Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is free to keep for a limited time
The 1990s tactics game is being given away by GOG.
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This year’s Warhammer Skulls showcase included announcements for several new videogames in Games Workshop’s mega-gothic far future Warhammer 40,000 setting: aboomer shooter called Boltgun, acard game called Warpforge, and acRPG from Pathfinder developers Owlcat called Rogue Trader. We alsosaw a bit more of the upcoming Space Marine 2. While we wait for all those, here’s an older game to tide you over.
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate is a squad tactics game published by SSI in 1998, and you can get it for free right now on GOG as part of theWarhammer Skulls 2022 Digital Goodie Pack. The pack includes a concept art book for 2006 strategy game Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, a bundle of wallpapers, including some promo art from last year’s under-rated FPS Necromunda: Hired Gun (well, I liked it), and a few discount codes, as well as Chaos Gate.
Chaos Gate pitted squads of Ultramarines against the forces of Chaos in turn-based combat. While it didn’t have a lot of enemy variety and lacked the strategy layers of competitors like Jagged Alliance and X-COM, it still has fans today, and it did have a pretty rad soundtrack if you’re into martial beats and eerie chanting. In fact, you can download the soundtrack as an extra once you claim it on GOG.
Though it reused the name, the more recentWarhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhuntersis much closer to modern tactics games. It pushes you forward across the battlefield, encouraging melee options like Gears Tactics, and features a strategy layer stocked with fully voiced NPCs to chat to. You’ll find the original Chaos Gate much more old school, of course, with its emphasis on careful deliberation and chipping away at Traitor Marines from a distance.
Chaos Gate and the rest of the digital goodies can bedownloaded for freeuntil Wednesday, June 8, at 10am PST/5pm UTC. If you’ve already got a copy of Chaos Gate on GOG, you’ll be sent a redeem code via email to share with someone else.
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