 era of the setting (new models, new units, EXTRA RACES?) but that probably wont happen.