難易度無慈悲クリア。プレイ時間は43時間程度。

基本的にはWarhammer40K題材のXCOMでした。
難易度的にはかなりシビアでストレスたまるバランスになっていますが、
XCOM経験者なら問題なくプレイできるとは思います。
とはいえ、ワープサージ（戦闘中ターン経過で100%になるとマイナスイベントが発生）や
ほぼマイナスイベントしか発生しない戦略マップでのランダムイベントなどかなりストレスフルです。
そういった点を許容できるなら翻訳の質とかも問題なかったのでお勧めです。
ちなみにDuty Eternal DLC入れるとストーリーは進めやすくなるけど、戦闘難易度はあがるので注意。

気になる点

• Autosaveはグラマスモード（アイアンマン）用なのか完全に直近のセーブなのでセーブはこまめに取ろう。
  
• DLC未適応だとミッションとマップの種類少ないと感じる。（適応しても既存のミッションは変わらない）
  
• 新規キャラ補給してもらった時アビリティ勝手に振られてるのやめて。
  
• グレイナイツチャプターなのはわかるけど、塗装させてほしい。
  
• 繰り返し見るカットシーン（発着シーン）はスキップさせてほしい。

日本語化されたので買ってみた
初回起動で起動しなくて返品しようかと思ったけど
2回目に普通に起動したので1時間くらいプレイしてみた
とりあえずXCOMだ

日本語訳が独特なところはあるけれどめちゃくちゃ丁寧に翻訳されてると思う
Warhammerゲーは何個かやったことあったけどこのゲームですごい興味が湧いてきた

軽く触った感想
ヨウゲーエムブレムを触った事がない人はまずXCOM２かギアーズタクティクスから始めましょう。
その辺の操作ノウハウをしっかり応用しないとターン制限ゲームが続くのできついと思うっす。
射線とか索敵とか監視射撃とかSRPG好きでも馴染みがない要素が多いのと、気合を入れて画面を見ると意外とシンプルなのですが、UIもかなり独特でとっつきづらいイメージを受けると思います。

ギアーズはオッサンオッサンオッサンですが初心者にとてもフレンドリーな作り。
XCOM２はセール中だいたい７００円とかになる。楽しいキャラクリできるがバグと難易度ではげます。

XCOMのターン制限ミッションがずっと続く感じです。
ちまちま牛歩でバリケードやカバー重視して進むと難易度が上がっていくのでリスク承知で「上手に」突っ込むゲーム。
敵に見つかった瞬間にこちらの行動ポイントが返ってくるので、全員でボコボコにできる位置取りで「見つかる」ゲーム。

翻訳はひらがなが一文字抜けてたりするがかなり高精度。キャラ付けも上手い。

キャラクリは真面目で地味です。
青色に塗ってドラえもんとかにしようとしたらカラーリングは無し、名前変更はDORAEMONになって日本語不可。
ついでに姓は候補から選ぶ形。マイケル(仮称)を選んだらユニット選択時ボイスでマイケル！とか叫ぶ謎の拘り。
アクセサリにもマイケルって刺繍されてる。つまりよくわかんねえエンブレムをつけるくらいしかないので世界観ぶっ壊すようなカスタマイズはできません。なので真面目で地味です。アタッカーは赤、ヒーラーは蒼とかで塗り分けたかった。

何故おすすめするかと言うと
ヨウゲーエムブレムは貧弱なオッサンたちがトコトコ走ってワンパンされる銃の射線に怯えながら戦う事が多いのですが、このグレイナイトとかいう奴ら(原作はよくしらない)はフルメタルアーマーでドガシンドガシン走って崖や壁もブォンッて飛び越えて、でっけぇ剣でバラバラにして強そうな銃でボガガガするのでなんかすげえ強いので良い。


滅殺装甲(ターミネイター・アーマー)とかこんな響きの装備が嫌いな男の子はいねえわ

There are some traps at the start of this game and I can see how a lot of people with only a couple hours of play time would come away with a negative impression. They're not wrong.

While XCOM 2 is the single biggest influence on the game and clearly the starting point of the design, it mixes in other modern games like Gears Tactics and has enough ideas of its own that you'll be very frustrated if you try to play it just like XCOM at the tactical level. The game does not introduce you to its systems well either. Not from the perspective of a new player, and very much not from the perspective of an XCOM veteran who's chiefly interested in the things that are different. Cover, overwatch, armor, RNG, critical hits, action points, movement, skills, etc. are all quite different and need to be re-learned. Optimal play patterns are very different in this game compared to the games that inspired it.

At the same time, while in many ways this game is devoted to the 40K lore, the developers treated it as only a suggestion when they were tuning the early-game combat and progression. If you come into the game with lore based notions of how tough Space Marines are, and expect that power fantasy out of the gate, you're in for a rude surprise. Cultists with mere slug-throwers are going to damage and sometimes wound your marines, even those with terminator armor, with one or two hits. Your level one and two guys with the entry level gear, despite looking, walking and quacking like Space Marines, are closer in power to XCOM recruits you need to keep behind cover. It feels bad.

The far-from-purely-cosmetic pre-order kit, the cheat-code marine in the special edition and the twitch drops all leave a bad taste in the mouth as well.

But if you can get through those bad initial impressions, and engage the game on its own terms, there's something really special here. The game isn't just copying other tactical shooters, it's in conversation with them, mixing things up in some very interesting ways. The combat systems they've changed largely feel like improvements and after the rough opening, fit well with being elite Space Marines. The skill trees and the gear system allow real builds to emerge. As these builds start to take shape and you personally start to master the game's systems, the power fantasy kicks in and then some. Your squad of marines will be able to roll through tough encounters with some real momentum, not getting shot at all, or only getting shot when you intend to on troops with enough armor to shrug it off.

At the strategic level, it feels even more like XCOM 2 out of the gate, but finds its own identity as the game goes on with constant and interesting tension in your choice of missions and how to spend your resources. The interplay between tactical and strategic are great, with the strategic often asking you to take extra risks and leave your comfort zone in the tactical for some extra resources.

The story is better than anyone should expect from a game like this. In the now familiar pattern, it starts with XCOM and finds its own voice from there. Like XCOM, it's told largely by your supporting caste in your HQ. Unlike XCOM, there's some real tension between the characters and you make decisions that have real, if sometimes opaque, impact on your campaign. The writing and voice acting are solid. Cut scenes are fully voiced. The interactive dialog has about one sentence per paragraph getting voiced. My one complaint in this department is that that one sentence isn't always the first sentence of the paragraph, creating some real dissonance where you either need to just listen to their line without the context of what they were supposed to say before it, or try to read their response as written while ignoring what they are saying. It's a baffling choice in an otherwise very well produced story.

This game is not without flaws, and they are unfortunately very front-loaded in the experience. But it's loaded with love for the genre and setting, and some real ambition to be its own game and create new thrills and challenge, even for those like me who've taken many a lap around its tactical shooter predecessors. There's a reason, I think, for the disparity between the near universal critical acclaim and the mixed player reaction. Critics had to get through the opening to write their review. Normal players are under no such obligation.

Spare a thought for the small-time 40k developer. You put all this blood and tears into making a Grey Knight game, paying close attention to all the little details and giving all the little Grey Knights last names for them to dramatically shout out, only to have some jerk like me come along and say 'hey, wouldn't this whole premise work a lot better with the Deathwatch?'

Anyhow, when people say this an XCom clone, they really mean it. The story's got the same basic character dynamics (wise advisor guy, grumpy engineer, angry monthly report man and sexy research babe), it's got the same overworld where you pass time and wait for missions and the exact same squad based combat. All they've really done is applied a Warhammer 40k layer of paint.

But is that so bad?

It's been years since XCom 2 came out. There hasn't been a new Fire Emblem in a long time. I think I appreciated this just for scratching the tactical combat itch. I mean, sure, it isn't doing anything that XCom wasn't doing already. But I've beaten XCom 1 and 2 already, and even did the whole Long War thing, so I am sort of XCom'd out at this point.

The combat does feel different than XCom though. These are the Emperor's Space Marines, which means that you can hug cover if you want to, but you can also just pray really hard and then stand out in the open and let whoever come at you who wants a piece. Everyone has psychic powers and gimmicks that let you lay the hurt on Nurgle's minions and make the Death Guard regret worshiping a living garbage can. I am really experienced with these kinds of games and found that the Hard difficulty kept a pretty consistent challenge going from start to finish.

The story will probably be completely incomprehensible to anyone that isn't 40k literate. If the words 'Nurgle', 'Mortarian', 'Geneseed' or 'Immaterium' don't mean anything to you, then you should not expect to have any idea what these people are going on about or why beating up a bunch of fat green guys is the best way to combat an intergalactic pandemic. But even if you do know all of the first founding Legions by their numbers, the story is a fairly straightforward 40k affair. I enjoyed it and I actually quite liked the characters, but it's not at the level of the Dawn of War games or anything like that.

The game does have some downsides, mainly:

1) There are random FTL-style events on your space ship as you fly around, and some of them are total crap. One of these things involved the monthly report man asking me to destroy all my upgrade materials because they were tainted by Chaos. I told him no and he cut me off from 'the armory' for sixty in-game days, which resulted in me not getting any rewards for any missions in the last 30% of the game. I never got a Chaplain because of this. WELL GEE THANKS GRANDMASTER ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

2) Focusing only on Nurgle was kind of dull after a while. I would have liked to have seen more stuff from the other Chaos Gods. Also your guys always mention passing by Ultramarine forces, but you never talk to them. Sad.

3) Some bugginess. Now before you get too amped up about that, I would actually say that this is LESS buggy than either XCom game. At no point did I have a someone try to shoot a giant mutant two squares away from him only to find that your guy can't see him. The most frequent bug was having abilities get greyed out improperly, but selecting another ability and then going back to the one I was using before fixed that. No big deal.

4) The game doesn't allow mods, meaning that you can't add Tau Crisis Suits or anime girls to your Grey Knight squads. :(

5) No cameo appearance from Roboute Guilliman. :(

Final rating: 8.924/11 Fists of the Emperor's Furah!

Well, after 120 hours and about 5 restarts, I've finally begun to figure out this game.

A lot has been said about the difficulty of Daemonhunters, a major criticism being that you don't feel like a storied "Grey Knight" of the Imperium, that is to say, the power fantasy of playing the elite of the Astartes isn't evident in the game play. Much of this can be solved by playing on the easiest difficulty, where chaos cultists and other fodder are dispatched quickly, and while not a breeze, won't frustrate you. Once you've learned the mechanics of the game, it really opens up to become very strategic and tactical. The encounters can be tense and epic, especially during some of the new missions in the DLC.

Once it all comes together, Daemonhunters is one of the best 40k games to have been released. It's not a power fantasy. This is a tale of desperation, which is a often overlooked 40k theme that is rarely touched upon but has always been lurking in the grim-dark universe we love. I appreciate the move away from comic book heroes to the a more authentic portrayal of the source material. Don't get me wrong, these are still bad ass Space Marines, larger than life and heroic in their bearing, but they're not invincible. Their duty is to sacrifice for the Emperor, and that they do. Only the Ordo Malleus could take on this challenge, and even then, victory is not assured.

If you're looking for a deep and challenging tactical combat game, with well thought out mechanics and progression, a good story with great presentation, and if you're never letting go of this 40k crap until the day you die, Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is a worthy addition to you game library.

Honor the chapter, brothers. The Emperor protects.

Recommended.

You'll find plenty of reviews stating that this game is "XCom meets Warhammer 40k", although this is not false, most of those reviews doesn't state what's actually different from XCom, so there you have it:

- There is no turn limit, like in XCom, because there's another mechanics in place to put pressure on you. Every turn (or every psychic ability you'll use) a bloom counter charges up. When it reaches 100% a random event happens that will make the game harder for you.

- It's more melee-based than XCom and it makes sense, you're a walking tank, after all. There's also some nice additions, like the ability to target certain spots that incapacitate your enemy, and "doom-guy-style" executions.

- There's no RNG on your weapons. You won't have a chance to miss with ranged weapons like in XCom. When you select an attack the UI will tell you exactly what you're going to get if you decide to use it. This means that "risk management" is shifted to other parts of the game, like reacting to a patrol attacking you from the flank where you don't have any cover, a nurgle magician placing a pox area right where you have the latest intact covers, a bloom effect that might ruin your attack plan, and so on...

What I like the most is that you'll have to decide how you want to play: you can try to minimize the damage you receive and maximize your XP and seeds but you'll be slow, or you can be fast to avoid surge mutations and summons but you're going to lose on some opportunities. The same could be said for combat: you can aim for big combos to kill everything faster or you can be more conservative and maximize willpower regeneration, which will help in longer missions.

You'll find conflicting objectives in the management part of the game too. You'll have to decide between making a few marines stronger faster or to distribute gear and XP between a larger squad. Most of the ship upgrades are conflicting too, where you have to decide between faster construction or research time.

To sum up: it's a good game. Difficult but fun and very well thought out. A solid 7,5/10 for me.

日本語化されたので購入した
演出重視したドラマティックに展開するXCOMと言えるかも
日本語訳も自然で素晴らしい
没入感が強いのでWH40Kに興味がある人はおススメ

Try this game, at least on sale. It is one of the best XCOM like experiences and one of the best 40k game (I know, I know, the bar isn't high)

I don't intended to write a review for this game, but after hesitating to buy it myself at first, when I saw so much negative reviews I finally bought it and now I've finished the game. And boy these negative reviewers are misleading either due to incompetence or due to spite, it's hard to tell. Mind you that I was playing on a normal difficulty, scared by all the reviews and game is not easy, don't get me wrong. However, I've finished my campaign with 0 (zero) marines/assassins ever being downed or killed, including boss fights and that, if you ask me, as far from 40k feeling as it gets, but was satisfying nevertheless. So, I will base my review on quotes from other reviews I saw just now and it can get pretty long, sorry about that. Also, I'll leave the comment section open for people I quote to get back on me:

- "the enemy will always injure your soldiers if they are alive at the end of a turn" - lies, in a midgame they will barely get a chance to move. But to add some hints for cases when enemy is going to have a move next turn: 1) You can severe it's limb carrying it's most dangerous weapon 2) You can make it attack it's allies 3) you can create a killzone with "overwatch" and hazardous environment like fire so they will not reach you alive 4) focus on ranged troops and keeping distance with melee ones to finish them off next turn etc.
Most importantly, HP threshold to be in the "wounded" states are much lower than XCOM, and adding the fact that you can boost your off-mission healing to +300%, your wounded marines will heal while being on route to the next mission. Don' t forget to use your Apothecary healing, Medicae skulls or play around armor. Also worth mentioning the augmentation mechanic that expects your marines to be critically injured from time to time so they can be augmented during the recovery process. I don't like this mechanic btw, because I have never met this condition during my playthrough on normal

- "you do not have access to weapons or grenades that can efficiently do area damage and defeat large groups of enemies. That's right - the two ranged weapons with an AOE cone have very short range and don't do enough damage to take out even the weakest enemies with one volley, meaning that even if you expose your unit by moving into a favorable position, you will certainly be overwhelmed with attacks next turn." - wow, that must be a joke. There are selection of grenades and they are OP the whole game, I had a grenade focused Purifier with a flamer and he was like literally deleting chaos terminator squads in 2 throws during the final mission lol. Also, there are AoE abilities, too many to list them here. AoE firing modes, even for some melee weapons, I had 2 such melee AoE weapons during my playthrough and during the early stages of the game - a lot of environmental AoE objects like explosives, fuel tanks, statues, braziers, cranes with detachable cargo, all this will help you with crowd control

- "Unlike XCOM's two action points per turn, units in this game have three. For you that is almost irrelevant, since you need to usually save one to boost your armor to reduce the amount of damage you take turn after turn after turn. Having 3AP means the enemies, however, can move incredibly long distances to get into melee or flank you, always ensuring you take damage." - Baseline of action points(AP) is three, that is correct, but: 1) Boosting your armor is rarely a good AP use, excluding your tank characters 2) This game is almost built around increasing your AP through combat. There are a ton of abilities that are adding or refunding the AP. The first one you will probably see is execution (when humanoid enemy is stunned, melee attack will have an option to execute it giving +1 AP to EVERY marine, it can be further amplified by gear and abilities to give 2 or even 3 AP per execution per marine, yeah that crazy much), you can even build your squad around stuns/executions with access to advanced classes in a midgame like paladin and chaplain. Other honorable mentions are : "Honor the chapter" ability your first ever marine(Justicar) can unlock, crits with melee/ranged for some classes will refund AP (I had my Interceptor get 2 AP after melee crit that can trigger 2 times/turn, 1 AP refund after teleporting 2 times/turn), basically every class has ways of reducing AP cost or refunding AP, when meeting certain conditions, and one of the first stratagems is to give any marine +2AP. The list goes on.

- "enemies are always ridiculously much stronger than your squad on later stages of the game. In X-COM you are weak only at the beginning, when you do not have technologies, here you are always feel weak." - same as XCOM, mid-late game you have so much tools to use that, if built correctly, your squads will finish missions with enemies don't even scratching them

- "Games are about fun, not about frustration, when unbalanced difficulty spikes on normal (!) difficulty level just force you to witness constant failures of your squad even when you try to play carefully. I had never such experience even on hard level in X-COM." - it is hard to believe that XCOM veteran that played it on Hard can have not even a hard time but any form of a challenge on Normal difficulty in this game. I am not a hardcore XCOM/Tactical player and, again, I've finished my campaign without losses. Something that is not that easy to achieve in XCOM

I will cut this here, feel free to continue this discussion in a comments section, I think I made my point for the doubting people to at least give this game a try. It definitely deserves it despite a very valid list of flaws other reviewers have pointed out. But solid 40k/XCOM inspired games are too rare to be that picky, especially during deep sales. Have fun all!

ウォーハンマー40kな世界でXCOM系なゲームを楽しめて良い。

難易度は高め。最低難易度の慈悲でも、敵にボコられるし、なかなか倒せない。慈悲ってなんだよ。
しかし敵にやられても、XCOMの新兵とは違い歴戦のグレイナイトなので
「なんとか致命傷で済んだ」で助かる。致命傷ってなんだよ。
そんなグレイナイトも落下死だけは免れないので注意しよう。

他の方も書いているがオートセーブが超直前セーブなので、
「やっべ移動先間違えたオートセーブからやりなおそう」は出来ないので注意だ。

敵の情報とか細かく見れるので、眺めていると結構楽しい。
ミッション報酬なんかも事前にあらかじめ教えてくれる。

気になったのは…
・マップ広くて移動がめんどい
・中ボス戦で詰まってやり直したいがメンバーを選びなおせない
・スキップ出来ないムービーが多い
・マイナス要素がきついランダムイベント
・「この研究を始めたら後戻りはできないぞ！準備はいいか！」→「ちょっと待って稼いでからにする」ってしてたら
「おまえが研究をしないのでゲームオーバーです。警告してあげたのに。あーあ。」
ってなった。

ぐらいだろうか。

スタングレネードの範囲を広げるアーマー装備して処刑して回ると楽しいよ！