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 152
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 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 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.