Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Developer Complex Games
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is a turn-based tactics game set in the Games Workshop's Gothic science fiction Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. It was developed by Complex Games and was published by Frontier Foundry. The game was released on Windows on 5 May 2022, with PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions available on 20 February 2024. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
433 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
173 positive · 116 negative
95% range 54–65%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 173 | 116 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 1 | 91 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 14 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
7,410 of 9,540 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
60% recommend · 159 yes, 106 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 265 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (11,368 of 14,846 positive).
Players compare the game to XCOM with Warhammer 40K Grey Knights. [1][2][3] Many find the difficulty punishing, even on easier settings. [4][5][6] Some praise the writing and story, while others criticize balance and bugs. [7][8][9]
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- [6]
The game is just too hard, even on normal difficulty. It's grueling, unforgiving, and made in a way that if you don't optimize everything to the T, you're going to fail missions, and soon the whole campaign. At that point, you have to restart the entire campaign... 20-30h of gameplay down the drain. The game is so hard, that you'll have to save constantly, cause one small mistake could be fatal. There's absolutely …
- [9]
I have thousands of hours in XCOM2. I bought this game on release. 2 weeks into it there was a bug that bricked my last 3 save files (game would fail to load them). Upon trying to play through it by going back hours in time, I encountered yet another bug where the turn would soflock on the enemy turn without flipping back control to me. Came back years later, the issues still exist. I'm sorry but this was probably …
- [4]
After beating the campaign, and before I jump into the next one to try and collect more achievements, I figured I'd leave a review. First off: This game is hard as balls, even for somebody familiar with the XCOM genre like me. I will attach four helpful tips at the end of this review which may make your life easier if you give the game a shot after reading this. The game is also a bit janky in some regards, but in …
- [7]
I have probably written very few Steam reviews, but this time I decided to go for it. I started and restarted this game about three times. It humbled me so hard that I eventually switched to Easy. And Emperor help me, it is still very good. Positives: 1. The writing is excellent. I do not remember playing a turn based game with writing this strong. Characters feel believable, interesting, and accurate to the lore. …
- [8]
BAD BALANCING!!!! This game has probably got the worst balancing issues I've ever seen in a game of it's class (turn based squad combat). The game features heavy impact rng elements both in combat and in campaign, which can and potentially will ruin your day. You can literally lose an entire campaign worth days of gaming to rng factors. The same accounts for battles. When I first started this game I played on …
Summarised from 34 of the 359 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters sits at 60% positive across 289 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. During the 26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters for "Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year".
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Reactions
60 of 433 · most liked firstyou sometimes forget just how much WW1 fucked up Britain until you, uh, look at any of their art, watch any of their shows, read any of their poems, or play a single game of Warhammer 40,000
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neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Cirno Sunday! The current vibe is thinking about Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun! ngl Boltgun was a tough game 😤 the game was filled to the brim with thrilling combat, and the levels were fun to explore, it was an awesome game! I hope you have a wonderful day, I send love and positivity your way 💛☺️
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neutral · AI labelView post →After beating the campaign, and before I jump into the next one to try and collect more achievements, I figured I'd leave a review. First off: This game is hard as balls, even for somebody familiar with the XCOM genre like me. I will attach four helpful tips at the end of this review which may make your life easier if you give the game a shot after reading this. The game is also a bit janky in some regards, but in my opinion, it is the charming kind of jank. Don't expect too grimdark…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One thing I love about Warhammer 40,000 is that it always starts with playing a wonderful game, 'Who is Your Warlord and What Does He Do?'
positive · AI labelView post →there’s a sci fi game/expanded universe called Warhammer 40,000 where people called “blanks” have no soul and everyone else reacts to them with an instinctive disgust before they even know what they are. It’s probably the same feeling seeing people on here talk about their Claude prompts
neutral · AI labelView post →It is with a heavy heart and a righteous fury that I submit this report. The tactical simulations provided to our initiates—codenamed Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters—are not merely flawed; they are an affront to the Emperor’s strategic brilliance. If our Brothers fought as these simulations dictate, the Segmentum Solar would have fallen millennia ago. 1) The Sin of Indolence (Lack of Testing). The cogitators governing this simulation are plagued by scrapcode. On numerous deployments, the sacred…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Yakuza 3 & 4 Remastered -Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun -Maneater -GRIS -Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty -Space Engineers -Paw Patrol World
neutral · AI labelView post →This used to be my go to game while traveling, on airplanes, etc but now requires you to be online every time you boot it up just to play an entirely single player game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (2023) is presently 60% off on Steam!
neutral · AI labelView post →We're excited to share the new artwork for Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2🔥 Nyra takes takes centre stage alongside Malum on a battlefield of Chaos factions. Thank you @wire.xbox.com for revealing the new artwork, which was created by Johan Grenier who also made the original Boltgun art too!
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is cool but bad. i played like 6 "xcom like" to the end in 2 years and i stop on this one out of boredom. Initially i felt the difficutly in normal mode was comically hard until i realised what internet can tell you, there is 1 way to build a team : The interceptor center piece and a bunch of cheerleaders. It completely trivialise the game but its nescessary if you don't want to redo the same mission 3 times in row. You can't play ranged or defensive because the computer plays…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000 Imperial Knight video game. Requires Steel Battalion controller
neutral · AI labelView post →Xbox Game Pass continues strong. • May 29 | Metaphor ReFantazio • June 10 | Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Master Crafted Edition • June 13 | The Alters • June 17 | FBC: Firebreak • June 17 | Lost in Random: The Eternal Dice • June 19 | Rematch
neutral · AI labelView post →I should love Chaos Gate and I'm ploughing on with it until something else grabs my attention, but I can't honestly recommend it. Imagine if XCOM and Rogue Trader had a baby that got the worst bits of both - that's Chaos Gate. Never have I missed XCOM's random number generator more, and that difference is supposedly one of the good things about the game. And it's actually more annoying than that because there are plenty of random events that can be much more crippling and annoying than…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to Game Pass news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0... Today -Avowed 2/20 -EA Sports F1 24 -Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Standard) 2/25 -Watch Dogs: Legion (Standard)
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is just too hard, even on normal difficulty. It's grueling, unforgiving, and made in a way that if you don't optimize everything to the T, you're going to fail missions, and soon the whole campaign. At that point, you have to restart the entire campaign... 20-30h of gameplay down the drain. The game is so hard, that you'll have to save constantly, cause one small mistake could be fatal. There's absolutely no space for any sort of mistakes starting from about 1/3 of the game. If you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have thousands of hours in XCOM2. I bought this game on release. 2 weeks into it there was a bug that bricked my last 3 save files (game would fail to load them). Upon trying to play through it by going back hours in time, I encountered yet another bug where the turn would soflock on the enemy turn without flipping back control to me. Came back years later, the issues still exist. I'm sorry but this was probably one of my top 5 worst purchases in the last 3 years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best Warhammer 40,000. The best Codex. The best game. #Warhammer40000
positive · AI labelView post →I love how insanely board games stretch fictional time. We played this five hour game of Warhammer 40,000 (Kill Team). Epic, thrilling, full of suspense. My brother in christ, in reality it would be like 30 seconds.
positive · AI labelView post →Stopped letting me play it when I went offline. That'll teach me not to check for this Denuvo nonsense. I'll know better next time, but for now? Don't support this anti-consumer trash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THE GAME: Warhammer 40,000 is a squad-level minatures game, which means it is about moving little men across a table which represents part of a planet and pretending that the little men are shooting and punching each other. Jules Verne did this too, so it's intellectual
positive · AI labelView post →More about our next game, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy - store.steampowered.com/news/app/371...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a quick list of recently released and upcoming games developed/published by them: > - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 > - Exploding Kittens VR > - A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead > - MudRunner VR > - Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered > - RoadCraft > - World War Z VR > - The Knightling > - Docked > - John Carpenter's Toxic Commando > - Bus Bound > - Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival > - Road Kings > - Hitman Classic Trilogy Remastered > - Jurassic Park Survival > - Rails of Fury: Train…
neutral · AI labelView post →The spike in difficulty is too quick and too sharp, but this would be ok if it wasn't for the fact that there is only one autosave, and it's after the end of every action, not at the start or end of a turn. The game clearly wants you to save-scum it, because every action is punishable and of the 10 possible outcomes, only 1 is the right one. Worst of all, the option to restart a mission takes you to the start of the mission, regardless of whether or not you are at the second stage of said…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is $19.79 on Steam buff.ly/j37Ajyf $27.99 US PSN buff.ly/JBNcMVa PS5/XSX $29.99 Amazon amzn.to/3OKFmDl #ad Deck playable also on Game Pass Premium
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate/PC: • Today | Avowed • Feb 20 | EA Sports F1 24 • Feb 20 | Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader • Feb 25 | Watch Dogs: Legion Watch Dogs: Legion and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader also coming to Standard. news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Extremely frustrating This is the most frustrating game I've played this year. For every one thing it does well, it seems to balance it out with five things it does badly. The game is essentially an attempt to make an XCOM-like game, but it focuses on and amplifies some of the weirdest aspects of XCOM while leaving out a lot of the things that made XCOM work so well. The Commander You play as a commander, just like in XCOM. Your character is essentially a faceless and voiceless avatar…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially in development, Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive have announced. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/warhamm...
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 got a new update today that added in FSR 3, making the game look nicer on the #SteamDeck without harming performance: steamdeckhq.com/warhammer-40...
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is $10.99 on US PSN buff.ly/3P87oIP $9.89 XBL buff.ly/3YgmGiL (Steam) $12.09 Gamebillet buff.ly/4gScdBP also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →XCOM but Grey Knights... Should tell you all that you need to know in order to make a decision for yourself. It says no steam deck support but i've enjoyed 80 total hours of play time on my steam deck exclusively. Some things are a little difficult to read at times but nothing a little manual zoom in (bring the screen to your face) won't fix. lol. The DLC are mixed bag, the assasins one is cool but the mechanicus one with the dreadnought and tech marine are optional and all they do ius make…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played Total War: Warhammer 40,000, and I think it might be the "definitive" game for the 40k setting it's aiming to be www.eurogamer.net/total-war-wa...
positive · AI labelView post →Like others have said- basically WH40K meets XCOM. However, the difficulty scaling is absolutely absurd. It'd be fine if the game mechanics were better balanced towards this. Bloom is basically the Avatar project from XCOM but in every mission, and it rises 25% every turn + 5-10% if you use "warp" based abilities. This leads to any random hat pull of enemy buffs, extra pod spawns, or debuffs for you. You have a squad limit of 4 typically, but even tiny autoguns will do like 3-5 HP out of your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games Coming to Game Pass Core on October 1 -Cities: Skylines – Remastered -Disney Dreamlight Valley -Warhammer 40,000: Darktide news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →Spring Sale has already begun on EGS and PlayStation! Grab Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader and additional content for the game with discounts up to 45%!
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer game naming scheme: Warhammer 40,000: (Scary word)(Word that would be used in relation to the inquisition)
neutral · AI labelView post →'Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Master Crafted Edition' launches June 10th on Xbox Series and PC. Also Game Pass Day One. youtu.be/UvStsBY9fTI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass: Death Stranding Director’s Cut, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II, and more! news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →The core gameplay is solid, but some of the design decisions are baffling. I have no idea why the game forces you to completely enable or disable things like ship warp-travel cutscenes in the options menu instead of simply letting players skip them with a mouse click when they don't want to watch them. Another issue is movement. There is no reason the game couldn't let you press Tab to switch control to another soldier while one is moving. Instead, you're forced to sit there and watch a single…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe Finally Gets a Meaningful Update as Games Workshop Makes Significant Amazon Announcements.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm an XCOM veteran and a WH40k enjoyer, and I loved this game. If that describes you, you'll likely enjoy it too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried getting into this game, but it is so frustrating that I cannot recommend it. Chaos Gate - Daemon hunters is an X-Com style game in a Warhammer 40K setting. This is a combination that should sell like hot cookies but the game drops the ball on the technical level. The game is riddled with so many annoying bugs. Sometimes the game will refuse to launch and just hang there, you'll have to kill the game in task manager and try again. FPS drops randomly during combat, my rig should…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wins best PC game at Gamescom.
neutral · AI labelView post →Really wanted to enjoy this game. I am not a huge Warhammer fan, but I appreciate the lore. The first few missions felt fine, then I took a break and came back later. That is when things started to fall apart. The interface is hard to read, and it’s difficult to tell your knights apart beyond their names. Getting back into the campaign was confusing, and the game quickly forced me into missions that felt overwhelmingly difficult. I don’t mind a challenge, but this feels unbalanced. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Take X-COM2, put a WH40k skin on it, then make every aspect of the game, e.g. combat, progression, weapons, ui, movement, maps and even scroll speed (ffs!) much worse. On top have a ridiculous (bloom) counter in every mission that spawns hordes and hordes of enemies that each act so slowly and in sequence that you fall asleep every other turn. Top it all off with a "enemies move when you first see them" mechanic that get's old already in the second encounter. This is not turn based tactic. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have probably written very few Steam reviews, but this time I decided to go for it. I started and restarted this game about three times. It humbled me so hard that I eventually switched to Easy. And Emperor help me, it is still very good. Positives: 1. The writing is excellent. I do not remember playing a turn based game with writing this strong. Characters feel believable, interesting, and accurate to the lore. Their interactions make sense. I am genuinely glad I stopped and came…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While God of War Ragnarok is an amazing game, I believe Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader should have won the Best Game on #SteamDeck award at the 2024 Steam Awards: steamdeckhq.com/warhammer-40...
neutral · AI labelView post →I really wanted to like this, but I just can't recommend it. I am admittedly not great at turn based games and usually don't enjoy them, but I make exceptions if it is in a universe I like. Enjoyed XCOM, loved the Rogue Trader CRPG. Thought this would be fine. I found it oppressively difficult. Like after my first mission I am getting my teeth smashed. Grey Knight in terminator armor dying to two cultists sharing a rusty shotgun was quite the wakeup call. There is a mechanic where a meter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the hardest slog games I've ever reluctantly enjoyed. "X-COM WITH WARHAMMER 40K GREY KNIGHTS" That's it, that's the game. You should be interested, it sounds awesome. X-com like map, x-com like base, x-com like squad, mechanics, turns, even an x-com like abrupt ending. However, this game (especially if you tick on the special addon enemies) is damn near impossible for poorly designed reasons. If you're playing on hard, you will lose. Period. The game mechanic that separates…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's so, so much I love about this game but when it comes to difficulty balancing it smacks of junior designers not understanding that you need players to leave your game wanting more, and not leaving frustrated. If I get the sequel it won't be until it is heavily discounted.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What happens when a game character comes to life and turns into a real physical figurine? It may just find its way into the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy Collector’s Edition and even shape the appearance of your future companion! The article in the comment section below!
neutral · AI labelView post →Ep. 465 - It’s Not Called Peacehammer Only the Insert Credit panel could cover the fan response to Bioware’s closure, explain all of Warhammer 40,000 in six minutes, and design a Nathan Fielder video game. insertcredit.com/show/465
neutral · AI labelView post →So I’d written about the first Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine before, which I’d assumed was the first ever Games Workshop Space Marine, but turns out that accolade goes to ‘Doctor Who: The Game of Time & Space’ from 1980.
neutral · AI labelView post →A huge thank you to everyone who has played and reviewed Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 so far. Reviews help us a lot and we appreciate every single one! We are very proud to be rated at 93% on Steam by our amazing players. Please leave us a game review if you get the chance. ❤️ For the Emperor!
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters has a solid foundation. The combat system is well designed and the atmosphere fits the setting well. While the game is initially enjoyable, the campaign becomes increasingly tedious and repetitive over time. The biggest problem is the lack of variety. The game turns into a grind, particularly with the constantly recurring missions against the Bloom. On top of that, you face the same enemies on the same maps again and again. Once you find a strategy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the game, but what's up with the difficulty level? Even when I choose the easiest setting, I expect to be able to learn everything without any problems. This was anything but an easy game. The Emperor's elite demon slayers play like toy soldiers and fall over after a few hits. I had to abort my first playthrough after 20 hours because I could see that it would be difficult to complete with the mistakes I had made in the setup. My second playthrough was better, but still too…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really fantasic turn based game. Dramatic camera work, rewards careful planning. Xcom 2 but with Space Marines and more testosterone. The story is actually very good, I won't spoil it, but one character in particular earns your respect.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pre-Warhammer 40,000 game selfie. Taking my Eldar out today for the first time.
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