Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Review – A Truly Phenomenal cRPG... Once You Get Past the Bugs!

Following in the footsteps of Owlcat's previous games, Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is an immense ocean of cRPG goodness! It's filled with all sorts of interesting characters to chat with, planets to strip bare of anything even remotely valuable, and a whole host of cultists to squash in turn-based combat. And, as is tradition, there's also a dazzling assortment of bugs — the kind that would make even Papa Nurgle proud!

So if you're curious about where Rogue Trader truly excels, and where it strays a bit too close to heresy, allow me to share my thoughts after spending a frankly unhealthy amount of time with it this past week.

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00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Combat and complexity
04:47 - Pacing problems
06:17 - Story and writing
10:03 - Techical troubles
11:55 - Presentation and atmosphere
13:39 - Closing thoughts

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[ThisIsYourGodNow]

Just one more quest... Then i can sleep aka lie in bed awake thinking of how i should respec everyone

[sandman]

I loaded a save that was nearing 3 hours old because I was unhappy with a major choice I made.
Never before have I done that in a game. I'm still enjoying every bit of those reloaded 3 hours.
What a fantastic game

[potentiallyindecisive]

Loving this so far. No major bugs yet. Levelling up legit takes me 30 minutes just deciding on best options for each character. 🤔 😄

[MCPBA]

Great review. I've played Rogue Trader a bit as well as Owlcat's previous games and I'm feeling the same way as you with my time with the game.

[jonathanpickles]

I'm on the cusp of being bugged out in act 4. I'm pretty oblivious to graphic bugs and lot of glitches can be resolved by save & reload. I hate the mechanics not working properly but that is also minor in the grand scheme of things, as are those times when you duplicate a character... The killers are when quests don't complete properly, which happened once or twice in acts 1-3 but is very common in Act 4.

Anyhow agree with the analysis, good review. You can generally avoid the trash fights when travelling by upgrading the routes to yellow or green. It's not ideal to gate this behind a strategic choice. There are some pretty broken builds - I can give my party +100% armour as the first action in every fight which as you say pretty much means I have won regardless of how many enemies are involved. I'm not sure how long this will seem fun especially being bugged in act 4 but it's OK for now.

[popkhorne]

I'm just hyped to play this. I think i can wait a month or two tho, hopefully by then they'll have fixed many bugs.

[LoiteringReaper]

Beautiful story telling for a top down rpg. Totally relate to my ruinous sleep schedule. But I keep admiring the artwork when they are the background focus of the screen.

[MrKidKiedis]

Haven't found any major issues, but a ton of smaller ones. Most problems are with animations. Anyway the game is incredible! Guess it's the first time when I don't miss a single description or dialog in RPG)

[ombra]

They're slowly doing the math automatically, which was insane to forget to do from the beginning, I had no idea some of these skills were so great because fuck math.

[pedropierre]

Im waiting for them to improve performance on PC because it makes my GPU heat up like no other game ever has, and its hot

[kalenics]

Wait half a year before buying, it is a buggy mess, we are proud of you Owlcat again.

[SovereignRO]

Game is very good, no argument there, graphics are very unpolished in some cases especially, a step down from Pathfinder, aaand its very bugy, im already stuck and have to wait for the next patch. Give it some time if you haven't played it yet.

[PocSnigo]

i crave the story but combat feels so wonky to me :( i have a lot of experience with all the owlcat games and have played bg3 since the first day it hit EA so im used to crpgs and whatnot but it just feels like im just constantly fighting with not a lot of story progression compared to how much im battling. I guess thats not a huge issue but even when i am wayyyy stronger than the enemy and can one shot them the fights still take too long for what shouldve been a quick destruction for my enemies. Anyone have any advice? does it hit a better ratio of fighting/story a little later on? i want to play this so bad but i cant get past the combat feeling boring and extremely slow

[red]

Seems like it will be a great game when patched up. So I guess the question I have is whether this is a company that patches their games and keeps working on polishing them after release and if they do so rather quickly or if it takes years.

[ombra]

Get the game on PC, the Toybox is the only thing that makes it playable for me, I'm too old for a lot of the tedium, and I take full advantage!😂

[OOOO-fbgf]

It cannot possibly be more complicated than pathfinder! Can it??

[Алексей-тб]

Hope Owl Games would do Dark Heresy, Wraith and Glory or Maledictum games in future

[avalokiteshvara]

I am hard locked un act4 because of a bug. They should not have released this as a full game. Act 4 and 5 are w shambles.

[dadrghts]

I wish all dialog was voiced kinda ruins immersion making up voices in my head for npcs

[Pharaphel]

I think the complaing problem with complexity is from diferent kind of RPG players. Let's say some chill dude is playing another Bethesda pearl like Starfield, the game presented as an RPG and then this chill dude decides to play game like this, also called an RPG, poor dude might be little bit confused, that there is actually game to play and not just imagine it. If you can't handle the game, lower the difficulty and play whatever build with whomever in story mode, or just try to actually read the game mechanics.
And with bugs - you can't f bear in rogue trader, but BG3 after release was insane mess compare to this.