Decent, fun campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“If you can get the same the campaign is a fun 40k romp and worth a play.”
Steam review · 19.8 h played ↗
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 50%Mixed · 50%Relic Entertainment, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)2017RTS · Strategy · Action
The verdict
A flashy, MOBA-leaning 40K RTS with a decent campaign and fun titans, but shallow, buggy and abandoned. Worth it only at a deep discount; skip it if you want DoW1 or DoW2.
Great for
40K fans who want a cheap single-player campaign with big titans and don't expect DoW1 or DoW2
Main risk
Expecting a true Dawn of War, then hitting campaign-breaking bugs in an abandoned game
What players love
Not as bad as its reputation
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“not as bad as people make it out to be but not as good as fist two but it is a fun game”
Steam review · 14.1 h played ↗
Only worth it on a deep sale
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“BUY ONLY WHEN ON SALE. I purchased this for 8 dollars and thought it was amazing.”
Steam review · 63.2 h played ↗
Great visuals, animations and audio
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Kudos to the sound design team and for the cinematics, it was absolutely mindblowing. As 40k as it ever gets!”
Steam review · 100.2 h played ↗
Titans, elites and big battles
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“extremely fun I wasn't really expecting Titan class units but it was a really nice surprise”
Steam review · 9.7 h played ↗
Fun for Warhammer 40K fans
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“if you're a 40k fan this game is great to play.”
Steam review · 8.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Not a true Dawn of War, MOBA feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“If you are a fan of DoW1 then this game is not for you due to how shallow the rts side is”
Steam review · 20.7 h played ↗
Campaign-breaking bugs and crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Got to mission 11 and the game kept crashing every time I moved the camera towards the middle of the map.”
Steam review · 10.9 h played ↗
Slow resources and boring, slow pacing
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Resources generate far too slowly, I ended up spending most of each mission semi AFK waiting for requisition and power to trickle in”
Steam review · 10.9 h played ↗
Only three factions, thin content
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“almost 55$ for you to only play as 3 factions... massive downgrade from Dawn of War 2 and massive price - content ripoff too”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗
Forced faction rotation in campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Who made the choice to auto-switch factions after each campaign mission? Fire that guy!”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗
Elites don't level in campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 negative reviews
“U cannot level you elites in campaign still not Fixed avoid this game”
Steam review · 10.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable50 GB
Minimum
OS64-bit Windows 7 with latest updates
Processor3GHz i3 quad logical core or equivalent
Memory4 GB of RAM, 1 GB of VRAM MB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 6950 or equivalent DirectX 11-card
Storage50 GB available space
Recommended
OS64-bit Windows 10 with latest updates
Processor3GHz i5 quad core or equivalent
Memory8 GB of RAM, 2 GB of VRAM MB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 770 or AMD Radeon 7970 or equivalent DirectX 11 card
Storage50 GB available space
OS64-bit Windows 7 with latest updates
Processor3GHz i3 quad logical core or equivalent
Memory4 GB of RAM, 1 GB of VRAM MB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 6950 or equivalent DirectX 11-card
Storage50 GB available space
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