Blast-from-the-past FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun gets a release date

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, the aggressively retro and also just plain aggressive-looking first-person shooter from Auroch Digital, now has a release date. It’s been revealed via a trailer showing off a variety of the 41st millennium’s monsters in the pixelated-sprite style of the late 20th century, which we’ll be pretend-murdering right here in the 21st century. Specifically, from May 23, 2023.

Those enemies include heretic cultists and a pick-and-mix bag of daemons who serve the 40K setting’s Chaos Gods. The little mucus-colored guys are Nurglings who work for Nurgle, god of pestilence, as do their bigger cousin the Great Unclean One seen being purged 20 seconds in and the horned amphibian with the tongue attack, which is a plague toad. The blue bird who looks like a skeksis from Dark Crystal that got a gym membership is a Lord of Change, a greater daemon of Tzeentch, god of magic and mutation. There’s also some kind of armored daemon I can’t even identify—it definitely seems like there’ll be a diverse set of heretics to blast.