Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Soulstorm

One of the best RTS games of all time!

While it works with ultra-wide (21:9) resolution, it's a bit too zoomed in, so my suggestion is to play in a windowed 16:9.

I used to have these games up to dark crusade and loved them. The game is fantastic but it should be posted with warnings that it isnt playable in its current form. Ive tried patch after patch and different ways to get beyond errors and they always come back. Trying to get through 1 campaign took doing the same fights over and over about 30 times and varying patches to just have errors that cause the game to crash come back over and over again. Ive spent more time trying to fix this game and checking if the fixes work than actually playing it.

Literally one of the best games, would love a remaster.

Truly a masterpiece RTS game

I didnt hate it as much as everyone else. Imo, it still had enough of its original self that its issues didnt kill it for me. Dark Crusade is def better tho. By the time DoW3 came out, we all ened up missing these days

It is a great game and I believe the last game from the series to have this overlord strategy. I specially like that your in-game strategy have a great impact on the outcome. It also influences how long a mission can take.

Great game. Had to turn audio quality to low or it crashed after a big battle. 9/10

No matter what resolution format I use, I can't see any text in the main menu, not to mention, the correct resolution for my screen has the game be about 2 square inches at the top left. I have no problems with the base game or Dark Crusade, but this DLC is busted beyond repair.

it's fun really hard on the hard setting LOL I like all the different units in the game.

Great multiplayer RTS game - the single player mode is rubbish, but nobody buys it for that.

When I was little I had the pleasure of finding a pirateed version of the first one without dlc packs. I did not know english at the time so I was just base building and fighting without getting to know the in and outs of the game mechanics yearslater I found it on steam and my mouse went to purchase button immediatly and thank god it did. It is by far the best rts game I have played and I have played a lot. Wish they remastered it tho.

The definitive DoW multiplayer experience.

It has the most content faction wise and a lot of very VERY expansive mod packs (Unification mod), so if multiplayer/coop is your jam, this is the DoW expansion for that afaik.

Худшая игра века, мёртвая игра, игра без будущего, игра с самым токсичным комьюнити. Рекомендую всем

It some damn Good if you install unification mod into your game

This is the first and ONLY DoW game you should play. The second one in the series is alright, and at times even enjoyable, but we don't speak of the third instalment (good trailer though)!

fantastic game glad to be getting back into it

Its classic WH40K - whats not to love.

Game is amazing 8/10 and i love that it covers the sisters of battle which many games do not, but game crashes after taking enemy stronghold and crashes often, making the game unbeatable.

campaign is dumpster, people say "get honor guard" but how do you get passed the first planet? you don't, cause once you go to the next one they have a "10" guard on it, so you just endlessly get waved by tanks, planes, units and heroes.

One of the best RTS ever with mods such as the Unification Overhaul, but it is heavily limited by the old engine. You have to put everything on minimum graphics to play 6-8 player games and depending on your luck it might work or not. 20 years later and still no successor to this ancient game unfortunately.

"From the lightning, and the Tempest, Emperor deliver us..

Lore is great but game-play is trash, units path-finding is horrendous.
Play on easy just for the story-line.
It gets a bit monotonous after a while.

very good game with very active community

hello i need help i have the games downloaded and really want to play this. but it starts up try to start then resets it self and wont open anything.

it says play i press it and then i wait and then it is endless cycle and wont let me play help.

One of hte best Warhammer games ever made. Its a shame they discontinued this series.

Good game you should read "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind"

The first Dawn of War is the best of the series, when it comes to rts.

Really enjoyed this, even found out heaps of addons you can also add to it.

Unacceptably buggy.

Not sure why, but I can't play the campaign for this game without it crashing after a mission or 2. All other expansions of DOW work perfectly fine for me besides this one.

Game crashes a lot, saves got corrupted. I've tried to finish campaign at least 3x in the span of few years, each time losing ~10hr of progress.

Approved game. Just download Unification mod and this game is EVEN better.

i've played this game ever since i was like 6-7 years old with my dad. easily the best strategy franchise i've ever played :) would recommend it to anyone willing to go through big nostalgia patches but also people just starting with warhammer and with low-end PCs

Fun game, i still like it better than the new Dawn of Wars

Reliving me youth... Alongside C&C 3 and Homeworld Remastered, don't think there's ever been a better set of RTS games since their release. Glad I get to enjoy them again.

Horrible campaign, crashes often, boring drawn out maps

Worst expansion of the series. I just can't care enough to want to finish it.

Not always but the game crashes at the end of each battle.

Just a fun and immersive challenging game.

I remember playing this a lot, sadly I think that is where it should remain "a good memory".

The freezing issue still occurs on a modern PC.
Resolution scaling not available on a 4k monitor (so get a magnifying glass out).
The original flaw of the battlefield being zoomed in too far still exits (you cant select all your units as they are not all on screen).

Its good for a couple of hours of nostalgia, but only if its the price of a Mars Bar !!

RTS reddit slop. Only good RTS was Warcraft III. Stay away from everything else that devolves into ridiculous high APM ADHD. This game barely runs on modern systems too, and the mods that are the 'definitive' experience bricked the game when I tried them. The 40k setting is a dogshit wannabe MCU reddit fest and every 40k game is hot garbage.

epic and good.

Death to the false emperor!.

developers for this game are sadistic. Normal mode is insane hard and no fun. Easy is boring and none competitive. waist of time an effort and this is coming from someone with 30 years of gaming. we used to call this type of game retarded hard.

You can control the game play. You can choose who you play as. You will enjoy this excellent game play.

All the benefits of previous installments are gone and all the things we hated from those installments have been given more priority. You have to restart every map from scratch sometimes multiple times per turn. It staggers the imagination how ridiculous that is. Time for a patch already maybe? I know it's over a decade later but seriously... What the hell where you thinking?

I'm on a mission to play and review everything in my Steam Library, which has grown out of control. 40k Dawn of War is one of the best RTS games of it's time and one of the best 40k games period! I had hours of fun with this back in the day. I always wanted a Sisters of Battle army as a kid but couldn't afford multiple armies, getting a campaign with them is great!

Sega we know you love money with the aggressive pricing of the total war games.
Please get off your arse and remake this series so you can print money to continue to make total war games that no one asked for.

Campaign crashes after every stronghold battle, which are the strongest campaign fights and can take up to an hour. No auto save so you just cant progress since you can never take a stronghold.

Fear denies faith brother. This game is a classic RTS and nothing will ever change that. For the Emperor.

It's unplayable. Keeps crashing.

it was ok
I played each game completely vanilla on windows 10 and all 4 games (Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Anniversary Edition, Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, Soulstorm) booted up just fine they all had the same bug where every 20 - 40 minutes the screen would freeze up and the way to unstick it was to Ctrl+Esc then click back into the game so that was a little tedious however Dark crusade was extra bad where it was more like every 1 - 10 minutes the screen would freeze

other issues are that moving your squads feels extremely similar to the old starcraft broodwar days of trying to make a mass of dragoons/goliaths to walk down a ramp (for those of you who don't know its pretty miserable)

and other problems is sometimes your units just don't attack when they are right next to the enemy for some reason or a few times things would be invisible (I'm not talking about the intentional type of invisable such as cloaked units, Im talking about dropping a command center and after completing you are able to select a "barron" patch of ground to make units and whatnot with

another issue is the super close camera view where you almost can't even see the entire range of some units because it is so close. the anniversary edition and winter assault also don't have widescreen support but supposedly mods have fixes for these video issues however I didn't use any of those

last major problem I encountered on the soulstorm game is that after completing a level the game crashed and I lost about 2 hours of gameplay so I am not willing to replay that and it will get a negative recommendation

other than those issues I actually liked the game enough to beat 3 of the 4 games

Pretty fun RTS, but especially fun if you run the unification mods.