Auroch Digital’s last Warhammer game was Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a 2023 shooter built to look and play like the 1990s Doom era. So the Bristol studio knows how to fit Warhammer into an older shape. Warhammer Survivors launched on November 10, 2026, on PC through Steam and on Xbox Series X|S, and it is in Game Pass from day one with Xbox Play Anywhere. It costs $7.99, and a launch discount takes it to $7.19 until November 17.
The shape this time is a bullet heaven, and Auroch brought in the people who made that shape famous. According to the launch post on Xbox Wire, the game was built in partnership with Warhammer and poncle, the studio behind Vampire Survivors.
In a bullet heaven you steer, your weapons fire on their own, and the screen fills with enemies until you or they give out. Luca Galante’s poncle put Vampire Survivors into early access in December 2021 and released it in full in October 2022. It went on to win Best Game at the 2023 BAFTA Games Awards and is counted among the first bullet heaven games. A lot of games have copied it since, but this one has poncle’s name on the box.
Auroch is not a small team, and I won't pretend it is. It has been around since 2010 and had 61 staff in 2021, and it brings the license here. The Steam page lists more than 40 champions from Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and more than 75 weapons that combine with power-ups and evolve. You fight Skaven and Tyranids on stages that include the plains of Aqshy and an abandoned Space Hulk, with bosses like Ghazghkull Thraka and the Great Unclean One.
The Xbox Wire post spends most of its time on one enemy faction, the Gloomspite Gitz, which designer Ellie Harrodine calls "a rabble of different cave-dwelling grots." Moonclan Stabbas swarm you by numbers. Squig Hoppers bounce around unpredictably and hit harder near their Loonboss. Mangler Squigs come in chained pairs, and when you kill one, the other goes into a frenzy. At the top sits Trugg the Troggoth King, whose club marks out impact zones before it lands.
It is single-player only on Steam and supports 13 languages, and Steam and Xbox are the only platforms named so far.
If you have Game Pass, you can try it today at no extra cost, and if you don't, the launch price on Steam holds until November 17.
