Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
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Prices
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Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 5.14/day in the week to Sep 3 → 7.43/day in the week after.
About
Play as Malum Caedo, a fearless Space Marine, on his perilous mission to locate a shard from a mysterious power source on Graia, a Forge World on the brink of being overrun by Cultists, Traitors and Chaos Daemons. Scour the place, acquire devastating weapons and holy equipment, and PURGE THE HERETICS in this retro shooter!
Become the ultimate warrior of the Imperium, wielding your deadly arsenal to explore the violent and iconic Warhammer 40,000 universe. Dominate the battlefield with the awesome firepower and heavy metal of a Space Marine’s devastating weapons, as you battle against the Chaos Space Marines and Daemons.
Take control of the mighty Malum Caedo– along with his faithful servo-skull – and plunge headlong into your mission on Graia. Retrieve the Power Source fragment on the Forge World and cleanse the archenemy from its surface! Roam through bastions, cathedrals, corrupted canyons, hellish furnaces and war-torn environments.
Dive into a visceral combat experience, complete with viciously satisfying gunplay, high mobility and buckets of blood to reward your skills. Rely on your indomitable chainsword to eviscerate your enemies. Dash, jump and slice the foulest heretics across the galaxy! Unlock new deadly weapons like the Shotgun, Meltagun or Heavy Bolter and equip yourself with different types of devastating grenades. Show no mercy!
Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90’s titles. In glorious boomer shooter style, unleash your devastating weapons as you blast through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood. Discover an exceptional aesthetic, with retro cutscenes and pixel art backdrops, paying tribute to a historic era in video games.
Want to take purging to the next level? Annihilate endless swarms of enemies in the new horde mode, available for free. Blast each and every heretic standing in your way, trample on their remains and cleanse their foul heresy. For only in death, does duty end.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; Xbox, GOG, Nintendo, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $21.99 | 18.3Kreviews | 89% | — | $8.5M |
| $21.99 | 2.8Kratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
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Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1024 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
This game is the definition of style over substance, the art is fantastic, the sprites are great, the sounds are good (but badly sync-ed) and the guns feel good to shoot, and the maps look fantastic But that's it, even the music is passable at best or flat out mediocre, but the gameplay is the biggest let down, there's not much variation to the enemies in general, and their attacks are poorly telegraphed, more often than not you'll end up dying not even realizing you were going to die (in part due to the bad sound syncing), the melee system is.... awkward, to say the least, why is it in there even? What about the wound system (and weapon strength), why..? You have zero idea of what enemy is weak to which weapons, there's no visual feedback, no sound feedback, you just know it's there and you soon guess that the boltgun is useless against most enemies, and then.. why? The game kind of feels like it was made by a team that knew what a boomer shooter should look like but never played any nor cared about what they should be focusing on to make it good, it's a tad jarring and a tad disappointing, because, again, the game look fantastic
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14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 30: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 413.67/day in the week to Jul 17 → 7.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese +2 more
| $7.25−67% |
| 240ratings |
| 88% |
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| $21.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
| $21.99 | — | 93% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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It's a good game, pretty pixel art, controls and all, but it has a lot of issues. It drags for too long, the levels look much alike, the shotgun is weak, the dash is useless, a lot of enemies have too much health, with each chapter you lose all your guns, the ingame music is not memorable, it's hard to read your servo text at the corner of the screen, etc. Playing 2 or 3 levels a day feels less tiresome. Don't try to rush through it. Playing the demo of the upcoming Boltgun 2 fixed most of the issues, so I guess it'll be way better.
tldr really good time killer on steam deck/portable but otherwise i do not recommend it -im on mid chapter 2 and its already pretty stale. it does not have a true boomer shooter formula (linear corridors with predetermined enemy placements, monster closets etc), but a nudoom inspired game (more open areas, arena fights and enemy spawn waves locking you in the room until you clear it). it could work but despite the gunplay feeling decent, it lacks punch and becomes very repetitive thanks to lack of enemy variety, extremely bullet-spongy enemies and many arena fights just taking too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ long (it may be 2 waves at most but the bullet sponge enemies make it atrocious). it already felt a bit annoying towards the end of the first chapter, but it only gets worse -performance issues are abysmal. game itself may seem optimized overall but something in how the engine handles resources produces insane framerate drops (200 to 4 every 10 seconds), and it only gets worse whenever there are more than 10 enemies on screen. somehow it performs flawlessly on my oled steam deck so i just play it there -music is forgettable. sometimes it is serviceable, but other times it gets a bit irritating with the weird erratic percussions and wacky synths. sounds like something out of terraria, not that fitting for a 40k game imho its really good to pass some time on steam deck, so i do recommend it in that case. flawless performance (locked 60 fps) and its decent enough to hop in from time to time and play for 40 mins or so. but if you plan on playing it seriously on ur pc? i dont recommend it at all. it would melt my brain from doing the exact same thing over and over and over again with the same enemies all the time (plus the terrible engine performance issues). and thats the context most people would find themselves in with this game, so thats why the review is thumbs down could have been way better if they kept a true boomer shooter formula (it can kinda be felt at the start of each chapter, but it quickly devolves into repetitive arena encounters) and gave a bit more identity to each weapon
Boomer shooter yes, but also very much a single player arena shooter. This game is Very difficult on exterminatus difficulty, especially for an old player. Read other reviews before you buy.
This is really bad. It’s the most generic shooter imaginable, like it was made by ChatGPT from a single prompt. The developers are hiding their laziness and lack of talent behind the mask of a boomer shooter.
по началу прикольный шутанчик, первые часов 5 бегаешь и кайфуешь. дальше начинается одна и та же мясорубка: одни и те же локи, одни и те же враги и т. д. и т. п. играешь тупо через силу, никакого интереса нет. сюжет в игре номинальный, пару кат-сцен на всю игру, а главная задача — найти какой-то осколок. длс абсолютно такое же, только с другой целью, 2 новыми пушками и 1 врагом в целом норм игра, но вот чтобы прям засесть и пройти полностью - это нужно ещё постараться. за свою цену отлично, но я бы рекомендовал играть в перерывах между другими играми, тогда игра хотя бы не наскучит https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3754151971
My first Warhammer experience, and a solid, if not overly safe, Boomer Shooter. The gunplay, sound design, and pixel art sprites were strong, and the presentation overall was good. The level design was underwhelming, being bland arenas bridged by linear hallways, and the environment art was generic. Despite an attempt to create interesting gameplay mechanics with the chainsaw, charge, and taunt, their implementation was superficial. They never felt like core aspects of the experience, and you could remove them from the game and nothing would really change. The enemy variety was good, but the boss variety was abysmal. Be prepared to fight the same three unengaging bullet sponges repeatedly – an issue large non-boss enemies also shared (I’m looking at you Plague Toads). There was no discernable attempt at characters or story, meaning its lack of exceptionality never affected my experience. The Forges of Corruption DLC was great, and an improvement from the base game. The environments were a lot more grand and beautiful. The higher intensity and additional weapons also made it more engaging. However, the lack of a weapon wheel, despite having a maximum of ten guns, was a baffling exclusion. If you enjoy the base game, this DLC is an easy recommendation. Ultimately, whilst it wasn’t exceptional, the game was fun, and I enjoyed my time with it. I recommend this if you enjoy Boomer Shooters, even if they don’t innovate or stand out.
De los juegos con mas testosterona y maculinos de todos, te sientes como un tanque de los 90s y basicamente ser Malum Caedo es peak male experience
Just a fun game to chill. Don’t expect too much from it, but there’s definitely plenty of fun. Nothing groundbreaking, just good Warhammer fun. Recommended.
This is game pretty meh but I'll start with the positives: The artstyle and music are pretty good, movement and gunplay is good and the controls feel solid and responsive. (Also since I don't know warhammer and it's story very well then I'll just be focusing on the game and not the story, but I will say the story cutscenes look nice and are animated well). Here are my critiques: The levels and their layouts are really boring and most of them just blend together. The game doesn't try anything unique in terms of gameplay elements and every level is literally just collecting keys and killing the same dozen enemy types over and over and a lot of the guns feel pointless and gimmicky. My biggest complaint is the difficulty curve, actually it's more of a difficulty straight line that shoots right into space. The first 3 or so levels were pretty simple and straightforward but suddenly the game treats the player like they're in the late game and starts spawning 10 enemies at once and this trend never dies down, the game just decides that from now on every single level will just keep going up and up in difficulty with hundreds of enemies to kill per level. At a certain point it becomes impossible to focus due to the amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on screen, shooting at you from every angle. The difficulty doesn't feel earned because none of the encounters feel thought out or memorable, they all just boil down to cheap enemy spam with no cohesion. This game was a headache to play so it gets a 3/10
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