Games Workshop has revealed that it’s releasing a roleplaying game based on the popular Warhammer: The Horus Heresy setting, and it’s set to debut in 2026, with preorders opening up in summer.
The roleplaying game will begin with the massacre on Isstvan III, which saw Horus launching an Exterminatus attack on the planet, wiping out the vast majority of life. It’s one of the major inciting incidents in the Horus Heresy mythology, and the one that uncovered Horus as the traitor he would come to be known as.
You and your compatriots will play as Legionary Consuls on the side of the Imperium of Man. Rather uniquely, you’ll also create a secondary character like a Naval Commander or a Remembrancer, and you’ll switch to playing as these characters “when their particular skills are required”, according to Games Workshop.
The Horus Heresy roleplaying game is being developed by Cubicle 7, whose name you might know from its previous efforts in the world of Warhammer. The studio’s prior efforts include Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play and Wrath & Glory.
Cubicle 7 head Dominic McDowall says that in the new game, you and your friends will get the chance to forge “legends” that will “rival…