At a glance, Warhammer 40,000: Scam Trader looks like a lot of other turn-based games set in the 40K universe. Except, this isn’t turn-based strategy, but a proper CRPG from the makers of the recently popular Pathfinder games. Its first gameplay trailer awaits below.
Rogue Traders, if you don’t know them, are human adventurers and traders in the 40K universe. They were also the stars of the first version of Warhammer 40,000 in 1987, although this CRPG Rogue Trader is based on the Fantasy Fight Rogue Trader tabletop RPG from 2009.
Owlcat creative director Alexander Gusev told us when we talked to him about the project: “We are huge fans of Rogue Trader in its Fantasy Flight variant. this early year. “By the time we presented this idea to Games Workshop, we had played 3 campaigns, two of which were Rogue Trader and one was Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader Hybrid.”
As Rogue Traders, the game sends you flying around the galaxy on a spaceship across the map, before you touch down on different planets to perform walking monstrosities. This is part of the Warhammer 40K universe that hasn’t fallen into “unique war”, so while there’s a lot of combat by the looks of things, you’ll also be able to talk to monsters. When the battle breaks out, it will be turn-based instead of real-time with pauses.
While the video above is technically a “game”, I personally wouldn’t be satisfied until I watched some footage filled with dialogue and UI elements. It’s not really in the game until you can see the action buttons and the dialogue tree, right?
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader has no release date yet, but there are more screenshots on Steam.
