In the grim darkness of the Warhammer gaming community, there is a shining gem believed to have been inspired by the direct intervention of the Emperor!

Imagine after over a decade of waiting for a solid Warhammer 40k game to satisfy your everlasting urge to purge heretics, then seemingly out of nowhere this beautiful experience enters realspace and offers itself to you with the promise of hours of raw entertainment from the beginning to the finale.

The picture is grim, Graia has been tainted by the ruinous powers due to rogue Mechanicus priests thinking they can play with power they do not comprehend. Our hero Malum Caedo is granted the immense responsibility of purifying this planet by any means necessary and retrieving the artefact so that the forces of chaos might be banished back to the immaterium.

As you crash land on the planet's snowy surface you already know you are in for a treat as you rev up your chainsword and slice apart non compliant cultists into ribbons while the lore consistent soundtrack ranges from gothic chants to blood pumping music. You eventually stumble upon a shrine dedicated to the eponymous weapon and the real slaughter begins, you have to strike fear into the hearts of the immaterium and the traitorous black legion.

Level by level you must cut through daemonic hordes and fanatic cultists, collecting new weapons, finding secrets to upgrade your weapons and make the fight against the warp more fair. You will find yourself in many environments from snowy mountains to deserts to entire cathedral cities, once bustling with life and now a hollow forge world filled with the paranoid shouts of cultists, Tzeentch nightmares and Nurgle plagues.

The good: extremely faithful to the lore and even the tabletop games, even if you are new to 40k you will learn quickly that the hud above your weapon says strength for a good reason or why exactly certain weapons suck against a traitor astarte.
The setting in general shows that the developers put a lot of love and passion into this and they were most certainly nerds who knew a thing or two.

The insane hot take: I actually did not hate the level design and I navigated every single level without needing a map, sure some segments are tedious or easy to get lost in but all it takes is basic tracking skills and context clues to figure out what to do. Although Incommodus could have been a little bit more useful as opposed to telling me that a door is a door.

The nutshell: the Emperor must have contacted the devs from beyond since this game is truly a masterpiece that belongs on the PC of every Warhammer enjoyer or even those who are new and know nothing about the deeper lore for why Malum is fighting. This very easily earned a 10/10 from me and my most urgent recommendation to play this asap!

In the grim darkness of the Warhammer gaming community, there is a shining gem believed to have been inspired by the direct intervention of the Emperor! Imagine after over a decade of waiting for a solid Warhammer 40k game to satisfy your everlasting urge to purge heretics, then seemingly out of nowhere this beautiful experience enters realspace and offers itself to you with the promise of hours of raw entertainment from the beginning to the finale. The picture is grim, Graia has been tainted by the ruinous powers due to rogue Mechanicus priests thinking they can play with power they do not comprehend. Our hero Malum Caedo is granted the immense responsibility of purifying this planet by any means necessary and retrieving the artefact so that the forces of chaos might be banished back to the immaterium. As you crash land on the planet's snowy surface you already know you are in for a treat as you rev up your chainsword and slice apart non compliant cultists into ribbons while the lore consistent soundtrack ranges from gothic chants to blood pumping music. You eventually stumble upon a shrine dedicated to the eponymous weapon and the real slaughter begins, you have to strike fear into the hearts of the immaterium and the traitorous black legion. Level by level you must cut through daemonic hordes and fanatic cultists, collecting new weapons, finding secrets to upgrade your weapons and make the fight against the warp more fair. You will find yourself in many environments from snowy mountains to deserts to entire cathedral cities, once bustling with life and now a hollow forge world filled with the paranoid shouts of cultists, Tzeentch nightmares and Nurgle plagues. The good: extremely faithful to the lore and even the tabletop games, even if you are new to 40k you will learn quickly that the hud above your weapon says strength for a good reason or why exactly certain weapons suck against a traitor astarte. The setting in general shows that the developers put a lot of love and passion into this and they were most certainly nerds who knew a thing or two. The insane hot take: I actually did not hate the level design and I navigated every single level without needing a map, sure some segments are tedious or easy to get lost in but all it takes is basic tracking skills and context clues to figure out what to do. Although Incommodus could have been a little bit more useful as opposed to telling me that a door is a door. The nutshell: the Emperor must have contacted the devs from beyond since this game is truly a masterpiece that belongs on the PC of every Warhammer enjoyer or even those who are new and know nothing about the deeper lore for why Malum is fighting. This very easily earned a 10/10 from me and my most urgent recommendation to play this asap!