Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Developer: Fatshark
Publisher: Fatshark
Franchise: Warhammer
Release date: Nov 30, 2022
Store page updated: Sep 15, 2026
Price: $39.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

59.5/ 100

Based on 374 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 72% of 973

All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 72% of 139,015

“fun and well made when playable”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

+1.02

Controls & feel +3.20 · Responsiveness, precision, and how the menus handle

“combat and gun feeling are top notch” (37)

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Story & World

+2.21

World +2.77 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

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Content Volume

-0.45

Variety -1.66 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

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Visuals & Sound

+2.99

Audio +3.72 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

“soundtrack is one of the best heard in a video game” (24)

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Multiplayer

-0.66

Netcode -3.54 · Server stability, ping, and disconnects

“randomly disconnected from server roughly thousand times” (44)

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Pricing & Fairness

-2.73

Pricing -2.61 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

“$12+ cosmetics and class DLCs with broken promises on free content” (30)

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Tech & Support

-2.42

Performance -3.20 · Frame rate, optimization, and loading times

“terrible experience on AMD hardware” (52)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update DLC

Nov 2022Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 926 reviews, peak 55/day

Aug 21Sep 18

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