Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, the acclaimed turn-based tactics game from Complex Games, is launching for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Series X/S on 20th February.
Daemonhunters originally launched for PC back in 2022, delivering what Eurogamer contributor Edwin Evans-Thirlwell called a “brutal but graceful and comprehensible mix of ideas from Warhammer, XCOM and Gears Tactics”. Also, Andy Serkis is in it.
The whole thing is focused on the Grey Knights, a mysterious Chapter of the Space Marines, who go up against the Death Guard and the forces of Chaos god Nurgle in a story told across a cinematic, narrative-driven campaign. It features a fully customisable squad of units – which can be tailored with different skills, psychic abilities, equipment, armour, class specialisations, voices, and facial options – and is, all in all, a jolly good old time.
“Save for that slight (and to be fair, genre-typical) over-reliance on grinding to help the plot over the next hilltop,” Edwin wrote in his 2022 Recommended review, ” Daemonhunters positively glides. At a glance, the interface looks like a Borg sneezed all over a cathedral, but in practice this is both a fine balance of ideas from XCOM and Gears Tactics, and a crisp boiling-down of a gargantuan fiction that somehow renders everything digestible, even snappy, without sacrificing the source material’s morbid intricacy.”