Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition to release August 14

By Liam Dawe - 14 Jul 2025 at 11:11 am UTC

Relic Entertainment have announced that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition is set for release on August 14th. Hopefully it will see a better reception than the recently released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine - Master Crafted Edition, which is currently on Mostly Negative on the Steam user reviews.

At release it will cost $29.99, with a 30% discount if you own the Anniversary Edition.

See the new trailer below:

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The developer has mentioned there will be no new content or post-launch DLC, as their focus is on "delivering the ultimate Dawn of War experience" to have everything from the original. As for multiplayer, they're aiming to keep everything mostly the same there apart from "fixing some of the most egregious legacy bugs that should help improve the multiplayer experience". However, they've also said "not all legacy bugs will be addressed for launch" and they're already planned updates at release.

They also have a Bluesky account you can follow too.

Will you be buying it?

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition | Release Date: 14th August 2025

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Boldos 12 hours ago

Supporter

Although I expect that "LAN multiplayer" will stay permanently removed?
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Zlopez 12 hours ago

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Let's see how this will end, this was the game that introduced me to my Warhammer 40k hobby, so I have it deep in my heart. But I don't understand why they added the spoken lines to trailer (there are none in the original), it doesn't sound good at all. Looking at the original one, it's actually better :-D

I would like to see these features in this release:
- LAN multiplayer
- Modding support (all the mods done for the game are hacks as there wasn't any official mod support at that time)
- All the DLC bundled together
- Price similar to the [Anniversary edition](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4570/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War__Anniversary_Edition/) or lower (looking at Anniversary edition, that is actually a definitive edition, so I'm not sure why we need another one)
- Don't want to see old games removed from stores, because of this

Last edited by Zlopez on 14 Jul 2025 at 11:45 am UTC

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such 11 hours ago

"We'll keep things the same and maybe fix some bugs, but not all of those bugs that we may end up fixing will be fixed at release. $30, please."

Let's wait and see. I'm guessing this will get panned just because of the pricing. It's high for what's essentially a patch to get the games to... function properly and without workarounds.

- Price similar to the [Anniversary edition](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4570/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War__Anniversary_Edition/) or lower (looking at Anniversary edition, that is actually a definitive edition, so I'm not sure why we need another one)

That was just them making a big announcement and renaming the old game. They made it seem like there has been some development done (an account system and some extras was what they advertised, I think), but I never saw any of that actually... work. This kind of seems like it was supposed to be what they're releasing in August, but they failed implementing it back then? If Relic explained it I haven't seen it. Really bizarre.

Last edited by such on 14 Jul 2025 at 12:23 pm UTC

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TangoBaker 11 hours ago

I'm just hoping it's a better remaster than the execrable Space Marine master crafted edition.

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riidom 9 hours ago

That's my favourite game intro of all time. The original, I mean. Why did they have to mess up the audio, can't be that hard to simply not touch it.

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Zappor 8 hours ago

Huge fan of the original, I simply have to buy it!

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Vortex_Acherontic 3 hours ago

I hope they enable LAN multilayer with this version after they explicitly removed it from the original (GOG, Steam) version. While some can patch the game to support LAN again it will become very wonky.

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