Eight years after the release of the audacious, but ill-fated Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3, we finally have a sequel. Dawn of War 4 is coming, with a slated release of some time in 2026. Only it’s not coming from the original developer Relic; instead German studio KING Art Games is at the helm.
The news comes via gamescom’s Opening Night Live, where we got a nice new CGI trailer to show off the reveal. It’s a promising one – nothing on that legendary Dawn of War 3 trailer, mind, though that was an all-timer (and arguably turned out to be one of the highlights of that game’s lifespan, sadly).
Still, this is massive news for fellow RTS nerds, and follows on very nicely from the release of Dawn of War: Definitive Edition, the tidy remaster from original studio Relic, which arrived just last week.
There’s also reason to be optimistic here, despite the change in developer. Strategy heads might recognise KING Art Games as the studio behind 2020’s Iron Harvest, a cult hit real-time strategy game featuring, amongst other things, concentrated infantry units, a bit of base-building, and some pretty 40K-coded armoured walker units.