Necromunda: Underhive Wars

what ive learned in the past 2 or 3 years playing warhammer games is dont read the reviews wait for a sale and just buy it and find out for yourselves. idk if the warhammer games have brought the tabletop gamers here for the first time but most of them have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to video games. ive only played 3 hours but thats because i bought all these games during the warhammer sale. i got to say from finally buying a lot if not almost all warhammer games worth buying the reviews are trash. i didnt find the few hours i spent in this game or any warhammer game to be that bad at all. to be honest as a franchise in gaming warhammer seems to hit way more home runs than bad its just unlike most franchises each game is really made for a specific audience. space marine is for the gears of war fans. total war is for the grand stradegy fans. games like this and battle sector and a few others one based in the age of sigard which is like a fusion of the fantasy and 40k universe are for turn based fans. basically just do your research and if you like the genre or warhammer your prolly gonna enjoy your time with these games more than 90 percent of the AAA slop that comes out today. if you wait for a sale chances are youll get it for like 2-10 dollars to. but seriously for warhammer games do your own research dont listen to the reviews they are 90 percent ignorant slop and reading a lot of em it seems they have no idea what a video game even is. if you fact check a lot of them they are liars or have no clue what they are saying unless its about the lore.

[h1] Review[/h1] There are games that don’t respect your time and Necromunda: Underhive Wars is a prime example for that. I expected tactical gameplay and gang management in the Warhammer universe but its design choices make it both frustrating and unnecessarily time-consuming. [u]Gameplay[/u] The game uses a hybrid system of movement points and action points. Movement happens freely in third-person rather than on a grid, which is a refreshing idea. If you misjudge your movement, you can backtrack and recover your points as long as you haven’t used an action or triggered hazards like mines or overwatch. This is a very forgiving and genuinely great feature. If you conserve movement, you can convert it into additional action points, usually enough for an overwatch or extra attack. Combined with initiative-based turn order, this creates a foundation for thoughtful tactical play. Different classes, weapons, and skills add further variety, and the equipment system is a highlight. Being able to freely swap between two-handed weapons or dual-wield one-handed melee and ranged options allows for flexible and creative builds. However, many of the game’s systems are poorly explained. For example, targeting specific body parts is a core mechanic, yet the game never properly communicates why or when you should do it. As a result, a lot of the depth feels underutilized. Mission design is another weak point. While the story campaign offers some variation, the core gang management mode mostly boils down to repetitive deathmatches. Although objectives often involve collecting resources, doing so is usually suboptimal. The AI rarely contests objectives, making it far easier and safer to eliminate all enemies first and loot afterward. Additionally, you need to loot enemies instead of receiving their rewards in the end. This turn matches into drawn-out chores rather than engaging tactical encounters with various objectives. Pacing is arguably the game’s biggest flaw. Turns are painfully slow, largely due to poor AI behavior and lack of quality-of-life features. You must watch every enemy animation play out, with no option to skip or speed up turns. Combined with having to manually control each character, matches drag on far longer than they should. Combat itself becomes repetitive. Battles are almost always 5v5 human encounters, with little variation in enemy types or scenarios. There are no interesting additions like creatures or abhumans. Even the different houses feel too similar in playstyle, which further reduces replay value. [u]Story[/u] The story mainly serves to establish the setting and tone rather than deliver a compelling narrative. It avoids heavy exposition, which is fine, but it also fails to properly teach core gameplay mechanics. As a result, players are often left confused about class abilities and deeper systems. [u]Sound[/u] The audio design is minimal. There’s no memorable soundtrack, with most of the audio consisting of ambient sounds and character voice lines. It gets the job done but adds little to the overall experience. [u]Graphics[/u] Visually, the game is solid. The underhive environments are detailed, featuring strong verticality and a convincing sense of scale. Maps feel dense and atmospheric, even if the gameplay within them doesn’t fully take advantage of that design. Character animations are serviceable but unremarkable. [u]Conclusion / TL;DR[/u] Necromunda: Underhive Wars has a strong tactical foundation and some genuinely good ideas, particularly in its movement and equipment systems. However, poor pacing, repetitive mission design, weak AI, and lack of meaningful variety make it feel like an absolute slog.

This game is a third-person, turn-based, strategy game, with a map world overview, played in small instanced maps. You are in charge of a warband/group of 5 deployed characters. There are classes, skills, abilities, experience, and levels, as well as equipment, weapons, and more. A truly excellent strategy game, much like 3D-chess, although with a whole lot more options. This is a very nice replica of the Table-Top old-school game, where you'd commandeer a somewhat large table in the residence, and invite a group of friends over. Ready the dice, the figurines, and rulers, to partake in a wonderful afternoon-evening event, with snacks, takeout, drinks all around, lots of laughs and cursing, but eventually you'd probably all have a great time together (nostalgia). Movement in a three dimensional environment can be daunting, especially once you realize that the Enemy A.I. is using everything it can to its advantage, while you're only trying to keep up. However once you get how to utilize everything around you, you can actually get the upper hand. Anyway this game is a complex and somewhat confusing version of that, but it has So many incredibly awesome things in it, that would make your old group so happy and exited to try this out. It is a terrible let down, that the company behind this abandoned it, instead of doubling down on it, by further developing it into something even more complex, with loads more options, and of course a helluvalot more content.

Trust the reviews. Maybe on sale for $5 it could be acceptable but, as is this game made me quit within 30 minutes. Get the TTRPG and play that.

Not for me, but worth a try for 90% off

吃了尸体滚淀粉，帝皇老子不及吾

The devs abandoned this game 10 months after its release which should tell you what you need to know. I wouldn't even touch this game for free honestly

great turn based warhammer fun

Прекрасный тактический шутер стратегия с огромным потенциал ом и большим разнообразием вооружённия, навыков и внешности. Надеюсь она снова оживет

Good lore, good gameplay, good graphics but garbage AI. It not a bad game but it's not great either. Give it a try on a sale