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.

With the recent updates to co-op I can finally recommend this game. Thanks Owlcat devs for making it so other players can reconnect mid-combat. Really top shelf CRPG and does great service to the 40k setting.