Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Load up your Boltgun and plunge into battle headfirst! Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90’s retro shooters.
Play a battle-hardened Space Marine on a perilous mission across the galaxy, as they battle against the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos.
In glorious boomer shooter style, unleash your devastating Space Marine arsenal as you blast through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood. Run, jump and charge across huge levels to shoot, shred and slice the worst heretics across the galaxy!
• Dive into a visceral combat experience, complete with viciously satisfying gunplay, high mobility and buckets of blood to reward your skills
• Dominate the battlefield with the awesome firepower and heavy metal of a Space Marine’s devastating arsenal
• Experience the ultimate homage to retro shooters, blending stylish visuals with fluid, modern FPS gameplay
Game Discussion
Steam User 77
Boltgun plays like DOOM 2016 but if it had the skin of a retro shooter based in the 40k universe.
Steam User 161
You can pet dogs in this game. They are not good dogs and will try to lick you all the time, so they need to be pet with a chainsword.
Steam User 63
The game fully supports ultra-wide. It's an exciting shooter with decent retro visuals & music.
I liked the variety in weapons. It's fun to use them in different situations. The game lets you to be quite creative in how you prefer to deliver justice, maintain peace and be efficiently diplomatic. But of course, honorable mention goes to the chainsword.
Played it on normal difficulty, I didn't want to stress myself over health & ammo. I just wanted to have fun with some excitement and difficulty curve towards the end & bosses. And the game delivered exactly that.
I absolutely recommend it!
Steam User 80
Things I Liked:
-The first level is an Easter egg/tribute to the original Doom from '93 to where the game takes heavy inspiration.
-In the settings, there is an option to adjust the "retro" and "pixels" which makes the game look great whether you like old/newer sharper pixels.
-Played exclusively on a handheld (ROG Ally Z1) and it was perfect.
-The controls are easy to learn and work very well with a controller.
-The environment and overall atmosphere.
-Secrets to be found on each map.
-Ability to ping a temporary navigation line encase you get lost via button press.
-The Music/Soundtrack.
-The enemy variation.
-Weapons are satisfying and feel great.
-Auto-save feature.
-The melee and movement.
-Ability to taunt.
-Achievements.
-Price seems fair especially the bundle.
Things I Didn't Like:
Steam User 45
I found that the best tactic to use when encountering an aspiring champion at close range while having low health and the invulnerability skill on cooldown is to come to terms with one's own mortality and accept death.
Then I learned that you can run in this game.
It would have been nice to know this before completing the main campaign, DLC and horde mode on exterminatus difficulty.
Steam User 52
Basically Warhammer 40k Doom
Get it when its on Sale.
Exactly what you would want & expect from a Retro Shooter.
Combat is fast and fun. Soundtrack is good.
About 15 Hours of Content (More if you wanna 100% it)
There is a Horde Mode to give you a reason to comeback to the game.
Only critiques would be more boss variety/move-sets and I would prefer to have a weapon wheel.
Nevertheless, THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!!!
Steam User 49
A decent enough boomer shooter but it has flaws. Gun play, graphical style and Space Marine power fantasy are great, levels look amazing in the art style, but the game play becomes tedious and very repetitive.
Most of the game play revolves around one arena battle after another where enemies constantly teleport in. And this is repeated level after level after level. It just gets boring and it's unoriginal.
Really, it deserves a neutral rating, but Steam reviews are binary. But it's nowhere near a bad game, just a bit dull towards the end.