Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II confirms 2026 release with a new trailer and promises of improvements on the demo

Rude cyborg vs. immortal robot strategy sequel Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II is releasing successful Spring 2026, publishers Kasedo Games person announced. For anyone keeping way of the 40K XCOM-alike, that'll dependable similar a delay, considering it had antecedently mumbled thing astir launching successful 2025. But then, we’d reached the dying days of December and it inactive didn’t person a circumstantial date. Can 1 hold thing that wasn’t dated to statesman with?

Yes, actually, since Kasedo’s property merchandise specifically mentions utilizing the clip to "further refine the acquisition successful effect to subordinate requests pursuing the Steam Next Fest demo" from this past October. There’s besides a caller trailer, implicit with "SPRING 2026" rendered successful assured steel, that alternatively finely details 2 of the playable faction leaders: posthuman battle-nan Scaevola of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and Omninekh the Necron Lord.

My god, that’s a batch of tech trees and accomplishment unlocks. And the other fewer months is seemingly going to beryllium dedicated to stuffing successful adjacent much features, including re-adding the Admech’s beep-boop binary chatter arsenic a connection option; this was replaced by disgusting human-speak successful the demo, contempt 'lingua-technis' having been their autochthonal lingua successful the archetypal Mechanicus.

"Movement systems are besides being enhanced, with an optional mounting to let the Move enactment to auto-select erstwhile cycling betwixt units, creating a smoother and much businesslike tactical flow," the connection continues. Developers Bulwalk Studios volition besides enactment connected "addressing show concerns raised during the demo period" – I didn’t play it myself truthful can’t attest to immoderate framerate wobbles, though a canter done the Achivum Redditorium does crook up aggregate complaints of having to manually prime the Move command. Have I got bully quality for those people, astir 90 words ago.

I sat and watched a Bulwalk dev play Mechanicus II backmost astatine Gamescom 2024, and cumbersome moving aside, it looked alright, particularly the asymmetry of the 2 factions. The titular instrumentality cult are inactive astir gathering Cognition, a assets they tin past walk connected peculiar attacks oregon extending determination distance, but the system’s been revamped truthful antithetic units tin nutrient Cognition successful chiseled ways, up to and including the humble Servitor allowing himself to beryllium shot. The Necrons’s equivalent, Dominion, is accrued done much straightforward means (like, ironically, shooting Servitors), but stacks up onslaught bonuses implicit time, perchance turning them into a large aged snowball of scowling roboskulls. I couldn’t wage excessively overmuch attention, though, arsenic I kept reasoning astir this wanton maltreatment of the archetypal game’s OST:

Omnissiah assistance us.