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Warhammer Survivors Reveals the Mighty Ork Menace and Xbox Launch in 2026

Matthew Pickering, Lead Designer, Warhammer Survivors

Summary

Warhammer Survivors is a fast-paced roguelite survivors’ game where you’ll choose from a roster of iconic Warhammer champions.
Learn more about members of the Ork menace, like Killa Kans, Lootas, Big Meks, and more.
Warhammer Survivors is launching on Xbox Series X|S in 2026.

Hello, Survivors! We’re excited to reveal that Warhammer Survivors will launch on Xbox Series X|S later this year!

If you haven’t heard of Warhammer Survivors, it’s a fast-paced roguelite survivors’ game, where you’ll choose from a roster of iconic Warhammer champions and lead them against endless tides of enemies from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes.

To celebrate the announcement, we’re sharing new gameplay details about one of the enemy factions coming to the game: the mean and mighty menace, Orks!

Formed in marauding mobs of Waaagh!, Orks stomp through the battlefields of the 41st Millennium in pursuit of a good fight. They don’t attack to control territory; they relish only the pure act of a good scrap and raucous warmaking.

There is a whole manner of Orks at the Warboss’s disposal, including the brutish Ork Boyz and the cowardly but vicious Grots. Today, we’re going to focus on the broader forces of the Orks (and we’re reticent to call them specialists; all of them are just as eager as any Ork to mindlessly krump you into the dust)

Killa Kans

Orks are brutal Xenos who love the thrill of battle, so shaking off pain to fight one last time comes naturally to them. But the odds for a feeble limbed grot aren’t very promising. The Killa Kan answers that problem: a hulking smoke-spewing canister, loosely controlled by grots and armed to the teeth with blood-encrusted Killsaws! Beware of the Killa Kan as it stomps toward you in Warhammer Survivors; this ramshackle monstrosity explodes when destroyed!

Lootas

Lootas are dakka-obsessed boys, responsible for creating da best dakka (firepower) from whatever scrap they can lay their big green hands on. In Warhammer Survivors, Lootas are stationary enemies who unleash rounds of projectiles towards the player, so not only will you have to endure against the green tide of the Orks, but a hailstorm of dakka as well.

Big Mek (with Shokk Attack Gun)

Ork Big Meks are the most dakka-obsessed tinkerers within the Ork Mobs. Ork inventors that show the sheer ingenuity (and often clamatous) endeavours of Ork weapons development. Big Meks are responsible for developing some of the most devastating dakka , unleashing utter destruction and carnage upon their foes.

Bolder, brighter and bigger than their Mek counterparts, Big Meks have found a resourceful method to make use of snotlings (a smaller cousin of your average grot): ammunition. In Warhammer Survivors, Big Meks pursue the player, creating tunnels through the warp, delivering terrified, insane snots through the warp unprotected, causing them to arrive near, on top of, and even inside enemies, tanks and buildings, tearing them apart in a gibbering mass.

Weirdboy

Weirdboyz are the most physically attuned of the Ork race, drawing upon the power of the Waagh! The Weirdboyz power manifests in often fatally spectacular shows of force. In Warhammer Survivors, the Weirdboy throws out numerous hazards to avoid all while being beset by the throngs of frenzied Orks.

His powers include:

The Weirdboy can jump himself and enemies around him to a new location as well as shoot out bolts of Warp energy.
In his wildest display of power, the Weirdboy manifests a giant, warty green foot of Gork to crush both player and (unfortunate) enemies caught beneath its shadow.
…and when all that gets too much for his tiny brain, the Weirdboy charges you down and releases all that pent-up psychic energy in one final devastating blast of destructive power. It doesn’t end well for the Weirdboy, let me assure you – but watch out for the blast!

Pretty weird, right?

Makari

Meet the most famous grot in the galaxy. Makari, banner-grot to the strongest Warboss of all: Ghazghkull Thraka. Makari follows after Ghazghkull, waving his banner, aptly named ‘Da Lucky Stikk’. For a grot, and particularly in Warhammer Survivors, he has a knack for staying alive. Good luck finding this sneaky git, and if you can, he might just hold a piece of the puzzle in stopping the Ork Waaagh!

Who’s Ghazghkull Thraka, you say? Well, you’ll have to watch our brand-new Warhammer Survivors trailer to find out. We still have lots of exciting reveals hidden up our sleeves, so follow Auroch Digital on X, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube for all the latest news and updates. Warhammer Survivors launches later this year on Xbox Series X|S.