Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate

Like another reviewer, on win10 at the time of review my copy no longer works. Love the game when it does work, though it gets monotonous. Will update review if GOG ever gets it working again.

Awesome game but GOG still didnt fix the but, Gamestarts but CRUSH at battle. Damn damn damn/

The game runs for me under Win10, although it has had some crashes. The biggest problem with the game - and why I struggle to recommend it even to 40k fans - is that it is too dependent on random dice rolls. It's clear that the developers wanted to make an X-COM clone 40k game (and there is nothing wrong with that idea in theory), but unfortunately they badly botched the job by throwing out everything that made X-COM work. The biggest problem with the game is that it is so random dice roll dependent it becomes literally a game of chance. There is very little strategy involved in sucess. It doesn't matter if you sucessfully flank the enemy, bait the enemy into a foolish attack, or make a clever usage of your spells. Everything comes down to the dice rolls. You will cringe at the number of times your supposedly elite units completely fail to hit the target or do absolutely no damage on a direct hit. There is no way for the player to conter this. It is purely behind the scenes RNG. It was a fatal mistake for Chaos Gate to abandon all of the strategic global map/base gameplay of X-COM which was how the player could compensate for the overwhelmingly negative tactical map odds where the deck is highly stacked against the player. In Chaos Gate there is no research, no soldier recruitment, no funding. There is nothing to improve your chances except the chance to run more missions and try to improve your soliders while dealing with all the above RNG issues on the tactical map. Any soldier lost is a permanent loss in Chaos Gate which means you are just going to start save scumming in order to compensate for the absymal RNG when your soldier dies because they can't hit the broad side of a barn. In the tabletop there is a good amount of RNG, but this is tempered by the fact that armies are balanced (there is a point limit for each army) and that the dice fall both ways for each player. This doesn't happen in Chaos Gate, however, where you are always outnumbered.

crashes when u try to drop first mission, dont buy this, its a shame cause the game is fantastic but its not worked for like 10 years

Fantastic game, but doesn't work on Windows 10, nor Windows 7. I've read some solutions to the problem, but they did not work for me. Shame.