NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT?Mass Effect but isometric, dystopian, turn-based and not that much like Mass Effect
EXPECT TO PAY£43
DEVELOPEROwlcat
PUBLISHEROwlcat
REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
MULTIPLAYERYes
We’ve just defeated a cult, foiled a plot, saved a world. A bureaucrat says the triumphant parade has already been organised. We’ll get to ride a battle tank, and halfway it’ll stop and a small crowd will mob us. It’s all stage-managed. The mob has been carefully vetted, as the bureaucrat explains, “Members of the military. Young people, attractive and physically fit. A few healthy children.”
In moments like this, Rogue Trader nails the dystopian satire of Warhammer 40,000. When I want people to know how important I am, I have a robot skull in a barrister’s wig that flies around announcing my presence and title. One of the entertainments at a coronation is just ‘shooting prisoners’.
