Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Developer Saber Interactive
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a 2024 third-person shooter with hack and slash elements developed by Saber Interactive Inc. and published by Focus Entertainment. The sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (2011), it was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 9 September 2024. The game received generally positive reviews from critics. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
1,166 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
783 positive · 241 negative
95% range 74–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 783 | 241 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 19 | 0 | 88 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 18 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 15 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
110,742 of 127,950 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
76% recommend · 331 yes, 107 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 438 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (192,642 of 229,304 positive).
Players praise the game's brutal combat and power fantasy. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the short campaign and repetitive endgame. [4][5][6] Several players complain about developer decisions and monetization. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
I am not giving this game a negative review for anything related to the game. Space Marine 2 is a fantastic game and should be played. I am writing this review in protest of the Saber Interactive CEO, Matthew Karch. On 11 August 2026, former Saber lead writer, Stella Sacco, made a damning post on social media claiming that she was replaced midway through development of Rideshare "Stimulator" with ChatGPT along with …
- [1]
Pros ✔ Titus ✔ big men ✔ big armor ✔ big bugs ✔ pure adrenaline ✔ satisfying executions Cons ✘ Leandros ✘ having eyes & ears when Leandros is in the cutscene ✘ Leandros is breathing the same air as Titus ✘ I cannot legally execute him for being a snitch ✘ He is the human equivalent of an unskippable ad ✘ Leandros ✘ Leandros Rating 9 / 10 game -40,000 / 10 Leandros
- [4]
My take on this game: PROS - Short, concentrated fun. Around 8-10 Hours even if you take your time. - Lots of cool moments and cinematics - Weapons feel heavy and powerful - While optimization is not great, the game handles stuff like having thousands of Tyranids on screen quite well. - Game ran fairly well (80-100 FPS) on my 9700X CPU & 7800XT GPU on Ultra settings. CONS - Story is deep AND wide as a puddle. It's …
- [12]
I love this game, but theres so much wasted potential that it hurts, the main attraction of the game (operations) could be made less repetitive if saber would allow us to play the campaign missions as if they were part of the operations, the huge gaps between new batches of content deplete the playerbase and only when new content arrives makes the game feel alive for a couple weeks at best, also the progression is …
- [5]
I enjoyed the game, but the campaign is too short. It took me roughly 10 hrs to complete. The rest is just repeating the same mission over and over again. I should have waited to buy this... If you're like me, and don't like multiplayer, buy it on a heavy discount. Otherwise, you're not going to get your money's worth. They have no intention of expanding the story. This is basically a live-service game now, with all …
Summarised from 34 of the 535 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
76% of the 438 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. The complaint that keeps coming up: short campaign, around 10 hours. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic, and 87% of critics recommended the game, according to OpenCritic. The game attracted more than 2 million players on its launch day. By October 16, 2024, the game had sold 4.5 million copies. As of April 16, 2026, the player count surpassed 12 million.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 1,166 · most liked firstComes with CertsUpdater 1.5 a background utility developed by Saber Interactive Inc. "Malware in my opinion" The software frequently installs silently in the background alongside game patches or updates without explicit player consent. : It often places files within Windows system directories, creates persistent registry keys, and remains running in the background even after the game is closed or uninstalled. Third-party applications altering root authority access can introduce unexpected…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not giving this game a negative review for anything related to the game. Space Marine 2 is a fantastic game and should be played. I am writing this review in protest of the Saber Interactive CEO, Matthew Karch. On 11 August 2026, former Saber lead writer, Stella Sacco, made a damning post on social media claiming that she was replaced midway through development of Rideshare "Stimulator" with ChatGPT along with all the voice acting in the game being replaced with genAI. on 12 August 2026,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game I really do evidenced by the hours I have sunk into this game but the devs are tone def. My biggest grievance is when they added the new class they took away some pauldrun cosmetics I ALREADY HAD for prestiging every class in the game. The dev response included a gif of Gadriel laughing which is just bad taste. I can understand changing the requirements that is completely valid but I had already earned them and taking away already earned cosmetics is just bad. This is the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have 130 hours on this game and never need to Install EAC. So WHY is Easy Anti Cheat suddenly Needed now. Why is its Kernel level installation suddenly being demanded and enforced after 2 years of not needing to install the kernal version. I can no longer recommend this game after this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The CEO of Saber Interactive is childish and selfish, bragging about using AI and replacing humans. He should just shut up and let the people who actually make the games keep working.
negative · 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 →Great game that delivers an experience unmatched by anything else out there. Shame that Saber/Focus together are completely focused on delivering as many overpriced, underbaked cosmetic DLC as possible. "Please note that this DLC will not be included in the Season Pass 2" for voices and skin tones is garbage. This game was so insanely successful, and you still feel the need to try and wring every cent possible out of your players.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space Marine 2 should be easy to recommend. The combat feels brutal, weapons hit hard, and the presentation nails the Space Marine power fantasy. Unfortunately, terrible faction balance ruins half the game’s content. Compared to Tyranids, Chaos missions are a full difficulty tier higher, not because of smart design, but due to visual clutter, misleading cues, constant flinching, and stun-lock loops that strip player control. Chaos Spawn variants are hard to distinguish, flood encounters in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games Workshop should seriously reconsider allowing Saber Interactive to utilize their IP when their leadership is firing writers and replacing them with AI, this game is a work of art made by human hands in the flawed yet beautiful image of the 40k Setting but I will never support abominable intelligence taking over Human work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros ✔ Titus ✔ big men ✔ big armor ✔ big bugs ✔ pure adrenaline ✔ satisfying executions Cons ✘ Leandros ✘ having eyes & ears when Leandros is in the cutscene ✘ Leandros is breathing the same air as Titus ✘ I cannot legally execute him for being a snitch ✘ He is the human equivalent of an unskippable ad ✘ Leandros ✘ Leandros Rating 9 / 10 game -40,000 / 10 Leandros
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games Workshop discovered the secret underhanded tactic of "make good videogames" and found out it prints infinite money and gets people interested in the tabletop game. Crazy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BUYER BEWARE: this game is BARELY playable on the Steam Deck anymore. I played through the entire campaign and a bunch of multiplayer on the SD at it's lowest settings, but with all the new content that's been added the game now gets stuck in loading screens, can't achieve a playable frame rate and even makes the deck click audibly when on mute. I'm no expert, but I think the game is just too big for the hardware. The game is great, but the 'Playable' Steam Deck rating is no longer accurate, at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so masculine, so testosterone inducing that I grew two exatra set of balls
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My take on this game: PROS - Short, concentrated fun. Around 8-10 Hours even if you take your time. - Lots of cool moments and cinematics - Weapons feel heavy and powerful - While optimization is not great, the game handles stuff like having thousands of Tyranids on screen quite well. - Game ran fairly well (80-100 FPS) on my 9700X CPU & 7800XT GPU on Ultra settings. CONS - Story is deep AND wide as a puddle. It's just "oh no, it's chaos" again. Titus had the potential to be a rogue Space…
positive · 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 →Requiring an online connection for all unlocks and progression is plain BS. If you have even the tiniest interruption in internet for whatever reason, and the game disconnects you and shoves you into offline mode. None of your progress in offline mode counts for any unlocks and gets erased once you go back to the title screen to reconnect or restart the game. That's right, there is no auto-reconnect or option to retry connection, so you can't preserve any of your progress if you happen to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“Absolutely amazing. Thanks to this game, I fell into the grimdark rabbit hole of 40K lore—and I regret nothing!”
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I could like it. As far as authenticity and artistry go, it's a great game. It's obviously made by people who care. But the game design, in my opinion, is bland, uninspired, repetitive and boring. And it's an action game. "Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine." Yeah, I'm trying. Except the tyranid blocks my thunder hammer with a bone sword held in front of its face. Combat feels slow, clunky, stuttering. Half the gameplay feels like a quick time event where you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- get home after stressful day at work - fire up the game - burn some heretics - bath in the blood of alien filth - spam "FOR THE EMPEROR" whenever you travel on the elevator, also offer a handshake to your battle brothers - sleep like a baby - profit
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s like God of War but if Kratos had a gun and was racist. 10/10 would purge xenos for the Emperor any time.
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 →idk crap about 40k lore, but the space marines got sum fire drip good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, but theres so much wasted potential that it hurts, the main attraction of the game (operations) could be made less repetitive if saber would allow us to play the campaign missions as if they were part of the operations, the huge gaps between new batches of content deplete the playerbase and only when new content arrives makes the game feel alive for a couple weeks at best, also the progression is pretty underwelming overall. Although i understand that they are already…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10 Hours of Pure Testosterone I went into this knowing basically nothing about Warhammer 40K… and came out ready to pledge my life to the Emperor. This game just gets what makes games fun. It feels like something straight out of the Xbox 360 golden era - in the best way possible. No bloated open world, no checklist simulator, no nonsense. Just a tight, action-packed campaign that goes hard from start to finish. Yeah, the campaign is only around 10 hours, and it could've been longer but…
positive · 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 →This game is rated GOLD on protondb but it now crashes every 20-30 minutes. I played 86 hours of this game with friends in the past, but no more I guess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Putting PVE rewards under PVP is not only NOT encouraging me to play PVP, it is deterring me from supporting you with further season pass purchases. EDIT: by rewards I am specifically referring to the tabards
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great. But about a month ago, devs pushed a hotfix (14.2 I think) that made the game crash every 20 minutes or so, making it impossible to complete a mission. Game is now unplayable for me. I play on Bazzite/SteamOS. I have over 150 hours in this game with basically no issues until now. The linux community has isolated the cause of the bug to be a shader cache overflow within the game engine. This isn't a problem with my computer specifically, and it affects everyone playing on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For all the linux friends, this game works perfectly under proton! No crashes, no stuttering, just smooth graphics and wonderful gameplay. Praise the omnissiah!
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 →A recent patch causes crashes after 20-30 minutes of play. Have had 0 issues with nearly 100 hours of play until now. Also some recent drama with Saber CEO being a pos. Typical CEO things.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anger management therapy, chainsaw ASMR This game is so masculine that my beard grew a beard. My voice dropped three octaves. My furniture started rearranging itself into tactical formations. My dog now addresses me as “Battle-Brother.” No moral dilemmas. No dialogue wheels. No “maybe the Tyranids have feelings too.” Just eight feet of ceramite-clad fury and a chainsword that solves every philosophical question the universe has ever asked.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow I haven't played a game that's OG Halo good in a long time. Space Marines 2 has got it all: good gameplay, fun extra missions, and BAMF story. You can really tell the devs really put all their heart and hours into this. It's a instant classic and if you miss the good old days, this game is the GOAT P.S. Praise the Omnissiah even with these specs it's playable thanks to the amazing optimization! Sometimes it closes randomly but it never blue screens. At the time of this review I have…
positive · 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 →Gears of Warhammer 2 is an awesome romp through the universe of Warhammer. The combat is brutal and satisfying and the environments are beautifully detailed. The graphics and maps for the game are all very well done. The story is interesting and engaging. This game is pretty bad ass and I loved it. You should definitely try it!
positive · 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 →I enjoyed the game, but the campaign is too short. It took me roughly 10 hrs to complete. The rest is just repeating the same mission over and over again. I should have waited to buy this... If you're like me, and don't like multiplayer, buy it on a heavy discount. Otherwise, you're not going to get your money's worth. They have no intention of expanding the story. This is basically a live-service game now, with all of the microtransactions inherent to that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is A LOT of grinding. The campaign is short, but engaging. But the grind to the best gear and perks is a long one. That grind is still fun, but long.
positive · 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 →Well, campaign and operation mode are legit good, didnt tried PVP and i don't care about it(yet). So what isn't exactly written in the storepage & it's a bit misleading you don't need to buy DLC/cosmetic to get nice better cosmetic parts for your armor ingame, as in different chapters and stuff, i felt weird trying to understand this as some dlcs had champions and others dlcs are only cosmetic wise, but everything doesn't impact standard product so if you want to experience the game you can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love xenophobia and PvE gameplay, this game is for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Non stop dopamine rush and pure high testosterone ripping through hordes with a chainsword and screaming at my monitor FOR THE EMPEROR
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Getting disconnected on siege mode on high waves is super fun. Plus you get absolutely nothing, no xp, no rewards, just the middle finger by Saber.
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 →So far disappointed in the solo experience, this is definitely a co-op game first. Fans of the first game will have to find some friends this time around, as the game is balanced entirely around three marines working together. Unfortunately, the bots do NOT fulfill the role of a person, not even close. They had to make them borderline invincible just to function in the campaign setting, as if they were playing by the same rules as the player they would be eating dirt, constantly. I've now…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After 800+ hours, this is the most satisfying third-person action game I've played since the original. COMBAT SYSTEM (10/10) The parry-execute mechanic is genius. You're not dodging away - you're pushing INTO the swarm, parrying at the last second to trigger brutal executions that restore armor. It creates this aggressive risk-reward loop where playing defensively gets you killed. The game literally forces you to "be the Space Marine." WEAPON VARIETY (8/10) Each weapon class feels distinct.…
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 →1. Play as Titus 2. Invite your duo 3. Bully Charion 4. Attach rockets to Notre Dame 5. Go to space have some fun 6. Try operations, stratagems and SIEGE 7. Kill xenos 8. Kill xenos 9. Kill xenos . . . 40.000. Kill xenos
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 →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 →Great game, glad I finally got around to it from my backlog. Combat is a ton of fun and the giant set pieces you see throughout the various maps and campaign are insane. However, and maybe this isn't an issue for others but it is for me and how I try to play through games... the missions are just way too damn long. They're sick for sure and I enjoy the overall gameplay loop quite a lot actually, keep finding myself wanting to come back to it, but man it'd be way nicer to be able to pop in and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a more dedicated warhammer fan, I'm often annoyed with just how much attention the space marines get compared to the rest of the factions, but this game is a good reminder as to why they are the poster boys for the brand. But for the love of god give drukhari a range refresh PLEASE oh also if this game introduced you to 40k and you want more go play boltgun. Very different style and tone but still fun and brimming with 40k's character. And if you're thinking of getting into warhammer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried to reinstall the game and it wont even boot up now, constant crashing on launch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game I have enjoyed my time with it sadly over time the game keeps getting worse over time. I almost wish I could roll back patches because after a certain point I just dont think the game will be playable The amount of time a new update comes and it ends up breaking more things happens more often then I can count. I can care less about balance changes but when we get more bugs with every patch it makes things just CBT. The AI coding which I know for 200% is happening. Why can you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Moment to moment gameplay and game in general is great (on normal difficulties). However I'm actually so sick and tired of the bait and switch of just adding robes to other classes so you can play (at least visually) an actual Dark Angel and not just a repainted Ultrasmurf. (We'll also just ignore they wanted to sell half-baked voice lines from other chapters as a DLC.) And even when they *do* add something, they lock it behind the hardest bloody difficulties because screw the casuals and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean. Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. THE EMPEROR PROTECTS.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, I’d like to say I love Space Marine 2. I really do, and I’ll continue to play it. The reason I’m leaving a negative review is because of the decisions the developers make regarding changes to the game, along with some of the excuses they give for not being able to implement certain features or fix long-standing issues. First, there are bugs that have been in the game since launch. A major example is Chaos Terminators clipping directly into your character during sword attacks,…
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