Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
From the developers of the best-selling and award-winning franchise Vermintide, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a visceral 4-player co-op action game set in the hive city of Tertium. Fight together with your…
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is an adventure developed by Fatshark, released 30 November 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 26.5 hrs to finish.
What Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is an adventure game developed by Fatshark and released in 2022. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Autodesk Stingray.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the depths of the hive, the seeds of corruption threaten an overwhelming tide of darkness. A heretical cult known as the Admonition seeks to seize control of the planet Atoma Prime and lay waste to its inhabitants. It is up to you and your allies in the Inquisition to root out the enemy before the city succumbs to Chaos.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 36 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer 40,000 series
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the 108th of 136 entries we hold in the Warhammer 40,000 series. The next entry was Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters: Duty Eternal in 2022. Its critic score of 78 is 7 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: Darktide holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 73 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 26.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel i5-6600 (3.30GHz) OR AMD Ryzen 2400G (3.6 GHz), 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 OR AMD Radeon RX 570. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 72GB. 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 launched against
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide launched on 30 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns and Chained Echoes. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, Pentiment, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Chained Echoes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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