A tour de force of Warhammer 40k. A LOT of reading but WOW. Amazing game for those who love turn based RPG and Strategy games alike. I mean... Ship combat, resource building and stretches through so many conceptual levels of 40K. Not Baldurs Gate 3 but damn good! Even better if you love Warhammer!

I finally finished this game. At 180 hours for my first playthrough, it has to be one of the longest RPGs I've played. The game world doesn't seem huge (like Skyrim), and the maps are fairly linear (unlike Baldur's Gate 3), so where does the length come from? I'd say a lot of that time is due to the amount of text, and it's pretty dense text too. There's also a lot of time spent on level-up screens trying to decide how to build or even re-build a character, and battles, particularly boss battles, can easily become an all day affair (let's just say that on the Hard difficulty, you're spending a lot of time looking at that reload screen questioning if it's even possible to win). The graphics are tame, which honestly, I'm happy with because the game setting is so dark that I'd rather not have to see the gratuitous dismemberment in any level of detail. The gameplay feels great. It's similar to the Shadowrun CRPGs in that there's both melee and shooting and ample use of environmental cover. Machine guns go brrrr in a very satisfying manner. But combat can feel unbalanced at times. The enemies tend to come in two varieties: trash mobs, or characters that can wipe half your party in one turn. You end up having to build your team in ways that feels like you're trying to break the game... such as by trying to take out as many enemies in the first round as you can before they can act, but if you don't build your team this way, you just get stomped. Overall, even with these flaws, you get a very satisfying package that keeps you interested up until the final credit roll. There's ample decision points to role play either a dogmatic, iconoclast, or heretic character, and the game keeps you guessing as to which path has the best/worst outcomes.

Like all Owlcat games, it's really overrated. Their stuff is to video games what fast food is to cuisine.
If you want to eat a lot, sure go for it. Don't expect much quality though. Neither taste. Nor to be surprised in any form.

When they released Pathfinder modules, their trend of pouring as much ♥♥♥♥ as humanely possible in their games was tolerable because, well, Pathfinder is already quite the labyrinth when it comes to character build and whatnot.

Here though ? You'll be swimming in feats and abilities that serve absolutely no purpose but to artificially bloat the amount of customisation options at your disposal, for the sake of selling gullible tasteless morons an "intricately deep® rpg game !!!"

The story is straight forward and forgettable. The game features nonsensical "romances" (understand : you can court your waifus) and rather boring opposition (expect copy pasted ad nauseam mobs).

Writing is awful, as ever, and bloated with pointless information left and right, but I guess it's fitting for an adaptation of Warhammer 40k. A setting that doesn't exactly shine by its ideas (I mean, in the last 15 years that is. There are good ideas in Warhammer 40k, it's just a shame most of them come straight from the 90s/00s and pretty much nothing even remotely interesting ever came out of it since then).

Avoid this (got it ?).