Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
In Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 you are the Space Marine Titus, and Tyranid swarms keep rolling in. You can parry an enemy's blow and answer with a point-blank shot, and you can restore your armor by executing enemies.
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The enemy was chosen to fit the engine. Saber Interactive had been steering crowds since World War Z, where hordes of zombies ran at the players. According to its chief creative officer Tim Willits, the same Swarm Engine was a great fit for a Tyranid swarm, so the choice made itself. Even before launch, the game promised to pit you against thousands of Tyranids.
The campaign works for three players, and without friends the AI runs your squadmates. More than two million people played on launch day, and by October 16, 2024 the game had sold 4.5 million copies.
One reviewer liked the fighting more than the missions, which he described as open rooms and hallways filling with waves of enemies, and found the separate co-op mode more of the same. Critics give it 82 on Metacritic, and players leave 84% positive out of 174,096 reviews. In our Recommended Score it ranks 480 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, the first game by Relic where Titus made his debut, and HELLDIVERS 2, a co-op shooter where a squad of players defends humanity in the name of "managed democracy".
Major updates
Play Space Marine 2's Anniversary Update 2 now! · Oct 2026All 5
System requirements
Minimum RX 580 · 8 GB RAM · 75 GBiSteam Deck PlayableMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10 (1903 min)/11 64-bit | Windows 10 (1903 min)/11 64-bit |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X / Intel Core i7-12700 |
| Memory | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Graphics | 6 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 580 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 | 8 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT / Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Storage | 75 GB | 75 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
