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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition

Relic Entertainment · Relic Entertainment · 2025-08-14

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Aug 14, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is the ultimate Dawn of War experience, featuring the original Dawn of War and all its expansions, along with enhanced visuals, an improved camera, and 64-bit platform support.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is a Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $29.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 12636 reviews).

86%
positive of 13k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
86/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
45
Nexus mods (39k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$29.99
steam price (US)

Trailer

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition trailer thumbnail

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition - Announcement Trailer

≈269,887 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 703 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~88/week).
  • · Review velocity up 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (4,555 reviews).
  • · Top 3% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 259k–583k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 12,960 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$20.99-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $19.95 at GameBillet (2026-05-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 101 of 141 observed days · $1.04 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.4k3.4k20252026Week of 2025-08-14: 3,426 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 1,129 negativeWeek of 2025-08-21: 874 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 266 negativeWeek of 2025-08-28: 503 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 95 negativeWeek of 2025-09-04: 256 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-09-11: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-09-18: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-09-18: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-09-25: 121 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-10-02: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-10-02: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-10-09: 84 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-10-16: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-10-23: 113 positiveWeek of 2025-10-23: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-10-30: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-11-06: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-13: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-11-20: 709 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 532 positiveWeek of 2025-11-27: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-12-04: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-12-04: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-11: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 116 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-08: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 100 positiveWeek of 2026-01-15: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-22: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-01-29: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-02-12: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-02-19: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-26: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-03-05: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-12: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-03-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-19: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-03-26: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-09: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-04-09: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-16: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-04-16: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-04-23: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-30: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-04-30: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-05-07: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-14: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-05-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-21: 76 positiveWeek of 2026-05-21: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-05-28: 97 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-04: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-11: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-06-11: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-18: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-25: 99 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 93 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-09: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-07-09: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-07-16: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-23: 66 positiveWeek of 2026-07-23: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-07-30: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-06: 79 positiveWeek of 2026-08-06: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-13: 77 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-08-20: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$16.752025-08-142026-10-142025-08-14 — best price $20.392025-08-27 — best price $26.992025-09-29 — best price $26.992025-10-16 — best price $21.642025-10-30 — best price $21.592025-11-17 — best price $26.992025-12-03 — best price $21.592025-12-12 — best price $25.192026-01-05 — best price $21.592026-01-10 — best price $23.992026-02-03 — best price $25.192026-02-26 — best price $23.992026-03-05 — best price $26.882026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-04-05 — best price $26.982026-04-11 — best price $23.992026-04-23 — best price $20.652026-05-07 — best price $21.492026-05-22 — best price $19.952026-06-06 — best price $26.882026-06-25 — best price $17.232026-07-16 — best price $26.982026-07-24 — best price $20.992026-08-03 — best price $20.992026-08-12 — best price $29.992026-08-20 — best price $17.232026-08-28 — best price $20.992026-09-01 — best price $20.992026-09-05 — best price $20.992026-09-09 — best price $20.992026-09-13 — best price $29.992026-09-17 — best price $20.992026-09-21 — best price $20.992026-09-25 — best price $20.992026-09-29 — best price $20.992026-10-03 — best price $20.992026-10-07 — best price $20.992026-10-11 — best price $20.992026-10-14 — best price $20.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
38.5%
earned "Greatest Generation"
9.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable Difficulty

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9161%109

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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