10 Reasons To Get Excited About Warhammer 40K: Darktide

4. Demons

Warhammer Darktide
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Unlike most science fiction franchises, Warhammer 40k doesn't shy away from the occult. On the contrary, it embraces it with open arms and a human sacrifice at the ready.

The zombie outbreak that has felled Hive Tertium will without a doubt turn out to be caused by Nurgle, the Chaos God of Plague. A semi-demonic infection, the hordes of reanimated corpses will act with better coordination than most zombies. It will also let the cultists of Nurgle harass you with more than just tooth and claw.

More threatening however will be the demons sure to follow in the plague's wake. As the Hive's population dies the walls between the real world and the immaterium will weaken and break, letting these horrors through.

From tiny Nurglings to the towering horror of a Great Unclean One, demons will give Darktide even more variety in enemies to shoot and slice apart.

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My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.