Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Last updated: 2025-05-25
- Excellent combat and satisfying weapon feedback.
- Immersive Warhammer 40K atmosphere.
- Challenging difficulty encourages teamwork.
- Repetitive gameplay and limited content.
- Frequent crashes and game instability.
- Unclear mechanics and grindy progression.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 62%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 34%
- Protest reviews
- 4%
- 77%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 23%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 3616
- Negative points
- 2800
- Gameplay points
- 808
- Perf. points
- 359
- Rec. points
- 1129
- Misc points
- 307
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent, satisfying combat and weapons | The game features excellent combat mechanics, including satisfying melee and ranged options, impactful weapons, and gore effects. Players praise the diverse arsenal, build customization, and engaging gameplay loops. The sound design, music, and detailed environments further enhance the immersive experience. | 97% |
| Immersive Warhammer 40K atmosphere | The game excels at capturing the grimdark atmosphere of the Warhammer 40,000 universe through its detailed environments, sound design, and lore integration. Players feel immersed in the dystopian world, with its towering hive cities and constant struggle for survival. The game's art style and world-building are consistently praised for their authenticity and attention to detail. | 33% |
| Challenging and rewarding difficulty | The game offers a challenging and rewarding experience, especially at higher difficulty levels. Players must make quick decisions, utilize key mechanics, and coordinate with their team to succeed. The game's difficulty scales well, providing a sense of progression and accomplishment. | 16% |
| Exceptional and immersive soundtrack | The game features an outstanding soundtrack, composed by Jesper Kyd, that enhances the atmosphere and combat experience. Players praise the music's intensity, memorability, and seamless integration with the gameplay. The sound design, including weapon and enemy sounds, is also highly regarded. | 15% |
| Teamwork-oriented and fair gameplay | The game emphasizes teamwork and cooperation, rewarding players for supporting each other. The matchmaking system is generally good, and the game avoids pay-to-win elements. The game is designed to be fair and winnable, with a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling. | 9% |
| Constant updates and improvements | The game receives constant updates with new content and improvements, demonstrating the developers' dedication. Players appreciate the ongoing support and the game's continuous evolution. The replay value is high, with each game bringing new surprises and challenges. | 8% |
| Improved itemization and progression | Recent updates, particularly the 'Unlocked & Loaded' update, have significantly improved the item system and weapon progression. Players now have more control over their gear and can create desired builds without excessive grinding or reliance on RNG. These changes have revitalized the game and made it more enjoyable. | 7% |
| Addictive and improved over time | The game has improved over time, addressing initial problems and adding substantial content. Players find the game addictive and enjoyable, with a reasonable grind and a good story. The game offers surprising depth and is a good way to waste time. | 7% |
| Significant improvements over Vermintide 2 | The game builds upon the foundation of Vermintide 2, improving combat, progression, and enemy design. Players appreciate the faster-paced gameplay, more meaningful resource grinding, and better-designed special enemies. While retaining familiar mechanics, the game offers a distinct and enhanced experience. | 7% |
| Detailed character creation and dialogue | The game features a detailed character creation system that influences dialogue and interactions. Players can customize their character's personality, backstory, and appearance, leading to unique and engaging conversations. The voice acting is strong, and the dialogue banter adds depth and charm to the game. | 7% |
| Unique and enjoyable character classes | The game offers diverse and enjoyable character classes, each with unique strengths, abilities, and playstyles. Players appreciate the distinct roles and the ability to create varied builds within each class. The Psyker and Ogryn classes are particularly praised for their fun and powerful gameplay. | 6% |
| Unique horde shooter experience | The game offers incredible build variety, a better atmosphere than Vermintide 2, and a unique horde shooter experience. The game has the balance, difficulty, and matchmaking Helldivers 2 can only dream of. The updates keep coming, and the Darktide universe keeps expanding with them. | 6% |
| Unique and strong classes | Each class feels unique and strong, with amazing dialogue between the party. The interplay between classes creates moments of synergy that are as rewarding as they are necessary. The class system is well-designed, offering variety and encouraging teamwork. | 5% |
| Fatshark delivers great melee combat | Fatshark delivers the best first-person melee combat in gaming. Fatshark is reliable and community-driven. The core gameplay feels great, continuing Fat Shark's trend of creating enjoyable 'tide' games. Fatshark has greatly improved the game since its shaky launch and continues to support it with free content updates. | 5% |