Games Workshop

Games Workshop at a Glance

Games Workshop is a United Kingdom company founded in 1975 that sits in Nottingham. While the firm built its reputation on miniature wargames and tabletop titles like Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, its digital footprint on PlayPile shows a publisher with limited activity. The site lists only eleven games under their name as a publisher, and they have zero entries as a developer. This small catalog spans from 1984 through 2020. The bulk of their digital releases occurred in the 1980s when they put out six titles. That output dropped sharply in later decades. They released just one game in the 2000s, two in the 2010s, and one in the 2020s. Their catalog shows a strong reliance on older hardware, with seven games built for the ZX Spectrum. The platform list also includes three PC titles, several entries for Xbox One and Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles, and single releases for Android, iOS, and Commodore systems. Genre diversity exists across their library, though Role-playing games make up the largest slice with six titles. Adventure games follow with five entries. They also have two Hack and slash or Beat 'em up games, two Strategy titles, two Turn-based strategy games, and single releases for Real Time Strategy, Simulator, Tactical, and Racing genres. Quality metrics for their digital output are modest. Only one title carries a rating on the platform, which is Warhammer: Chaosbane from 2019. This game holds an IGDB score of 68.3 out of 100. That single rating places their performance in the "good" range according to standard brackets, though it falls short of the "great" category. No titles have received poor or mixed ratings on the site, but the lack of data makes it hard to judge consistency. Recent releases include Warhammer: Chaosbane - Slayer Edition in November 2020 and Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest in May 2019. Older entries like Journey's End from December 1985 and Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Gold Edition from November 2006 remain part of their history. The company clearly prioritized physical goods over video games, resulting in a sparse digital catalog that does not match the size of their tabletop empire.

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