Warhammer Skulls Event Reveals Three New Games
Games Workshop held its annual Warhammer Skulls event today and revealed many dew details about the future of Warhammer. The largest bits of info were the reveals of three brand-new Warhammer video games, each from a separate genre.
First off, a Warhammer RPG is on the way from Owlcat Games, the makers of Pathfinder. The game will be called Rogue Trader and it will be set from an overhead three-quarters perspective, with turn-based combat and four team members: the Rogue Trader mentioned in the title, a Space Wolf, a Sister of Battle and an Aeldari Ranger. Rouge Trader will be out at an unspecified time. The other two were given 2023 release windows, so we must assume this one won’t be finished until later than that.
Why no one thought to marry the oldschool, beefy, violent shoot-em-up genre with Warhammer until now is beyond us, but here it finally is: Warhammer 40k Boltgun, an FPS in the spirit of Doom whre you’re handed a Boltgun and told to just go nuts with it. This one will be released in 2023 for consoles and PC — the consoles have yet to be specified.
The third game is something completely different: a digital card game. In Warhammer: Warpforge, developed by Everguild, you’ll build a deck of characters from across the 40k universe and engage in card-based battles against other factions. (There are many: Imperium, Chaos, Aeldari, Necrons, Orks, and Tyranids are the ones confirmed.) There’s a multiplayer mode, of course, but there are also separate single-player campaigns for each faction. Warpforge is coming to PC and mobile devices in 2023.