Really worth it on sale. Play this with a controller and you will have a solid action game.

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr delivers a grimdark ARPG experience with satisfying combat, deep customization, and a rich 40K atmosphere. While its pacing and mission variety can feel repetitive, fans of the universe will appreciate its lore, brutal action, and co-op play. A solid choice for Warhammer enthusiasts, but not groundbreaking. Still recommending.

Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr is an ambitious attempt to bring the grimdark universe of Warhammer 40K into the action RPG genre, and while it succeeds in capturing the aesthetic and atmosphere, it falls short in several key areas, making for a mixed experience.

On the positive side, the game nails the Warhammer 40K setting. The environments, character designs, and sheer brutality of combat make you feel like a true Inquisitor purging heresy in the Emperor’s name. The variety of weapons and abilities allows for diverse playstyles, whether you prefer heavy melee combat, ranged gunplay, or psychic devastation. The level of customization, from gear upgrades to skill trees, adds depth to character progression, and the game features a massive amount of content with its procedurally generated missions and ongoing updates.

However, the game struggles with pacing and gameplay variety. While combat is weighty and satisfying at first, it can become repetitive over time. Enemies often feel like damage sponges, and mission objectives tend to blend together, making extended play sessions feel grindy rather than engaging. The cover system, which seems like an interesting addition for a Diablo-style ARPG, feels clunky and rarely necessary, making it more of a gimmick than a core mechanic.

Performance and polish are also inconsistent. The UI can be unintuitive, loading times are longer than they should be, and some mechanics feel underdeveloped. Multiplayer and co-op are fun additions but are not always as seamless as they could be, with occasional connectivity issues and balance concerns.

Despite its flaws, Inquisitor – Martyr remains a unique and atmospheric take on the Warhammer 40K universe. If you're a hardcore fan of Warhammer and enjoy slower-paced, methodical ARPG combat, you may find a lot to like here. However, for those expecting a Diablo-level of fluidity and polish, the game may feel more like an interesting but flawed experiment.

Rating: 7/10 – A promising but grindy ARPG that thrives on atmosphere but stumbles in execution.

The story is good, but the lack of quality assurance makes the game feel like a cheap mobile game. I recommend avoiding the Battle Sister class at the start, as it feels unpolished and unfinished. While I can't recommend this game to new players in the Warhammer franchise, it's worth playing for fans who appreciate a good story.

There's far too many annoying "features" that make it clunky and unsatisfying to play, unlike it's peers.
There's multiple, but I need to point out one that I just can't get behind: Continuing movement after every attack. Basically the game automatically continues whatever movement you inputted before an attack, even if you aren't pressing that move key anymore. So whenever you attack, instead of just attacking like in any other ARPG, your character does the short attack animation and then continues moving straight until the next attack, regardless of whether you're still moving in that direction. You cannot turn this off, and it makes everything feel very clunky. You can hold shift to force your character to stand still, but this means if you don't want the clunky continues movement to happen you need to press shift every time you attack or want to change the direction the character moves after an attack. This is very unintuitive, feels horrible, removes combat satisfaction, and for no good reason.

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It's pretty mid.
I wish they hadn't given the DLC Battlesister a side-shave.
More character customisation would be nice, like being able to pick your hairstyle & hair colour at character creation, rather than having it bizarrely tied to which armour your using.
Voice acting was clearly done without proper direction from the devs, with constant mispronunciations & wrong intonations & wrong emphasis, & the voice acting frequently does not match the context. Some of the character animations are pretty terrible too.
The turret emplacement mechanics suck; It just looks & feels terrible when you try to use enemy turret emplacements. Luckily the devs seem to realise this, & have arranged it so that it never makes sense to use the enemy turret emplacements anyway, so I'm not sure why they don't just remove that feature.

On the plus side, the female characters do look feminine, there's no forced diversity, & there are no femstodes of Primaris marines.

I'd recommend picking it up on sale if you really like warhammers.

no 1980x1080 resolution option? how? runs like ass

One of the most fun arpgs I've ever played, and not just late game builds but from the start. Skills are fun and its easy to find a set up you enjoy asap.

Good good