Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III

The 2017 strategy game where three armies fight over the Spear of Khaine.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III is a 2017 real-time strategy game with MOBA influences, developed by Relic Entertainment and published by Sega. It came out for Windows on April 27, 2017, with macOS and Linux versions from Feral Interactive on June 8.

Quick Facts

Developer: Relic Entertainment
Publisher: Sega
Director: Philippe Boulle
Producer: Lee McKinnon Pederson
Writer: Kyle Berndt; Adam Bullied
Composer: Paul Leonard-Morgan
Series: Warhammer 40,000
Engine: Essence Engine 4.0

Lore & Background

The playable factions are the Space Marines, the Eldar and the Orks, with the Imperial Guard and the Daemons of Khorne appearing as non-playable forces and the Necrons making a brief cameo in the epilogue. The story begins when a catastrophic weapon, the Spear of Khaine, is found on the lost planet Acheron and three armies converge on it, among them the Blood Ravens under Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos. A successor, Dawn of War IV by King Art Games, is due in 2026.