- Feature Focus: Faction Traits - 17 September 2026
We’re back with another Feature Focus, our series dedicated to delving into numerous Warhammer Survivors features, such as Status Effects, Enemy Skills and more! In the previous Feature Focus, we explored just some of the enemy skills, abilities and attacks the multitudinous hordes will throw at you in Warhammer Survivors. Today, we’re going to delve into Faction Traits – additional game mechanics inspired by the tabletop and affecting each enemy faction in unique ways. Watch now to learn about Faction Traits. ⬇️ Faction Traits Faction Traits influence certain enemies in a variety of ways, from unique behaviours, damage resistances and more. Two examples of these are the Tyranid’s Synapse trait and the Ork’s rallying Waaagh! The Tyranids - Synapse Synapse emitted by critical bioforms such as the Hive Tyrant drives swarms of nearby Termagants and Hormagaunts into a ravenous rage, grantin…
- Feature Focus: Enemy Skills - 3 September 2026
We’re back with another Feature Focus, our series dedicated to delving into numerous Warhammer Survivors features, such as Status Effects, Enemy Skills and more! Within the 41st Millennium, there is only war as you are beleaguered on all fronts by the alien, the mutant, and the heretic. Whilst your existence in the Mortal Realms means fending off geist, ghoul and demon. In Warhammer Survivors, hordes of enemies will stop at nothing to bring about your demise and some of them are armed with skills to make that job all that much easier. Watch now to learn about Enemy Skills. ⬇️ A myriad of enemy skills, abilities and attacks While every enemy faction has its fair share of minions to obliterate, there are several enemies in each faction with unique behaviours and abilities, posing new challenges to your tried and tested weapon combinations. Enemy skills allow enemies to move unpredictably,…
- Pixelising Champions and horrors from the Warhammer universes - 27 August 2026
What goes into taking your favourite champions from the Warhammer universes and shrinking them down into a pixelated form? Lead Concept Artist, Dom, and Concept Artist, Ohm, share their secrets in creating the character, enemy and weapon sprites of Warhammer Survivors. Once the concepting phase is complete, which we focused on in our previous art blog, work can begin on the next steps of creating our host of playable champions, the merciless foes they will face and the weapons our champions will use to destroy them! There are three key aspects which the art team have worked tirelessly on to ensure that, whilst small in size, the game art immerses you into the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes.Simplifying detailed miniatures Ohm, Concept ArtistPixelating existing Warhammer miniatures can be challenging when you’re trying to fit so much detail into a relatively small…
- Feature Focus: Pick-ups - 19 August 2026
Welcome back to the Feature Focus series, where we delve into numerous features in Warhammer Survivors, such as Status Effects, Enemy Skills and more. Today, we’re taking a look at Pick-up Items you can find scattered around the faction-themed light sources. These powerful items can help in a pinch, clearing wide swathes of enemies or healing you just before that Clan Rat sticks you with a rusted blade.Pick-up items vary depending on which universe you’re playing in, and while some may behave similarly between universes, most of them are unique to their respective universe. Extreme Ordinances of Warhammer 40,000Melta-BombIn Warhammer Survivors, there are a number of grenade pick-ups, including the Frag Grenade – which also serves as The Legend of Catachan’s base weapon, who hurls them around without impunity. A Frag Grenade is good ‘n’ all, but explosive connoisseurs might be looking fo…
- Creating Concept Art for Warhammer Survivors - 12 August 2026
Every project we work on at Auroch Digital is driven by the passion and enthusiasm of multiple disciplines coming together to create the game. This collaboration extends from the pre-production stage all the way through to the game you get to play on release. Our team of incredible artists is one of those, creating everything you see on screen.In a new series of blogs, we'll be giving you a sneak peek behind the scenes at the journey the art team have taken in creating Warhammer Survivors. Today's journey begins with the concept art phase! The concepting processDevelopment starts in the concepting phase, where all departments brainstorm ideas to make a game as enjoyable and unique as it can be - and for art, it's no different!Lead Concept Artist, DomWe often begin with a discussion with the other teams about what we’re trying to achieve in the final version of the game. What kinds of pl…
- Feature Focus: Status Effects - 5 August 2026
What’s this? A cleverly titled article which is both alliterative and informative? Yes! Welcome to our upcoming Feature Focus series, where we delve into numerous features in Warhammer Survivors, such as Status Effects, Enemy Skills, and more. We revealed the Warhammer Survivors Status Effects system back in May, but since then the development team has been hard at work, and today you are fortunate enough to get a glimpse of it in action! Watch now ⬇️What are Status Effects in Warhammer Survivors? Across the Mortal Realms and the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, there is an entire arsenal of weapons to dispatch, disarm and destroy enemies. Whilst most weapons are designed to either strike with precision at high-value targets or cleave through swathes of enemies with area-of-effect attacks, some employ unusual methods to wear down foes with the use of enfeebling Status Effects. Expl…
- Community Update – July - 15 July 2026
Hail Survivors, It’s been just over a month since we gave you a glimpse of Warhammer Survivors with the release of our first demo. Since then, over 190,000 of you played it. More than half of you played for over an hour, and some of you even went beyond that (yes, we see you mavericks who played for over 10 hours... wow!). All of this has far surpassed our expectations!We’ve been blown away by the reception and would like to thank everyone who tried out their first Warhammer Survivors experience and shared their feedback with us. As we said before, it’s been both great fun and hugely inspiring watching everyone hack through the swarms of Tyranids and Skaven.DEMO FEEDBACK – WE’RE MAKING CHANGESWe are working hard on developing Warhammer Survivors, and, in that time, we’ve already made improvements to the core experience. Thanks to all of you, we’ve gathered a monumental motherlode of fee…
- Hang-out at the Hobby Table - 17 June 2026
Have you ever thought about what your Warhammer miniatures do once you finish up working on them for the day and step away from your hobby table? They certainly don’t come alive. That would be absurd!Hail Survivor,In our most recent trailer, shared during the 10th annual Skulls Showcase, several new characters, weapons, and stages were revealed, including the Warhammer Hobby Table stage.Today, we’re going to take a closer look at the Hobby Table stages for both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes. So, grab your Warhammer paints, sharpen those hobby tools, and prepare a cup of Recaf as the home of your hobby comes alive! 🧱💥 Why a Hobby Table?Working from sprue to a finished miniature is a journey of true satisfaction, made all the better when you display it proudly in a prized position in your cabinet or deploy it to a tabletop battlefield. At Auroch Digital, we’re h…
- Chaos detected - learn about the newly revealed foes! - 10 June 2026
Had we known the game designers were going to shut themselves in a secret room and perform dark rituals to the Chaos Gods, we probably would have stopped them... but we didn’t know, and now, Warhammer Survivors has been invaded by the forces of Chaos. Just what you need in a game full of pixelated carnage!Well, it’s too late to stop the rituals, so we might as well take a deeper look at the two new enemy factions announced in our Skulls Trailer: the disgustingly resilient Death Guard and the bloodthirsty Blades of Khorne. Who are the Death Guard of Warhammer 40,000? The Death Guard are heretical Chaos Space Marines who worship Nurgle – the Chaos God of decay, disease, and despair. Few armies are as durable and resilient as these heretics, swollen by Nurgle’s blessings of mutated, pus-filled flesh. These feculent fiends march relentlessly into battle, shrugging off salvos that would shre…
- Thank you for playing the demo! - 2 June 2026
Hail survivors, Now that the dust has settled from this year’s captivating Skulls Showcase, we wanted to take a moment to thank each of you (over 130,000 of you) for diving into the Warhammer Survivors demo. It’s been both great fun and hugely inspiring watching everyone hack through the swarms of Tyranids and Skaven in the demo. We would also like to extend our thanks to those of you who have taken the time to share your feedback since the launch of the demo. We’ve been reading through it all and taking notes. While we can’t promise to address everything that has been raised, it’s been really useful to us to see how certain elements in the game have been received, particularly the feedback on meta-progression between universes. As the Warhammer Survivors demo is a short, curated experience, we can’t wait for you to get your hands on the full game when it launches later this year to dis…
- Warhammer Survivors AMA Taking Place Tonight on r/Warhammer from 6pm BST! - 28 May 2026
Hail Survivor,It has been one week since we unleashed the Warhammer Survivors Demo and revealed a host of exciting content coming to the game at Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2026!We hope you’re enjoying your first taste of Warhammer Survivors and cannot wait to show you more. Over 100,000 of you have already jumped in to give it a go and we’d like to extend a huge thank you to the entire Warhammer Survivors community for sharing your ongoing feedback with us. Although we don’t have anything to announce right now, we’re reading it and taking note! Reddit AMA on r/Warhammer TONIGHT!As we announced last week, we are hosting a Warhammer Survivors AMA tonight from 6pm until 8pm BST on /r/Warhammer! Join our game designers, Matthew and John, who will be there to answer questions you have on the game.If you ever had a question that you wanted to ask the development team about Warhammer Survivors,…
- Play the Steam Demo now - 21 May 2026
Hail Survivor, We have been notified of an urgent distress call emerging from this year’s Skulls Showcase, the festival of Warhammer videogames. Whilst we decode the message, watch the video below ⬇️ \ What’s that? Warhammer Survivors has a demo, AND you can play RIGHT NOW? Well, what are you still doing here, reading this article? Play the Demo Still here? Nothing screams Adeptus Administratum like someone who reads to the end of the entire article. Well, loyal citizen, here’s your reward: a recap of EVERYTHING we announced at the Skulls Showcase today! Play the demo - your first taste of pixelated chaos and carnage to come! Defend the remnants of an Imperial Bastion from swarms of Tyranids as Malum Caedo, or slay Skaven across the ashen plains of The Great Parch as the legendary Stormcast Eternal warrior, Neave Blacktalon. There are secrets to be found, characters to unlock and pixela…
- More Warhammer Survivors News at Warhammer Skulls - 14 May 2026
Hail Survivors, it’s that wonderful time of year once more! The Warhammer Skulls Showcase takes place on Thursday the 21st of May 2026 from 5pm BST/ 12pm EST/ 9am PST, on Twitch. We are reliably informed that we'll have new information to share on Warhammer Survivors at the show so mark your calendars! 😉 Warhammer Survivors won’t be alone at the Showcase, Auroch Digital’s sister title, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 will also be making an appearance. We know so many of you are excited to see what is in store for Warhammer Survivors. It was less than month ago we revealed a bunch of new characters and enemies and we can’t wait to give you a glimpse of what else we’ve been working on. Tune in to the Skulls Showcase – this is the one event you won’t want to miss! Details 👇 📅 21st May 2026 ⏰ 5 PM (BST) / 12pm (EST) / 9 AM (PDT)
- Learn more about the Status Effects system - 13 May 2026
If you’ve been busy dealing with the Ork Waaagh! you may not have noticed what we’re going to show off today. So, warm up your Recaff, take a sanctioned second for yourself and read this article. It will be vital to deal with this brutish menace! What’s better than an Ork? An Ork on fire! Now that you have the fundamentals down, you’re ready to learn more about Status Effects. Aside from dealing damage, some Warhammer Survivor weapons have in-built additional abilities to leave enemies with temporary status effects, allowing you to chip away at tougher enemy units or deal with an emerging and sudden threat of Bomb Squigs. In addition to negative, debilitating status effects, there are also those that grant positive effects, such as Healing.Let's have a look at a few!BURNING 🔥Setting enemies alight will inflict fire damage over time, but as panic ensues, the BURNING also hastens the mov…
- Recently revealed: the Ork menace - 21 April 2026
As you can imagine, there are a variety of Orks at the Warboss’s disposal, including the brutish Ork Boyz and the cowardly and vicious Grots. We recently showed off some of the broader forces of the Orks (and we’re reticent to call them specialists, all of them just as eager as any Ork to mindlessly krump you into the dust).Find out more by reading the full article here. Warhammer Survivors launches on Steam later this year, alongside Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 1 and 2.
- First look at new playable champions and weapons to take on the Orks! - 9 April 2026
Hail Survivor, Did you hear that WAAAGH? The Orks charge into Warhammer Survivors! Those of you who tuned your hololithic projectors to the Triple-I Showcase today will have seen a tide of new announcements for Warhammer Survivors. Missed the trailer? Watch it below ⬇️ WAAAGH! A NEW ENEMY FACTION Shown stomping through the new Ork Stronghold stage, the Orks are a mean mob of boisterous bullies who hurl heaps of different enemy types at the player. Be prepared to scrap with Orks of all sizes: from Grots and Bomb Squigs to Ork Boyz and Lootas, spraying dakka across the battlefield. Leading the charge is the biggest and meanest Ork of all – Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. Now, the prophet of the waaagh needs little introduction, but what you should know is that it’s the first Extremis Boss we’ve revealed. Ghazghkull stomps in with the fury of Gork and Mork and brings in mobs of da boyz in a gr…
- Warhammer Survivors is at the Triple-i Initiative Showcase - 18 March 2026
Hail Survivors, exciting news! Warhammer Survivors will be featured in the Triple-i Initiative showcase on the 9th April (6 PM CEST / 9 AM PDT). Tune into 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers featuring world premieres, gameplay reveals and release dates for lots of exciting games from studios just like ours. We know you’re hungry for more Warhammer Survivors info, so mark the date in your calendars and be among the first to see what exciting news we have to share. See you there! Details 👇📅 9th April 2026 ⏰ 5 PM (BST) / 6 PM (CEST) / 9 AM (PDT) 📺
- Cleave swarms of Skaven with Gotrek’s legendary axe: Zangrom-Thaz. - 25 February 2026
A vast array of weapons await you in Warhammer Survivors; an entire cache of blades, bolts and magical weapons. But, sometimes, the tried and tested swing of an axe is all you need to cleave the multitudinous hordes of Skaven and not-yet-announced enemy factions! Today, we’re delving into the Fyrestorm Greataxe and Gotrek Gurnisson’s axe: Zangrom-Thaz. Watch the video below to see it swing into action! Tried and tested? YES. Mundane? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Fyrestorm GreataxeFyrestorm Greataxes are wielded by Fyreslayers, a mercenary lodge of Duardin who form themselves into warrior-cults, scouring the Realms for fragments of ur-gold to reclaim the power of their fallen god. In Warhammer Survivors, the Fyrestorm Greataxe swings around the player in a brutal arc, increasing in speed and strength and changing direction as the player moves. The axe only stops swinging once a certain amount of dama…
- Enemies sighted! - 26 November 2025
We’ve been informed that this Steam article has not only been infested with Tyranids, but a vile clan of Ratmen. Not any old rats, no, these rats are bigger than your subway variety. Oh, did we mention that they also walk on two legs AND brandish weapons? Read on to learn about our first enemy factions coming to Warhammer Survivors.Just who are these verminous rodents, then? Scurrying beneath the earth is a race of perfidious Ratmen: the Skaven. Deep within their rotten warrens, they scheme and conduct all manner of twisted experiments, combining machinery, magic and mutation! Like boils bursting from an infection, the Skaven have erupted from their swollen burrows to unleash hideous mutants and maniacal machines upon the Mortal Realms. It is a portent of doom; a great verminous horde skittering out from the dank darkness to bring ruination and acquire vast caches of precious Warpstone.…
- First Survivors Revealed - 19 November 2025
Yes, you heard right, Imperial Citizen, we will allow you a few minutes from your shift in the Hive Manufactorum to read the latest Warhammer Survivors news. Warhammer Survivors thrusts you into the endless war of Warhammer 40,000’s Grim Dark future and Warhammer Age of Sigmar’s Mortal Realms, but no – that doesn’t mean Malum Caedo is going to hop through a Realmgate and blast away a bunch of Skaven hordes (and if you truly think so, report to your nearest Inquisitor to have your Warp-addled minds examined). Today, we’re going to take a quick look at all of the characters we’ve shown so far. 👀You last saw some of them in our Reveal Trailer, gunning down hordes of Tyranids and Skaven. Now, they're here for an additional exposé, just be careful they don't mistake you for one of those swarming masses. Incidentally, if you haven't performed your daily (and mandatory) watching of our Reveal…
