Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

I've discovered this game too late, thank to the gods, because it could have destroyed my social teen life. The game is quite old, time is graving on UX and tactical view of the units. By the way the story, pixel art and music are still great today (for my personal taste). Make tactical map and midi music work under Linux has been really a pain, but know that it works I'm really enjoying it. If you are a fan of retro-gaming and Warhammer Fantasy world I can easly reccomend it to you.

There is a good game here, somewhere behind all the Jank. The game runs pretty well I haven't had any visual or audio problems the only issue I have is that it takes a bit to transition between menus. Now I will give my sincere opinion the game absolutely needs a remaster. As said before there is a good and possibly great game here especially if you're into Warhammer The Old World. I am one of the newest fans of Warhammer and I'm always keen to play more Video Games on my favourite universe but this is really not playable for me. I am no stranger to 90's RTS games. I grew up playing StarCraft, Command & Conquer and Age of Empires so I know what to expect from early RTS jank with pathfinding, controls and such but this game feels worse to control than the original WarCraft and Dune 2. Nothing feels natural I can't pan the cammera by moving the cursor to the sides of the screen and it uses that old Dune 2 style of controls where you have to order your units my clicking on the move button and then on the ground to move a unit. As for the UI it's awful and you can't really tell at a glance what button does what. All in All there's a great game here that needs some love I am saddened that it will probably remain as an early 90's jank and never get a remaster it so desperately needs. As of now don't spend your money on it unless you're familiar with the game and its quirks, if you want a simmilar experience to this I can't recommend Mark of Chaos enough and Total War Warhammer 2 (soon to be 3) if that kind of game. Great game its age kills it!

This is a faithful adaptation of the Warhammer tabletop game, and by "faithful" I mean it doesn't pull any punches and it doesn't hold your hand -- it tries very hard to kill you. One of the most punishing aspects is that you can only gather a small number of reinforcements between battles, so over time you find your army shrinking unless you win missions with very few casualties, which is NOT easy. This can be frustrating because you might win through to the eleventh or twelfth mission only to be slaughtered, and then you realize the problem is that you took too many losses back in mission four or five. Because you have to conserve troops so carefully, a winning strategy leans heavily on artillery and wizards (kill the bad guys from range). But, there are some random rules (like artillery misfiring and spontaneously exploding) that can ruin even this strategy. The sequel, "Dark Omens", is a more polished game in almost every way, and I'd love to see that game on gog as well. However, if you like Warhammer and are looking for a great story and a challenging game, Shadow of the Horned Rat can be a rewarding experience.

The download seems to be missing a number of important files necesary for this to run (did a system wide file check after install), or their not extracting correctly... in any case after multiply tries I've decided to go for a refund, way more trouble then its worth... Maybe at some point GoG will sort out the problems with this game install...

It was my first WARHAMMER game on PC. For a kid playing the tabletop it was just awesome, to see the realisation on PC.