
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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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.
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Fun and enjoyable! I like the art style and gameplay. Nice retro feel to it. Excellent!
This game makes powerscalers go bald. Very fun boomer shooter, guns feel satisfying to use, enemies are fun to fight, immersive and exciting soundtrack, fun retro visuals, unpretentious at what it does. You're here to finish the fight in brutal fashion. Space marines know no fear, but they do know how to hide under cover from Greater Demons.
เกมสนุก แต่หลงทาง ทำแมพใหญ่ไม่พอไม่ยอมบอกทางอีก กุไม่ได้มีเวลาว่างขนาดนั้น
this game changed my life for the better
Put on some Deathcore and satisfy the emperor, fellow Space Marine!
Extremely disappointing. I played the game on the ultra-violence (or whatever the equivalent is called), and it was never particularly interesting. It starts shallow and never really develops, so the repetition becomes painful very quickly. Every fight feels the same. Enemies either stand still and shoot or walk directly at you. There is almost no enemy synergy, no interesting dodging, no resource pressure, and very little reason to swap weapons. Most enemies die instantly; the tougher ones do not require a different strategy, they just take longer to kill. The weapon roster is similarly flat. The boltgun is good at almost everything, the shotgun is terrible, and the heavier weapons mostly feel like variations on the same idea. Ammo is everywhere, so you can use the strongest options constantly. Even the melee attack feels pointless because there is no reason to conserve ammunition or take the risk of getting close. The level design is mostly corridors connecting arenas, with very little exploration or memorable layout. The secrets are laughably bad: usually behind a crate, in an obvious side area, or not hidden at all. The game even counts power-ups sitting in plain sight as secrets. The game looks good, the weapons sound punchy, and I encountered no major bugs. But technical competence cannot compensate for how stale and mechanically empty it feels. I went in as a boomer-shooter fan rather than a Warhammer fan, so lore references could not carry the experience for me. As a shooter, it lacks nearly everything I enjoy about the genre. I used to think the boomer-shooter formula was impossible to screw up. Boltgun proved me wrong. 3.5/10
I wIll finish the work Captain Demetrian Titus started!
Doom but good
Hell YEAHHHHH simulator
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese +2 more
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