A pot of paint is now a weapon. Warhammer Survivors, the bullet-heaven spinoff from British studio Auroch Digital, went on sale on Steam on November 10, 2026, and one of its 75-plus weapons is a pot of Nuln Oil, the dark wash that tabletop hobbyists brush onto their miniatures.
The game costs $7.99, with a 10% launch discount that brings it to $7.19 until November 17. By the time we checked the store page on November 11, 829 players had left reviews, and 73% of them were positive, which Steam labels “Mostly Positive.”
Who made it and what you play
Auroch Digital, the team behind the retro shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, both developed and published the game. It was built in partnership with Games Workshop and with poncle, the small studio whose Vampire Survivors turned this whole genre into a phenomenon. Games Workshop first revealed the project on its Warhammer Community site on November 4, 2025, promising a Steam release some time in 2026.
The idea is simple. You pick one hero, you walk, and your weapons fire on their own while endless waves of enemies close in. Gold collected in each run buys permanent upgrades for the next one, and paint pots hidden on the battlefield reveal alternate character forms and secrets.
The roster passes 40 playable champions, drawn from both of the company’s big settings, the far-future Warhammer 40,000 and the fantasy Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Named heroes include:
- Commissar Sebastian Yarrick and Boltgun’s own Space Marine, Malum Caedo
- Cadian Shock Trooper Kozlowski and Intercessor Brother Luca
- Stormcast Eternals Neave Blacktalon and Sharynn Azurwrath
- The slayer Gotrek Gurnisson
Enemies come by faction, stage by stage, from Tyranid swarms on board an abandoned Space Hulk to rat-like Skaven on the ash plains of Aqshy. The screen-filling bosses include the Ork warlord Ghazghkull Thraka, the Skaven prophet Vizzik Skour and a Great Unclean One, the bloated daemon of Nurgle.
How the price stacks up
Steam sells a bundle of Vampire Survivors and Warhammer Survivors at a regular combined price of $12.98. Take away the $7.99 for the new game and the original that inspired it works out at $4.99, so the licensed spinoff asks about three dollars more than the game it borrows its rules from. Fans of Auroch’s shooters can also buy it alongside Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2, a pairing listed at $32.98 before its bundle discount.
The bar for entry is low. The minimum PC spec is a dual-core 2.4 GHz processor, 4 GB of memory, a GTX 750-class graphics card and 5 GB of storage, which puts it within reach of most laptops from the last decade. The game ships with full audio and interface support in 13 languages, from English and Japanese to Polish and Ukrainian, and a free demo is still on the store page for anyone who wants to try a run first.
Small Steam releases with free demos have been a steady part of our gaming coverage. We recently looked at Draftula, a vampire castle-stacking puzzler with a free Steam demo, and at Find The Needle, the haystack game that topped Steam’s demo chart. More releases sit on our Gaming section page.
The introductory price on Warhammer Survivors runs out on November 17, after which it returns to $7.99.
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