Owlcat dates Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy for 28 January 2027 on PC, PS5 and Xbox

Owlcat Games has set the launch date for Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, its next isometric role-playing game in Games Workshop's grim far future. It comes out on 28 January 2027 on PC, through Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store, and on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. A Nintendo Switch 2 version is planned, but Owlcat says its date will be shared separately, so there is nothing firm for Switch 2 owners yet.

You play a member of the Inquisition. The story starts with you as a junior acolyte in the Calixis Sector, putting together a war band to hunt down cults, conspiracies and heresy, and the outcome shifts with how far you are willing to go to get answers. Owlcat has named several companions so far: the psyker Saro, the Aeldari Corsair Laarthyr, the Kroot Ra'akhti, a Catachan fighter called Haymar and a Rogue Trader called Chorda, each with their own motives. The studio says the turn-based combat has been reworked, and companions also weigh in during investigations.

Players who bought a Founder's Pack can already play a beta. That beta closes on 7 January 2027 while the team gets ready for launch, and the packs stay on sale on Owlcat's site until early January.

Dark Heresy follows Owlcat's earlier RPGs Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. We don't have a GamesChart page for it yet, so the figures below come from its Steam listing, which shows the January date but no UK price so far. There is no PEGI rating yet either; the ratings Steam does show are 18, and the store page carries a long content warning that covers gore, torture and abuse.