Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Turn-based squad combat where armored Space Marines gun down and hack apart human traitors and daemonic monsters, with blood spray and hard-hitting hit effects throughout.
Grimdark story built on a spreading plague, mass death, corruption, and a character sacrificing her own soul to advance the mission.
The story features daemon summoning and banishment, mind-scrying, and psychic ritual within the fiction's supernatural warp lore.
Cinematic execution attacks cleave and dismember enemies on-screen, and Steam's own labeling notes dismemberment.
Heavy body-horror imagery of disease, rot, pustules, and decay tied to the Chaos god Nurgle, with a diseased, oppressive atmosphere.
Occasional mild language in dramatic military dialogue; no strong profanity or slurs.
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What it is
This is a single-player, turn-based tactical RPG set in the grim science-fiction Warhammer 40,000 universe. You command the Grey Knights, an elite order of psychic space marines, on a campaign to root out a galaxy-spanning plague spread by the forces of the Chaos god Nurgle. Combat is frequent, realistic, and stylized: squads fire heavy weapons, swing swords, and unleash psychic powers against demonic creatures and armored, human-like traitor soldiers, with blood, gore, and cinematic finishing moves that cleave and dismember foes. The setting leans heavily into disease, rot, and decay imagery, and the story carries bleak, grimdark themes of death, corruption, and self-sacrifice. There is no sexual content, nudity, drug use, or in-game spending, and no online or multiplayer interaction.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as a holy, duty-bound crusade: the Grey Knights are righteous warriors purging an irredeemable corruption, and killing Chaos daemons and plague-worshipping traitors is presented as heroic necessity. Daemon summoning and warp powers are the tools of clearly evil antagonists to be destroyed, not glorified.
Details
- Developer
- Complex Games
- Publisher
- Frontier Foundry
- Released
- May 5, 2022
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