Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 27.1h
- Value
- $1.48/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 OR AMD Radeon RX 570, 72 GB of storage. Windows only.
Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Dead Island 2 ($49.99, scores 48) outscores it, and so does Killing Floor 2 ($29.99, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 799 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 18 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 213 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 3,756 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 27.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 198, 7.3 times as much.
It came out 4 years ago and 7.3K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
97% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7,267 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
8.5/10 (or 7/10 if you're not addicted to it) , Cant love it enough, cant hate it enough. Such is life in the grim dark future of Warhammer 40k. The game started as a sloppy release at launch but the devs have been constantly balancing and updating the game. However, I suggest waiting for one or two years until the devs complete the game unless you absolutely love Warhammer 40k or co-op horde shooters similar to...
excellent game, if you like horde extraction shooters then this one is a must try
I'm 455 hours in, all classes (including all DLC classes) at level 30, penance points maxed out, all difficulty levels unlocked and cleared and a fair amount of real money spent on paid cosmetics and DLC deluxe packs. Darktide has a great core gameplay loop which is badly let down by chronic teething issues which unfairly punishes players, including constant and awkward input lag (e.g. when trying to switch weapons...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1361210/warhammer-40-000-darktideThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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