Fight together with your friends against hordes of enemies in this new Warhammer 40,000 experience.

In the depths of the hive, the seeds of corruption threaten an overwhelming tide of darkness. A heretical cult known as the Admonition seeks to seize control of the planet Atoma Prime and lay waste to its inhabitants. It is up to you and your allies in the Inquisition to root out the enemy before the city succumbs to Chaos.

Players will not be able to hide behind lethal ranged weapons, they'll need to combine both FPS and melee skills as they get up close and personal in visceral clashes between Imperium and Chaos factions. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide will bring everything you have come to expect from the developers of the multimillion selling award-winning Warhammer: Vermintide franchise.

As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

The Emperor’s justice arrives in Tertium with Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s first paid DLC, the Arbites Class, launching on June 23 across all platforms alongside a free update that introduces an improved onboarding and narrative experience as well as changes to difficulty selection and progression.

To mark the Games Workshop Skulls celebration, Warhammer 40K: Darktide and Warhammer: Vermintide 2 will feature limited-time in-game events.

Judgment Is Coming to Darktide: The Arbites Class

The Adeptus Arbites enforce the Lex Imperialis, the Emperor’s Law. Utterly unforgiving, they pursue heretics and traitors with relentless precision. As an Arbitrator, players will deliver the Emperor’s justice with zealous discipline, supported by brutal new weaponry and a cybernetic companion.

• Command your Cyber-Mastiff: 
  • A cybernetically-enhanced attack hound never far from your side.
  • Send your kill-dog to disable priority targets, maul enemies, and provide vital support to your strike team.
• Your judgment. How will you enforce it? 
  • Craft your unique Arbitrator by mixing freely between 80+ talent nodes…
  • … or choose one of the three distinct combat styles found in Darktide’s branching talent trees.
• Crowd Control & Command:
  • Control the battlefield with suppressive fire and barked orders.
  • Deploy the Nuncio Aquila: an anti-gravity vox platform that barks imperial propaganda and suppresses the will of the enemy.
• Exact punishment with extreme prejudice
  • Arbites Shotgun: packs a righteous punch with Special Issue shells.
  • Assault Shield + Arbites Shotpistol: Darktide’s first hybrid defense/range combo weapons.
  • Dominator Maul: Crush dissent with every swing.
• Sanction wears many faces, no two enforcers are alike:
  • Customise your Arbitrator, choose from six voices across three personalities,
  • Cosmetics for your Cyber-Mastiff, character, and weapons. 

Darktide players will be able to purchase the Arbites Class on all platforms on June 23 for the price of $11.99 / €11.99.

Free Update: Improved Narrative Experience & Changes to Difficulty

Launching alongside the Arbites Class DLC on June 23, Darktide will receive a free update designed to offer a more structured narrative experience for new players as well as a rework on difficulty progression and selection

• Improved onboarding and narrative experience: 
  • A curated mission path will guide new players through Tertium, introducing key characters, locations, and threats across escalating difficulty tiers.
  • Missions will feature increased story context, with debriefs showcasing the impact of strike teams across Tertium.
  • Seasoned players will be offered the option to re-experience the improved story of Darktide from the start. 
• Changes to difficulty progression and selection:
  • Introducing a reworked difficulty progression system: players will now unlock higher difficulties by demonstrating skills, not just by leveling up. Progression will be tied to completing a number of missions at your current difficulty, rewarding mastery over time played. 
  • Mission board changes: all missions currently in rotation will now be available at every difficulty level. This update significantly broadens the mission selection for players at any tier, offering greater variety and more meaningful choice when deciding how (and where) to fight. 

Special Event to Celebrate Skulls 2025!

Starting May 22, to celebrate Skulls, the forces of Nurgle will be stirring in Darktide. During this time-limited event, players will encounter Nurgle totems across missions. Destroying them will summon Chaos Spawns, but beware as these totems also buff nearby enemies, making every encounter more dangerous.

Skulls will also be celebrated in the Mourningstar, with skull decorations, shrines, and event-themed banners transforming the hub into a fitting tribute to the Imperium’s most grimdark traditions.

Restock of Fan-Favorite Regiments in The Commodore’s Vestures

As part of the Skulls celebration, several fan-favorite premium cosmetics will return to the Commodore’s Vestures for a limited time, offering players a chance to represent iconic forces from across the Imperium:

• Magistratum Enforcers: Street-level justice in Tertium's most dangerous districts. With their precinct-style armor and uniforms, the Mags stand as grim sentinels of order amidst rising chaos, even as their own ranks grow uncertain.
• Heroes of Armageddon (Steel Legion): Battle-hardened veterans who stood against the Ork menace. Their black banners of vengeance now fly over Tertium’s war-torn streets.
• Death Korps of Krieg: Stoic, gas-masked, and relentless. These trench warfare specialists embody the harsh discipline and sacrifice the Imperium demands.
• Elysian Drop Troopers: Precision-deployed from orbit, the Elysians strike fast and hard, bypassing enemy lines to hit high-value targets with surgical force.

Key Features:

• Built on the legacy of Vermintide 2’s best-in-class melee combat, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide introduces intense WH40K gunplay to the mix. Master the balance between ranged and melee combat as you fight through a slew of enemies. Feel the impact of each swipe, swing, and slice of a chainsword, or fry some flesh with a lasgun.
• At its core, Darktide is a co-op game. Wandering too far, risks punishment by foes looking to immobilize or capture stray Rejects, such as the slavering Chaos Hound or the Moebian Trapper. Once you fall prey to such foes, only your teammates can save you! More than that, your innate toughness – your determination to press on through the pain – only recharges when you are in the proximity of your strike team.
• Create your own, unique character and customize their physical appearance, voice, and origin. Choose your class to determine which unique traits and skill sets they will make use of in battle. Will you be a seasoned veteran of the Imperial army, a snarky outsider, or a fiery zealot? The choice is yours.
• Step into the violent, dystopian world of Warhammer 40,000. From boiling hot industrial factories to the decaying water maintenance zone afflicted by constant acid rainfall - Tertium Hive is a hard and unforgiving place even at the best of times. Your role is to serve the zealous Inquisition by embarking on missions to exterminate the threats lurking in the depths of the hive city, or die trying.
• Adapt to the erratic whims of Chaos with conditions- mutators that add a spontaneous challenge to your mission. Your team must learn to adjust, adopt new tactics and change up their loadouts to face these ruthless challenges.

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is available for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam).