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Prepare yourself for the grim, dark future of the 41st millennium, where alien races battle mankind for galactic domination in a universe of unending war. Personalize your armies with a revolutionary unit customization tool that gives you the ability to choose your armies insignias, banners, squad colors and names.

Release DateAug 7, 2007
Price$ 12.99  Top 25%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)95.8% (overwhelmingly positive) Top 10% / 95.2%  Top 10%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)92.5% Top 2% / 92.4%  Top 2%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)6.8K  Top 4% / 9.4K  Top 3%
Curators231 reviews  Top 2%
Median Play Time13.7 hours  Top 15%
Play Time per Dollar1.1 hour  Top 25%
Followers19.8K  Top 5%
Owners± 2.4M  Top 2%
Copies Sold± 278.3K  Top 5%
Gross Revenue ($)± 1.2M  Top 10%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This chart shows Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition's Steam rating and reviews from October 2010 to December 2023. Steam's rating is varying from 100% (February 2011) to 93.3% (March 2016).

With 9.4K reviews Top 3%, Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition is an AAA level success. Peaks in the chart suggest that major updates or discounts happened.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut chart displays the languages of Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition's reviewers. The most popular language is English (63%), followed by Russian (12%). There is a nice diversity in the reviews, with 28 languages represented. The game is translated in 5 languages. Considering that, unless the game is text-heavy, adding translations is not a lot of work compared to making a game, it is often a good idea to translate the game in many languages.

Time Played

Chart displaying Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time played in Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition, comparing positive and negative reviews. The time in game is not bad at all, with 26 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 3.4 times lower than the positive reviews median play time.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Different races = different strategies
  • Skirmish mode offers a lot of gameplay variety
  • Gorgeous eye candy
  • Plenty of unique animations
  • Campaign well written and provides good entertainment
  • Voice acting and cutscenes add to the immersion
  • Great variety in gameplay styles
  • DLC and expansions offer more content
  • Well done backstory adds depth to the universe
  • Setting and epoch are solid
  • Squad units control has some flaws
  • The graphics have aged
  • Campaign is only for one race
  • Combat mechanics can be buggy
  • No multiplayer campaign
  • Relatively short
  • Squad based units are not well executed yet
  • Allied units have issues attacking enemies
  • No achievements

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's 95.8% rating  Top 10% should be factored in during their evaluation.

Take into account that list was generated using AI on a small sample of Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Game of the Year Edition's Steam review data, it is not meant to be exhaustive. Additionally, remember that not all issues need to be fixed, sometimes the best approach is to communicate better to manage the player's expectations.

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