Dark Heresy, Owlcat Games’ next Warhammer 40,000 role-playing game, now has a day: 28 January 2027. It comes out together on Steam, GOG, Epic’s store, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, while the Switch 2 version is left without a date for now.
It is a squad-based tactical RPG and the studio’s follow-up to Rogue Trader. You begin as a lowly Inquisition acolyte, working a region called the Calixis sector with a crew of misfits to hunt down crimes and heresy. Recruits can include psykers, pariahs and even aliens, and each choice has consequences, up to sacrificing innocents for your own gain.
Owlcat announced the game in May 2025, opened an alpha in December 2025 and moved it to a beta in May 2026. The beta, which holds a complete first act, runs on Steam only, and the way in is a pre-order or one of the paid special editions sold on the game’s website. It goes offline on 7 January 2027 as the studio prepares for launch.
The studio announced the game during the Warhammer Skulls livestream and has been building it in public, with testing open to buyers of its special editions. Owlcat has a busy winter. The last Rogue Trader DLC, Processional of the Damned, is due on 8 December, and its first action game from a third-person view, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, is aimed at spring 2027. Owlcat’s date announcement came with no price. Console players have to wait for launch day, since the beta is not on PlayStation or Xbox.
