Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish…
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is an arcade developed by Auroch Digital, released 23 May 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $6.59 at Steam. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is an arcade game developed by Auroch Digital and released in 2023. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Play as Malum Caedo, a fearless Space Marine, on his perilous mission to locate a shard from a mysterious power source on Graia, a Forge World on the brink of being overrun by Cultists, Traitors and Chaos Daemons. Scour the place, acquire devastating weapons and holy equipment, and PURGE THE HERETICS in this retro shooter!
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 21 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is the 111th of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector - Orks in 2023. Its critic score of 83 is 12 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - Void Shadows at 100.
How it was received
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $6.59, that works out to about $0.82 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Phenom II X4 965 / Intel Core i3-2120, 8 GB RAM and 1 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon HD 7770 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $6.59 at Steam, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun launched on 23 May 2023, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, System Shock and Street Fighter 6. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, System Shock, Street Fighter 6.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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