Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

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  1. Unicron666
    Jun 2, 2022
    8
    A damn enjoyable game so far! Everything seems to be on point (apart from some of the updates, why do the devs always manage to mess this up?) some of the missions get a bit repetitive but it's not too bad. This has to be the best 40k game I've played in years and I'm enjoying the crap out of it
  2. EmperorSultanQ
    Jun 5, 2022
    10
    Heresy grows from idleness! Oh wait wrong game...

    Anyways this game is great I only wish all the texts were voice acted.

    It has great story, voice acting and gameplay!
  3. Nazhamster
    May 7, 2022
    10
    One of the best warhammer games. This games is unique because of it's quality. Finally warhammer got a good game.
  4. Decho
    May 8, 2022
    9
    The actual game here is really good, one of the best 40k video games for a long time. Actually production values with a decent story and solid gameplay. The interface looks a lot like XCOM but you can't play it in the same way - aggression is required. The difficulty is also higher than most games of its type with normal being an actual challenge, if you are comfy playing XCOM on normalThe actual game here is really good, one of the best 40k video games for a long time. Actually production values with a decent story and solid gameplay. The interface looks a lot like XCOM but you can't play it in the same way - aggression is required. The difficulty is also higher than most games of its type with normal being an actual challenge, if you are comfy playing XCOM on normal then consider playing this on easy.… Expand
  5. srtackleberry
    May 6, 2022
    10
    Лучшая игра по warhammer 40k на данный момент. Пошаговая тактика в стиле xcom плюс любимая вселенная, что может быть лучше.
  6. Bayushi_User
    May 6, 2022
    10
    Stands out from the crowd of 40k games, and the best PC tactical game in a long time as well!

    If you like either, this one is nice.
  7. hammerhanger
    May 7, 2022
    9
    Best 40K game since Dawn of War!

    Fun Xcom-like with neat character elements in between battles. Gameplay is fun and tactically challenging with lots of variety in enemy types and a ton of abilities and weapons to customze your own Knights with. Negatives are mostly small including occasional animation glitches, occasionally punishing encounters, and a weird design limitation that doesnt    Best 40K game since Dawn of War!

    Fun Xcom-like with neat character elements in between battles. Gameplay is fun and tactically challenging with lots of variety in enemy types and a ton of abilities and weapons to customze your own Knights with. Negatives are mostly small including occasional animation glitches, occasionally punishing encounters, and a weird design limitation that doesnt let you switch to another Knight while one Knight is taking an action. Superb effort overall, hopeful that DLC with other chaos gods will be in the future!    … Expand
  8. TerribleT
    May 9, 2022
    7
    Game is pretty fun, some janky UI choices and some of the animations are very junior. The vibrant tech blue of the HUD is a little overstimulating at times, and some what confusing. Was surprised at some of the stiffness and lack of facial animations in some cutscenes, especially since the voice acting is pretty good. I love the stylization of the game, I think this is the first one of theGame is pretty fun, some janky UI choices and some of the animations are very junior. The vibrant tech blue of the HUD is a little overstimulating at times, and some what confusing. Was surprised at some of the stiffness and lack of facial animations in some cutscenes, especially since the voice acting is pretty good. I love the stylization of the game, I think this is the first one of the genre that really captured the goofy nature of the setting (original satirical 40k) And it's so refreshing especially with the art direction for the genre goin full tilt on the edge factor lately. Vibrant colors and big shapes really make me hope that they will make more games goin forward. Seriously made me take another look at old 40k modles… Expand
  9. alicano
    May 12, 2022
    10
    Poor game performance but very Fun indeed. İ hope fix that problems soon. Dont look steam rates. Only trolls and twitch drop babes.
  10. Zunk
    May 12, 2022
    10
    Loved Xcom games, loved 40k....and I love this game! The Twitch drop items are very basic and don't use any of them. The game looks, sounds and feels great. I'd recommend watching some YouTube playthroughs and make up your own minds as to whether it's the game for you .
  11. Mazh
    May 8, 2022
    9
    Really like the game so far (30+hrs)
    I love turn-base tactical, W40k lore and they did a really good job here :
    - various classes with various way to play each one of them - skills tree choice impacting game-play very hard - lot of different gear and play-style for each classes depending on what gear you equip - campaign is catchy, from the start, lots of mysterious events, the deeper    Really like the game so far (30+hrs)
    I love turn-base tactical, W40k lore and they did a really good job here :
    - various classes with various way to play each one of them
    - skills tree choice impacting game-play very hard
    - lot of different gear and play-style for each classes depending on what gear you equip
    - campaign is catchy, from the start, lots of mysterious events, the deeper you go in the Grand Father lair the more you ask yourself how seriously deep the system is infected...
    - variety of foes (at start, your Grey Knights seem a little bit squishy, being shred by little cultists with small guns, that the major inconvenience I had in the game so far, but after a few hours, your team start to have more gear and unlock skills which make your like way more easier (and the cultist are no longer a problem :p)

    I feel like this game is worth to try if you are incline to enjoy good ol' tactical.    … Expand
  12. HoltFasner
    May 9, 2022
    9
    Have had a pretty solid time with this thing so far! Only 10 hours in, but there's a lot of depth to it and I'm really enjoying where it seems to be going.
  13. Pr8Dator2
    May 12, 2022
    0
    The fun of this game was its fast paced combo based combat gameplay but they deliberately destroyed it all with the latest patch to make the combat work more like XCOM... at last a great warhammer 40K game and they have to destroy it themselves....
  14. Deadheadbill
    May 12, 2022
    0
    Literally one week after release they nerf evry fun combo into the ground without buffing anything to balance it out or even allowing a respec option. There were issues with the game already, now it's just a pos.
  15. DickPain
    Jun 22, 2022
    4
    Sadly this is just a XCOM clone, and a poor one at that. Dark, murky colours make distinguishing characters a challenge. Undeveloped characters and story. No meaningful choices nor sense of jeopardy. By contrast, XCOM introduced characters that the player grew to care about, there was a sense of jeopardy, and game mechanics were introduced along with the story. In this game, each greySadly this is just a XCOM clone, and a poor one at that. Dark, murky colours make distinguishing characters a challenge. Undeveloped characters and story. No meaningful choices nor sense of jeopardy. By contrast, XCOM introduced characters that the player grew to care about, there was a sense of jeopardy, and game mechanics were introduced along with the story. In this game, each grey knight looks and sounds identical. I like Warhammer, but not when it's a poor copy of an existing game.… Expand
  16. VrrKdor
    May 19, 2022
    4
    The game is a bad copy of XCOM2. Boring as hell and simplified game mechanics
  17. The_VoidX
    May 13, 2022
    9
    Chaos Gate captures the Warhammer 40k atmosphere really well with a good one
    Story presentation that features many great cutscenes. The powerfully staged battles are accompanied by a great Warhammer soundtrack.
    In the extensive campaign you take command of the Gray Knights. The great character classes can also be adapted in many ways and the talent trees are also very extensive.    Chaos Gate captures the Warhammer 40k atmosphere really well with a good one
    Story presentation that features many great cutscenes. The powerfully staged battles are accompanied by a great Warhammer soundtrack.
    In the extensive campaign you take command of the Gray Knights.
    The great character classes can also be adapted in many ways and the talent trees are also very extensive.
    Furthermore, there are also many upgrade options for our ship, the Baleful Edict, which is the linchpin for our missions or character management.
    The game also offers an in-game glossary in which all terms/designations are described in German in a way that is easy to understand.

    There are also a few things that can still be improved such as the balance and also the wound system as the days that a Gray Knight is injured is a bit too long.

    Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters has turned out to be a really great game for me.
    The short and crisp missions play really fast and very brutal.
    I've had a lot of fun so far and can only recommend it.    … Expand
  18. Zelmar
    Jun 13, 2022
    10
    It is actually very solid well made and well polished. I think in all fairness it is 9 rather than 10, but I just want other people to appreciate it more. It has a lot of potential min-maxing X-com squad which when done efficiently makes steamrolling enemies extremely satisfying. I think it also allows for a lot of build versatility which is super cool and you are also pushed for anIt is actually very solid well made and well polished. I think in all fairness it is 9 rather than 10, but I just want other people to appreciate it more. It has a lot of potential min-maxing X-com squad which when done efficiently makes steamrolling enemies extremely satisfying. I think it also allows for a lot of build versatility which is super cool and you are also pushed for an aggressive playstyle vs 50% overwatch popcorn.… Expand
  19. Mandulum
    Jun 24, 2022
    5
    I really looked forward to playing this one. I loved the new XCOMs, I've played them many many times. This game tried to mimic but failed horribly. It's just so damned repetitive. Everything in it is repetitive. After playing the exact same missions over and over again which characters that feel exactly the same ... I just couldn't do it anymore.
    That might be the worst part but there are    I really looked forward to playing this one. I loved the new XCOMs, I've played them many many times. This game tried to mimic but failed horribly. It's just so damned repetitive. Everything in it is repetitive. After playing the exact same missions over and over again which characters that feel exactly the same ... I just couldn't do it anymore.
    That might be the worst part but there are many others. They took out the RNG attacks but threw in much worse random systems: warp surges and random campaign events.
    Lastly, there were the many times I moved my character to a position and the game decides you're going to stay there forever. No more movement, you can't even warp out! Enjoy finishing the mission with only 3 characters.
    It's all so frustrating for such a bland game.

    Date Dropped: 2022-06-04
    Playtime: 28h
    Enjoyment: 5/10
    Recommendation: No    … Expand
  20. kazui
    May 20, 2022
    10
    It might not be perfect, but I have spend every free moment playing it since I got it.
  21. JMcAfreak
    Aug 10, 2022
    2
    Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is a game of wasted potential. A lot of great features come together to form a mediocre and frustrating game.

    While on the surface, it appears to be a fun, Xcom-like Warhammer game, the problems really don't start to show until it's too late to refund. There's a LOT of potential to this game. It's just wasted and hidden behind clunky and unbalanced mechanics.    Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is a game of wasted potential. A lot of great features come together to form a mediocre and frustrating game.

    While on the surface, it appears to be a fun, Xcom-like Warhammer game, the problems really don't start to show until it's too late to refund. There's a LOT of potential to this game. It's just wasted and hidden behind clunky and unbalanced mechanics.

    1. Combat is frustrating, Your marines are WEAK. I get that you need to not be walking tanks in order to have some good gameplay, but this just isn't it. Enemies outnumber you and deal just as much damage as you do, leaving razor thin margins of error. You will spend most of your combat hiding behind cover that may or may not be destructible, trying to find a way to shoot at an enemy. Your melee weapons will almost never get used. With how little health your marines have, melee is a last resort even though it's mechanically treated like your bread and butter attack.

    2. Even the smallest mistake can have devastating consequences. They also ALWAYS snowball into much bigger problems. If you're up against a pod of gunners, and you place a marine in what turns out to be a bad spot (even if there's no easy way to determine what spots are "bad"), that marine is good as dead. They'll whittle his health down, and then one gunner will suppress him from a mile away while two or three others put him under direct overwatch. If you're particularly "lucky," a grenadier will throw a grenade that applies the Pinned status, follwed by a timed grenade. If that marine does anything but armor up on the next turn, it's dead. Moving out of the grenade range or shooting at an enemy will trigger the overwatch and suppression. That marine is USELESS for an entire turn unless you have the perfect placement of other marines to take out all the threats. But your marines are typically busy dealing with their own problems.

    3. Abilities are kinda blah. If they don't heal your teammates, debuff the enemy, or allow for extra mobility (teleport is VERY useful), they're trash. If they buff your teammate for a turn, you will get more out of just attacking with both knights than you will out of buffing one and then attacking with it. Your overwatch, which is shown off as this crucial skill, only really works against melee enemies since ranged enemies won't ever get into overwatch range.

    4. Cover is destructible. I get that one of the marketing points of this game was a destructible environment. But when a single enemy out of six can just break my cover and then the other five can just kill the knight hiding behind that cover, it feels really useless. There's no indication of whether a particular piece of cover is destructible or not, or how easily destructible it is. You just have to guess and learn.

    5. There are no tactics. Want to split up your knights? They'll die. Want to spread out and cover a wider area? They'll get singled out. Want to keep your knights together? They'll get mowed down by the six gunners that decided to enter the fight. The only tactic is to hide behind cover and pray that you kill the enemies before you get a really bad Warp Surge

    6. Warp Surges SUUUUUUUUCK. I've had warp surges that bring in extra waves of enemies when I'm in the absolute worst position. I've had warp surges that give all my enemies lots of bonus shields right when I got into a position where I was risking my health but could easily kill the enemies. They were then able to escape. I've had warp surges that completely hobble one of my knights for a series of turns, which is DEVASTATING since you only get four knights. Warp surges that boost enemy health. Warp surges that give bonus mutations to enemies. Warp surges that lower my max hp. All of these are at random, and all of them SUCK. You're being punished for not taking out the overpowered enemies fast enough.

    I've heard it gets better after you've upgraded your knights, and that it can eventually become boring. But there are so many quit moments before that, that I'm never going to get to that point.    … Expand
  22. Paulystan
    Jul 22, 2022
    3
    i am once again shocked by how much the Warhammer universe churns out mediocre time wasters as computer games. The graphics and movement is clunky. Everything is too cluttered. The controls, although similar to XCOM are not neat and tidy and easy on the eye. The scripting is charmless.

    It is an average attempt at amateur computer game creation. At times it is plain boring and in    i am once again shocked by how much the Warhammer universe churns out mediocre time wasters as computer games. The graphics and movement is clunky. Everything is too cluttered. The controls, although similar to XCOM are not neat and tidy and easy on the eye. The scripting is charmless.

    It is an average attempt at amateur computer game creation. At times it is plain boring and in comparison to XCOM, a game whose style and gameplay it has copied, it looks poor (like think good for 1990s as opposed to 2020s), it is poorly scripted, voice acting is sterile, and actually pretty fricking boring. I bought it on steam, I'm simply not interested in playing much more and I will try and refund it. Far out Warhammer, a company of your huge asset base should actually team up with a AAA developer and properly make a decent game for once instead of churning out mass produced crap.    … Expand
  23. DEFILER
    Jul 2, 2022
    8
    This game has two flaws. First one is that you basically need to learn to play it yourself or on the internet (managing your ship, ability builds, positive and negative effects etc.). Second one is that you'll see the same maps from some point of the game (with new enemies and missions but still). Otherwise it's really enjoyable, especially for that price.
  24. Osseric
    Jun 20, 2022
    4
    XCOM in Warhammer. While a mostly fun game with a interesting enough story it does get extremely frustrating. 60-70% of the mission is enemy movement and actions. It gets extremely frustrating when Warp gates are summoning reinforcements every couple turns and the enemy keeps using get extra reinforcements cards. The real annoyance you run into a group they all move, you get a token actionXCOM in Warhammer. While a mostly fun game with a interesting enough story it does get extremely frustrating. 60-70% of the mission is enemy movement and actions. It gets extremely frustrating when Warp gates are summoning reinforcements every couple turns and the enemy keeps using get extra reinforcements cards. The real annoyance you run into a group they all move, you get a token action point back and then they move again, summon 2 adds, adds move, next guy summons 2 adds, adds move. So you spent 2 minutes moving your 4 Space Marines but the enemy mobs on fast mode takes 4-5 minutes to move their people, summon zombies, channel abilities and pick one random guy to just wail on even though it puts them in a horrible position. And that's just 1 group if you manage to have another wander in on the fight then you might as well go make dinner and a drink while the enemy moves.… Expand
  25. fajnalowiec
    May 26, 2023
    3
    I like turn based games, I like this universe, I dont like this game.
    I understand this world is eternally tormented, but while playing the game I would like to have more fun than suffering.
    So there's a turn based battle. The game is designed the way it wants you to rush, cause the longer it lasts the harder it becomes. Ok, no problem. Your characters have 3AP for action, attack,    I like turn based games, I like this universe, I dont like this game.
    I understand this world is eternally tormented, but while playing the game I would like to have more fun than suffering.
    So there's a turn based battle. The game is designed the way it wants you to rush, cause the longer it lasts the harder it becomes. Ok, no problem. Your characters have 3AP for action, attack, ability. If you move outside of enemy zone it's ok. Now, whenever you enter it the turn is the same, but all your characters APs are set to 3 again, the enemy noticed you so the skirmish starts. The problem is you dont know exactly when you breach this zone. If you breach while the rest of your team is 3 moves away you are **** up, the fight is gonna be longer and more demanding. So instead of fast rush, you need to proceed slowly, moving every character by 1 move. Come on game, you want me to rush. Now, I'm wasting my time to adjust to this stupid feature. After 1 y from release, how hard can it be to make this zone visible? I dont want to waste time on save/load or count the tiles:
    https://youtu.be/P3s5DnU_zcY
    How hard can it be to redesign marine management to be faster instead of moving mouse back and forth? If you want the hint just check jrpg like FFIV from 30y ago.
    A lot of stuff in this game is rng, even the loot u can get. And still you need to pay for it :) So you are in 30-50% game and you still have basic grenade although you invested in getting better one? Tough luck bro. Try smth else.
    There is random bonus condition for each fight. If you take it and not fulfill it you will be punished. My favourite is to finish the fight in basic gear. So if you sweat to collect your bling bling gear and want to have fun from it, instead you just need to switch it for crappy one in your tragically slow equipment menu before fight and do the opposite after the fight. What kind of sadist should you be to figure this out it' s gonna be funny?
    You want to throw grenade for a 100th time? Awesome, check this cool animation. Can I turn it off? No, why would you like it?
    Can I speed up the fight? No, why would you like it?
    The list is sadly longer.
    And it's a pity, cause game looks fabulous, the plot is nice and the overall design is good. There are just these small, iritating, easy to fix "features" which made it very unpleasant.    … Expand
  26. Ragnar1987
    Jun 12, 2022
    8
    Best Warhammer 40000 game. Must have if you are fan of this universe. Must have if you are fan of tactic games. For others it will be 7-8 score game because of many same missions.
  27. Welkinz
    Oct 14, 2022
    7
    What feels fun at first becomes repetitive after about 10 hours, with intense pressure of do limited resource management. Some may think this is the appeal of the game, but to me it brings more stress than fun
  28. tontonac
    May 16, 2022
    9
    Very good, in the future with new playable factions and campaigns it could be much better than XCOM (universe and stories with much better potential).
  29. greffuu
    May 30, 2022
    10
    the amazing mix of xcom and wk40k, a lot of fun in the knights' development and hopefully we can see more, better DLCs
  30. shin777
    May 30, 2022
    0
    Denuvo sucks, cant play it offline or on my steam deck.
    Game is very good in my opinion but denuvo ruining the experience
  31. Thymbuster
    Jul 27, 2022
    10
    Just insane. One of the best XCOM like i've played, i'll try more of 40K because of tgis game.
  32. ddruller
    Jun 7, 2022
    8
    Everything is fine, except for a few key flaws, in my opinion, so there are only 8. About the disadvantages: 1st - I had to look for a workaround to buy in Russia, 2nd - The choice of weapons is small even compared to the 1998 game. Well, the musical accompaniment in the 1998 game was better.
  33. DarkReaper1983
    Jun 23, 2022
    10
    Amazing realization of wh40k in an xcom style. First 40k game where models look like like tabletop minitiatures in terms of quality. Great succsessor to 1998 Chaos gate. Best videogame realizaton of wh40k since Dawn of war 1,2. Feels that people who made it love wh40k and original Chaos gate.
  34. hogwarts9951432
    Feb 18, 2023
    9
    This is one of the best Warhammer games ever made. The XCOM of Warhammers and you can spend days playing it. I highly recommend.

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 36 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 36
  3. Negative: 0 out of 36
  1. Oyungezer
    Jun 24, 2022
    90
    Daemonhunters isn't just one of the best W40K games of recent years, but also one of the most solid tactical strategy games ever.
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  2. IGN Adria
    Jun 13, 2022
    80
    Warhammer 40K Chaosgate: Daemonhunters is a good evolutionary path for the genre and for the Warhammer franchise that usually deals with tabletop battles. If you like more isolated combat like in the glorious Firaxis title and you like Warhammer 40K then this is a perfect combination for you because - Emperor Protects!
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  3. Games.cz
    Jun 10, 2022
    80
    A splendid trip to a grimdark future where there’s nothing but war. It borrows a lot from XCOM but stands on its own two legs and respects the Warhammer setting which makes it feel surprisingly fresh and original.
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