Game: Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster
Developer: Old Skull Games
Publisher: Dotemu
Release: 2027
Platforms: PC · PS5 · Xbox · Switch 2
Genre: 2D stealth-action platformer
Content note: the developers say you play as an assassin who takes out his enemies in a variety of bloody ways. Expect gore.
🐀 Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster has a new story trailer. Released for Warhammer Day, it reveals the central storyline of Dotemu and Old Skull Games’ Skaven assassin platformer, which launches in 2027 on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.
🗡️ Escape. Kill. Ascend.Vihneek is a powerless Skaven prisoner obsessed with becoming the ultimate Deathmaster assassin. In the new trailer, he’s freed from his shackles by Skiteek, a fellow Eshin assassin from Clan Skrell, but his savior turns out to be his new captor.
Clan Skrell wields Vihneek as a weapon, forcing him to complete deadly contracts at all costs and with no mercy. Every target he kills propels him higher in the clan’s ranks, but rival clans lurk in the paranoid, friendless underworld of the Skaven and the fractured depths of the Gnaw. Can Vihneek survive long enough to become the most infamous Deathmaster of all?
May it please the Great Horned Rat.
What better way to defy class ranks than to kill your way to the top? Since Deathmaster’s announcement, Dotemu has pitched it as the game that finally shines a light on Warhammer’s Skaven ratmen, and the new story trailer shows exactly what kind of poison-bladed ratman you’ll be playing, and he’s devious, devoted and very hard to see coming. Developer Old Skull Games says the game is inspired by the greatest 2D action platformers and stealth-heavy indie classics.
Play a sneaky & brutal Skaven Assassin in this new, refreshing but gritty take on the 2D Action platformer genre.
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The Way of the Eshin Assassin
👃 Senses
Hunt with heightened smell and hearing, using the Skaven’s devious nature.
🪤 Traps & Terrain
Spring traps, exploit your surroundings and outwit your enemies.
💚 Warpstone
Gather warpstone to unlock deadly abilities and secret tools.
📜 Contracts
Complete kills for Clan Skrell’s elites to climb the hierarchy.
🕳️ Sneak Past or Slaughter Through
Slink past threats undetected while devising cunning plans, or savagely slaughter any Skaven foolish enough to stand in your way, from cowering dregs to towering rat ogors. Each clan territory has its own rules, threats and behaviour patterns, and you’ll develop new abilities specific to the clans you infiltrate. In a deeply conniving faction, though, every rise comes with consequences.
📰 Early Previews Are Promising
Press previews quoted on the Steam page are positive. IGN said that “even having run through the demo three times, my appetite for furry mayhem hasn’t been sated,” while The Mirror called it “an extremely engrossing stealth-platformer.”
Deathmaster at a Glance
Genre
2D stealth-action platformer
Setting
Warhammer Age of Sigmar · the Skaven underworld and the Gnaw
Protagonist
Vihneek, a Clans Eshin assassin
Developer
Old Skull Games (founded 2012, 60 developers)
Publisher
Dotemu (Streets of Rage 4, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, Absolum)
Release
2027
Platforms
PC (Steam) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox · Nintendo Switch 2
Controller
Full controller support
Languages
8, including English (full audio)
📅 2027 · PC, PS5, Xbox & Switch 2
Wishlist Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster on Steam, and follow @Dotemu and @OldSkullGames for updates.
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