Meinmmo editor Benedict Grothaus has-with a few exceptions-all games about Warhammer on Steam (and some other platforms). But one of them was particularly impressed by him: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters. Anyone who is looking for a XCOM style fantasy is well served here.
In a few days off, I decided to finally clean up my Pile of Shame. And what would be better for the beginning to finally tackle the list of games from my favorite universe?
For a long time, Warhammer was known for throwing off the license and delivering lousy video games. At the latest since the huge and phenomenal Total War: Warhammer 3 has finally broken the curse.
If I look for Steam for Warhammer, I just miss Bolt Gun there, but old school shooters are just not mine. What has now cuckned me is Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters.
The game is from 2022 and since the Humble Bunde from May 2023 it has been waiting in my library to be played. Now I am annoyed not to have done it earlier.
The release trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate-Daemonhunters
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Tactical round strategy that many are known to
Chaso Gate: Daemonhunters is a round -based, tactical strategy game. If the genre tells you nothing: The best -known representative is the famous XCOM and the game principle has inspired many games afterwards.
Unlike the round strategy game Gladius, which recently tied me up, you do not build bases here and pumps troops, but you play a squad of 4 or 5 characters and denies individual missions or missions.
You don’t play some people, but some of the hardest space marines in the world of Warhammer 40,000 in general: the indistinguishable Gray Knights, whose existence hardly knows at all.
The aim of the game is to fulfill in the individual missions (often repeating) orders, to improve your ship and troops with the rewards and finally stop a plague-a new super disease of the twisted chaos god Nurgle.
From ragequit to “cheat”
Daemonhunters is really bad. I have admitted little experience with XCOM, but with round strategy and tactics but something. So I would not call myself a bad player.
Nevertheless, even on normal difficulty, I regularly get on the feeding board and really. Every great plan, which seems to work just well, fails two rounds later because new opponents appear from somewhere.
This has driven me to ragequit several times or to operate “savescuming” – so reload if something doesn’t work. To do this, I use some DLCs, at least one of which brings a fairly unfair unit that starts at a maximum level.
Sometimes it just doesn’t work any other way. Even on Reddit, a number of players admit certain missions to be created. But honestly: that really makes you happy. In the first 5 days I am at 35 hours and it would be more if I had more time.
Superhuman feeling like in Space Marine 2
What Daemonhunter is doing so well is the feeling that it conveys. I don’t just have a few unnecessary soldiers that I throw on the demons in masses. No, there are bred and pumped overhumans, whose weapons alone could not raise a normal person.
This is exactly what is shown in every mission. With a massive kick, meter-thick steel doors are entered, my psionician sizzles a demon back into the warp in an execution animation. Finally, I felt as much as a Space Marine in Space Marine 2.
If a navy goes to the ground, he gets up 3 rounds later – weakened, but ready to fight. This is zeal for fighting!
By the way: Astartes share the equipment, some weapons can only be equipped by certain classes, others can be learned by talent. This results in different combinations of classes that can or want to take with you, depending on the style of play.
The fact that, by the way, I can still expand my ship and have a cool purificator, a completely tied tech priest and an almost insensitive Inquisitor as a consultant, rounds off the Ganue game feeling again. This is really Warhammer par excellence.
Admittedly, the game principle is a bit peculiar, probably not everyone likes and you really need a while until you don’t constantly collect hard. But the learning process is fun and has been thrilled for hours and certainly even longer. But if you still want to look around, you will find the 7 best games here to get into the world of Warhammer.