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there's a certain dated yet endearingly shameless and brutally slapstick humor that soaks every inch of this game. The unassuming graphics and word salad description might make you overlook streets, but don't let it. The game's interconnecting systems and interactions make this one of the best sandbox roguelites on the market. The various ways to play the game both through different game modes and characters and just the various tools and options available to you in any run combine to keep every run fresh and replayable. There's a gorilla, that can't speak english and you can lead a revolution to get elected gorilla mayor.

If vampire survivors is a bullet heaven and touhou is a bullet hell this is bullet purgatory

I've really enjoyed this series but I can't recommend this game, despite it being its ultimate conclusion; what should be every warhammer fan's wet dream. It just wouldn't fit my ethics to do so.

To put concisely, it just doesn't make sense to try and get into this series anymore at this point. The way this game's dlc works seems reasonable at first, with none of it *technically* being required, but this is just not true when we consider that even if you enjoyed only one faction; if that faction wasn't in this game you are buying an entire other video game to play that faction in this game. It's a sort of nickle and diming that doesnt feel as bad to someone whose been playing all along but the barrier to having a full faction roster in 2023 for a new player is beyond reasonable. This game is 60 dollars, and then asks you to pay at least 60 more to play some of its most iconic factions to their fullest. This is before we even get into how multiplayer adds extra pressure to this. The base versions of every faction are inherently incomplete and far less viable in multiplayer. If you're a skaven player, you're buying two games and somewhere around three dlcs to play your whole army. These expansion packs are another *technically* worth it sort of thing because beyond units they have unique campaigns but i just cant actually ask someone to do that.

To top it all off, 3 is probably one of the least polished versions of the game to date, rife with bugs and poor decision choices; some of which that date back to the first game. Sieges are STILL not fun, the unique smaller map campaign is still annoying to play, if you bought the beastmen you still dont have the little mini campaign their dlc justifed its cost with from the first game, the AI is still unacceptably easy to cheat against, the strategic and empire building side of the game is still inferior to previous games, unit balance is still unsatisfying and skewed towards certain monsters and ranged units, and the new dlc model is the worst value and most toxic yet.

Shadows of change upped the scale of lord packs to three new subfactions rather than two alongside a MASSIVE price increase and its just not worth it. Interestingly enough having more factions involved makes it feel even worse, because in this instance I only play one of the factions. So if I wanted to play kislev to its fullest id have to go buy the most expensive dlc of its kind while only enjoying less than a third of its value. Warhammer 3 needs a serious come-to-jesus moment on its current model because its only good at leaching off of existing long-term customers and at this point it's been this way so long I can't deny its at least mostly on purpose. I don't think we started on this road on purpose or out of malice, but we have had several opportunities to change course and still we go on. At this point in warhammer 2's lifespan we were getting several entirely new factions including ones that were only ever described through lore and side-games like the vampire coast.

What gets me is that not only is it bad value for the customer it feels like extra work for the devs. Making three subfactions instead of two means they now need to make three new entire systems, and they now need to make one more massive big budget big ♥♥♥♥ box seller unit and its art assets which I feel is a massive amount of the time and money put into these packs, becasue they DO look amazing. They all do. This game is beautiful when the lighting doesn't mess it up. So why waste that time and money and dedication making something worse that people feel bad paying for because there's just only so much any one person wants to spend on a single dlc pack.

If you're a warhammer fan, im sorry but don't tread here. You'll spend only slightly more money and make more friends collecting an actual army of minis and playing at your local game store.

this is my most played game on steam

this happened to my buddy eric

This game oozes style and personality out of every orifice. The pilot lasts only an hour and I enjoyed every single bit of it. I can't wait for more.

lmao literally no one plays this now

this game goes hard.

reading this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ review...

..it fills you with determination to buy this game

A very deep game with a surprising amount of appeal even ot casual players.