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Published on February 24th, 2024 | by Gareth Newnham


WARHAMMER 40,000: CHAOS GATE: DAEMONHUNTERS REVIEW (PS5)

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters Review (PS5) Gareth Newnham
Gameplay
Graphics
Audio
Value

Summary: Whether you're a fan of 40k or not. Daemonhunters is a fantastic romp
and a fine example of how to do strategy right on consoles.


4.5

WE ARE THE HAMMER!


Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is a satisfying strategy game with
deep systems, thrilling turn-based battles, and a clear and nuanced
understanding of the universe that inspired it.

On the surface, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is another 40K game
with far too many semicolons. (It’s traditional for games set in the grim
darkness of the 41st millennium to be called something that looks like a
desperate attempt at Techpriest SEO). Essentially, it’s grim, dark XCOM.





 

At its core, Daemonhunters is a series of turn-based battles sandwiched between
whole spreadsheets of squad management days of HQ maintenance. Ok, maybe it is
quite a bit like XCOM, but, you see, XCOM has always been inspired by tabletop
wargames, and Warhammer is undisputedly the granddaddy of that.

Though these days, the Warhammer license is easier to bag than Beavis’ Mum,
thankfully, Daemonhunters is by far one of the best 40K adaptations I have
played. It also successfully pulls off something far more media should attempt –
a reboot of a game with decent ideas that didn’t quite work. In this case, it’s
90’s namesake Chaos Gate. Another turn-based battler featuring Marines Vs. Chaos
that nailed the setting but was a dreary slog to play.



The most important thing that Demon Hunters gets right, though, is the
characters and setting. It’s clear from the off that developer Complex Games
understands that there are heroic people in the 40K universe but that the
factions they work for and worship are ultimately all sides of the same loaded
dice.



Players take command of a company of Grey Knights, the secretive and deadly
order of Space Marines made up entirely of Astartes with psychic powers. The
Hammer of the Ordo Malleus, The Grey Knights are tasked with eradicating demons
that break into our reality, twisting and perverting anything they come into
contact with

The demons themselves are the servants of the Chaos Gods, four eldritch beings
that feast off negative emotions and psychic energy to break through into
realspace from the nightmarish world they inhabit, known as the Immaterium or
the Warp.

This is a big problem for humans because they are both psychic and prone to
negativity. In game this is presented by the fact that every time a Knight uses
one of their psychic abilities in battle to power up an attack, smite an enemy,
or heal a comrade, points are added to the Warp meter. Once full, demonic
enemies spawn, or your squad is struck down with space Syphilis. This creates a
compelling risk Vs reward system, as short-term gains can lead to serious
trouble a few turns later. So sometimes it’s best just to rely on the holy
trinity of Bolter, Flamer, and Melta.



The most impressive thing about Daemonhunters, though, is how snappy the combat
feels. Unlike XCOM, you don’t have to worry about missing your target at
point-blank range due to a botched dice roll. If your weapon is in range and you
can see your target, you are guaranteed to hit them. Although distance and cover
do reduce the damage you deal from ranged attacks, the game’s UI will tell you
exactly how much damage each attack does from different positions on the map
before you sign off on a move, and It’s always satisfying to see a plan come
together as your Knights use their different abilities to tear the enemies of
the Imperium apart.

This is, even more, sweeter when you manage to fill the Stun Bar. This lets you
wear down an enemy with a series of successive blows (until they’re, uh,
stunned), then have them finished off with a gruesome execution that also gives
every member of the squad another action point. This can often turn a desperate
situation in your favour with a few well-placed commands and then keep on
steamrolling to victory.

However, the flip side of this is also true when the game decides you’ve had
things too easy and then ratchets up the difficulty by beaming dozens of enemy
reinforcements in mid-battle when you’re barely holding off the hordes of
pox-ridden reprobates that are already there. This can lead to you being low on
health, out of resources, and with nothing left to do but get kicked from one
side of the map to the other. Sure, the legions of Nurgle represent a kind of
Lovecraftian existential nightmare, but having to impotently fight against that
in a game with a clear win state is no less frustrating.



Be warned, Daemonhunters is absolutely brutal. Even on Normal, there’s no
guarantee you won’t get halfway through its 50-hour plus campaign and have to
restart because you’re completely screwed both on the battlefield and off.
What’s worse, though, is that you might not realise you can’t win until you’ve
put dozens of hours in. If you botch the early mission, you may as well start
again because chances are you will run out of steam. I don’t make this
recommendation often, but in Daemonhunters, starting on Easy for your first run
is worth doing, at least until you have a good grip on its various systems and
how they all interact with each other.

As well as the threats found planetside, the whole sector is also beset by a
deadly plague called The Bloom. This foulpox needs to be cured before it
consumes the whole system. The spread of the virus is tracked on your campaign
map as it spreads from planet to planet. You quickly realise that you can’t save
everyone, which means you often need to make tough choices regarding what
distress calls to respond to and which you ignore. At the start of the campaign,
there is a single strain of the virus; by the time the credits roll, there are
five, as well as a whole other host of embuggerances like enemy vessels spoiling
for a fight, ship-damaging warp storms, and cultists trying to open Chaos Gates
that once five are successfully activated, is a literal game over. Each element
works in tandem to create a brilliant sense of tension and desperation as you
try to spin all of these ghoulish plates at once while hunting for a way to
eradicate The Bloom and put a stop to Pappa Nurgle’s diabolical machinations.



Daemonhunters nails the look and feel of the source material and does a
brilliant job of making the 41st millennium feel both grim and dark, gothic and
horrifying in equal measure. Both the Grey Knights and the demonic hordes of
Nurgle are lovingly recreated, as the bellowing, mighty, zealous barks of the
emperors chosen as they crash down into combat are met by unsettling grunts and
coughs from the forces of the Plague God that make them sound almost as sickly
as they look. Meanwhile, the roar of Bolter fire and the discharge of psychic
energy all sound weighty and cinematic while the soundtrack is suitably jubilant
and sweeping, with some more low-key tracks for the game’s moodier moments
thrown in for good measure.

The biggest compliment I can throw at Daemonhunters, though, is that the
controls on the console version work really well. I would even go so far as to
say I prefer playing it with a pad to a mouse and keyboard, which is probably
the highest praise you can throw at any console port of a PC strategy game. By
making clever use of the d-pad and shoulder buttons to allow the player to
quickly flick between commands while using the analog sticks to control the
camera and where you want your grey knights to romp across the map, it all feels
pretty effortless.

However, the one thing that I did find disappointing is that the two years of
additional content lavished on the PC version of the game since its release in
late 2022 seems to be MIA from this version of the game. It’s a shame because
stomping around the battlefield in a Dreadnaught and the extra (incredibly
useful) ship gifted you in Duty Eternal, and the ability to draft in help from
the imperial assassins would have made this edition feel all the more complete.
The fact you still have to pay extra to play as Garren Crowe also still stings a
little.


FINAL THOUGHTS

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is a tough but satisfying
XCOM-a-like that rewards careful planning and decisive action. Although, at
times, the odds can truly seem stacked against you, to the point of being
overwhelming (especially when the game starts tossing endless reinforcements at
you), turning the tide of battle in your favor never fails to raise a smile.

Though the lack of PC DLC and Garren Crowe still being put behind a paywall
stings a little, it’s clear that great care and attention was taken to tailor
the experience to consoles.

Overall, if you’re a fan of the setting, it’s an easy sell. For those looking
for a fun entry point into the wonderful world of the 41st millennium but have
no patience for model making or reading a mountain of novels and rule books,
Daemonhunters is a brilliant place to start.







ABOUT THE AUTHOR



Gareth Newnham


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