Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

This is one of my fav games of all time And was happy to see that GOG had it. Game installed and started with no issues. Spent an hour organizing my squads only to have it crash when starting a mission. Tried uninstalling and reinstall in diff detectors, use and changing the dif EXE files, and comparability modes. Then I found this: Note that GOG recommend that the installation path only have 2 subfolders and 35 characters total to avoid the game crashing when starting a mission I uninstalled everything including GOG Galaxy. Reinstalled GOG Galaxy to the C:\ drive, installed Chaos Gate and missions starts with no issues

Fantastic Warhammer 40k Squad based Tactical Shooter inspired by the boardgame.

There hasn't been an update for awhile so you'll likely have some issues with installation, but the FAQ helped a ton. The game kept crashing upon launching the game, but that was fixed by installing the game outside of the "Programs" folder (I just created a "C:\Games" folder I installed to). I love the ambiance of the game and the smaller squad-based, turn-based tactics. The RPG elements to upgrade your squads help make the game more personal as well. Highly recommend! Just wish I bought this on sale. $2.50 is a steal

I still have the disc version of this game but never had a rig that could play it and I am too impatient to play around with DOS emulators. I'm lucky because the game plays well on my machine. I finished the first mission, which was quite long yet managed never to be dull. The graphics are grainy but still, in my opinion, excellent overall. The music and sound effects are quite good. Controls work very well. The game is easy to figure out. If you've played other squad-based games you'll figure this out in no time. As for gameplay, you have to plan and move carefully or Chaos will take you out quickly. Lots of marine units to choose from. Thanks GOG.

Chaos Gate oozes with atmosphere: The soundtrack feels like it was made in universe (even though it is mostly repurposed religious chants). Your Space Marines feel like walking tanks. They can still die, and each death of a brother feels painful (especially if playin Mighty Hero mode), but it will take a lot of firepower to bring them down. The game is played over a set of fixed campaign missions, with some randomized skirmishes in between. The campaign missions are pretty well done, and feel like 40Kish X-COM. The skirmish missions are usually much less interesting. Over the course of the campaign, you will unlock a large part of the standard Space Marines roster and armoury (Terminator armors, Librarians, assault marines with jump packs), but you can only bring 3 squads, and need to adhere to the Codex Astartes when it comes to mission loadout (so you'll have more bolters than you'd want!). Even to this day, I still consider it one of the best 40K games made on PC, and I played all of the tactical/strategic ones.