Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe has thrived from its video game adaptations, especially over the last few years. Following the massive success of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the best-selling 40K game of all time, we’re on track for a number of brilliant-looking new games including Space Marine 3, Dawn of War 4, and the long-awaited Total War: Warhammer 40K.
While Warhammer fans are always getting new video games, it’s hasn’t been easy to play some of the franchise’s older titles due to incompatibility issues, licensing holdups, and more. Thanks to the ongoing Warhammer Classics initiative, a whole bunch of classic games have finally returned to PC players, and there should hopefully be more to come.
In partnership with SNEG, Games Workshop, and a number of game developers, 27 cult-classic Warhammer games have arrived on PC via Steam. While some of these are merely returning to Valve’s digital storefront, older titles are making their digital debut after decades of being stranded on old, physical discs.
While the games may not be perfect on modern systems—we simply haven’t tested them all—SNEG explains that the returning Warhammer games have been updated for current-generation operating systems. SNEG claims that the new re-releases should offer “ smooth performance on today’s hardware while maintaining the original gameplay experience that made them beloved by fans”. (Thanks, IGN.)
Check out the full list of games here:
- Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat (SNEG, SNEG)
- Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000 (SNEG, SNEG)
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (SNEG, SNEG)
- Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War (SNEG, SNEG)
- Warhammer: Dark Omen (SNEG, SNEG)
- Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (Chilled Mouse, SNEG)
- Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Gold Edition (SNEG, SNEG)
- Space Hulk (Full Control, SNEG)
- Space Hulk: Ascension (Full Control, SNEG)
- Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon (Slitherine, Slitherine)
- Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach (Slitherine, Slitherine)
- Talisman: Horus Heresy (Nomad, Nomad)
- Talisman: Digital Classic Edition (4th Edition) (Nomad, Nomad)
- Talisman: Origins (Nomad, Nomad)
- Man O’ War: Corsair – Warhammer Naval Battles (Evil Twin, SNEG)
- Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times (Perchang, Perchang)
- Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion (Tin Man, Tin Man)
- Warhammer Underworlds – Shadespire Edition (Tin Man, Tin Man)
- Dawn of War – Anniversary Edition (Relic, Relic)
- Dawn of War 2 – Anniversary Edition (Relic, Relic)
- Chainsaw Warrior (Auroch Digital, Auroch Digital)
- Chainsaw Warrior: Lords of Night (Auroch Digital, Auroch Digital)
- Dark Future: Blood Red States (Auroch Digital, Auroch Digital)
- Space Hulk : Tactics (Cyanide, Focus)
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (Tindalos, Focus)
- Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Cyanide, Nacon)
- Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Cyanide, Nacon)
“Warhammer has been a cornerstone of PC gaming since the 1990s, spanning genres from real-time strategy and turn-based tactics to fantasy sports, digital board games, and first-person shooters,” the publisher explained in a press release. “With Warhammer Classics, these defining chapters of its legacy are brought back for modern audiences, with seven games making their Steam debut and 12 returning to the digital storefront.”
SNEG has not confirmed if additional Warhammer classics are also prepped to come to modern systems in the near future, or if any of these releases will make their way outside of the Steam ecosystem. Nevertheless, it’s fantastic to see greater preservation of Warhammer’s brilliant history of PC games.
With titles like 1998’s Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate making its digital debut after 28 years alongside even older titles like Shadow of the Horned Rat, it’s great to see Games Workshop and others make an effort to make these games accessible. After all, many classic Warhammer games were seen as abandonware by fans, but they’re now available on Steam, and many are even playable on Steam Deck.
