Bought this game for the music, which was my main draw. Stayed because someone has to wield the flames that purge these filthy xenos from the god emperors universe.
Don't have enough experience with these games to know what to comment on particularly, except for that one little thing called fun, of which I am having tons of.
Also, there might be some OP weapons on Normal difficulty. Looking at you, flamethrower.
I can't stop playing this game. It's got me.
It's technically a roguelike, where you explore the planet full of hostile baddies until they all wake up and overwhelm you.
Unlike most roguelikes, however, you don't die and restart over and over. The challenge is efficiency as you navigate the particular narrative arc you want to explore. If you wake up the baddies too fast, you get a short game.
If you're a hard-hearted bastard scrambling for every bit of advantage you can, a game can last weeks.
And the turn-based combat is amazing. You essentially explore the tombs, collecting advantages or disadvantages as the roguish gods decree, and then you enter a turn-based combat that looks a lot like X-COM, but this iteration rewards aggressive play, and the stakes can run pretty high depnding on just how you've geared your tech-priests.
On top of all of this, the art, characters, and music fits just perfectly. The religious nutjob is a nutjob, so they still don't get religious people, but that's just endemic to 40k. Denial is their thing.
The only complaint is that many of the area-effect weapons have a fixed elevation setting, so gaps in terrain can block targeting and singular targets just slightly above you can't be fired at, which hurts a lot in some situations.
Still, there are a lot of other good weapons, so you can roll with it.
All in all, great game. 10/10
I bought this game not realy knowing what it realy was and a having a friend recommended to me. But man is this a hidded gem of fun, i went in blind winhout any idea of what the game is gona bring to the tabel and let me tell you it packs a punch in terms of fun. def. worth a shot if you love turn base games
