Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mixed · 52%Mixed · 52%2016

The verdict

Eternal Crusade was a fun, lore-rich 40K team shooter with distinct factions, but its servers are shut down and it's unplayable. Skip it unless you want nostalgia.

Great for

Nostalgic 40K fans curious about its history; not for anyone wanting to actually play

Main risk

Servers are permanently shut down, so the game cannot be played at all

What players love

Remembered fondly; fun while it lasted

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“in my mind remains the single greatest 40K game I have ever played.”
Steam review · 194.3 h played ↗

“turned into a genuinely fun game, never had a game as orky as this again.”
Steam review · 266.9 h played ↗

“The game is just plain fun.”
Steam review · translated · 71.8 h played ↗

Distinct factions with true 40K feel

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Its warhammer, and they get the theme and feeling right.”
Steam review · 14.3 h played ↗

“Four factions, each has it strongs and weaknesses.”
Steam review · 98.5 h played ↗

“The races really are different from each other.”
Steam review · translated · 94.7 h played ↗

Fun melee and shooting combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“The truly unique feture of this game was the melee combat where you had 3 different melee attacks that could counter each other”
Steam review · 1729.5 h played ↗

“this game has good, solid gameplay. I genuinely enjoy running around and fighting in this game.”
Steam review · 7.7 h played ↗

Great community moments and teamwork

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“Moments where we hold our ground, scream at each other, and as we come down to the last of us we some how manage to turn the fight around at the last second and win.”
Steam review · 49.8 h played ↗

“Space wolves would howl, Orks would WAAAGH, and Banshees would scream!”
Steam review · 93.2 h played ↗

Good loadout and class customization

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Different classes that can be played however you want. Almost every setup of equipment is viable.”
Steam review · 98.5 h played ↗

What players complain about

Broken promises: no MMO or open world

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“First we were promised a grand open world game, planetside-alike. Developers didn't deliver.”
Steam review · 53.6 h played ↗

“Initially supposed to be massive battles 256 vs 256, instead we got a meh arena shooter who never evolved until shutdown.”
Steam review · 12.8 h played ↗

“I bought the game for 1500 rubles, back in alpha.”
Steam review · translated · 67.3 h played ↗

Poor and hostile developers

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“this game has the worst devs I've ever seen. Lack of communication and when they do communicate it makes things worse.”
Steam review · 280.9 h played ↗

“the devs are more concerned on retweaking their store price gouging than actually improving or adding to the game.”
Steam review · 244.4 h played ↗

Servers shut down, game unplayable and still listed

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Impossible to play now because the servers shut down in 2021.”
Steam review · 8.8 h played ↗

“Servers are gone. No meaningful singleplayer component. Should be delisted. DO NOT PURCHASE.”
Steam review · 13.4 h played ↗

“The servers don't work, the game is dead.”
Steam review · translated · 11.3 h played ↗

Bad optimization, crashes and bugs

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Crashes. Crashes everywhere. In fact I can't even launch it right now because it just crashes on startup.”
Steam review · 13.9 h played ↗

“it's not optimized (fps drop rate is insane sometimes)”
Steam review · 1199.8 h played ↗

Poor balance

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“The balance is always in constant flux. Today the Space Marines are OP, tomorrow the Orks will be invulnerable to Space Marine fire”
Steam review · 131.4 h played ↗

“Unbalanced factions and classes”
Steam review · 331.7 h played ↗

Pay-to-win and expensive microtransactions

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Pay to Win worse than destiny 2 promised so much i actually forgot about this game.”
Steam review · 10.1 h played ↗

“The ONLY armour customisations are paid for, and each piece can go to $1-$10 each.”
Steam review · 122.8 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OS64-bit Operating Systems (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10)

ProcessorIntel Core i5 2300 or AMD FX 8300 or higher

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 780GTX or AMD Radeon 7850 3GB

Storage40 GB available space

Recommended

OS64-bit Operating Systems (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10)

ProcessorIntel Core i7 4790 or AMD FX 9590 or higher

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 970 or AMD R9 290 3GB+

Storage40 GB available space

OS64-bit Operating Systems (Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10)

ProcessorIntel Core i5 2300 or AMD FX 8300 or higher

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 780GTX or AMD Radeon 7850 3GB

Storage40 GB available space

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