Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Game
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Developer Fatshark
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a first-person action video game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, developed and published by Fatshark. It is a spiritual successor to the Warhammer: Vermintide series. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 30 November 2022. It also was released for Xbox Series X/S on 4 October 2023, and for PlayStation 5 on 3 December 2024. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
768 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
451 positive · 176 negative
95% range 68–75%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 451 | 176 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 17 | 2 | 85 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 19 |
| 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
70,520 of 92,824 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 196 yes, 97 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 293 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (100,200 of 139,916 positive).
Players praise the game's satisfying combat and immersive 40k atmosphere. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize performance issues, especially on AMD cards. [4][5][6] Several players complain about the lack of a solo mode and poor community behavior. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [14]
They are focusing on the wrong things. You could add 100 new classes with skills and whatever, it doesnt matter. What the game needs is actual content. There are like 16 story missions you can play, and some of them are variants of maps you have already played. There is a severe lack of content regarding missions, progression of character, replayability etc. It feels lazy. Don't get me wrong, some things about this …
- [5]
EDIT: I've swapped from a 7900 XTX to a 4080. Wow. It's a HUGE difference. The game still needs DLSS as a crutch, but many of the lag issues are resolved by using an nVidia card. The experience is definitely night and day. So... RTX card? Sure, maybe get this game on sale. AMD however... steer clear unless you're fine with tons of setting adjustments and editing your .cfg's for every single update, big or small. …
- [1]
Post-Brexit London has never been rendered in such loving detail, the knife crime is incredibly accurate and the locals look spot on, 10 Tea and biscuits outta 10!
- [2]
Performance can be rough from patch to patch. Cosmetics are overpriced. But there is no better horde shooter out there. 40k/10
- [3]
Probably the best horde shooter ever made. Everything from the maps, classes, weapons, enemies and music oozes 40k atmosphere, almost on par with Owlcat's Rogue Trader. The combat is seemingly simple but has incredibly high skill ceiling which is supported by a vast amount of difficulty options and map modifiers so you can play as casually or sweaty as you like. Haven't had a single technical issue or disconnect …
Summarised from 34 of the 388 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: Darktide sits at 72% positive across 627 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
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Reactions
60 of 768 · most liked firstThey are focusing on the wrong things. You could add 100 new classes with skills and whatever, it doesnt matter. What the game needs is actual content. There are like 16 story missions you can play, and some of them are variants of maps you have already played. There is a severe lack of content regarding missions, progression of character, replayability etc. It feels lazy. Don't get me wrong, some things about this game is amazing. Like the combat, gunfeeling etc. Top notch. 100%. But they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post-Brexit London has never been rendered in such loving detail, the knife crime is incredibly accurate and the locals look spot on, 10 Tea and biscuits outta 10!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you 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
neutral · AI labelView post →As much as this pains me because I do truly love the concept of this game & it can be fun when it functions properly, but I do not care for Fatshark as a Developer for a myriad of reasons (I'll get into this later on). I'm really torn somewhere in the middle with this decision. This review would be more in the 'mixed category,' but since there's only two options... So, with a heavy heart... I do not recommend this game & I'll explain my reasoning as to why here in a bit. Plus, to possibly save…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Haven't played since early 2024. Came back and found all my progess gone as they re-worked progession and difficulty in September 2024. I was forced to play from difficulty 1 on all my operatives unlocking diffuclty as I go grinding to unlock expedtions so I can play with my freinds. Disapointingly spent hours grinding on my Ogyrn before giving up. Decided I'd wait for the new class and start from scatch. Then I thought those who want help ask for it. I went on the fatshark support fourm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game but the community sucks. I had one game where I wasn't at my best and my "team" refused to revive me. Bear in mind I got knocked about 3 times. They just started insulting me in chat and effectivly didnt let me play. I would like a single player feature so I can avoid this horrific community, otherwise its not very fun to play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game, fun classes. No solo mode is unacceptable, however. Vermintide II had a wonderful solo mode and bot support. You have a private server function in this one, yet require a second player to use it for no reason. Less features then predecessors is not acceptable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fire your CEO and most of your executives because this is just insane. You are KILLING something with huge potential, which is 100% on the leadership. The gameplay is excellent, the ambiance is great, the scenery is incredible, and they get the setting right. But it just begins to feel like the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. They've focused more on making sure the in-game cosmetic purchases work 100 percent at a high price than fixing bugs and expanding the game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →performance bad, game good, if performance good then game good but when game crash game bad. want throw big rock but big rock no work when game no work and that make ogryn sad :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EDIT: I've swapped from a 7900 XTX to a 4080. Wow. It's a HUGE difference. The game still needs DLSS as a crutch, but many of the lag issues are resolved by using an nVidia card. The experience is definitely night and day. So... RTX card? Sure, maybe get this game on sale. AMD however... steer clear unless you're fine with tons of setting adjustments and editing your .cfg's for every single update, big or small. Summary for this game is very mixed. as you can tell by the time invested, I'm…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Runs like ass. 20 gigs of ram usage issue only exclusively available for AMD gpu users Like dawg I don't care if the issue stems from the driver, fix your ♥♥♥♥. Work with AMD, Talk to them jeez like every other devs out there. Will be putting down this review and the game until this crap is fixed. I'm not rolling back my driver just to play 1 game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont want to play with randos, they ruin the fun. I want to explore the maps but they just run ahead, abandon everything and there's no way to host my own private game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for March includes: 🛡️ Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 🏈 EA Sports Madden NFL 26 🃏 Persona 5 Royal 🩸 Blasphemous 2 …and more. The full lineup play.st/4rqomTq
neutral · AI labelView post →Just gonna leave a bad review here because the devs think it’s okay to make their customers go through their forums to make the game playable on AMD cards, even though the fixes are very simple .ini changes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly fun and well made video game when it is playable, emphasis and when it's playable, I swear upon the golden throne if i get one more error 2014 I am going to punch a hole through my wall with so much rage im going to open a portal to the warp in my bedroom and accidentally summon an army of khornate berserkers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's quite surprising how the performance is still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ after 4 years of development, and they never try to fix it either.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FatShark, I love your game, but for **** sake, spend some of those overpriced cosmetic profits on testing. It's been 3 years now yet you've reset the skill trees AGAIN after implementing what a modder already achieved months ago. Stop making it so hard for my friends to enjoy your game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i got this in early access...for more than current base price. no imperial edition either. since then we have gotten: 0 new cosmetics buyable without real money 0 promises fulfiled, including a backtrack on free classes and solo mode 20+ premium cosmetic sets that cost over $12 EACH and $12 class dlcs with seperate cosmetic dlcs meanwhile the main gameplay has barely improved since. Fatshark are traitors to their fanbase. do not buy this, even on sale. let nugle have atoma.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR - wait 2 to 3 more years before you buy this game, or at least until fatshark decides to address these issues. I want to start this review by saying that I love this game. I've run hundreds and thousands of auric level mission, I've maxed out the levels of both base and DLC classes, I was even there when you only get one talent point for every 5 levels, when the weapon system overhaul was implemented, and even when the penance system was introduced. I've powered through all the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game runs absolutely bloody horrendous on AMD devices. FPS randomly drops from 140+ to 20 whenever you move your mouse, Ray Tracing is forced on by default even if you turn it off in the settings (you have to go into game files to turn it off). There are supposed fixes (which also involve going into game files to change things that the devs weren't bothered to do???) but your mileage may vary, they didn't do anything for me in the slightest. Absolute waste of money and time, if you don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, but the shop rotation annoys me. I want cosmetics but refuse to buy any as long as that sort of predatory monetization remains. Will change review if the shop improves. While I'm at it... Arbites and future classes should be more unique and balanced on release. More biomes, more weaponry, more ship areas, more classes, enemies, bosses, all good stuff. Oh, and give us a reason to grab scriptures/grims at some point. And if AMD GPUs could use some optimization, that would be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zealot go STAB, Ogryn go BONK, Veteran go PEW, Pysker go ZAP, Arbites go WOOF. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Performance can be rough from patch to patch. Cosmetics are overpriced. But there is no better horde shooter out there. 40k/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think this is a very good game. If it wasn't I wouldn't tolerate the roughly thousand times I was randomly disconnected from the server for no adequately explained reason. Nor would I put up with the repeated crashes because I dared to run it on AMD hardware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The recent negative reviews are all from a very small and very loud group of people who are just upset about not getting a class that they want in the game. The game is wonderful and full of amazing gameplay there is nothing else like it. also, the sound track is one of the best i have heard out of a video game, really gets the adrenaline going in a tough fight
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 💛☺️
positive · AI labelView post →Darktide is basically what happens when someone asks, “What if Left 4 Dead, but everyone is constantly yelling about the Emperor and hygiene has clearly never been invented?” And honestly? It kind of works. Let me start with saying this; I have NO EXPERIENCE WITH THE WARHAMMER 40k FRANCHISE... But it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. Right when i dropped into the game, i noticed 1 simple thing... You are very... VERY... squishy, and if you are not with your team mate, you will fall.. FAST.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An absolute blast wrapped in a ticking time bomb of broken code. First off, huge thanks to my brother for gifting me this game—the core cooperative gameplay, combat loop, and atmosphere are genuinely incredible. When you drop into a match, the action is top-tier. My PC completely destroys it at 1080p on extreme settings using frame generation, delivering buttery-smooth performance right out of the gate. The problem is the unmitigated memory leak cancer plaguing this engine. No matter how…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →introducing Warhammer Survivors, created by @aurochdigital.bsky.social using the official Vampire Survivors engine 🔥 get ready to see the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes together in a standalone game that's part of our official Survivors lineage! Coming 2026 😈
neutral · AI labelView post →Probably the best horde shooter ever made. Everything from the maps, classes, weapons, enemies and music oozes 40k atmosphere, almost on par with Owlcat's Rogue Trader. The combat is seemingly simple but has incredibly high skill ceiling which is supported by a vast amount of difficulty options and map modifiers so you can play as casually or sweaty as you like. Haven't had a single technical issue or disconnect during 200+ hours. Finding games is almost instant through quickplay and the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game so much when playing with friends. Hate the game so much when playing with randoms. Most of them plays as though they're speed running and ending up dead anyways. Heck they barely even touch any chests, WTF is this?! Please allow private lobby for solos Edit: After 165 hrs, What I ran into happens a ton on lowest difficulty, as soon as I felt ready to stop playing on Uprising, I rarely ever run into those kinds of players. Hell most other players are extremely helpful.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't get me wrong here, the game really is fun, but it doesn't really seem like fatshark is all that invested in working on anything meaningful except for new DLC characters. They haven't added earnable cosmetics in forever, and at time of writing, they are gearing up to release the third DLC character. In the time that they have added all three, they have only added one new game mode. Again, the game is fun, but its extremely repetitive, and additions to the core of the game itself and…
negative · 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 →Pros: -Music, sound -Locations -Meaty action -Char banter -Easy to get into -Gives challenge, if desired -Events and updates are relatively often. Cons -Customisation bought via in game currency is too flat (red gun or blue gun, green pants or camo pants) -Some events are not bad (new map, new boss) and some are boring (gather amoun of something), and rewards are near useless, unless you are new to the game. -Trapper's net sound may haunt your dreams.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun gameplay loop. Great setting. Amazing music. Incredibly predatory cosmetics shop. Unfun level modifiers. Specific weapon blessings either make the weapon godlike or are completely useless in every shape and form. Way too many poorly explained, useless and needless talents, enemy armour types, damage modifiers etc. (Brittleness, rendering, unyielding, etc.) Overpowered DLC classes (V2, anyone?) The devs seem hell bent on ruining every good part of this game every chance they get. Can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →The core of the game is pure FUN! But for the life of me, I can't get a stable FPS. It fluctuates wildly, jumping anywhere from 20 to 100 FPS, with an average range of 20 to 47. I've tried playing on low and high settings, and I don't use ray tracing. Even when the FPS is on the higher side, the game still stutters! I've tried following optimization guides and reinstalling the game. I really want to recommend this game I really do because it's incredibly fun when it actually works.
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 →Warhammer 40,000: Darktide could be examined in a handful of different ways, and while I plan on going into most of them in this review, there is one that I will not. As someone who could not give a damn about the Warhammer 40,000 IP, world, board game, lore, etc. if I tried, I can not speak to how this game utilizes any of those elements. I will be discussing how Darktide functions as both a game and a piece of software, and anything else will be swiftly ignored. Darktide is a class-based…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a horrendous mix of a GENUINELY super fun and enjoyable game and the worst decisions possible. the gameplay, music and visuals are all amazing, with varied character builds. but then the game itself cant stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the bath at every turn. every update is like 2 steps forward and 5 back, with Fatshark not addressing major problems and glitch's which still are prevalent, such as certain enemies not making the sound to alert you to their presence, or a genuinely anti-player…
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 →In true fatshark fashion, the game went from "Don't buy" at launch, to "pretty decent" 1-2 years later, to "one of the best Coop games I ever played". If you're into 40k and action/coop games this game is for you. If you like crafting different builds on a bunch of different character-classes who all have unique skill-trees and a variety of different weapons with blessings (weapon enchantments) this game is for you. Positives - Satisfying gameplay: The guns feel amazing. The melee combat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game -COULD- be really fun, but it has the same problem as Vermintide 2 where every single random you play with has this urge to rush through the level either leaving you alone to deal with everything, or they just die off in the distance by themselves. In V2 I fixed the issue by just playing solo, but I guess the devs really dislike that since they've removed the option in this game, even if the bots are there. Either get a full party going with people you're comfortable with, or expect…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000 Imperial Knight video game. Requires Steel Battalion controller
neutral · AI labelView post →A great combat system ruined by baffling business decisions, glacial development of content for a live-service game and some of the most persistent game-breaking bugs in any video game I've played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Darktide is basically what happens when someone asks, “What if Left 4 Dead, but everyone is constantly yelling about the Emperor and hygiene has clearly never been invented?” And honestly? It kind of works. Let me start with saying this; I have NO EXPERIENCE WITH THE WARHAMMER 40k FRANCHISE... But it doesn't mean you can't enjoy the game. Right when i dropped into the game, i noticed 1 simple thing... You are very... VERY... squishy, and if you are not with your team mate, you will fall.. FAST.…
positive · 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 →Great game, consistently terrible optimization. Runs like total ♥♥♥♥ even on the lowest settings and the launcher frequently has issues. Still defaults to 16 core use when I only have 6.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blessed be the cogitators. Blessed be the Tech-Priests who coded these long nights of purgation. Blessed be the servers of Fatshark, who in their toil for the Machine God have wrought something worthy of the name grimdark. I have spent 1,143 hours in the underhive of Tertium upon the ash-choked world of Atoma, and I have not yet tired of the slaughter. That, by itself, is a miracle worth recording in the annals. Let this review stand as a hymn of praise — and, Emperor-willing, a thing of use…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PROS: + beautiful and immersive graphics + lots of voiceovers with amusing banter and tidbits of lore + super fun gameplay loop + great feeling of progression (leveling and mechanics knowledge) + friendly community + very enjoyable with friends + devs are constantly balancing and slowly pushing out new content + moddable for QoL changes + LOTS of difficulties/challenges to master CONS: - can feel overwhelming to new players (there's a lot to learn about weapon stats, enemy types, and game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →love the game, but the state of optimization is really sad. somehow gets worse every update
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Leaving a review to counter some of the negative reviews, which doesn't properly reflect the game as a whole and is only a kneejerk reaction to a recent patch (from a particular region of players). Balance changes + nerfs are 100% the right first step towards fixing the broken parts of the game. I haven't used or played with certain weapons/builds for a long time; I'm excited to go try them again after the upcoming changes. Love this game. Yes it has many annoying bugs, some egregious balance…
positive · 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 →tl;dr the game is great. the performance is terrible. let me start by saying this: i love darktide. the game itself is fantastic and i have very few issues with the game part of the game. i cannot say the same about the actual quality of the game as a piece of software however. it is sluggish at the best of times and outright unplayable at the worst. im writing this after a game in which major stutters and disconnects were present nigh constantly throughout (im pretty sure a teammate was also…
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 →This game fill in a niche that is not for everyone, but if you are interested in a melee horde game this is the best out there. Music 10/10 Gameplay 10/10 Graphics: 8/10 Story 2/10 Perforamnce 6/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →love the game so far but my GOD they have to make a longer tutorial for people because quickplay is a coinflip between good teammates and someone who eats dirt
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