{"id":529607,"date":"2026-04-14T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529607\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T02:46:12","slug":"games-workshop-brings-seven-classic-warhammer-games-to-steam-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529607\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Workshop brings seven classic Warhammer games to Steam for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of miniature plastic soldiers, rejoice. Games Workshop has brought a host of older Warhammer and Warhammer 40K video games to Steam for the first time<\/a>, alongside a dozen games that haven’t been available on Valve’s storefront for a few years. The new to Steam releases consist of three games from the Warhammer fantasy range \u2014 Shadow of the Horned Rat<\/a>, Mark of Chaos \u2013 Gold Edition<\/a> and Dark Omen<\/a> \u2014 and four from its sci-fi 40K universe \u2014 Chaos Gate<\/a>, Fire Warrior<\/a>, Final Liberation<\/a> and Rites of War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Warhammer fan of a certain age, some of these may be formative experiences for you. I know they are for me. I can’t count how many hours I spent playing Chaos Gate when I first discovered 40K at the age of 10. Yes, it was an XCOM clone, but by that point I didn’t know about the MicroProse original, and Space Marines were cool.<\/p>\n

Years later and as a Tau collector at the time, I also loved Fire Warrior, even if it wasn’t the most polished or deep first-person shooter. I haven’t played the other five games included in today’s announcement, but I’ve heard Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat and Warhammer 40K: Rites of War are pretty good if you’re into the setting or, in the latter case, a fan of the Eldar.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the re-release of these old gems, Games Workshop is running a Classics sale on Steam<\/a>, with discounts on all 19 re-releases. Plus, you can get discounts on some more recent releases, including the excellent Dawn of War \u2013 Definitive Edition and Dawn of War 2 \u2013 Anniversary Edition<\/a>. If you’re new to the Warhammer 40K universe, and would rather avoid a plastic addiction, one of those would be my first port of call, along with the excellent Space Marine 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of miniature plastic soldiers, rejoice. Games Workshop has brought a host of older Warhammer and Warhammer 40K…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[183456,183459,88137,59,183461,183458,183460,3121,86,56,54,55,3178,88136,183457],"class_list":{"0":"post-529607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dozen-games","9":"tag-fire-warrior","10":"tag-games-workshop","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-gold-edition","13":"tag-rites-of-war","14":"tag-shadow-of-the-horned-rat","15":"tag-steam","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom","20":"tag-video-games","21":"tag-warhammer-40k","22":"tag-warhammer-fantasy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}