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Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition (Classic)
Developer Black Hole Entertainment
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is a real-time tactics game set in the Warhammer universe. It was developed by Black Hole Entertainment and co-published by Namco Bandai Games in North America and Deep Silver in PAL territories in November 2006. An expansion, Battle March, was released in September 2008. It contains one new campaign and the addition of Dark Elves and Orcs & Goblins as playable races. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
139 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
95
LovedLoved
77 positive · 4 negative
95% range 88–98%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 77 | 4 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 1 | 29 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
90 of 95 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
95% recommend · 81 yes, 4 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 85 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (195 of 202 positive).
Players praise the game as a nostalgic and faithful adaptation of Warhammer Fantasy. [1][2][3] Some note it is outdated compared to Total War: Warhammer but still enjoyable. [4][5] A few reviewers mention technical issues like save loss or small UI text. [6][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
Man, what can I say about this — almost forgotten and obscure — gem? Mark of Chaos is special to me, and still holds a unique place among the RTS games — and games in general — that I've played. It is gritty and grim, dark and heavy, capturing the Warhammer aesthetic properly. If you've played the other ancient, hidden gem, MYTH: The Fallen Lords and its sequels, with their heavy and bleak atmosphere, you can't help …
- [2]
Before Total War Warhammer, there was Warhammer Mark of Chaos. Like how Dawn of War is the game that get me into 40K, Mark of Chaos is the one bring me to Fantasy Battle. It's not the greatest Warhammer video game ever, far from it. It have some problems that never got fix. So many promises never been fulfill. But it still the most fun and faithful adaptation of Warhammer Fantasy Battle at the time. I love it so …
- [12]
I have a lot of nostalgia for Mark of Chaos, I played it first in 2008, playing it on the xbox 360 on a screen that was barely wider than a current day warhammer codex on its side, alongside my younger brother as we took turns playing campaign missions all in the name of Sigmar. I absolutely love this game to bits, so seeing it surprise drop on steam has been a fantastic surprise for me, and It’s been so long since …
- [3]
the game brings back everything i love about warhammer fantasy and brings back good memories from childhood
- [4]
Now that warhammer total war is out, this game is basically outdated. But back then, oh man this game was so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ needed. Play. Fun. Game. Hehe.
Summarised from 26 of the 85 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
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
95% of the 85 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition (Classic). The complaint that keeps coming up: outdated compared to Total War: Warhammer. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game was received with mixed and extremely varying reviews. Reviewers generally praised its distinctive and varied visuals, with the character models and the special effects earning high praise from the majority of reviews, but also criticised the rather basic combat animations and a shallowness of tactical depth for a game focusing purely on battlefield operations. The single player campaigns received criticism for its linearity, and the storytelling especially when compared to the game's opening cinematic. The multiplayer support was also disparaged for its temperamental and glitch-prone account system and connection issues, although this was addressed and partly fixed in subsequent…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 139 · most liked firstNow that warhammer total war is out, this game is basically outdated. But back then, oh man this game was so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ needed. Play. Fun. Game. Hehe.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man, what can I say about this — almost forgotten and obscure — gem? Mark of Chaos is special to me, and still holds a unique place among the RTS games — and games in general — that I've played. It is gritty and grim, dark and heavy, capturing the Warhammer aesthetic properly. If you've played the other ancient, hidden gem, MYTH: The Fallen Lords and its sequels, with their heavy and bleak atmosphere, you can't help but get flashbacks from Mark of Chaos. If you're fed up with all these modern…
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 →Imagine this, its 2007, your sister's boyfriend helps you convince your parents that RTS games make you smarter and the violence is minimal. He takes you to the mall and buys you this game. I was hooked for life on RTS, strategy games AND warhammer because of this game. I've seen some reviews saying to take total war over mark of chaos and while they are correct technically by modern standards, I do disagree slightly. Nostalgia and just crazy foresight this game has aside. If you're just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →legit one of the best rts ever made. Features and customization that were way ahead at the time and it flew mostly under the radar. Even now, it has army unit customization elements that nobody else replicated.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →13 year old me thought this was the coolest game thing he'd ever seen. 33 year old me agrees.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Edmark Valoran my beloved 🔥 From the Warhammer AoS Darkwater game
positive · 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 →Dawn of War brought me into Warhammer 40k and Mark of Chaos brought me into Warhammer Fantasy. Simple as that. Im so glad this game found its way into Steam! Works just fine. Please add achievements and point shop items. To me sons of Sigmar! For the Empire!
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 →Before Total War Warhammer, there was Warhammer Mark of Chaos. Like how Dawn of War is the game that get me into 40K, Mark of Chaos is the one bring me to Fantasy Battle. It's not the greatest Warhammer video game ever, far from it. It have some problems that never got fix. So many promises never been fulfill. But it still the most fun and faithful adaptation of Warhammer Fantasy Battle at the time. I love it so much i bought both the GOG and STEAM version. And i believe, if you love the Old…
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 →Have hundreds of hours in this game. An incredible experience. Before there was Total War: Warhammer, Mark of Chaos was showing us what was possible. Still fun and engrossing today as ever.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game from my childhood that I never forgot about. It's a solid game even today.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →You're beautiful as the day i lost you
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this one endlessly back in the day and it was a fun nostalgia trip going through it again. It walks an interesting line between a tabletop warhammer campaign, a total war game and a narrative game and doesn't do any of them spectacularly but balances them very nicely, giving you a good bite of each. This game would often sit in the back of my mind when playing Skyrim since the score composer was the same and so many of the same phrases in the music go across both games. Every loading…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV – Official Game Overview Trailer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just a very good rts and sadly the best i have played so far. Its not as overloaded with stat improvments as Total War which is making the game more compact. The lore is also at its peak in my regards with the end times not anywhere to be seen.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most underrated and best RTS games ever made! Before the Warhammer Total War trilogy, we had this game! This game also still has one of the most legendary trailers ever made! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFGJQIW5ZM
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →untainted by the modern audience :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By Sigmar, the Hammer, and the Empire!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the game that got me into Warhammer, it was amazing for its time and still holds up decently today. Really appreciate the upgrades to support ultrawide and 4k. The cutscene videos could have used an upscale as well and the animations seem a bit low if you zoom in very close but everything else is ok. The game is worth it and I am glad I got the chance to play it again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just as I remember , awesome
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 →Would have recommended, but all my saves dissapeared out of a sudden...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow what a blast from the past, I even read the book as a kid. Great RTS game in its day and still holds now. If you are looking for a Warhammer RTS with a story driven campaign and great customization/army builder this will be a steal for you. Definitely from a time before instant gratification became the norm and truly a handcrafted experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →the game brings back everything i love about warhammer fantasy and brings back good memories from childhood
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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)
positive · 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 →I have a lot of nostalgia for Mark of Chaos, I played it first in 2008, playing it on the xbox 360 on a screen that was barely wider than a current day warhammer codex on its side, alongside my younger brother as we took turns playing campaign missions all in the name of Sigmar. I absolutely love this game to bits, so seeing it surprise drop on steam has been a fantastic surprise for me, and It’s been so long since I first played it, I barely remember the story for it, so playing through it,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love this game, while obviously there is a certain bit of nostalgia, i'd pay good money for a new expansion on this games basic principles, there is a lot of possibility for depth.
positive · 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 →Man, what a pleasant surprise. This game was straight-up epic and ridiculously ahead of its time. Yeah, the graphics look oldschool today, but back when it dropped it must have blown minds(it blow mine). The sheer scale of the battles, the massive unit sizes, the way you could actually command huge armies in real-time, troops fighting on walls mix of interesting missions a story behind it cringe but awsome voice actors from other titles mainly Dawn of War… it felt revolutionary for a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →*Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Gold Edition (Classic)*, developed by Black Hole Entertainment and published by SNEG, is a real-time tactics game that aims to recreate the spectacle of Warhammer Fantasy warfare while simplifying many of the traditional systems associated with strategy games. By removing base-building and resource management almost entirely, it directs all attention toward battlefield engagements, where formations clash, spells erupt, and monstrous units dominate the chaos of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With the most amount of respect due to the people who grew up with this game, this game sucks (I love it and would highly recommend it)
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 →Pretty good RTS with RPG elements, I like these kind of games. Fair warning though: you can't scale the UI, meaning tooltip text on big screens will be pretty much unreadable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →legendary classic game with the orc and dark elf story added on i highly recommend it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have so many fond memories of this game, one of the first RTS I played in a console and I loved it, I'm so happy it's on Steam.
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!
positive · 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 may not be the most fun or the most visually pleasing Warhammer game, but it is perhaps one of the most faithful video game adaptations of the franchise of its time. Unlike more recent adaptations where devs have more liberty, this one is a rather literal replication and reimagining of the original tabletop miniature game. Things like the way HP and models are calculated, as well as the stats and traits of the units, are like directly from the tabletop game. The game also allows…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This totalwarized Shadow or the Horned Rat reprise is to modern CA's Total Warhammer is what an 80s power metal album cover is to a current-year rendition thereof by a reasonably skilled and non-research-averse deviantartist who was given their first professional assignment. Linear campaign. Limited forces. Mandatory conservative play. Old Total War unit on unit impact. Duels (poorly implemented but cool). Art that doesn't scream "LOOK, WE ARE SO METAL!! DID YOU SEE HOW METAL WE ARE?! DID YOU…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks like Total War Warhammer but it's not open world so you battle level by level with just some optional battles from time to time. You also don't need to manage any resources besides money. Has 3 campaigns with 3 different races. In the humans campaign you go back and forth with an elven army and sometimes fight together. Very easy and little challenge on Normal difficulty, where you can go through the game without losing any units and getting enough money to upgrade the units that you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game runs very smooth and still feels as fun to play as 20 years ago
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!
positive · 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.
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