Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Vermintide. It's time for players to return to the memorable first-person co-op experience with intense world class melee action.
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is an adventure developed by Fatshark, released 8 March 2018 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $4.49 at Steam. The main story takes about 29.5 hrs to finish.
What Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is an adventure game developed by Fatshark and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Autodesk Stingray.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is a 2018 first-person action video game developed and published by Fatshark. It is the sequel to 2015's Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide. Vermintide 2 was released for Windows on 8 March 2018, for Xbox One on 11 July 2018, for the PlayStation 4 on 18 December 2018, and for the Xbox Series X/S on 3 December 2020. A spiritual successor, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, was released in 2022.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Warhammer series
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is the 62nd of 95 entries we hold in the Warhammer series. The next entry was Warhammer: Doomwheel in 2018. Its critic score of 81 is 16 points above the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at 90.
How it was received
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 166 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 29.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 2.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.49, that works out to about $0.15 per hour of the main story, or $0.06 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.80 GHz / AMD FX-4350 @ 4.2 GHz, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5870. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 60GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.49 at Steam, 85% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $6.00 — a spread of $1.51 for an identical product.
What it launched against
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 launched on 8 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Into the Breach.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Warhammer: Vermintide 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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All 9Dlc
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Shadows over Bögenhafen
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Back to Ubersreik
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Winds of Magic
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Grail Knight Career
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Outcast Engineer Career
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Chaos Wastes
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Forgotten Relics Pack
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Sister of the Thorn
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Warrior Priest Career
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - A Treacherous Adventure
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Karak Azgaraz
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Necromancer
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Versus
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - The Well of Dreams
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Return to the Reik
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