Warhammer: Chaosbane

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4.9

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 116 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 36 out of 116
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  1. Struyk
    Jun 4, 2019
    2
    Huge fan of Diablo / Path of Exile here, played Path of Exile for over 6000 hours before I started playing this overpriced joke.

    It feels like every Act is a single very long quest with one long road to follow with 3 different enemies... Seriously they could've just chained them all together without going back to town because they are all the same two areas with the same 3 types of    Huge fan of Diablo / Path of Exile here, played Path of Exile for over 6000 hours before I started playing this overpriced joke.

    It feels like every Act is a single very long quest with one long road to follow with 3 different enemies... Seriously they could've just chained them all together without going back to town because they are all the same two areas with the same 3 types of monsters. Game in current state is worth max $10 or even f2p because there just no content. Take a random indi RPG game and it will have more monsters, maps and skills for $10/$20.

    All the mini-bosses are the same except they deal another type of dmg ( poison, fire ) they all have the same directional attacks depending on the direction you face them.

    Skill system is really bad they made the same mistake as Diablo 3, you only have like 3 or 4 builds to choose from ( for example, block, counter attack or crit for imperial ) compared to path of exile's 1000's of builds.

    Also really really really bad loot system ( like diablo 3 ), there are only x mods that can possibly roll on an item with a small range. Blessing does help a little bit but I would've loved to see way more mods other than the basic ones like crit chance, crit damage, armour, health etc which in return would allow for more builds and gives this special feeling when you find a good item which I haven't had once in my whole play-through... Game would play 100% the same without any loot, just bonus stats on level up and choose which bonus stat you want and you have the same result.. Even Anthem has a better loot system and that's the worst I've ever seen I think.

    Better endgame than Diablo 3 though... Which isn't that hard haha

    TLDR: Casual Diablo 3 Rip-Off    … Expand
  2. nonameforme
    Jun 11, 2019
    1
    *Score is relative to game price/ content quantity / content quality

    The game can be completed in 10 hours and endgame can be max out in 5 hours. This is unacceptable in Diablo-like loot&slash game that cost 60$. There's also no RPG element in the game, there's only linear upgrade for your ability. There's not even SHOP where player can buy and sell item.
  3. Faillbot
    Jun 5, 2019
    1
    First off you have to restart the game to change screen dimensions, had my first glitch and unable to proceed within 5 minutes, then the game become unplayable at the 20 minute mark. As soon as i closed the game some functions on my computer stopped working so i dont know whats going on with this game.

    Lets get to the game, the graphics are so so, the point and click is exactly like    First off you have to restart the game to change screen dimensions, had my first glitch and unable to proceed within 5 minutes, then the game become unplayable at the 20 minute mark. As soon as i closed the game some functions on my computer stopped working so i dont know whats going on with this game.

    Lets get to the game, the graphics are so so, the point and click is exactly like path of exiles(which is free to play). In all honesty i would pay 20 dollars tops for this game. Extremely let down in the way this game has been released, definitely wait a year or two for them to finish it    … Expand
  4. Steyraus
    Apr 4, 2020
    4
    Skip Choasbane and play 40K Inquisiton Martyr, a much better Bad Arse game.
    Not only is the gameplay dull after the first initial enjoyment of using skills for the first time , but the whole game feels unbalanced and unready.
    My biggest issues is the voices, there was so many annoying player callouts , bad acting and bugs in the voice audio, it was a joke. In the first 5 hours of    Skip Choasbane and play 40K Inquisiton Martyr, a much better Bad Arse game.
    Not only is the gameplay dull after the first initial enjoyment of using skills for the first time , but the whole game feels unbalanced and unready.
    My biggest issues is the voices, there was so many annoying player callouts , bad acting and bugs in the voice audio, it was a joke. In the first 5 hours of exploring this game I heard my characters voice change from female to male 4 times on 2 different characters, (What the !?!?! is that). The battle noises and callouts of the Dwarf and Elf are so annoying I had to turn voices volume down, but even that doesn't kill all the irritating laughs and stuff. The sound is a constant assault on your senses and it hard to like much with this constant irritation. It doesn't help that the female character look like the single mum with 5 kids smoking a ciggy outside your local pub of a tuesday, yeh there's no femme fatales or sexy badass warriors in this game, just annoying uggos.
    The leveling is terrible , it's just so limiting. First your limited by skills being locked , then by not having anywhere near enough points, then by boredom. You don't sell your gear, you just give it away, removing (trading) one of my favorite part of most ARPGS i've played. Its a buggy undercooked bore fest . Get Inquisition Martyr, a good game.
    One good thing is the graphics and performance, game world looks great an is 60 frames, but the reuse the same 3 environment 3 or 4 times each in the campaign, making that less of a win.    … Expand
  5. Boras
    Jul 24, 2019
    3
    How to waste a franchise...
    let me say, I love GW Warhammer, I've played the boardgames, wargames, card games, pc games, a lot, I love the universe and I was so happy to have an A-RPG about Warhammer...then...I played Chaos Bane.... so tedious, the same lvls over and over again, irrelevant quests, totally useless items and equipments (no skills, no special features, only a direct    How to waste a franchise...
    let me say, I love GW Warhammer, I've played the boardgames, wargames, card games, pc games, a lot, I love the universe and I was so happy to have an A-RPG about Warhammer...then...I played Chaos Bane.... so tedious, the same lvls over and over again, irrelevant quests, totally useless items and equipments (no skills, no special features, only a direct improvement on damage, speed, or critical chance..) the same mobs repeated until you are so bored you are willing to quit.
    Boss fights are unbalanced and full of flaws...
    The only thing that can keep the game alive for some hours is the Local Coop and the Skill tree, this one is at least something that justifies the leveling of the characters.
    what a waste of a chance    … Expand
  6. sldbd
    Jun 20, 2019
    4
    If someone I knew would have to give a presentation in his/hers economics course on how to generate revenue off a great franchise with a generic game, I would probably recommend this game as subject. As a game though, not so much. Maybe if the price tag was appropriate. Chaosbane lacks content, especially in the endgame segment. Not to speak of the bugs, the bad matchmaking and theIf someone I knew would have to give a presentation in his/hers economics course on how to generate revenue off a great franchise with a generic game, I would probably recommend this game as subject. As a game though, not so much. Maybe if the price tag was appropriate. Chaosbane lacks content, especially in the endgame segment. Not to speak of the bugs, the bad matchmaking and the loveless written and short story (~5-7h per Character, depending on your playstyle).

    Endgame:
    - 3 sets for each class (no "named" items as alternatives)
    - the specialization through the god tree and sets is unbalanced af
    - the modes get boring fast, maybe with a greater loot variety it'd be more rewarding.
    - ..or for example an xp driven progession post level cap for extra loot, item progession, enhanced god tree or something.

    This comparison might seem weird, but in its current state the game reminds a bit of Anthem. Good gameplay in itself and nice looks, while almost everything else lacks depth and fine tuning. In my opinion it's not worth 50€, glad I bought it for less.    … Expand
  7. Hologram
    Jun 29, 2019
    3
    To be honest with the team at work we have been trying to find out what we have done for the last few weeks and have now decided to move on with the new contract.
  8. Tachikoma
    Jun 24, 2019
    4
    No merchants, lack of loot diversity, no variety in weapons, no NPCs, no side quests, generic enemies lacking in diversity and a bad skill system make for an extremely ho-hum game that highlights the developers indie-game experience.
  9. Red_Spectre
    Jun 3, 2019
    1
    When will prices reflect the quality of the product? This game is not anywhere near the price tag. $30.00 Max. If you're not a Warhammer fan, go buy Grim Dawn, Diablo 2, 3, Diabo 2 Median XL, or Torchlight 2 for some recommendations. Hell, you can get them all for the price of this game. The glaring fact is... This game is too expensive. By a lot.

    This may come off harsh and i'm sorry    When will prices reflect the quality of the product? This game is not anywhere near the price tag. $30.00 Max. If you're not a Warhammer fan, go buy Grim Dawn, Diablo 2, 3, Diabo 2 Median XL, or Torchlight 2 for some recommendations. Hell, you can get them all for the price of this game. The glaring fact is... This game is too expensive. By a lot.

    This may come off harsh and i'm sorry about that but the truth is they're ripping you off.    … Expand
  10. goodterling
    Jun 5, 2019
    2
    I played this because IGN said it was good, and slogged through to the end out of grim determination and to kill the last boss. It's extremely repetitive, and full of filler. Once you clear an area, they find a flimsy excuse to send you back through the exact same area, sometimes like 6 times in a row. That is some of the laziest game dev I've seen in quite a while. They even manage toI played this because IGN said it was good, and slogged through to the end out of grim determination and to kill the last boss. It's extremely repetitive, and full of filler. Once you clear an area, they find a flimsy excuse to send you back through the exact same area, sometimes like 6 times in a row. That is some of the laziest game dev I've seen in quite a while. They even manage to botch the loot system. There's nothing to buy, you just dump all your loot on a guy who periodically gives you bonus points. And the gear upgrades are so incrementally small and frequent that you never notice any difference. Nothing's ever special because a slightly better version of that same thing is always 5 minutes away. It's a conveyor belt of 1% upgrades. If you set out to intentionally drain all joy out of the hack n' slash genre, this is about what you'd come up with.… Expand
  11. Snoweye
    Jun 3, 2019
    2
    You know how difficult it was to play it for several hours to give an objective assessment. I can safely say that this is the second worst game of 2019 (the first game is Battlefield V). Absolutely boring, not beautiful, not dynamic, terrible sound effects, outdated graphics. All this - you will find in this game. If you like to hurt yourself, welcome to this game. A score of 2/10.
  12. pavel8585
    Jun 6, 2019
    0
    Game is Boring and repetitive ( not like Diablo 2 just like cleaning room every day from some crap and when you think about it you want to cry ) story is written by 5 year old kids, best way to finish game is just leave this game to your 10 year old child and go do something fun.... after 5h game is finished
  13. Trevorkian
    May 31, 2019
    3
    Terrible Diablo clone with Anthem level loot.

    Feels like it's straight out of 2004
  14. MisaPerfect
    May 31, 2019
    2
    Are we just going to pretend that it's okay to release sub-par games for obscene amounts of money?

    At best this is a 25 dollar game. It fits the generic hack and slash, ARPG loot based game... but without loot. It's Diablo 3 at launch minus the enemy diversity. Very simple, the game does nothing to innovate and make it their own. A remarkable amount of game breaking bugs, no wide    Are we just going to pretend that it's okay to release sub-par games for obscene amounts of money?

    At best this is a 25 dollar game. It fits the generic hack and slash, ARPG loot based game... but without loot. It's Diablo 3 at launch minus the enemy diversity.

    Very simple, the game does nothing to innovate and make it their own. A remarkable amount of game breaking bugs, no wide screen compatibility. It would be worth while on a console if that wasn't an extra ten dollars.

    Save yourself the trouble. Wait 2 months till it goes on sale and buy yourself a copy. It is not worth 70 plus dollars for a 6 hour story mode and horrible itemization in a loot-based game.

    Hard pass    … Expand
  15. MrKenM
    May 31, 2019
    3
    Save yourself the money. Go hit a new season of Diablo 3 or PoE for free. This game is not worth your money as it stands.
  16. RiaskoFF
    Jun 1, 2019
    2
    Bad and boring endgame.
    No actual multiplayer unless you want to play with modders, cheaters or other people who edit their LOCAL SAVED FILES to get anything in the game.
    On PC is a bit buggy atm. Won't recommend.
  17. kiki78
    Jun 6, 2019
    4
    Yea well, this genre isn't my cup of tea, last arpg i enjoyed was diablo 2. And this is way way worse in all aspects.
    i generally like indie games, but this is just boring, theres nothing inovative or original, not even mentioning price, lol.
    I would give 6/10, but for poor pc port, and super bad mouse support, i give 4/10
  18. filipeandrei
    Oct 23, 2020
    3
    The only reason i give this game a 3, is because its warhammer, and the lore still holds some good, no matter how hard developers try to ruin it with lazy/bad writing. And, brother, they do try in this game.

    It's one of THE MOST repetitive games i have ever played in my entire life (and i've played PONG, man). I mean, grind games are repetitive, you grind. But this game takes it to    The only reason i give this game a 3, is because its warhammer, and the lore still holds some good, no matter how hard developers try to ruin it with lazy/bad writing. And, brother, they do try in this game.

    It's one of THE MOST repetitive games i have ever played in my entire life (and i've played PONG, man). I mean, grind games are repetitive, you grind. But this game takes it to another level: it's basically 4 acts/chapters that work EXACTLY the same. Chaos champion messing region around, you need to help the leader of the locals by gathering supplies, rescuing prisoners/hunting parties, doing 2 or 3 missions to "weaken" the said champion - story-wise -, then face a big boss with 3 life bars and 3 attacks, that keeps summoning minions and recovering health from the second bar onwards.

    I kid you not, if you are daltonic, you won't see a difference between the entire game, for all that changes are the main colors for the monsters (green, red, purple and blue). Some monsters have some slightly different design, but they all work the same.

    I am most impressed with Gears Workshop, to let these kinds of games to be released without a quality control to reflect the warhammer brand whatsoever. They just go with the cash-grab flow, it's so disappointing, especially with great settings that are warhammer fantasy and 40k (Inquisitor Martyr, i'm looking at you).

    For real, i played this game FOR FREE (imagine paying the full rip-off price) in a friends account, to check it out, up to the 4th Act, and it wasn't worth my time. And i'm a big warhammer fan, still waiting for another game as good as the first Dawn of War (and expansions).

    I don't think this game would truly please neither warhammer fans, nor ARPG players, giving no more than that "well, better than nothing" feel. And that wasn't even the case for me, what a complete waste of my time...    … Expand
  19. Vulgrim
    May 26, 2021
    1
    Let's start with the fact that with competitors like Grim Dawn, Titan Quest, Van Helsing, Diablo or even Torchlights on the side, you can see what attracts players in them, which means that without blinking an eye we will spend the next 20 hours looking for a specific helmet for the set. Chaosbane collapses all over the line here, and I've tried to give it a go and not leave a negativeLet's start with the fact that with competitors like Grim Dawn, Titan Quest, Van Helsing, Diablo or even Torchlights on the side, you can see what attracts players in them, which means that without blinking an eye we will spend the next 20 hours looking for a specific helmet for the set. Chaosbane collapses all over the line here, and I've tried to give it a go and not leave a negative review after the first hour.
    Mechanically it is quite bland, I was quickly forced to switch to the controller instead of the mouse, due to the nightmarish aiming of a ranged character. It was fine if 50% of the shells were hitting. This also immediately leads to the first thing that put me off as soon as I realized how this game was going to take care of character development. Not counting a special tree, which gives almost only bonuses like "+ 4% damage in elite" and about 5 skills (I counted 3 active and 2 passive), we have a solution that takes away the pleasure typical for the genre from building a build, replacing it with a nightmare substitute. Well, by increasing the level, we get a new active or passive skill (or an improvement of the old one) automatically, the player has no influence on what develops, so we can usually spend waiting, for example, 5 lvl (as was my case) to finally get an upgrade, which we cared about. We can only choose what our hero can currently have, but we have a moronic obstacle in the form of a pool of points that we cannot exceed. It comes down to the fact that, for example, we have a limit of 30 points, and skills (both active and passive) initially cost us from 5 to 15 of these points. Of course, the basic attack costs 0 points, but its upgraded version normally has a higher value assigned to it.
    At the same time, skill upgrades (which we do not control) are often worse than the lower-level versions (sic!). An example would be the wizard's basic missiles, which on the second level can set fire to the ground under the feet of enemies and deal additional damage in the fight against hordes of enemies, but the top-of-the-range version takes this ability away from us in favor of turning the projectile into a short-range shotgun-style attack. And here it is also worth saying that I chose the character of a wizard - typically for the first fire in such games in my case. Imagine my surprise when it turns out that the game doesn't quite know what to do with it. We have a not very sensible combination of skills over a very short distance, while at the same time awarding mobility (which is typical in this genre), but it does not prevent the tone of passive spells that make us stand still, which is supposed to match those long-distance spells, which in turn, etc. And there is no escape from this, because the game is pushing our throats into skills with a new level that we would not take in a normal hack'n'slash.
    Another thing is the equipment. Here I will partially touch on the WH issues, because it's really nice that it refers to such elements. We have a wizard's outfit with the symbolism of Nagarythe or Caledor. BUT the game in return for completing a given "theme" gives you a big middle finger in the form of a pathetic bonus, which in no way compensates us for rejecting an eq that does not match the "set". On the plus side, however, the illusion system is available almost from the beginning of the game, so there is no problem to artificially adjust the appearance of items. The problem is that there are pathetically few such designs, maybe it reaches 30, including some unique and collector's versions (?).
    But here's another thing - the game is simply empty in activities. The only thing (after 5 hours) is practically a storage box, a guy to donate excess items to the skin collection and start new missions. After all this time it is sad that we are still collecting some shards or golden crowns, but the game does not offer any option to spend them yet. Except for a rebirth after death that happened to me once for a test what happens in this situation. And here's another thing - the game is very simple. Immediately I had to raise the difficulty to high to feel like normal in Grim Dawnie, and it was pretty casual anyway. It doesn't have to be a flaw, but ...
    …There is simply nothing in the game but a grind in clumsy locations. Hordes of enemies are attacking us in amounts not very adequate for the sense of the campaign's events, or at least for people who embrace any of the WH lore. In Nuln, we most often see city sewers that have decorations as if they were a dwarven karak, and there are Nurgle cultists sitting there, who apparently also like the Horned Rat, because often the decorations are simply Skaven. However boring gameplay, you can try to save with a coop, although I don't know why walking through straight corridors would benefit from it.
    The plot is not very close - making Teclis a handicapped idiot, ungor as a cult commander in the middle of the city, etc.    … Expand
  20. ironmadruga
    Jul 5, 2023
    0
    Péssimo jogo. Um valor super elevado para um jogo todo bugado. História genérica. Mapas genéricos.
  21. dotrem
    Jun 19, 2021
    3
    Imagine hack'n'slash game where you have to return to the camp after every 10 minutes of gameplay.
    Imagine looting rpg game with only 4 different skins for every item.
    Imagine rpg game with only ONE single map for each act, and you have to run those maps for 10 times in a row. Imagine the game where you farm gold for some reason, but there are no merchants, there are nothing to buy.    Imagine hack'n'slash game where you have to return to the camp after every 10 minutes of gameplay.
    Imagine looting rpg game with only 4 different skins for every item.
    Imagine rpg game with only ONE single map for each act, and you have to run those maps for 10 times in a row.
    Imagine the game where you farm gold for some reason, but there are no merchants, there are nothing to buy.

    The game terrible, it's literally antipattern for game dev.    … Expand
  22. LocoLive3000
    Jul 13, 2021
    0
    O jogo não é ruim por parecer com qualquer outro, ele é ruim, simplesmente o pior jogo que já joguei. O preço não é alto, ele é todos os superlativos de absurdo. Um caça níquel, porque você paga por um jogo que nunca mais receberá atualizações, está completamente abandonado, falta QOL em tudo! A mecânica é mal feita, as missões são extremamente entediantes, o end game tem sistemas como:O jogo não é ruim por parecer com qualquer outro, ele é ruim, simplesmente o pior jogo que já joguei. O preço não é alto, ele é todos os superlativos de absurdo. Um caça níquel, porque você paga por um jogo que nunca mais receberá atualizações, está completamente abandonado, falta QOL em tudo! A mecânica é mal feita, as missões são extremamente entediantes, o end game tem sistemas como: Invasão que eu pago pra ver alguém fazendo aquilo: 200 missões iguais pra ganhar um anel verde de raridade alta...… Expand

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 31
  3. Negative: 1 out of 31
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Aug 2, 2019
    53
    Chaosbane levels are all made from a small variety of large “building blocks”, so when you’re sent to clean out another sewer of monsters – it’ll look just like every previous sewer you’ve cleaned so far. Boring and uninspired. [Issue#239, p.68]
  2. Eurogamer Italy
    Jul 11, 2019
    70
    Chaosbane is a competent action rpg that fails to compare to the best games of the genre but provides some good time bashing Warhammer branded monsters in an infinite mesmerizing loop that, in the end, is way too repetitive.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Jul 9, 2019
    43
    In Warhammer: Chaosbane, there is only dull combat. Use two or three favorite abilities to kill hordes of same-looking enemies, marvel at bad animations and identical corridors, and try not to lose your mind. Even cooperative mode, which usually makes everything better, is a boring chore.
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