The Prologue was absolutely amazing, blown away by the voice acting, theme and combat!

But to my dismay they cut legit ALL of the voice acting after the prologue.

I have a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ time reading mass text, and while I was immersed in world in the prologue, that instantly fell off when I learned that directly after the prologue I was greeted by mass text walls with no voice overs. For this reason I don't recommend this game for anyone who has issues like I do.

I really wanted to love this game, and I almost do, but not quite.

The main issue for me has been the pacing of the main story: the first two acts are incredible and set up a very compelling story, full with characters, difficult choices etc. Only for the game to drop all of that in act 3 in what can only be called the most contrived and pointless plot twist known to man. The entire act feels like it's taken from a different story altogether, and has little in the way of interesting characters and interactions - mostly, it's just a tedious slog of endless combat encounters that you have to get through without your full party or your equipment.

Once you are let back into the main story in act 4, it's lost all momentum, and I haven't been able to force myself to finish it. It really feels like the writing team for this game only wrote two acts, with the rest being improvised the night before the game was released.

Beyond the main story tho, the game is wonderful. It's true to the lore and it's obvious that the team was dedicated to making this a faithful adaptation of WH40k. The graphics might not be anything special from a technical standpoint, but on account of the art direction, I can't help but love the look of this game.

I don't know what could be done to fix the main problem of this game save for a complete redo of the two final acts. More realistically tho, I just hope that any future dlc/expansions actually have coherent storylines.

Good points :
- Lore, writting, and voice acting are S-tier
- Large depth in character builds and combat talents
- A lot of option in how to approach combat
- Long game (I like long games, still no end in sight after 40+ hours)
- A lot of choices with actual real consequences in gameplay and story (not just dialogue options)
- Very cool and original space combat
- Interesting approach to trade

What is mid :
- Would have loved an "overwatch" ability
- Maps feel a little bit empty in content, no real exploration, and level map is very meh
- I know balance is complicated, but playing less than "hard" difficulty feels like cheating (hard is kinda fine, more is straight up unfair)
- If your party has a lot of combat options, ennemies sometimes feel a bit dull

Bad points (nothing is a deal breaker for me, buy the game) :
- Cover should be way more important and feels like it has not been fully integrated with other combat mechanics, arenas are sometimes... debatable
- Camera is sometimes a bit janky
- This is the kind of game where you really feel the love, attention and ambition of the devs, and where you wish they hade more time and more money to accomplish their vision (give us more content for the love of god please more content, more traders, bigger maps...)

Buy if :
- You like/love Warhammer 40k (++)
- You like turn-based combat (+)
- You like nerding out on character builds (+++)
- You like a good, well-written story (+++)
- You like meaningful decisions in CRPG (+++)

Similar to :
- Wasteland 3 (+++)
- Divinity Original Sin (++)
- Baldur's Gate 3 (+) DISCLAIMER do not expect the magic of BG3 which is one of the best games ever created (10/10 in my book)

Note : Solid 7.5/10.

A few weak points but the overall balance makes the experience enjoyable. Hopefully this is the solid base of a long series of W40k CRPG. Please make more games like this.

Price : 50€ is a tad much to my taste, 30 to 40 range looks better. Under 30 just buy it.