
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
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76561198047744187

Recommended56 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
the poor on my ship were causing trouble.
i went to see what they wanted.
they made reasonable demands.
executed them anyways.
how dare they make demands.
Emperor Protects.
945 votes funny
76561198047744187

Recommended56 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
the poor on my ship were causing trouble.
i went to see what they wanted.
they made reasonable demands.
executed them anyways.
how dare they make demands.
Emperor Protects.
945 votes funny
76561198038777662

Recommended175 hrs played (24 hrs at review)
love me emperor
love me primarch
love me chapter
hate traitors
hate orks (not racis', i just don't like 'em)
hate heretics
simple as
168 votes funny
76561197960301612

Recommended12 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Jurgen - Time to use that Melta
150 votes funny
76561198109435621

Recommended40 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
"love me emperor
love me primarch
love me chapter
hate traitors
hate orks (not racist, i just don't like 'em)
hate heretics
simple as"
136 votes funny
76561198257175664

Recommended314 hrs played (210 hrs at review)
I got Rogue Trader: Cyka Blyat Edition. I paid in rubles and have no idea what the conversion rate is, but it's unlikely that I'll ever recover financially from this transaction.
Pros:
-Warhammer 40k
-Rich character development system with numerous ways to play multiple builds
-Turn-based TTRPG inspired combat
-You get a Space Marine companion
-Isn't an 80 hour dating sim
-A great way to learn lore about 40k that isn't a british asmr video.
-You have a space butler that introduces you to everyone.
-Space Combat
Cons:
- 1/3 to 1/2 of all the talents are broken (though they have fixed many)
-Acts 3,4,5
-Multiple quests are broken the further you progress into the game
-You get a Space Marine companion, but it's a Space wolf
-Can't breed Argenta
-Space Combat
tldr;
Rogue Trader: Cyka Blyat Edition is a great way to learn 40k lore without reading 80 novels, or watching 2000 hours worth of videos.
Iconoclast decisions are for babies.
You can't bang Argenta.
8/10. Would weaponize my autism against the forces of chaos and the unwashed xenos hordes again.
118 votes funny
76561198042813767

Not Recommended53 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
As a kickstarter Ive been hidden of the fact that there would be a season pass and the voidfarer pack during release.
I would have obtained way more benefits for much cheaper instead if I just bought the game during release, and they are scared of the criticism in the discussions, locking those threads.
As much as I like Owlcat, they will receive the mistreatment back from me, and I shall no more help kickstarter their future projects.
Keep mistreating your best supporters like this for long, and you will learn the lesson sooner or later, Owlcat.
91 votes funny
76561198007191224

Recommended260 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
The bold male voice actor sounds exactly like Matt Berry, and now I literally cannot stop thinking about how awesome a WH40K comedy starring Matt Berry would be.
86 votes funny
76561198944807166

Recommended630 hrs played (114 hrs at review)
Luv me voidship
Luv me Koronus Expanse
Luv me Abelard
Luv me Emperor
'Ate Chaos
'Ate Xenos (not racis, jus don't like 'em)
'Ate Incendia Chorda
Simple as
82 votes funny
76561198079382801

Not Recommended147 hrs played (145 hrs at review)
So let us start by listing the good points, because the game has very many;
- A solid story, at least until chapter 3.
- A solid alteration of the Rogue Trader TTRPG system that manages to capture much the same feeling whilst shedding some of its clunkiest parts.
- Fun combats that are well balanced, until the start of Chapter 4.
- Perhaps the most lore accurate representation of the 40k universe I've ever seen in a game, a real delight for the old hands and the new out there who want to sink their teeth into something substantial. In fact, the attention to such things almost made me recommend the game. Almost.
Now we must list the bad points.
I can't actually give you a review of the full game, because on two separate runs I've been stymied by bugs at the start of or during Chapter 4. However, with almost 150 hours in the game I think I can offer something in regards to an opinion on its quality.
- The combat, which was previously very well thought through and engaging appears to have been taken from whatever skilled hand was working on it and instead given to a monkey with a degree in Faffing About. Combats swing from trivial and utterly unmemorable to nut-flatteningly hard seemingly at random.
- The story. It picks up the pace and starts becoming genuinely interesting and then Chapter 3 happens at you, and all that momentum falls out of a window, tragically breaking its neck and dying. After Chapter 3 has finished happening at you, you're thrown right back into it. With absolutely 0 momentum behind you, and all the driving force of an angry Sunday motorist.
- The bugs. Emperor offer my soul salvation! The bugs! From maps lacking the ability to leave them, to quests not completing or simply duplicating. I've helped one companion get her damned papers signed three times in a row, and then I helped her find her gang. And then she left to save her gang. Then asked me to help her with her damned paperwork. I think she may be an agent of Tzeentch. Or Slaanesh, no one can enjoy the pain of that much pencil pushing drudgery but the deranged chosen of the Prince of Pleasure.
- The quantity and quality of content also falls off very hard after Chapter 3. The cynical amongst you may believe this is because its an attempt to front load the game and make it appealing at first glance. I believe the team was abducted from their offices after completing Chapter 3 and only managed to return with a bare week before the game was released and worked their hands bloody in service to the God Emperor to give us what they could. Because if it is that first thing I'd feel like a bit of idiot as I've bought the game for friends too. Luckily though, as a devout follower of the God Emperor I can't ever be wrong.
To conclude then:
The game is Very Good, until it becomes Not Very Good. In the future, I hope the updates and patches that Owlcat is putting out with some solid regularity already make me recommend the game. However, given the state of the last half of the game, I can't in good conscience. It is, however, a very enjoyable game in the main. If it were not for the never ending parade of techna-nurglings in the worky-gubbins I'd recommend it without a second thought.
73 votes funny
76561198013218147

Recommended226 hrs played (27 hrs at review)
Impersonated a gay pirate at his lover's funeral, shot his son and coworkers, summoned and killed two demons during the firefight with the rest of the funeral guests, and was gifted the dead pirate's inheritance at the end of it.
And after shooting at each other we all had a drink to the guy's memory while the priest incinerated his body with a flamethrower.
Rogue Trader is pretty cool.
69 votes funny
76561198051076735

Recommended389 hrs played (135 hrs at review)
The best 40K game ever created (by far).
The best cRPG since WOTR.
= GOTY 2023.
Full review in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZpxakG9Fk
62 votes funny
76561197977857019

Recommended65 hrs played (64 hrs at review)
Killed xenos.
Purged heretics.
Fought chaos.
Was protetced by the emperor.
40.000/40.000.
49 votes funny
76561198120513504

Recommended165 hrs played (101 hrs at review)
Owlcat's usual - a sprawling game that might have been a bit too ambitious for its own good at times, this time with turn-based combat, so you don't have to gaslight yourself into thinking that RTwP is enjoyable.
The story is very good and fit for the setting, but you might need some time after finishing it to fully understand what happened. The combat is quite entertaining, if not a tad too easy. Character progression will make your head hurt at first due to the sheer amount of options available, but it's not as bad as Pathfinder's "1000 feats and somehow 990 of them are worse than a flat +1". The soundtrack is absolutely stellar with its sacral-techno vibe, and as usual with cRPGs - you've got a colorful cast of characters, really amusing and well written characters, accompanying you, such as:
- A good father figure
- A woman with exclusively bad ideas
- A Sister of Battle. There is no joke, their lore is weaponized schizophrenia anyway. Sadly unromanceable.
- A socially inept cinnamon roll. Romanceable.
- A really funny toaster.
- The worst Inquisitor in the galaxy. Romanceable.
- A wet cat of a bi woman. Romanceable.
- A noble space elf who can't ever stop being racist. Romanceable.
- A severely bullied Space Marine.
- A wet, feral cat of a space dark elf, who can actually stop being racist if you ask him. Romanceable.
Summary: 10/10 game, recruit Marazhai and put him on a leash, he's really funny, I swear.
44 votes funny
76561198047090211

Recommended47 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
Very good cRPG, as always from Owlcat.
Very buggy cRPG, as always from Owlcat.
38 votes funny
76561198045090934

Recommended216 hrs played (213 hrs at review)
I assure you Abelard, allowing the BDSM Elf kill all of the homeless people in the lower decks is good for morale.
8/10 would ruin my own dynasty again.
37 votes funny
76561198000907723

Recommended66 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
A great classic RPG. All the tropes I wished for. I'm a massive 40K fan and played the Pen&Paper RPG this is based on for years.
Total victory on the flavour, setting and atmosphere side.
Rogue Trader reminds me much more of Baldur's Gate 2 than BG3 does, which is a win in my books.
But I am bitter and old, so make of that what you want.
36 votes funny
76561197998095607

Not Recommended88 hrs played (36 hrs at review)
To whoever decided to release the game in its current state at this price point, this negative review is on you. The developers who told you that it wasn't ready were right, and you should have listened to them, you business major, you.
35 votes funny
76561198034079737

Recommended284 hrs played (17 hrs at review)
this is the thing that finally made me have any interest in Warhammer, and that's something that many of the women in my life have been trying to do for years.
34 votes funny
76561197963910021

Not Recommended0 hrs played
Didnt make it through the prologue before refunding. Too much text and not even all of it with VoiceOvers. Baldur's Gate 3 showed how to do dialogues in an RPG in 2023.
34 votes funny
76561198824938605

Recommended15 hrs played (12 hrs at review)
Lord Captain: Abelard, notify the esteemed tech-priests at Owlcat studios that they have done admirable work on this game!
Abelard: Yes, lord captain!
Lord Captain: Abelard cancel my meeting with the governor. I'll be in my private gaming room for the rest of the day, do not interrupt!
Abelard: Consider it done, my lord.
Lord Captain: Abelard, introduce me, I'm having a crush on her!
Abelard: Certainly, my lord.
Lord Captain: Abelard, scratch my ass now!
Abelard: My lord? (Abelard sighs and comments quietly) ehem.... The Rogue Trader never fails to astonish.
31 votes funny
76561197970172280

Recommended55 hrs played (28 hrs at review)
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is the kind of game that makes you say, "Just one more turn," until you realize it's 3 AM and you've accidentally declared war on half the galaxy.
28 votes funny
76561198106577817

Recommended394 hrs played (239 hrs at review)
Okay, this game made me to dive into Warhammer 40k lore.
I guess, thank you? or curse you?
28 votes funny
76561198076787303

Not Recommended33 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Owlcat “Would love to have” more LGBT romance options, but won’t
Me: Would love to write a positive review, but won't
I want my space wolf daddy, uwu
28 votes funny
76561199086876014

Recommended4 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
This game is amazing! It's not a game I normally play but it helped me step out of my comfort zone with my favourite games. My Girlfriend's dad gave me this as a birthday gift, Thank you Future Father In Law!
27 votes funny
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
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76561198047744187

Recommended56 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
the poor on my ship were causing trouble.
i went to see what they wanted.
they made reasonable demands.
executed them anyways.
how dare they make demands.
Emperor Protects.
945 votes funny
76561198047744187

Recommended56 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
the poor on my ship were causing trouble.
i went to see what they wanted.
they made reasonable demands.
executed them anyways.
how dare they make demands.
Emperor Protects.
945 votes funny
76561198038777662

Recommended175 hrs played (24 hrs at review)
love me emperor
love me primarch
love me chapter
hate traitors
hate orks (not racis', i just don't like 'em)
hate heretics
simple as
168 votes funny
76561197960301612

Recommended12 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Jurgen - Time to use that Melta
150 votes funny
76561198109435621

Recommended40 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
"love me emperor
love me primarch
love me chapter
hate traitors
hate orks (not racist, i just don't like 'em)
hate heretics
simple as"
136 votes funny
76561198257175664

Recommended314 hrs played (210 hrs at review)
I got Rogue Trader: Cyka Blyat Edition. I paid in rubles and have no idea what the conversion rate is, but it's unlikely that I'll ever recover financially from this transaction.
Pros:
-Warhammer 40k
-Rich character development system with numerous ways to play multiple builds
-Turn-based TTRPG inspired combat
-You get a Space Marine companion
-Isn't an 80 hour dating sim
-A great way to learn lore about 40k that isn't a british asmr video.
-You have a space butler that introduces you to everyone.
-Space Combat
Cons:
- 1/3 to 1/2 of all the talents are broken (though they have fixed many)
-Acts 3,4,5
-Multiple quests are broken the further you progress into the game
-You get a Space Marine companion, but it's a Space wolf
-Can't breed Argenta
-Space Combat
tldr;
Rogue Trader: Cyka Blyat Edition is a great way to learn 40k lore without reading 80 novels, or watching 2000 hours worth of videos.
Iconoclast decisions are for babies.
You can't bang Argenta.
8/10. Would weaponize my autism against the forces of chaos and the unwashed xenos hordes again.
118 votes funny
76561198042813767

Not Recommended53 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
As a kickstarter Ive been hidden of the fact that there would be a season pass and the voidfarer pack during release.
I would have obtained way more benefits for much cheaper instead if I just bought the game during release, and they are scared of the criticism in the discussions, locking those threads.
As much as I like Owlcat, they will receive the mistreatment back from me, and I shall no more help kickstarter their future projects.
Keep mistreating your best supporters like this for long, and you will learn the lesson sooner or later, Owlcat.
91 votes funny
76561198007191224

Recommended260 hrs played (5 hrs at review)
The bold male voice actor sounds exactly like Matt Berry, and now I literally cannot stop thinking about how awesome a WH40K comedy starring Matt Berry would be.
86 votes funny
76561198944807166

Recommended630 hrs played (114 hrs at review)
Luv me voidship
Luv me Koronus Expanse
Luv me Abelard
Luv me Emperor
'Ate Chaos
'Ate Xenos (not racis, jus don't like 'em)
'Ate Incendia Chorda
Simple as
82 votes funny
76561198079382801

Not Recommended147 hrs played (145 hrs at review)
So let us start by listing the good points, because the game has very many;
- A solid story, at least until chapter 3.
- A solid alteration of the Rogue Trader TTRPG system that manages to capture much the same feeling whilst shedding some of its clunkiest parts.
- Fun combats that are well balanced, until the start of Chapter 4.
- Perhaps the most lore accurate representation of the 40k universe I've ever seen in a game, a real delight for the old hands and the new out there who want to sink their teeth into something substantial. In fact, the attention to such things almost made me recommend the game. Almost.
Now we must list the bad points.
I can't actually give you a review of the full game, because on two separate runs I've been stymied by bugs at the start of or during Chapter 4. However, with almost 150 hours in the game I think I can offer something in regards to an opinion on its quality.
- The combat, which was previously very well thought through and engaging appears to have been taken from whatever skilled hand was working on it and instead given to a monkey with a degree in Faffing About. Combats swing from trivial and utterly unmemorable to nut-flatteningly hard seemingly at random.
- The story. It picks up the pace and starts becoming genuinely interesting and then Chapter 3 happens at you, and all that momentum falls out of a window, tragically breaking its neck and dying. After Chapter 3 has finished happening at you, you're thrown right back into it. With absolutely 0 momentum behind you, and all the driving force of an angry Sunday motorist.
- The bugs. Emperor offer my soul salvation! The bugs! From maps lacking the ability to leave them, to quests not completing or simply duplicating. I've helped one companion get her damned papers signed three times in a row, and then I helped her find her gang. And then she left to save her gang. Then asked me to help her with her damned paperwork. I think she may be an agent of Tzeentch. Or Slaanesh, no one can enjoy the pain of that much pencil pushing drudgery but the deranged chosen of the Prince of Pleasure.
- The quantity and quality of content also falls off very hard after Chapter 3. The cynical amongst you may believe this is because its an attempt to front load the game and make it appealing at first glance. I believe the team was abducted from their offices after completing Chapter 3 and only managed to return with a bare week before the game was released and worked their hands bloody in service to the God Emperor to give us what they could. Because if it is that first thing I'd feel like a bit of idiot as I've bought the game for friends too. Luckily though, as a devout follower of the God Emperor I can't ever be wrong.
To conclude then:
The game is Very Good, until it becomes Not Very Good. In the future, I hope the updates and patches that Owlcat is putting out with some solid regularity already make me recommend the game. However, given the state of the last half of the game, I can't in good conscience. It is, however, a very enjoyable game in the main. If it were not for the never ending parade of techna-nurglings in the worky-gubbins I'd recommend it without a second thought.
73 votes funny
76561198013218147

Recommended226 hrs played (27 hrs at review)
Impersonated a gay pirate at his lover's funeral, shot his son and coworkers, summoned and killed two demons during the firefight with the rest of the funeral guests, and was gifted the dead pirate's inheritance at the end of it.
And after shooting at each other we all had a drink to the guy's memory while the priest incinerated his body with a flamethrower.
Rogue Trader is pretty cool.
69 votes funny
76561198051076735

Recommended389 hrs played (135 hrs at review)
The best 40K game ever created (by far).
The best cRPG since WOTR.
= GOTY 2023.
Full review in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZpxakG9Fk
62 votes funny
76561197977857019

Recommended65 hrs played (64 hrs at review)
Killed xenos.
Purged heretics.
Fought chaos.
Was protetced by the emperor.
40.000/40.000.
49 votes funny
76561198120513504

Recommended165 hrs played (101 hrs at review)
Owlcat's usual - a sprawling game that might have been a bit too ambitious for its own good at times, this time with turn-based combat, so you don't have to gaslight yourself into thinking that RTwP is enjoyable.
The story is very good and fit for the setting, but you might need some time after finishing it to fully understand what happened. The combat is quite entertaining, if not a tad too easy. Character progression will make your head hurt at first due to the sheer amount of options available, but it's not as bad as Pathfinder's "1000 feats and somehow 990 of them are worse than a flat +1". The soundtrack is absolutely stellar with its sacral-techno vibe, and as usual with cRPGs - you've got a colorful cast of characters, really amusing and well written characters, accompanying you, such as:
- A good father figure
- A woman with exclusively bad ideas
- A Sister of Battle. There is no joke, their lore is weaponized schizophrenia anyway. Sadly unromanceable.
- A socially inept cinnamon roll. Romanceable.
- A really funny toaster.
- The worst Inquisitor in the galaxy. Romanceable.
- A wet cat of a bi woman. Romanceable.
- A noble space elf who can't ever stop being racist. Romanceable.
- A severely bullied Space Marine.
- A wet, feral cat of a space dark elf, who can actually stop being racist if you ask him. Romanceable.
Summary: 10/10 game, recruit Marazhai and put him on a leash, he's really funny, I swear.
44 votes funny
76561198047090211

Recommended47 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
Very good cRPG, as always from Owlcat.
Very buggy cRPG, as always from Owlcat.
38 votes funny
76561198045090934

Recommended216 hrs played (213 hrs at review)
I assure you Abelard, allowing the BDSM Elf kill all of the homeless people in the lower decks is good for morale.
8/10 would ruin my own dynasty again.
37 votes funny
76561198000907723

Recommended66 hrs played (9 hrs at review)
A great classic RPG. All the tropes I wished for. I'm a massive 40K fan and played the Pen&Paper RPG this is based on for years.
Total victory on the flavour, setting and atmosphere side.
Rogue Trader reminds me much more of Baldur's Gate 2 than BG3 does, which is a win in my books.
But I am bitter and old, so make of that what you want.
36 votes funny
76561197998095607

Not Recommended88 hrs played (36 hrs at review)
To whoever decided to release the game in its current state at this price point, this negative review is on you. The developers who told you that it wasn't ready were right, and you should have listened to them, you business major, you.
35 votes funny
76561198034079737

Recommended284 hrs played (17 hrs at review)
this is the thing that finally made me have any interest in Warhammer, and that's something that many of the women in my life have been trying to do for years.
34 votes funny
76561197963910021

Not Recommended0 hrs played
Didnt make it through the prologue before refunding. Too much text and not even all of it with VoiceOvers. Baldur's Gate 3 showed how to do dialogues in an RPG in 2023.
34 votes funny
76561198824938605

Recommended15 hrs played (12 hrs at review)
Lord Captain: Abelard, notify the esteemed tech-priests at Owlcat studios that they have done admirable work on this game!
Abelard: Yes, lord captain!
Lord Captain: Abelard cancel my meeting with the governor. I'll be in my private gaming room for the rest of the day, do not interrupt!
Abelard: Consider it done, my lord.
Lord Captain: Abelard, introduce me, I'm having a crush on her!
Abelard: Certainly, my lord.
Lord Captain: Abelard, scratch my ass now!
Abelard: My lord? (Abelard sighs and comments quietly) ehem.... The Rogue Trader never fails to astonish.
31 votes funny
76561197970172280

Recommended55 hrs played (28 hrs at review)
Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is the kind of game that makes you say, "Just one more turn," until you realize it's 3 AM and you've accidentally declared war on half the galaxy.
28 votes funny
76561198106577817

Recommended394 hrs played (239 hrs at review)
Okay, this game made me to dive into Warhammer 40k lore.
I guess, thank you? or curse you?
28 votes funny
76561198076787303

Not Recommended33 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Owlcat “Would love to have” more LGBT romance options, but won’t
Me: Would love to write a positive review, but won't
I want my space wolf daddy, uwu
28 votes funny
76561199086876014

Recommended4 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
This game is amazing! It's not a game I normally play but it helped me step out of my comfort zone with my favourite games. My Girlfriend's dad gave me this as a birthday gift, Thank you Future Father In Law!
27 votes funny