9/12/2025 Warhammer: Boltgun Review

Holy fuck am I ever late in writing this review, fuck I finished this game probably 3 months ago? longer? but regardless I feel like I remember enough to make a pretty distinct review.

This game is a pixel art based game on the war hammer universe, you take control of a space marine captain as he shoots cuts and blasts his way through the forces of chaos to retrieve a chaos artifact. That explains the entire game. To be a little more specific, I would regard this as a doom-like game, in that the story is very small and mostly comprised of combat, Finding Keycards, and shooting demons. I would love to tell you how this game stacked up against doom, but frankly I've never played it.  Lol. 

As for my personal thoughts on the game I will start with the gameplay itself. The controls themselves are super tight, actually they're fantastic I'd say. The guns are fun to shoot, the movement lets you pull off some interesting stunts and the lock-on chainsword is just a ton of fun to use. Though I have to admit I wish close combat packed a bit more of a punch.... The rest of the weapons vary in "fun-value" I'd say that I remember the shotgun, lasergun, and heavy bolter being pretty enjoyable while some of the heavier guns like the plasma gun feeling kind of underwhelming. The only gun I would consider true heavy damage was the grav-gun, which was kind of like the BFG from doom, in that there was not a lot of ammo, but a ton of damage per shot. I sort of overall just wish I enjoyed the weapons more. I wish they were punchier, because a lot of them are pretty underwhelming.

The gameplay itself is also fairly meh I would say, I dont have a bunch to say about it. You walk into a room, the room closes, waves of enemies spawn, you kill them, rinse and repeat. New enemies aren't common enough to make each level feel particularly unique buut for 15 bucks its sort of hard to complain. 

So the movement was good, and the weapons and gameplay were meh, what about the FEEL!! 

So, for this sort of transient "feel" value I would say it does very, very well. If you are a warhammer fan I feel that you will love the setpieces, the exploration, seeing your favorite demons in pixelated form as you rip them apart as a space marine. Its just sooo thematically enjoyable. The game LOOKS great which helps a lot. See these images from the steam page: 

I hope from these you can see images that the thematic feeling of the game is great. 

Overall I Would say, if you already like warhammer or doom, you'd probably get your money's worth. I think I beat the game in like 8 - 10 hours. If not? this might be a pass.

Thanks for reading.