Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a turn-based chess -style game developed by Hammerfall Publishing for the Windows , iOS, and Android [2] [3] platforms, taking place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. The game was released in early access on the Steam platform on May 5, 2015 [4] . The game was officially released on September 8, 2015 [5] .
| Warhammer 40.000: Regicide | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Hammerfall publishing |
| Publisher | Hammerfall publishing |
| Date of issue | |
| Genre | strategy |
| Creators | |
| Screenwriter | Ross watson |
| Technical details | |
| Platforms | Windows , iOS , Android |
| Game modes | single-user , multi-user |
| Carriers | and |
Content
Story
The plot tells the story of how a space marines saves the planet from the Orcs , and behind all this are the Eldars .
Gameplay
The gameplay consists of chess in normal mode and "advanced" chess in regecide mode. In chess mode, classic pieces are replaced by space marines and orcs.
Regicide
Regicide mode ( Russian regicide ) is the same chess, only after the main move does the active phase begin in which you can order the figure to shoot, throw grenades and use skills.
Solo Campaign
A single player campaign is a training session before a multiplayer game. There are several acts in the campaign, the acts are divided into missions, and the missions are pre-arranged figures of the space marines and orcs, the balance of the "location" towards the orcs, and the player takes control of the space marines.
Massively Multiplayer Game
This is the same campaign, only it will be necessary to play not against AI , but with a real person, and the arrangement of pieces, as in classical chess.
Criticism
On Steam, reviews of the game are “mostly positive” (78% of positive reviews) [5] .
At Metacritic, the game received a score of 72 out of 100 points based on 16 reviews and 7.7 out of 10 points based on user ratings [6] .