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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 launches on Dec 3, 2026Date announced, hour not: KING Art and Deep Silver have given no launch hour as of Oct 31, 2026, so this counts to the start of the day in UTC. Commander Edition from Nov 30, 2026.

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The Series

10 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 pages in The Series.

Chaos RisingChaos Rising is the 2010 expansion to Dawn of War 2, set a year later in Sub-Sector Aurelia, where the Blood Ravens fight the Black Legion and traitors in their own Chapter while their squads slowly fall to Chaos. It also introduced Jonah Orion, a Commander in Dawn of War 4.
Dark CrusadeDark Crusade is the 2006 Dawn of War expansion set on Kronus, which added the Tau and Necrons for seven armies and a turn-based conquest map. It is the highest-scored game in the series, and Dawn of War 4 returns to Kronus about 200 years later, treating a Space Marine victory as canon.
Dawn of War 2Dawn of War 2 is Relic's 2009 sequel, which dropped base building for a small squad of leveling Space Marines, cover, loot and a co-op campaign, and added the Last Stand mode that returns in Dawn of War 4. It is sold today as the Anniversary Edition.
Dawn of War 2004The original Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War came out on Sep 20, 2004, made by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ, with four armies and a Space Marine campaign on the planet Tartarus. Today it is sold as the Definitive Edition or the Anniversary Edition.
Dawn of War 3Dawn of War 3 came out on Apr 27, 2017. Critics gave it a respectable 77, but its mix of real-time strategy and MOBA ideas lost players, Relic stopped major content within a year, and Dawn of War 4 returned to the first game as its model.
Dawn of War Games in OrderThe Dawn of War series runs Dawn of War (2004), Winter Assault, Dark Crusade, Soulstorm, Dawn of War 2 (2009), Chaos Rising, Retribution, Dawn of War 3 (2017) and Dawn of War 4 (Dec 3, 2026), plus the 2025 Definitive Edition of the first game. None of them is required before Dawn of War 4, which KING Art calls a new story.
Definitive EditionWarhammer 40,000 Dawn of War: Definitive Edition is Relic's remaster of the first game and its three expansions, released Aug 14, 2025 on Steam and GOG at $29.99. It adds 4K, 64-bit and a mod manager but does not rebalance the game; the cheaper Anniversary Edition is the unremastered bundle.
RetributionRetribution is the standalone 2011 expansion to Dawn of War 2, with campaigns for six races and the return of an army and resources in single-player. It was the last Dawn of War game before THQ collapsed and Sega bought Relic, six years ahead of Dawn of War 3.
SoulstormSoulstorm is the third and last expansion to the original Dawn of War, released in March 2008 and made by Iron Lore Entertainment, not Relic. It adds Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar for nine armies, sets the campaign across the Kaurava system, and has the series' lowest Metascore, 73.
Winter AssaultWinter Assault is the first expansion to the original Dawn of War, released Sep 21, 2005 by Relic and THQ. It adds the Imperial Guard and two campaigns, Order and Disorder, fought over a Titan on Lorn V, and is sold today inside the Definitive and Anniversary Editions.