Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Worth it · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99.
- Length
- 18.9h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7970, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or better, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
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
The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.59. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 56 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Xenonauts ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War ($39.99, scores 63).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,254 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 509 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
18.9 hours to finish it, 48 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
60% 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
108 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 19:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Having initially declined the game in a rush to judgment ; and an attempt to stay inside the two hour window I have now had the game reinstated . For an octogenarian fan of the 40K universe and tactical rpg games generally I really wanted to experience what others have highlighted as a mustplay for its atmosphere and squad management. I have taken the second attempt at this game more slowly and casually carried...
From the moment I understood the weakness of my skill, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of Pros I aspired to the purity of tactical prowess. Your kind cling to your skill as if I will learn and still fail you. But I already failed, for my skill issue is eternal. Even in death, I still catch L's.
"Not enough cognition points" "Connection_lost" (Mission failed) "Not enough cognition points" "Connection_lost" (Mission failed) "Not enough cognition points" "Connection_lost" (Mission failed) "Not enough cognition points" "Connection_lost" (Mission failed) Totally unplayable. I lost 4 missions in a row and uninstalled the game. Even after I discovered that you can gather Cognition Points with servo-skulls, the...
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Cite this score
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/673880/warhammer-40-000-mechanicusReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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