Warhammer 40,000: Darktide — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is tracked daily for official Steam updates. 5,457 playing when sampled at 23:41 UTC on 2026-10-15. Latest official patch in our feed: Hotfix 1.13.2 patch notes (Oct 6, 2026).
Latest official update
Feature Highlight: Prophet of Decay Enemy Design
The new free update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Depths of the Damned, comes loaded with new content for the game! Including a new mission, live story, weapons and boss fight. In today’s Feature Highlight, we’ve interviewed our Enemy Designer Jonathan about the work that went…
See update details ↓Data from Steam · Last updated Oct 15, 2026 · Refreshed daily
- Tracking
- Daily official updates
- Players when sampled
- 5,457
- Sample date (UTC)
- 2026-10-15
This game stays in our update tracker even outside the most-played chart. Player counts are a timestamped Steam sample.
Latest updates & patch notes
12 English-language official updates in the last 90 days.
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News Steam · Official
Feature Highlight: Prophet of Decay Enemy Design
The new free update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Depths of the Damned, comes loaded with new content for the game! Including a new mission, live story, weapons and boss fight. In today’s Feature Highlight, we’ve interviewed our Enemy Designer Jonathan about the work that went…
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Patch Steam · Official
Hotfix 1.13.2 patch notes
Warband! Hotfix 1.13.2 is now being rolled out on all platforms, and while you wait for it to download you can read the notes below! This hotfix contains various fixes to several bugs and crashes. Hotfix 1.13.2 patch notesFeatures & Tweaks(Havoc) During the Prophet of Decay…
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Patch Steam · Official
Hotfix 1.13.1 patch notes
Warband! Patch 1.13.1 is now being rolled out on all platforms, and while you wait for it to download you can read the notes below! This hotfix includes a few tweaks to the Prophet of Decay boss fight, as well as a couple of bugfixes. Hotfix 1.13.1 patch notesFeatures &…
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Event Steam · Official
Special Live Event: Allies and Adversaries & Depths of the Damned out now!
Free Update out now! The Depths of the Damned Free Update is now live! Try out the new weapons, play the new Terror of the Deep story mini-campaign, and delve into the depths of the new Spillway mission to battle the brand new boss fight: The Prophet of Decay! Check out the full…
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Patch Steam · Official
Patch 1.13.0 patch notes
Warband! Patch 1.13.0 is now being rolled out on all platforms! The ‘Depths of the Damned’ Free Update is releasing later today, at 14:00 CEST. In the meantime, you can check out the patch notes below to read all about the changes, as well as the content coming with the Free…
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News Steam · Official
Feature Highlight - Spillway Level & Visual Design
The new free update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Depths of the Damned, comes loaded with new content for the game! Including a new mission, live story, weapons and a boss fight. In today’s Feature Highlight we will look specifically at the new mission, what it is all about…
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News Steam · Official
PREVIEW - Upcoming Balance Changes
Warband! As part of the upcoming Depths of the Damned Free Update we have a balance update. Our focus has been on improving the base classes talent trees, overall class balance, weapon balance, and addressing Golden Toughness and its impact on both player builds and our overall…
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News Steam · Official
Feature Highlight - Upcoming Weapons
As part of the upcoming Free Update, we have a new set of weapons coming to Darktide! These include both new marks for existing patterns, as well as some brand new patterns entirely! We’ve interviewed some of our Game Designers to talk about them in this Feature Highlight.“I’m…
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News Steam · Official
Free Update - Depths of the Damned - Coming September 29!
Warband! On September 29, Get ready to return to Tertium and venture deeper into the Hive than ever before! The Depths of the Damned update introduces a new mini story campaign to Darktide, which reaches its climax in the brand new level, Spillway! This new mission sends players…
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Event Steam · Official
Special Live Event: Shambling Horrors Live Now!
Whatever Admonition's been up to seems to be infecting the population. Horde sightings are on the rise, with some districts entirely lost to the shambling horrors. This isn't a case of a single hab-block falling. This is something much darker and could be the herald of worse to…
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Patch Steam · Official
Hotfix 1.12.5 - Patch Notes
Warband! Today’s hotfix includes a handful of fixes. The patch is now rolling out on all platforms, and you can read the notes below! Hotfix 1.12.5 patch notesFixesGeneral FixesFixed a crash occurring when Zealot players disconnect mid use of Fury of the Faithful. Fixed…
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Patch Steam · Official
Patch 1.12.4 - Patch Notes
Warband! Today’s patch comes with several tweaks and fixes. After feedback from you all we have done some balance changes to the Vanguard enemies, decreasing their health, modified their block radius and added a new way for you to stagger them. We also took a look at the Blitzes…
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In the news (3)
Third-party reporting, separate from official developer announcements.
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SteamDB
Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 23 Jun — 30 June 2026
* MECCHA CHAMELEON ; * Cyberpunk 2077 ; * Dead by Daylight ; * The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth ; * Warhammer 40,000: Darktide ; * Steam Deck ; * Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II ; * EA SPORTS FC™ 26 ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * Red Dead Redemption 2 ; * excluding free to play games…
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide gets a free update adding new enemies and an expeditions mode revamp as the Skitarii parachute in via DLC
Following in the footsteps of some Hive Scum , Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has been descended upon by another new DLC class - the Skitarii. Alongside the arrival of the the Machine God's elite the game's gotten a fresh patch with some free additions. Read more
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PCGamesN
Warhammer 40k Darktide's new class is the Adeptus Mechanicus' Skitarii. Praise the Omnissiah
It's official: Warhammer 40k Darktide's new class is, in fact, the Adeptus Mechanicus' Skitarii. My good friend Ben called it back in October 2025 based on a single teaser trailer alone, and wherever he is right now, I can feel him grinning. The Machine God's favorite toasters…
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Game overview
Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, RPG
- Developer
- Fatshark
- Released
- Nov 30, 2022
- Price
- $9.99
- Recommendations
- 109K
View Warhammer 40,000: Darktide on Steam →
Steam sources & verification dates
- Steam store data · verified
- Official Steam announcement feed · verified
- Steam player count · verified
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About Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. In the depths of the hive, the seeds of corruption threaten to turn into an overwhelming tide of darkness. A mysterious and sinister new force is seeking to take control of the entire city. It is up to you and your allies in the Inquisition to root out the enemy before the city succumbs to Chaos. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise. Built on the legacy of Vermintide 2’s best-in-class melee combat, Warhammer 40,000…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64 bit) / Windows 11 (64 bit) Processor: Intel i5-6600 (3.30GHz) OR AMD Ryzen 2400G (3.6 GHz) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 OR AMD Radeon RX 570 DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 72 GB available space
- Languages
- English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese * languages with full audio support
- DLC
- 10 available on Steam
- Official site
- www.playdarktide.com
Frequently asked questions
- Is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide free to play?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is listed at $9.99 on Steam.
- What is the latest Warhammer 40,000: Darktide update?
- The most recent official update in our feed is "Feature Highlight: Prophet of Decay Enemy Design" (Oct 12, 2026), categorized as News. The new free update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Depths of the Damned, comes loaded with new content for the game! Including a new mission, live story, weapons and boss fight. In today’s Feature Highlight, we’ve interviewed our Enemy Designer Jonathan about the work that went…
- When was Warhammer 40,000: Darktide released?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide was released on Nov 30, 2022 by Fatshark.
- What kind of game is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide?
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is a Action, Adventure, RPG game, featuring multi-player, co-op, online co-op.
24-hour peak player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Oct 15, 2026). Official announcements and third-party reporting are labelled separately; follow the source links for full notes. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.