Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
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- Released
- 2018
- Developer
- Bulwark Studios
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- 78
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 11 GB
What is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus?
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 14 November 2018 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Bulwark Studios |
| Publisher | Kasedo Games |
| Platforms | PC |
| Genres | Role-Playing, Strategy |
| Languages | 8 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata , seeded TBA. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 11 GB |
| Add-on content | 3 DLC listed |
| Age gate | None |
Content descriptors
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus worth it?
91% of 14,603 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $29.99 on Steam, and critics score it 78/100. About 180 people were playing at once when we last checked, so it is still active.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. We have not published our own review of this game.
Where Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus sits on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueWarhammer 40,000: Mechanicus plotted on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so its position is its real one. Change either axis to see where it lands.
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus still active? Players right now
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus has a small, niche following: 180 people were playing at once when we last read Steam on 19 October 2026. This is a snapshot, not a live counter, and it is a recent concurrent reading rather than an all-time record. For what is trending across the catalogue right now, see the pulse.
How many people own Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
This is an estimate, not a sales figure, and the two are not interchangeable. SteamSpy samples public profiles and publishes a range; the range here spans a factor of 2.0, and that width is the honest part of it. We show both ends rather than a midpoint, because a midpoint would look like a measurement.
Steam only. Console and storefront sales are not counted, so a game that sold heavily elsewhere reads low here. Read on 19 October 2026. Where a publisher has announced a real unit figure, that appears separately and carries its source.
Estimated sales for Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
These are estimates, not reported figures. Bulwark Studios has not published unit sales for Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 14,603 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $29.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
| SteamSpy owner estimate | 500K–1.0M, a different measure, see below |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Bulwark Studios publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $29.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus updates & patch notes
Pulled from Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
What readers say about Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Games like Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
24 games overlap with Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos, BATTLETECH and Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition.
Part of the Warhammer series
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is one of 19 Warhammer games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus head to head
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Common questions about Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
What platforms is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus on?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is available on PC. It first released in 2018.
How much does Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus cost?
$29.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus?
91% of 14,603 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus?
78 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus download?
11 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus?
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus was developed by Bulwark Studios and published by Kasedo Games.
Is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus worth it in 2026?
91% of 14,603 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $29.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus dead?
No. About 180 people were in-game at once when we last read Steam's concurrent-player figure. Peak activity is higher; this is a recent snapshot, not the all-time peak.
Is Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus on sale?
Not at the moment. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is at its $29.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.