Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $44.99.
- Length
- 27.9h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 / AMD Radeon R9 280X, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Inkbound ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer Quest (Classic) ($29.99, scores 16).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 12 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 625 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 27.9 hours. Doing everything runs 71, 2.5 times as long.
The drop-off
93% start to <1% 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
373 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
1st review on the platform because IMO it deserves more praise. Obviously it is long after the publishing date, but I have not encountered any technical difficulties at all. The setting is done wonderfully, the aesthetics, sound of weapons and ambience are fantastic. Characters are interesting and adequate, voice acting appropriate. The game took a lot of inspiration from XCOM, but used the absurd power fantasy of...
The UI is overly busy and the classes not well defined, but after figuring a few things out it becomes fun. I have experienced a few bugs but not often.
Im thankful i got this game on sale the developers while "passionate" in the art style of the game and characters department it doesn't help save the disgustingly unoptimized difficulty and boring gameplay this game unfortunately delivers I really tried my best to force myself to enjoy it but quite literally the only thing I had "fun" with is the FEW dreadnought missions with three dlc this game even on easy mode is...
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: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters scores 41/100 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/1611910/warhammer-40-000-chaos-gate-daemonhuntersThe 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 23.
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