Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.

14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask

The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 27: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.43/day in the week to Jul 23 → 4.29/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Poland over the last 30 days: the 21 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 12 places towards #1, and the 2,501 moves with no price cut behind them went 1 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 937 reviews with recorded playtime.

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This is one of the trickiest recommendations that I have decided to write, but this game is interesting enough and, ultimately, good (with some fairly emphatic caveats) enough that I think it is worth buying and playing. To be clear: this game has flaws. Most of the complaints that fuel the negative reviews of this game on its Steam page are valid, but, ultimately, (I think) it deserves attention for how it elevates the modern Xcom-like tactical turn-based strategy genre to which it belongs. I think what ultimately makes this game divisive is that many of its mechanics and gameplay considerations exist in an uneasy tension with its setting (at least for part of the game, as I will explain later). The setting of this game is, as the title suggests, Warhammer 40,000. You play as the leader of a task force of Grey Knights, the elite, psychic chapter of space marines who specifically fight demonic threats. A regular space marine is an eight-foot tall, musclebound supersoliders whose armor is roughly that of a walking tank (or more, for Terminator armor). Grey Knights are that, but with psychic powers and specialized weaponry. So, with four of these towering, heavily armed and armored behemoths, it should be simple to take down the game's starting enemies, who are just regular people with handguns and the superpower of...being sick, because they serve the Plauge God, Nurgle. No problem at all, right? Absolutely wrong! It turns out that a disease-ridden pipsqueak has just as much armor and can withstand nearly as much damage as your space marines in the early game, their weapons can somehow punch straight through your immense armor, and one or two of them can easily suppress your entire squad. Also they get constant reinforcements teleported into the mission. Also, every so often (accelerated by your use of psychic abilities), a random bad thing will happen: you cannot use healing powers, your weapons are unusable, enemies get more health or damage or reinforcements, or some other such unpredictable calamity. Depending on the mission, this can happen every three turns or so, making the already difficult fights nearly impossible depending on how unlucky you get with enemy placement and the periodic debuffs. Here is the point a lot of other reviews make, and it is true: this game is difficult, and furthermore difficult in a way that is unpredictable and not possible to counter through strategic play. I have attempted playing this game on several different difficulty levels, and even on Easy the early game could, with some bad luck in enemy spawns and random debuffs, become overwhelming. The key problem with this game is, in my opinion, that it creates difficulty by making both cautious and aggressive play punished in nearly every scenario, but not punished in a way that is predictable or that leads to the player being able to make strategic choices around it. If you try to advance cautiously, you will be ambushed by randomly-spawned enemy reinforcements and hobbled by afflictions or arbitrary damage from the roulette wheel. If you advance aggressively to try to complete objectives before the roulette wheel of misery can spin, you will be overwhelmed by the numerous, overlapping waves of enemies (and also still the roulette wheel). None of this lines up with the idea of commanding a group of Grey Knights against a rising threat. So, why do I recommend this game, then? Because around the mid-game, things change drastically and become more manageable. Normally games get easier once you learn how to properly play them, or you gain skills with your characters to better address threats. Those things do happen here, but in the supposed threat escalation the game actually becomes mechanically easier. As the threat escalates, the rush of hordes of small enemies is gradually replaced with fewer, but much tougher and more dangerous enemies. When this happens, the game does not necessarily become easy (at least not on Normal difficulty), but it does become more fair. Once you start dealing with tougher enemies, the mechanics of the game start to make sense in a way that they did not when facing hordes of chaff. The stun/execution mechanics, the numerous debuffs you can inflict, the high-damage special abilities, all of those things help manage medium-large groups of tough enemies while they did not help against spread-out hordes of lower-tier ones. The general story is fine, the item and character progressions on your soldiers are quite good and in fitting with the setting, and even the missions stop being monotonous...all once you get past the early game and its slog of constant fights against overwhelming hordes of small enemies. This game is good and has a lot of great mechanics and features that I hope any future Xcom-like takes into account in their design, but also only starts working about one-third of the way into a (quite long) campaign.