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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Developer Rogue Factor
Mordheim: City of the Damned is a tactical role-playing game video game developed by Rogue Factor, a branch of Cyanide, for Microsoft Windows and published by Focus Home Interactive on November 19, 2015. The game is based on Games Workshop's 1999 tabletop game Mordheim. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
347 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
123 positive · 60 negative
95% range 60–74%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 123 | 60 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 52 | 3 | 90 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
3,873 of 5,623 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
66% recommend · 119 yes, 60 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 179 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (5,965 of 8,479 positive).
Players praise the game's brutal tactical challenge and faithful adaptation of the tabletop. [1][2][3] Many highlight the steep learning curve and punishing RNG as core to the experience. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize poor design choices, tedious movement, and unfair difficulty. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [18]
Not a very tactically rivetting game but doesnt deserve bad reviews because of the rng of some guy whining he lost a 90% roll. The problem is that the atmosphere is nice but the combat slogs on. And on top of that when 70% of your time is simply just moving the characters between item/warpstone pickups where you have to manually move each character of your massive warband every time singularly, slowly, watch the …
- [14]
in my opinon. one of the worst games ive ever played. Brutal RNG. you could be on your very first mission, totally surrounded the enemy captain, miss 8 75% chances in row and lose your hero and 1 henchman. far too unfair to be fun in my eyes
- [1]
I come back to this game so many times because of the pure enjoyment of having a real tactical game with decisions that have to be made for the good of the squad.Sometimes you have to fire your best character you have built due to an injury that destroys all the work you have put into them. My chief complaint is there are only 6 factions when there should be so many more,how i would love a real sequal to this game …
- [5]
You are going to get VERY upset at times, but if you get a good strategy and a team composition with 6 of your members having permanent injuries from missing 95% hit opportunities AND still winning... you are doing better than most of the player base. It doesn't matter how good you are, your warband is the one that suffers. Afterwards, you suffer mentally after your Warlock with no injuries explodes and permanently …
- [2]
Ignore all the other negative reviews. The game is Brutal on purpose. And like other reviews other say its a learning curve... You will fail and lose your first few warbands. Then you will slowly get better understand the mechanics better and enjoy the game more. Its brutal on purpose
Summarised from 34 of the 317 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Mordheim: City of the Damned talk about deep tactical gameplay with meaningful decisions; those who didn't talk about frustrating RNG and unfair difficulty. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received mixed reviews, gaining an average score of 74/100 on Metacritic. Some reviewers praised the "pleasantly morbid" atmosphere and deep game mechanics as befitting the tabletop original, but the game AI, steep and unforgiving learning curve, and technical issues (particularly user interface and load times) were described as frustrating. Rock, Paper, Shotgun was particularly critical of the "uninspiring", "unexciting" and "languid" combat, calling the game "dumb" and "flawed".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 347 · most liked firstSo, who wants a Mordheim inspired game from the guy who wrote the rules for Warcry, Games Workshop’s best wargame for years? Because that’s what you can get* if you click this link. * well, the beta rules at any rate.
neutral · AI labelView post →Campaigns I want to GM in 2025… - Mothership, crew focused again. - Wonderland, maybe 5e Victorian reskin? - Anime fantasy, super diverse. Maybe Old School Stylish? - Mork Borg with a Mordheim style mercenary band theme. - Some non violent slice of life game. 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →This game board may kill me. But I am determined to find victory. If anyone has experience with resin pours. Lemme know. #mordheim #dethwizards #tabletop #28mm
neutral · AI labelView post →Played my first game of Mordheim in a decade, and the first chance for the Merry Miners to have some table time. As I remember the game is great fun - I was thoroughly losing until a Daemon randomly turned up and started eating my opponents, so we teamed up to defeat it. #Nerdlings #Mordheim
positive · AI labelView post →Mordheim weekend begins! My first game was an ignominious defeat - my ninja master fell out of a window and was immediately captured... hoping for better dice in Game 2!
neutral · AI labelView post →My Marienburg Pirate Ogre. He did good in game. #mordheim #minaturepainting #tabletopgaming #3dprinting #fantasygames
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to Advance 2025! A game con in San Diego for #Mordheim. Had a great time. Taught a lot of people to play. #miniatures #minaturepainting #tabletopgaming #28mm #3dprinting
positive · AI labelView post →I've painted an entire Mordheim warband - the game was just coming out when I started and it was always something I wanted to do but for some reason I never did it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Another friend for my new warband. 8 more to go #swill #turnip28 #mordheim #skirmishgame
neutral · AI labelView post →And now, to something completely different. Mordheim terrain. The window frame is lasercut, from Iliada Game Studio. The mini used for scale is from @northstarfigs.bsky.social #miniaturepainting #tabletopterrain #mordheim
neutral · AI labelView post →It was a gong show of game. The vampire mowed thru my rats until against the odds. He was taken down. The rout never happened & the u dead were out back in the ground. #mordheim #minaturepainting #tabletopgaming #3dprinting #fantasygames
neutral · AI labelView post →Pissing about playing Mordheim this afternoon. It’s a silly game, but light and entertaining. Attempting to loot an old Dwarf mine.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I popped down to the local club for another adventure into Mordheim. As well as an excellent game, we may have also made a new convert to the game, one of the other club members (who usually plays 40k apparently) showing a lot of interest in it.
positive · AI labelView post →Not a very tactically rivetting game but doesnt deserve bad reviews because of the rng of some guy whining he lost a 90% roll. The problem is that the atmosphere is nice but the combat slogs on. And on top of that when 70% of your time is simply just moving the characters between item/warpstone pickups where you have to manually move each character of your massive warband every time singularly, slowly, watch the animations for dropping and climbing, watch the animation for it picking up the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played my first game of Mordheim, with my Carnival and beat my buds Witchhunters with oversized squeaky hammers and a ripe dose of smelly clown shoe. It did leave me with the impression that I need more residential terrain, so in a fever pitch I whipped this up. #mordheim #warhammer #miniatures
positive · AI labelView post →Final product for the week. Want to fill a 4x4 with a ruined village to play everyone’s favourite fantasy skirmish game? I got you covered! This set will be used at a Mordheim event, couldn’t be a better fit! Perfect for a bit of Frostgrave too #warhammer #mordheim #frostgrave
neutral · AI labelView post →#Mordheim ogre. Played a quirky game called monster mash which is king of the hill in Mordheim and won with this guy. #miniatures #minaturepainting #tabletopgaming #28mm
neutral · AI labelView post →Made a new friend last night and played my first game of Mordheim in 20+ years. Rocked. Something nice to keep my heart warm through the horrors of my mind prison today.
positive · AI labelView post →Sixteen in attendance at Glasgow Phoenix. What a Tanker, Arcs, Warriors of Athena, Tales from the Red Dragon Inn and Mordheim. Mostly though, it was my very pretty AWI game which saw a club debut for Honours of War
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight was Mordheim night for me down at the Clubhouse. Tonight's game was against a gang of Chaos Dwarfs, new arrivals in the city. My veteran mercenaries made short work of them, but the disparity between the two warbands meant the Chorfs gained a significant amount of experience.
neutral · AI labelView post →Night of the black moon game 1 was close but I lost 🫠. I had killed three of his henchmen & we were tied on objectives. But I lost my rout test and fled. Still? A really fun game. #mordheim #miniatures #tabletopgaming #miniaturepainting #28mm
positive · AI labelView post →I painted up this ogre from the 1992 Battle Masters game to use as a hired sword in Mordheim #warhammer #mordheim #theoldworld #warhammertheoldworld ##warhammerfantasybattle #battlemasters
neutral · AI labelView post →Awww yeah, it's Mordin' Time! Board setup for Game 1 #mordheim #nerdlings
neutral · AI labelView post →We played an absolutely massive game of Mordheim down at the club tonight. Huge fun was had despite the rampant chaos inherent in such a large game. And my Gnawing Tide got some tabletop time, although they quickly ran away as rats are wont to do.
positive · AI labelView post →I come back to this game so many times because of the pure enjoyment of having a real tactical game with decisions that have to be made for the good of the squad.Sometimes you have to fire your best character you have built due to an injury that destroys all the work you have put into them. My chief complaint is there are only 6 factions when there should be so many more,how i would love a real sequal to this game and i would buy it in an instant.This is a game that reaches the heights of what…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last game of the #Mordheim campaign is Thursday. Needed some bigger guns. So I hired Veskit. I’ve had this model since 2001 #warhammer #miniatures #minaturepainting #tabletopgaming #28mm
neutral · AI labelView post →Excited to play my first game of Mordheim tonight. I'm bringing my undead warband, "Count de Magpyr's Creatures of ze Night".
positive · AI labelView post →I spent yesterday at Clubhouse in Newcastle playing a narrative Mordheim campaign. My Dark Elves won 2 out of 3 games, but lost their leader in game 1. A great day.
positive · AI labelView post →One last Prime Gaming Giveaway.... ...before this account dies. Sorry for being so dramatic, but since my instance is closing down, i'll quickly give away some GoG codes I have lying around. Just mention which game you would want (and make sure you intend to play it) and also write one or two lines about some good gaming memories you would like to share. One game per account and account must be more than a week old. - Blood Omen 2 : Legacy of Kain - Wild Country - Mordheim: City of the…
neutral · AI labelView post →Yo, for anyone who has too much free time now that Tiktok is banned *opens trechcoat* can I interest you in a game called Mordheim?
neutral · AI labelView post →Played Mordheim the Clattering. It’s a fast paced Wyrdstone collecting game with random encounters. PVP and PVE with a game master narrating. #morheim #minatures #tabletopgaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Eighteen in attendance across seven game tonight at Glasgow Phoenix. Coalitions, Hit Z Road, Creel Manor board games, and O Group, Dragon Rampant, Mordheim and Blood Bowl 7s.
neutral · AI labelView post →Might grab these are the starting part of my "Old rules, new sculpt" Mordheim idea for the new year as both look cool and would really look the part in a small skirmish game. (would it be based in Mordheim or more modern in Embargard?) #warhammercommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →A few pics from my game of #mordheim last night. Witch Hunters vs Dark Elves. Got my ass kicked but had a blast as always. #warhammerfantasy #warhammercommunity #oldhammer
positive · AI labelView post →The #CityOfAsh #Skaven #Spearhead is complete. Gonna throw a sealer on it and it'll be game-ready! Liking how they turned out. Bonus: I can use the minis for s Skaven Mordheim warband, too! #MiniaturePainting #AgeOfSigmar #WarhammerCommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →So I found the 26 year old rulebook for Mordheim; not only is it a lot fluffier & way cooler than Warhammer- This game also seem better built for dungeon delving than D&D ever was. As the city is assumed to be enormous, there's no map & you discover random things as you explore deeper.
positive · AI labelView post →People will tell you things like "Mordheim: City of the Damned is: a bad translation of the tabletop game" or "It's janky, and mediocre even when it works" but I will have you know this giant mfer is named Legeater Maw and he wants to make sure you have a bad day
positive · AI labelView post →I went into this hoping for something that captured even a fraction of what makes Mordheim on the tabletop so compelling. Instead, I found a game that misunderstands its own source material at almost every level. Combat has very little depth. Positioning, clever plays, or long term planning barely matter when most encounters boil down to swarming a target in melee and rolling the dice until it collapses. There’s no real sense of tactics just numbers and luck. The AI doesn’t help matters either.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had a great first game of Mordheim tonight. The highlight of the game for me was my ghoul diving down and charging a rat from a balcony, only to knock itself out on the pavement before achieving anything.
positive · AI labelView post →Some late night stress insomnia painting. The latest 3 board tiles for my Modular Mordheim Game Board.
neutral · AI labelView post →I repurposed this plastic crossbowman from the old Battle Masters game to use as a Tilean Marksman for Mordheim #warhammer #mordheim ##oldhammer #warhammerfantasybattle #warhammertheoldworld
neutral · AI labelView post →Had another fantastic game of Mordheim tonight in preparation for an all day event on Saturday. My mercenary pirates versus Clan Pestilence. The "Browne Ale Buccaneers" managed to come out on top by the skin of their teeth after a close game.
positive · AI labelView post →Millennial fever gripped many on the streets and at the gaming table with one of Warhammer’s greatest ever boxed releases - the skirmish game Mordheim. Were you good enough that year for a copy to be left under the Mondstille tree?
neutral · AI labelView post →Somehow DEAD GODS has been in the top 10 for several weeks now. A rules lite skirmish game for fans of Frostgrave and Mordheim trollish-delver-games.itch.io/dead-gods
neutral · AI labelView post →Been playing Mordheim a bit lately, such a great game. Was fun to kitbash some Kislevites, especially the strelski with Thier halberd gun rests and handguns.
positive · AI labelView post →Pulled out my #CitiesofSigmar and #Mordheim stuff. Someday I’ll actually play a game beyond Spearhead. #WarhammerCommunity #AgeofSigmar #Warhammer
neutral · AI labelView post →A Witch Hunter Captain, ready to lead their band of merry adventurers through the winding streets of Mordheim I don't think you're allowed mounts in the game, but it all fits on a small enough base, so I made an exception 🐓 #nerdlings #mordheim #kitbash #witchhunter #wargaming #grimdark
neutral · AI labelView post →Classic WFB "friends" I still use for the odd Mordheim game
neutral · AI labelView post →Ill be playing in a game of Mordheim at BOYL this year. Lewis is running the beige of Praag! Should be fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had an incredible time playing Mordheim again yesterday (with the Socal Mordheim Group) at Geeky Teas. Love the game, but I'm also just deeply restored by playing anything over a table top with a group of nerds in a great space.
positive · AI labelView post →Got a Mordheim league game tonight. My Wood Elves are facing off against the Sisters of Sigmar. The board is set! Get to use the new river we painted up last month! #Mordheim #Warhammer #miniatures
neutral · AI labelView post →There are just a MASSIVE number of extremely stupid design decisions ruining an otherwise good gamel I cannot recommend it, even with mods that alleviate some of the worst aspects. For instance...the "lockout" zone around your characters shuts off ALL actions..like opening your wagon chest, praying and looting downed enemies. TOTAL NONSENSE. Ive played the table top game and its..not like that at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know a game is good when all the negative reviews are people describing how they got filtered
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a cult classic, its a janky mess thats entirely unfair but somehow ends up fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sunday morning Mordheim in Milwaukee for day 1613 of the #hobbystream. Played the Skaven who was mostly wiped out by a necromancer and his vampire. Great looking boards, and I seemed to recall the rules from a game I have not played in decades. #mordheim #gamesworkshop
positive · AI labelView post →Mordheim, Bloodbowl, and AoS! (MESBG today was rescheduled to Friday) I need to play more games, this still isn’t enough.
neutral · AI labelView post →in my opinon. one of the worst games ive ever played. Brutal RNG. you could be on your very first mission, totally surrounded the enemy captain, miss 8 75% chances in row and lose your hero and 1 henchman. far too unfair to be fun in my eyes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A tense Mordheim game on Friday that saw a lone Shaman on the run from an entire marienberg warband thanks to some spectacularly poor rolls in the surprise attack scenario. Lost another grot, and in the wake of losing my leader last week, they’re getting harder to replace.
positive · AI labelView post →Finney's Orc warband. Nick Lund Citadel, Marauder, and 90s era monopose plastic Goblins. Much Animosity was on display. #mordheim #Nerdlings #oldhammer
neutral · AI labelView post →An 8 player game of Mordheim to end the campaign.
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