Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader’s First DLC Expansion Announced, Steam Deck Support Added

Owlcat Games has revealed the first DLC expansion for its well-received role-playing game Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader at the Warhammer Skulls showcase.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader launched in December 2023 on PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store, together with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S and X, and was met with positive reviews from players and critics. IGN’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader review returned an 8/10. We said: “Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is an ultra crunchy, 130-hour space epic with excellent writing and combat, but unfortunately, also a lot of bugs.”

Now, half a year later, Owlcat has announced Void Shadows, Rogue Trader’s first DLC. According to the developer, the expansion adds 15 hours of new content, and launches across all platforms on August 8, 2024.

Void Shadows adds a new romanceable companion, fully integrated into the game’s main story. Here’s the official blurb:

The DLC allows the players to personally delve into the depths of their voidship in an enthralling story that will pit them against an entirely new enemy who is trying to bring ruin to the von Valancius dynasty from the inside.

There are two new archetypes with unique abilities, and new lore content added to the main campaign. The new companion is Kibellah, a Death Cult Assassin “ready to pledge her life in service of the von Valancius dynasty just as her predecessors did for generations before her.” This new companion will have romance options as part of the new story, Owlcat confirmed.

Meanwhile, there are new crew members to interact with. These high-level officers play a “significant” role in the new story. The new threat is the Genestealer Cult, the Tyranid-obsessed faction Warhammer 40,000 fans will know well. Here’s Owlcat’s line on the Genestealer Cult:

Arising from within the deepest and darkest bowels of the player’s very own voidship is the malignant Genestealer Cult – a horrific breed of xenos who work from the shadows and infect your crew with their genetic code to convert them and slowly twist their loyalties for their wretched goals.

New quests of course mean new nooks and crannies hidden around the voidship “where no Lord Captain has explored before, until now.” You can upgrade your voidship with a new hangar, able to launch groups of fighters and bombers “to succeed in desperate, massive space battles or even bigger threats.”

Ahead of the DLC launch, Owlcat confirmed Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader now has full Steam Deck support. Multiplayer co-op is live now on the Windows PC version and is coming in a future patch for Mac and console versions.

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