With information that we’re getting each Complete Conflict: Warhammer 40k and Complete Conflict: Medieval 3, it has been a superb time to solid my thoughts again to a number of the greatest Warhammer video games, and certainly the perfect RTS video games, of years previous. Amongst them is the beloved Warhammer: Darkish Omen, Mindscape’s 1998 tactics-led wargame, which predates even CA’s authentic Shogun: Complete Conflict in delivering real-time clashes throughout 3D battlefields. However whereas it stays a cult traditional, making an attempt to get your palms on a contemporary copy has been tremendously troublesome; not less than, till now.
That is proper, Warhammer: Darkish Omen has simply appeared on GOG, giving the RTS traditional a recent lease on life. It has been a long-standing characteristic of the storefront’s ‘GOG Dreamlist,’ the place gamers can submit and vote on video games that they’d actually wish to see dropped at the platform. Now, virtually 30 years after it first launched, Darkish Omen lives once more. As if that wasn’t ok information, it is even been given a recent layer of polish full with “4K and widescreen assist, smoother visuals, and considerably improved stability,” and it will solely price you a tenner.
In case you were not round on the time, or it merely handed you by, Warhammer: Darkish Omen places you in command of Commander Morgan Berhardt, commander of the Grudgebringer mercenary pressure. What begins as a name to help in holding off an orc invasion rapidly begins to escalate once you understand what pushed the orcs to cross the border. The story even consists of choices the place you possibly can select how occasions play out and have an effect on the course of the battle.
On the battlefield, the main target is on smaller, extra impactful mercenary forces, beginning out with fundamentals akin to infantry and cavalry and transferring on to ranged forces, artillery, wizards, and so forth. Constructing on its predecessor, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Darkish Omen integrates extra 3D terrain, which features a full line-of-sight system that means that you can disguise behind obstacles to evade enemy hearth, flank foes, or set an ambush.
Regardless of laying dormant for a few years, gamers who voted for Darkish Omen have been fast to take to GOG and categorical their gratitude for its return. “Guess the voting does work,” writes one, “I bear in mind voting for it months in the past and it simply alerted me that it is lastly right here.” One other provides, “Having performed the GOG model, I’ve gotta say they actually did a superb quantity of labor to make it work on trendy methods. Nevertheless, the controls will be wonky – simply as they had been again within the day.”
Warhammer: Darkish Omen is accessible now by way of GOG, with a ten% launch low cost that means you will pay $8.99 / £7.69 should you purchase it earlier than Saturday January 3, 2026. Anticipate to pay $9.99 / £8.50 thereafter. You will discover it proper right here. Whether or not you’ve got at all times needed to revisit this traditional, or are curious to attempt it for the primary time, it is by no means been simpler.
