Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
Worth it · Strategy · 2007
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 12.8h
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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All of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War in one glorious package. Play the genre-defining classic real time strategy game in all its blood-soaked glory, including four complete campaigns and nine full-fledged factions.
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The value story
February 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $2.59. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Company of Heroes ($2.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III ($39.99, scores 2).
Critics scored it 86. Players sit 9 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 617 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 962 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Players
76 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
greetings to all who are reading this, just for all to know, the game is great. one of the best, even. but i came here to critique not the game, nor the story, but the EULA of this game, and i recommend you, the reader, to read said EULA, because it may seem ordinary, but i found it really distateful coming from relic. from the time i played these games, i have only but the most profound respect for the amazing...
Sadly I don't see the point of spending what I spend on this release. I was hoping for 1080p as in option. I find it frustrating how its not included. The Graphics are not that improved in my opinion. Coming from someone who loves the WH40k universe its sad to see no support for 1080p . We shouldn't depend on modders to address this. Dev can easily patch this in. yet refuse to.
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition (Classic) scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4570/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-anniversary-edition-classicThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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