Developer: Bulwark Studios
Publisher: Kasedo Games
Release: Out now
On: Windows
From: Steam, Humble
For: 23, $30, 30
Cyborg Popes vs. immortal pharaoh terminators, woop woop. As Games Workshop rent out their license to anyone who can spell ork correctly, their slightly fashy gothic future setting occasionally turns out a real treat of a match up. Bulwark Studios Mechanicus is one of the most polished and atmospheric titles to use the name in years, starting with a base coat borrowed from tactics genre titans before it, and gluing on an entire sprues worth of fresh ideas.
Unfortunately, the undead robot phalanxes that stalk its cavernous underground tombs put up so little fight that I rarely needed to dig below the surface, ultimately leaving its wealth of tactical options underutilised and gathering dust.