Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic)

Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic)

Fair · Multiplayer · 2017

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
18.2h
Value
$1.10/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
18.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
44.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.10
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
85%
1,492 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
69
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512Mb DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
DRMSlitherine PBEM++ for account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Value$1.10/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length18 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 372 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

November 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 31 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Classic) ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer Quest (Classic) ($29.99, scores 23).

The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 372 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 18.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 45, 2.4 times as much.

The drop-off

41% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

think about this as a smaller version of battlesector and it was released much earlier, yes but still enjoyable if you're ready to forgive it much less amount of factions and gamemodes
SASRecommendedafter 5.2hJun 2026Read on Steam
This is an amazing turn base game. I highly recommended it to play and it worth your money. You want to fight a battle? this is it. I actually find it better than battle sector. I wish they make another game like this but modern. In the mean time i appreciate this one.
savavax ounanaRecommendedafter 94hMay 2026Read on Steam
Why was this delisted? one of the closest to playing the actual Tabletop game loving it so far. Sure not the most exciting story or progression, but as a 40k fan it has me hooked. Way easier than modding table top simulator to get a taste of the real game. Would recommend if super into Warhammer and or Strategy Turn Based games.
DestyNovaRecommendedafter 9.3hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Classic) scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/502370/warhammer-40-000-sanctus-reach-classic
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+16
Critics
69
Players
85
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,492 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStraylight Entertainment
PublisherSlitherine Ltd.
GenreMultiplayer
Released2017
Achievements12