Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

Other than the early game difficulty scaling being a bit unenjoyably brutal, this is a great game. Scratches that Warhammer itch and of course it has that x-com style genre going for it too. The playstyle is a real change of pace compared to similar genre games though, it's one of those that you "get" after a certain amount of time. Learning when and how to charge in and close distance is the main adjustment. (melee is stronk when mastered)

As Of June 3, 2026: Every time it is booted up there is an error message "Missing Overlay DLL". This boots up to a grey screen, that might continue to the game, or, it may remain frozen, locking down your entire Pc, until you hard reset the tower. The devs do not seem to care that this is occurring, according to the many merged threads in the forum Should have stuck with my gut, and ignored it for the unforgiveable sin of having Denuvo DRM.. I have a bad wifi connection, after moving to a new house, and took me several days to get permission to play the game I purchased. I held off buying this for years, awaiting denuvo to be removed. Alas, I went against my own principles, and bought it, for $7. I may still refund it This ♥♥♥♥♥♥ company uses the in game main menu, as real estate for an ad for their upcoming release. This is a disgusting practice imho. Very low class. The prologue waas painful.. You didnt actually learn anything, because it just makes you clock 1 ability, and location. It might as well have been automated. This does not allow the player to absorb anything. So I basically watched 35 minutes of cinematics, and clicking the ability that was highlighted. Ill now have to spend the real first mission, teaching myself how the game works. If the prologue is any indication, the storytelling and the writing is going to be a great disappointment. The art style is cartoony, and egregious for a 40k setting. This may be the worst UI Ive ever seen. Its busy, and very hard to find what its trying to convey, because its all the same color, and loud.

This is one of the best turn based strategy games in recent years. The graphics are excellent and the sound design is pretty good. The game has a decent main story with little bits of lore and side missions here and there. Your main character also gets to make choices during dialog scenes. The units and various classes you get look amazing with some cool choices for voice overs. They look and sound like the agents of destruction they are. You get to do a fair amount of customization including name, abilities, loadouts as well as armour designs and decals etc. In fact you can spend a lot of time just equiping your characters with the most optimal gear and deciding which equipment to upgrade etc. There is also the research and ship upgrade side of things. Most of the maps are dark and dreary but much of the environments are destructable and interactive which is awesome. A nice addon dlc is Duty Eternal which gives you the powerful Dreadnought class. It also works with existing saves.

The game has a great concept. X-Com style strageic game with Grey knights. Amazing on paper, but this execution falls SEVERELY short of that. From the start you might enjoy it, you think its harder, but doable, but as you progress, you realize that game punishes you for playing and having fun in it. The difficulty curve spikes up wayy too high for no reason, very hard enemies swarm you extremely fast and the negative stats swamp you constantly. It takes worst parts of X-Com and builds game around them. Do not buy, Only game I ever regret buying.

Just finished the game, took about 25 hours to beat. I can summarize it as "Games should be hard, not hard to play". This game is sometimes really hard to play. This game is still a recommend but there is a lot of buts. Story: Nothing mindblowing but just good, I enjoyed it, some very nice moments, cool last boss. Visuals: The game looks great and the enemy and environment design is top notch, all the nurgle stuff, teeth, tongues, its all creepy and super well done. Mechanics/combat: Here come the buts. Forget anything you learned in xcom, this game exchanged the hit chance RNG for RNG on literally everything else. Space events RNG, warp surge RNG, enemy spawn RNG, mission layout RNG. And most of it when it happens either asks something you need to prevent bad stuff or just plain does bad stuff to you. I tried my first run on normal and no way sir. I beat the game on the easiest difficulty and even then some missions were just plain nonsense drowning you in enemies and surge bollocks. I pretty much beat the game using what everyone does, teleporting my teams around and pumping extra AP to one DPS dealer using justicars. That being said, I still think its definitely worth playing and I am looking forward to the sequel they just announced.

Good game. Decent introduction to Warhammer 40k lore. A bit repetitive after a while but gets better if you add the DLC content.

It took me a bit to get the hang of it, but once I did I was hooked. I completed the game on easy after a few restarts. I want to play it again on medium next. I like this game a lot like Gears of War Tactics. That game had the a teammate can be downed before killed, unlike in X-Com. Both good and I would recommend. If you are into Warhammer 40k then all the better.

Save system sucks ass. One mis-click erased 5 days. GG I guess