The 22 Best Warhammer Video Games

Games Workshop's grimdark settings have been turned into sprawling campaigns, co-op horde slaughter and slow, punishing tactics. Some picks are 1990s box-art classics, others still fill servers every night.

1. 1
   Rogue Trader

   Owlcat Games' 2023 turn-based role-playing game in which the player inherits a Rogue Trader dynasty in the Koronus Expanse.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Total War: Warhammer II

   Creative Assembly's 2017 strategy game that brought High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen and Skaven into a campaign over the Great Vortex.
   942pts
3. 3
   Mordheim: City of the Damned

   Rogue Factor's 2015 turn-based tactics game adapting the Mordheim tabletop skirmish game of warbands in a ruined city.
   826pts
4. 4
   Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

   Mythic Entertainment's 2008 MMORPG built around realm-versus-realm war, whose official servers closed in 2013.
   753pts
5. 5
   Dawn of War II

   Relic's 2009 sequel that shifted the series toward squad-based tactics and a Blood Ravens campaign in the Aurelia sub-sector.
   753pts
6. 6
   Shadow of the Horned Rat

   Mindscape's 1995 real-time tactics game that introduced Morgan Bernhardt's Grudgebringers fighting a Skaven plot.
   668pts
7. 7
   Darktide

   Fatshark's 2022 four-player co-op action game set in the hive city of Tertium.
   668pts
8. 8
   Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters

   Complex Games' 2022 turn-based tactics game in which the Grey Knights fight a Nurgle plague called the Bloom.
   667pts
9. 9
   Dawn of War – Dark Crusade

   A 2006 standalone expansion that added the Necrons and Tau and a map-based campaign for the planet Kronus.
   565pts
10. 10
    Mechanicus

    Bulwark Studios' 2018 turn-based tactics game in which the Adeptus Mechanicus explores the Necron tomb world of Silva Tenebris.
    565pts
11. 11
    Total War: Warhammer III

    Creative Assembly's 2022 strategy game that concludes the trilogy with Kislev, Grand Cathay and the four Chaos gods.
    439pts
12. 12
    Space Marine 2

    Saber Interactive's 2024 third-person action sequel that returns Titus as a Primaris Lieutenant against the Tyranids.
    439pts
13. 13
    Battlefleet Gothic: Armada

    Tindalos Interactive's 2016 real-time strategy game of fleet battles adapted from the Battlefleet Gothic tabletop game.
    439pts
14. 14
    Warhammer: Vermintide 2

    Fatshark's 2018 four-player co-op melee game in which five heroes fight the Skaven and the forces of Chaos.
    439pts
15. 15
    Blood Bowl 2

    Cyanide's 2015 turn-based adaptation of Games Workshop's fantasy American football board game.
    439pts
16. 16
    Dawn of War

    Relic Entertainment's 2004 real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, opening with the Blood Ravens on Tartarus.
    0pts
17. 17
    Total War: Warhammer

    Creative Assembly's 2016 game that first combined Total War's turn-based campaign and real-time battles with the Warhammer Fantasy setting.
    0pts
18. 18
    Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide

    Fatshark's 2015 co-op first-person game set in the city of Ubersreik during a Skaven invasion.
    0pts
19. 19
    Warhammer: Dark Omen

    A 1998 real-time tactics game from Mindscape in which Morgan Bernhardt leads the Grudgebringers mercenary army.
    0pts
20. 20
    Boltgun

    Auroch Digital's 2023 retro-style first-person shooter starring a Space Marine Sternguard Veteran.
    0pts
21. 21
    Space Marine

    Relic's 2011 third-person action game in which Captain Titus of the Ultramarines fights an Ork invasion of a forge world.
    0pts
22. 22
    Gladius – Relics of War

    Proxy Studios' 2018 turn-based 4X strategy game in which factions compete for control of the planet Gladius Prime.
    0pts

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