Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters

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Plenty of tactical depth and customization make Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters a great take on the turn-based strategy genre.

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Plenty of tactical depth and customization make Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters a great take on the turn-based strategy genre.

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8/10

Leana Hafer (IGN)

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is an excellent XCOM-like and one of the best 40K games since Dawn of War II.

May 10, 2022 |

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A brutal but graceful and comprehensible mix of ideas from Warhammer, XCOM and Gears Tactics.

May 4, 2022 |

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Recommended

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Eurogamer)

Recommended

Ewan Wilson (Polygon)

While there’s enough tactical depth and customization to sustain a playthrough, much of Daemonhunters’ battles feel like vehicles for getting across its great story, and not the other way around. For many, XCOM is as much about the long journey — failures and do-overs included — as it is the destination. And while I don’t think Daemonhunters offers that same kind of obsessive replayability, it does lay a crunchy, thrilling tactical base for its brazen aesthetic and brilliant story to tread upon.

May 4, 2022 |

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Leana Hafer (IGN)

8/10 - (Read Review)

Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is an excellent XCOM-like and one of the best 40K games since Dawn of War II.

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Eurogamer)

Recommended - (Read Review)

A brutal but graceful and comprehensible mix of ideas from Warhammer, XCOM and Gears Tactics.

Ewan Wilson (Polygon)

Recommended - (Read Review)

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Read the Reviews (27 total)

Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Recommended	05-04-2022	Video Review	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Unknown	8.5 / 10	05-19-2022	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is an impressive strategy title. With gorgeous graphics, a robust story, and engaging strategy gameplay, its single-player campaign will be a joy to play for strategy fans. The game may have some missteps, but the number of missions and additional ways to upgrade the Baleful Edict keep things interesting for seasoned strategy veterans and newbies alike.	Read review
COGconnected	Mark Steighner	88 / 100	06-03-2022	Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate Daemonhunters is not only an engaging turn-based strategy game, but one of the best translations of the 40K universe to the PC. With a great story and wealth of options in combat, Daemonhunters also captures the visual aesthetics of the Space Marines and infectious Nurgle. While the interface and some systems could benefit from a bit more elegance and simplicity, Daemonhunters is dramatic, over-the-top, amusing and deeply satisfying. Learning its systems and sticking with the lengthy campaign is a commitment to be sure, but one that fans of 40K should be happy to make.	Read review
Cultured Vultures	Maxim Klose-Ivanov	8 / 10	05-12-2022	Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate	Read review
Eurogamer	Edwin Evans-Thirlwell	Recommended	05-04-2022	A brutal but graceful and comprehensible mix of ideas from Warhammer, XCOM and Gears Tactics.	Read review
GameGrin	Artura Dawn	6.5 / 10	05-29-2022	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate	Read review
GameSkinny	Hayes Madsen	7 / 10	05-18-2022	Chaos Gate Daemonhunters is an intensely challenging XCOM-like that fully embraces the aesthetic and tendencies of the Warhammer 40K universe.	Read review
GameSpace	Taoshi	8 / 10	05-31-2022	Purging Heresy in Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate	Read review
GameWatcher	Bogdan Robert	8 / 10	05-04-2022	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate	Read review
GamingTrend	Ron Burke	90 / 100	05-05-2022	Where so many games in the Warhammer universe feel generic and uninspired, Daemonhunters manages to give us a game with tight tactical combat, a decent story, and a careful balance that is challenging but not punishing. The Emperor demands you pick up this game!	Read review
GRYOnline.pl	Zbigniew Woźnicki	8 / 10	05-04-2022	Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate Daemonhunters is a very good representative of its genre, a perfect choice for both fans of the universe and XCOM games. After many mediocre games, we finally have a WH40K title worth your money.	Read review
IGN	Leana Hafer	8 / 10	05-10-2022	Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate	Read review
IGN Italy	Claudio Chianese	8 / 10	05-11-2022	A nice turn-based game, quite similar to XCOM but not a clone: a good use of the Warhammer license.	Read review
Merlin'in Kazanı	Ahmet Lütfi Aksoy	82 / 100	05-20-2022	Daemonhunters brings a new breath into the tactical strategy genre, which is in the darkness of the distant future and the infinity of the galaxy. We meet again with W40K after 25 years.	Read review
PC Gamer	Robert Zak	87 / 100	05-04-2022	A layered and engaging space opera that triumphs both on and off the battlefield.	Read review
PCGamesN	Phil Iwaniuk	8 / 10	05-05-2022	Turns out it's possible to be a turn-based Warhammer 40k game and still retain user-friendliness and pace. Who knew.	Read review
Polygon	Ewan Wilson	Recommended	05-04-2022	While there’s enough tactical depth and customization to sustain a playthrough, much of Daemonhunters’ battles feel like vehicles for getting across its great story, and not the other way around. For many, XCOM is as much about the long journey — failures and do-overs included — as it is the destination. And while I don’t think Daemonhunters offers that same kind of obsessive replayability, it does lay a crunchy, thrilling tactical base for its brazen aesthetic and brilliant story to tread upon.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Katharine Castle	Recommended	05-04-2022	A deep and riveting turn-based tactics game, Chaos Gate	Read review
Screen Rant	Scott Baird	4 / 5 stars	05-30-2022	Daemonhunters is a challenging game and can often tip the scales a little too hard against the player, but overcoming the odds is part of what makes it fun. Fans of the strategy genre who are seeking to be tested should check it out, as should fans of Warhammer 40k, as Daemonhunters is one of the best games to ever hold the Warhammer 40k license, even with its brutal difficulty.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Branislav Kohút	8 / 10	05-26-2022	Elite Grey Knights are on a mission against Chaos infection, which requires skill in combat in the field and good management on the ship. And it works well.	Read review
Softpedia	Cosmin Vasile	9 / 10	05-13-2022	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is one of the best Warhammer games I played in a very long time. Although it’s not perfect, the character classes and mechanics are even deeper than what we’ve been taking as the standard, XCOM. The strategic layer is much more evolved than any similar turn-based game thanks to the addition of random events and the choices you have to make throughout the campaign.	Read review
SomHráč.sk	Denis Burčík	70 / 100	05-16-2022	Daemonhunters is a fairly ambitious XCOM inspired title that seems to have been rushed out of the gate a bit too early. It offers a lot of hours of enjoyable gameplay, however on the whole it's brought down by its technical issues.	Read review
SpazioGames	Daniele Spelta	8.5 / 10	05-10-2022	Daemonhunters doesn't just live up to the expectations, but is one of the best tactical games out there.	Read review
The Games Machine	Daniele Dolce	6.5 / 10	05-16-2022	Plagued with technical issues partially resolved patch after patch, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate Daemonhunters has also problems in terms of balancing and AI. The boss fights are well done, but it's also a little monotonous as you find yourself playing the same dull couple of missions from the start to the very end of the game.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Stefan L	8 / 10	05-04-2022	Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is a great take on the turn-based strategy genre, encouraging front-foot combat with a strike force of empowered Grey Knights at your disposal. It takes a while to get going, the situations and enemies you encounter lack a bit of variety, but this is an accomplished effort that's easy to recommend to fans of Warhammer 40K and XCOM alike.	Read review
Twinfinite	Khayl Adam	4.5 / 5 stars	05-12-2022	Suffice it to say though, Warhammer 40k: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters is a fantastic video game, a game of the year contender, that demands attention in a genre that is now synonymous with XCOM. Daemonhunters’ twist on the formula is unique, and the 40k setting is the perfect backdrop for this kind of game. I look forward to further entries in what I hope is a burgeoning new series, and whatever it is Complex Games works on next.	Read review
Wccftech	Nathan Birch	8 / 10	05-04-2022	Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters manages to successfully separate itself from most other tactics games on the market, while also capturing the gritty spirit of Games Workshop's universe. Daemonhunters' punishing difficulty spikes may turn some away, but hardcore strategy fans looking for an uncompromising challenge will likely embrace the chaos.	Read review

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Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.

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