Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

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3.7

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Posted on: December 18, 2023

Fakeymcfake

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Games: 597 Reviews: 4

Little buggy but solid experience

Game is a little rough around the edges in some areas but I ran into nothing gamebreaking. If you have bought an Owlcat game at release before you should know what to expect by now. There are a lot of people reviewing on this website who are frankly hypercritical and embellishing. The quality of the combat and storytelling is great. The combat has more in common with XCOM than either of their previous Pathfinder games. Lots of focus in synergies and a robust perk system that is a little overwhelming at first but they offer a fairly cheap respec option early in the game. The world is very well realized and faithful to the source material. Anyone familiar with 40k is in for a treat. Interested to see how they're going to flesh this out if they put out any dlc.

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Posted on: December 3, 2024

Vonnis

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Games: 541 Reviews: 16

Nope

I've been a fan of the 40k setting since ~2000. It's my favourite sci-fi setting, by all rights I should be hooked on this game. And yet I can't get into it. Owlcat seems to think constant flowery, overly verbose writing is good writing. When there's a noble in his comfortable chambers trying to impress someone, or if it's narrative description, sure, that works. When a naval officer is trying to maintain order in a rapidly escalating situation and slowly, theatrically vomits up a stream of dramatic adjectives, it absolutely does not. All it makes me think of is a bottom tier writer being very impressed with himself because he blew way past the acceptable word count and married a thesaurus, which as one might suspect absolutely destroys immersion. That works hand in hand with the voice acting. Everyone is giving a very slow, theatrical performance. Again, that works for some characters and situations, but for most it does not. I don't blame the VA themselves for this, but whoever directed them completely missed the tone for nearly every character in nearly every scenario. And as a minor pet peeve: every single time the RT's family name is uttered Von Valancius the speaker emphasises the Von part, which is the exact opposite of how to use that word in a name. It also seems the writers mixed up 40k and Dune when describing Navigators. Maybe the lore was changed at some point but in my older black library novels every Navigator is described as a pale, frail human with a third eye. That's the only mutation any of them have in any of the material I've read, whereas in this game if they mutate like a particularly ambitious Chaos champion. These things together just ruin the narrative for me. When it comes to gameplay, well, it's Owlcat. Rather than easing you into a progression system you get a whole bunch of unexplained options at once and have to spend a good hour reading tool tips to get an idea of what you're doing. Personally I'm kind of done with that.

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Posted on: December 12, 2023

omglol200

Games: 262 Reviews: 4

Good game needs more bugfixes though

I've played both of owlcats previous games and have enjoyed them both immensly though I didn't play them on luanch I heard they were both buggy. That being said this game currently has a lot of bugs, the majority being visual bugs so far with only one requiring a load of a previous save. If you aren't ok with playing an rpg with a buggy experience wait for a few months of patches. I would also like to add that this game has a lot of in depth mechanics like their two pathfinder games so if you're expecting a more casual experience this game might not be for you.

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Posted on: December 11, 2023

EverNightX

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Games: 233 Reviews: 30

Very Solid. But lacking Voice.

If you've played OwlCat's Pathfinder games you know what this is. However there are improvements. The game seems more performant and slick. It has far less bugs. It's more polished. The story, atmosphere, characters are all good and similar to their past games. The glaring change to me is how little voice acting there is. It's noticeably less than what was in WOTR.

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Posted on: June 25, 2025

Mictlantec

Games: 98 Reviews: 4

Anti consumer practices.

Twitch drops are hurting your game, you wrote that you know we don't like it but you still do it. Hope gaining a potential client was worth losing a sure one.

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