Mordheim: City Of The Damned (v1.4.4.4 & ALL DLC’s)

A comet-blasted imperial city becomes a brutal hunting ground where every alley, rooftop, and ruined chapel can turn a routine raid into a catastrophe. Mordheim: City of the Damned adapts Games Workshop’s grim Warhammer skirmish setting into a turn-based tactical RPG built around desperate warbands and permanent consequences. You command Empire Mercenaries, Skaven, Sisters of Sigmar, or the twisted Cult of the Possessed as they search the wreckage for precious Wyrdstone. Its tone is relentlessly bleak: fighters lose limbs, suffer lasting trauma, and vanish from your roster for good when a battle goes wrong.

Matches revolve around maneuvering a small squad through dense, vertical maps, securing Wyrdstone, looting valuable gear, completing scenario objectives, and denying the enemy the same rewards. Units use movement and action points to climb, hide, charge, shoot, cast abilities, or set up punishing ambushes, while the city’s cramped sightlines make positioning as important as raw damage. Each warrior belongs to a class with its own weapons, skills, and development options, and successful missions fund new recruits, equipment, medical treatment, and expanded warband choices. The campaign layer gives every expedition weight, since injuries, deaths, depleted resources, and risky decisions can weaken a force long after the battlefield is cleared; solo missions and online head-to-head battles both support the core loop.

What separates Mordheim from more forgiving tactics games is its willingness to make failure expensive. A lucky critical hit or a bad charge can permanently dismantle a veteran squad, creating the same tense risk-management feel that makes XCOM’s Ironman mode compelling, but with a dirtier low-fantasy Warhammer flavor. Maps reward careful use of elevation, cover, choke points, and alternate routes, while warband customization encourages specialized builds rather than a one-size-fits-all army. It suits tactical RPG veterans who enjoy slow, methodical planning and can accept harsh attrition; newcomers can learn its systems, but should expect a demanding campaign where retreat is often smarter than chasing glory.