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Warhammer: Dark Omen (Classic)
Developer Mindscape
Warhammer: Dark Omen is a fantasy real-time tactical wargame based upon the Warhammer Fantasy Battle table-top game and figurines, and is the sequel to the 1995 game Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat. Developed by Mindscape, in conjunction with Games Workshop, and published by Electronic Arts, the game was released in Spring 1998 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation. The game's story takes place within the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
131 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
89
LovedLoved
63 positive · 8 negative
95% range 79–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 63 | 8 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 9 | 1 | 35 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
65 of 73 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
90% recommend · 61 yes, 7 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 68 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (128 of 141 positive).
Players praise the game as a classic strategy title with unique battlefield command and no base-building. [1][2][3] Many appreciate the new patch for widescreen and resolution support, breathing new life into the game. [4][5][6] Some reviewers note technical issues like crashes, audio errors, and clunky controls. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [8]
If you want some nostalgia for the game you remember? Sure. If it's cheap enough. But otherwise? It just BARELY functions. Sometimes it can't set to the right resolution, sometimes the keyboard keybindings don't work, often there are VERY loud audio errors where you just get static instead of the proper sound file. It could have taken very little effort to make this a smooth experience, but that clearly wasn't what …
- [1]
Warhammer: Dark Omen remains one of the most fascinating and distinctive strategy games ever made. Even today, it feels refreshingly unlike the vast majority of real-time strategy titles, because it is not truly about base-building, resource loops, or mechanical click-speed. At its core, it is about battlefield command: formation discipline, terrain, morale, line of sight, timing, and the controlled application of …
- [2]
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO PLAYING THIS GAME True, controls are clunky and graphics look old, but please tell me if you can find a game like this, gameplay-wise. Literally every single unit is unique with a specific role and a named leader (rather than a generic captain); Each level is handcrafted, it's not like the Total War series (which, mind you, I love) so each battle is different and carefully designed. No, I …
- [6]
OHHHHHHH! MY MOST BELOVED GAME is on Steam, with full support for W11 and Widescreen including Ultra Widescreen. Best Warhammer game on the market, go and play. Hard as nails, sweet as honey.
- [3]
Legendary classic think Total War Warhammer 3 but with a story and characters! I wouldn't quite call it the greatest voice acting and music of all time ;) - but it has stuck with me for almost 30 years! They don't make them like this anymore and I genuinely think there is a subgenre of RTS games here that needs to be rekindled. RTS with RPG elements, no base building or resource extraction to worry about -serious …
Summarised from 26 of the 68 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 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Warhammer: Dark Omen (Classic) sits at 89% positive across 71 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The PC game received favorable reviews. PC Gamer US's Jason Bates found Dark Omen to be "definitely one of the better strategy games on the market." Although he was let down by its linear campaign, he concluded that the game "combines a rock-solid miniatures wargame system with state-of-the-art graphics into an engrossing real-time thrill." In Computer Gaming World, Elliott Chin compared Dark Omen favorably to Myth: The Fallen Lords, and called it "an excellent 3D RTS game that's much more fun than its predecessor." Although he found the game "frustrating", thanks to its interface limitations and high difficulty, he summarized it as "a deep, tactical game with plenty of magic." Benjamin E.…
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Reactions
60 of 131 · most liked firstAlready own the game on GoG. Review below is based on that version. GoG got the same patch. Double dipping on Steam to support the (new) devs and this awesome game. What is new with the new patch? The patch notes gives you a clear indication. The old patch/version didn't properly support widescreen/higher resolutions, or it did partly with Voodoo. The UI didn't scale so you ended up with either black bars or stretching the UI from 4:3 to 16:9. This is no longer an issue with the new patch,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Halloween! A Verholdani Seeker, (vampires that live on the Blood Moon, and do space travel) commission painted for Zacc Fench's upcoming collectible card game! Lots of Warhammer 40k art coming next month too! - #conceptart #illustration #vampires #halloween #warhammer40kᅠ
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder that Warhammer Underworlds is a really fun game with some of the coolest sculpts GW puts out! #warhammercommunity #warhammer #warhammerunderworlds #nerdlings #aos
positive · AI labelView post →Warhammer: Dark Omen remains one of the most fascinating and distinctive strategy games ever made. Even today, it feels refreshingly unlike the vast majority of real-time strategy titles, because it is not truly about base-building, resource loops, or mechanical click-speed. At its core, it is about battlefield command: formation discipline, terrain, morale, line of sight, timing, and the controlled application of force under pressure. That is precisely what makes it so remarkable. What Dark…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edmark Valoran my beloved 🔥 From the Warhammer AoS Darkwater game
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been commented on many times, but it's so sad to see Warhammer stores going from hobby hangouts, part third space game club with a shop and become nothing but a retail outlet with a board to secure buy-in from new customers. (Quotes on quotes on quotes, it's quote-ception!)
negative · AI labelView post →My childhood game and it's awsome. Damn im getting old.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The bust project is still very much WIP, but I needed some more Cadians for a game the other week, so I took a quick side project and speed painted two groups! #warhammer #warhammer40k #miniaturepainting
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer Dark Omen forum Steam install guide, to improve graphics. Play in HD widescreen with HUD scaling in screen resolution 3840x2160, with extended camera zoom, mod pack and multiplayer. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3709525823 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzy4kD7wFx4&t=27s https://forum.dark-omen.org/help-section/steam-dark-omen-install-guide-t1744.0.html;msg15682#msg15682 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3707266906 To play Dark Omen…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are games you enjoy, games you remember, and then there are games that quietly shape who you become. Warhammer: Dark Omen was that game for me. I didn’t just play Dark Omen I experienced it. It was one of my first true encounters with grimdark fantasy, long before I had the language to describe what made it so compelling. The world felt heavy, dangerous, and indifferent in a way that stuck with me. Victory wasn’t clean, and survival often came at a cost. What truly set Dark Omen apart…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO PLAYING THIS GAME True, controls are clunky and graphics look old, but please tell me if you can find a game like this, gameplay-wise. Literally every single unit is unique with a specific role and a named leader (rather than a generic captain); Each level is handcrafted, it's not like the Total War series (which, mind you, I love) so each battle is different and carefully designed. No, I mean it, if you know of a suitable alternative to this game, please let me…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming to Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1... Ultimate: -Football Manager 27 (PC today, console 11/10) -Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School (11/5) -MySims Cozy Bundle (11/5) -Warhammer Survivors (11/10) -Tanuki: Pon’s Summer (11/10) -Hope in the City (11/11) Premium: -Pit of Goblin (today)
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming soon to XBOX Game Pass: Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Thronefall, Warhammer Survivors, and more: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...
neutral · AI labelView post →Most important video game release of 2026 pre-ordered on my Switch. Warhammer Survivors here we come! In just a few days. Cannot wait for this @aurochdigital.bsky.social Sorry GTA-what now? Ocarina of When? Neither one had Stormcast, Gotrek, or Space Marines.
positive · 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 →Great game, glad it's finally on Steam. I apologise for blowing off the door of the chamber unbreachable, and for releasing 17 demons using foul explanatives from my mouth when I found out the cheats didn't work, however after consulting the Libour Mortis I found out that copying your old data into PNG-ENG makes the cheats work. Bad jokes aside, I'm so pleased this game is on Steam, love it, thank you for releasing it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV – Official Game Overview Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Make sure to grab the Modpack from the Dark Omen fansite for a lot of great Campaigns. Between simple Army Replacements, Hard Mode which ♥♥♥♥♥ out 50 enemies each mission and a bunch of alternate Campaign pathings (i.e maps being sequenced differently + changed up deployment zones) there's a ton of replay-ability here. And I'm sure at some point in 2053 Olly will finish DOE2
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I stopped by the new hobby store by my house at lunch and impulse bought a promo box for the new Gundam skirmish game. If nothing else, I appreciate how they brought nice orderly Gunpla sprues into the tabletop space (Warhammer Underworlds sprue for comparison)
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry, I saw an opportunity to sing the praises of crunchy hand-made shootbang software Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and had to take it. It's a beautiful game filled with real voice acting that periodically breaks for inscrutable reasons that always have this distinct human-error flavor to them.
positive · AI labelView post →Had a great game of killteam with my salvagers up against the iron warriors. It was a close game but I managed to scrape a win with some good dice rolls. #warhammer #nerdlings #killteam #40k #warhammercommunity
positive · AI labelView post →40 years ago this game rewired my brain. Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, and its classic campaign The Enemy Within, upended notions of heroic, muscle-bound warriors and noble wizards. WFRP was grimy, low fantasy in a world filled with corruption, treachery, and PCs just trying to survive.
positive · AI labelView post →Another grotty masterpiece from Golden Demon 2022 - Warhammer World. https://warhammer40k.wiki.gg/wiki/Golden_Demon_2022:_Warhammer_World Hot off da presses, here's me next article for da new wiki. Hope I didn't make no mistakes! Credit ta Albert Moreto Font. Wot a legend!
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Pass adds Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Thronefall, Warhammer Survivors, and more in early to mid November www.gematsu.com/2026/11/game...
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone remember this #CCG game of #Warhammer #Warcry? Found this complete Booster Box of the Swords of Retribution expansion on eBay, got it for a few pounds not including P&P. Had to since I already have a number of cards from the game already (as well as the HH and 40k ones)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dawn of War 4 clearly loves the Warhammer 40K strategy games that came before, but it misses that they loved to reinvent themselves. Dawn of War 4 is a very playable game but it's not got the same inventiveness of the games that came before it.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want some nostalgia for the game you remember? Sure. If it's cheap enough. But otherwise? It just BARELY functions. Sometimes it can't set to the right resolution, sometimes the keyboard keybindings don't work, often there are VERY loud audio errors where you just get static instead of the proper sound file. It could have taken very little effort to make this a smooth experience, but that clearly wasn't what they were going for. They made it work on modern PCs. Barely.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a sucker for these Warhammer self-contained board games as they're far less expensive and easier to get into than the mainline titles. I got the very first copy off the truck at my local Barnes & Noble.
positive · AI labelView post →Sadly, WFRP was swiftly overtaken by the juggernaut popularity of Warhammer 40k, and has more or less limped along as a game and property ever since, loved only by devotees. But those of who caught it in its prime will never forget. Raise a glass to the Old World today.
positive · AI labelView post →Legendary classic think Total War Warhammer 3 but with a story and characters! I wouldn't quite call it the greatest voice acting and music of all time ;) - but it has stuck with me for almost 30 years! They don't make them like this anymore and I genuinely think there is a subgenre of RTS games here that needs to be rekindled. RTS with RPG elements, no base building or resource extraction to worry about -serious consequences for failure, story driven, characters, you make decisions about…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OHHHHHHH! MY MOST BELOVED GAME is on Steam, with full support for W11 and Widescreen including Ultra Widescreen. Best Warhammer game on the market, go and play. Hard as nails, sweet as honey.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I remember watching my dad play this on the PS1 when I was young and him letting me have the day off school to help him complete it. We ran the end boss over with the tank if memory serves >.< I was just talking about this game the other day and how I wish it would get a remaster. My dad and brothers love the 40K universe. But me... this is where it's at. The nostalgia.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's from the into to the Warhammer 40k mechanicus video game https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyK7lX4sk0c
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark Omen is the best PC wargame EVER. I replay it once in every 5-10 years and it only gets better with age. No other game came even close since. Recently bought it on GOG and went for another playthrough, and now I absolutely had to get it on Steam. This will be the third copy I own, including the original 1998 CD. It is THAT GOOD!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Always deploy as far back as possible, put your ranged units in a line down the middle and your melee units on the sides, use Grudgebringer Cavalry to pull enemies towards you then bail, mop up remaining enemies with melee units. Worked in 2000, works now
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is an absolute classic. Think Total War Warhammer but you are a mercenary leader instead of a king. You recrute men and upgrade your units as you go on, choosing between more armour for your knights or your infantry. You choose missions which change which units you get to add to your army and the game has lots of variety in units, magic, and hidden war gear on the maps. Finished the whole game, 0 bugs or issues.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It always amusesme that Necromunda is clearly a western game re-skinned as 40k sci fi, and then Warhammer Historical re-skinned Necromunda as a western game to produce Legends of the Old West!
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, Hammer of Tertium is available now from @cubicle7games.bsky.social Get it here: tinyurl.com/yrtda9sx Packed with new Archetypes and Talents that let you bring your Characters from the Darktide video game to your roleplaying adventures. #ttrpg #warhammer40k
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally tried Vampire Survivors. Surprisingly fun to chill with. Only other bullet heaven I've played is Megabonk, but now I'm kinda getting into it. Might be impatient and try Arms of God next for the Doom+Warhammer vibe.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game was my childhood and it's as brutally tough as I remember it to be. It's aged well, offers the player a repeatable tough but fair challenge and has monumentally better voice acting than many modern games too. Follow the community guides to get the graphical upgrades working and you'll really enjoy it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That was a hazardous consultation of the Libre Mortis my Lord. An ordeal of high and low doom. The moment I approached the book, it bit me most ferociously. I must apologize for the explosion that blew off the door of The Chamber Unbreachable, but the simultaneous emergence of seventeen demons from the book spine, caused the spiritual detonation in the soul stoned air of the room. The whole enterprise was an experience most horrendous. None but I could have endured it. I was almost damned…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Emulator does not work 90% of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old school gaming. Precursor of Total War. Amazing lore and game. Get it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does crash seemingly randomly in-game and in the menu, so save often.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game needs to be touched up and remastered.. not just dumped onto steam for $10, as is from its 1998 release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great classic and lots of childhood memories! Thanks the dev to bring this back to us. I wish there is a sequel to this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer: Dark Omen is a sequel to Warhammer: Shadow of the Hornet Rat. Both games have two things in common: you command unique regiments in battle and both games are hard. Don't be fooled by first missions the game gets progressively harder towards the end. This is about tactics and trying to rout enemy regiments. Except for pesky skeletons. This dudes never run away. Just hack them in pieces. If you want to make game a little easier I could give you four advices: - Always help when…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Then we'll make the living dead just plain dead."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Pass: Football Manager 27 is on PC from 3 November, with Thronefall and Warhammer Survivors coming Football Manager 27 (FM27) and Pit of Goblin were listed as available on 3 November, with Thronefall, Warhammer Survivors and Escape Academy 2 due in November. 🎮 #giupdates #gaming #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Gonna be continuing more Warhammer 3 today, resuming our Wulfrik game. I am the wanderer. Wulfrik the Wanderer. I roam around around around around around- www.twitch.tv/reddestdragon going live now, come hang out! Not live on altstream today though, sorry!
neutral · AI labelView post →How do we feel Special Characters have been handled in Warhammer: The Old World? Warhammer: The Old World | Do Special Characters & Personalities Feature Enough In The Game? youtu.be/_Da18PFtQFo #warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #TheOldWorld #warhammerfantasye
neutral · AI labelView post →Warhammer: Blood Bowl is Blood Bowl 3.5 rather than a whole new game, but based on the beta it's definitely an upgrade. An exclusive early look at the upcoming playtest for Blood Bowl's next iteration.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is my favorite game of all time and now with the added benefits of it working flawlessly on Linux through Steam i am in heaven. Thank you devs! Highly recommend this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A trip down memory lane for those of us old enough to have played in on PS1 - and a hell of a time for new players. Controls are janky (it was a RTS on PS1) and its been ported amazingly. Having said that, once you get use to them - they are not really janky at all. Campaign is difficult and even a seasoned player should expect to have to reload save to redo the mission you are on for a number of reasons. - you messed up and lost more units than you wanted to and want to buy armor…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank you to both @vampymix.bsky.social who was playing Dragon's Dogma 2 and @thereapercat.bsky.social Warhammer 40K Darktide for their raids last night! We raided over to @lumiandyou.bsky.social who was playing Terrible Lizards! Please check these lovelies out if they are new to you!
neutral · AI labelView post →@sigrant.bsky.social great to see TOW back on Battle Report with a cracking game on Warhammer+!
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a demo for this in 1998 where you have to defend a countess at a church. Loved it then, but never played the full game. Coming back to it almost 30 years later, it holds up great. When the cannon rips through a horde of undead and then rotten gore splashes out and individual zombies go flying, it's just as satisfying as any higher fidelity game I've played. I love the fully voice acted Medieval Zoom meetings, too. This game is so sincere in its presentation. Great voice actors and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought with nostalgia. Refunded with common sense.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Charming in some ways. But: Very obnoxious control scheme. Overly harsh campaign that punishes losses severely, encouraging you to turtle almost every mission as much as possible which I find fairly boring. Button you have to spam to make units fight better, which I find horrifically annoying and cannot stand in RTS games. Good port I guess. Good if you've played it before and want to play it again on modern systems. If you've never touched this before I really don't think it holds up at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rosebud.. This might have been first game which I bought and the original reason wasn't too rational but the cool cover box. I was too afraid + unqualified to play this with success and kinda forgot it firsthand, but then years after got back to it with an even then ancient computer and completed it, but 'boy did I struggle. This game is certainly oldschool - it is ruthless! Not much hand helding, the real-time controlling of your troops is always hectic and each unit you lose actually hurts.…
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