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 153
Only 12.5% of the people that own this game have completed it. And that reason is the lack of a soundtrack and the lack of enemy variety. If you've played the first hour, you've seen all you have to see of the game. But...it's still a good game. Even better if you lap Doom's 2016 soundtrack over it.
Steam User 80
Boltgun plays like DOOM 2016 but if it had the skin of a retro shooter based in the 40k universe.
Steam User 162
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 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 35
The visuals imply the game is similar to Doom 1993, but really it is more alike to Doom 2016. Boltgun is focused on arena combat, with an emphasis on movement and rapid weapon swapping, interspersed with light exploration. The weapons are all useful, and the enemies varied; the audio hits hard, and it never gets old seeing the pixels explode into bloody bits. However, the game runs low on steam in the back third where it fails to introduce any meaningful additions, aside from cranking up the enemy numbers. Take breaks to avoid repetition setting in.
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.
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!!!