Canceled Warhammer RPG Was A Multiplayer Age of Sigmar Game – Report

We have learned more gameplay details about an unannounced Warhammer RPG that Games Workshop and Nexon reportedly canceled prior to its reveal.

On January 18, a report from MP1st revealed that an unannounced Warhammer RPG had been canceled. MP1st reported that this Warhammer game was in the works at a new studio called Thought Pennies and spotted several LinkedIn resumes from developers suggesting that it was a third-person action-RPG with live-service multiplayer elements. A new report from Eurogamer today, January 27, revealed even more about this canceled title.

Namely, Eurogamer discovered that Thought Pennies was making a game based on the Warhammer Age of Sigmar tabletop RPG, the fantasy alternative to Warhammer 40,000, and that Nexon was involved in the project. In fact, Nexon and Games Workshop had teased this game in 2021, describing a “new Virtual World will feature a socially interactive player-versus-environment world supported by Nexon’s world-class Live Operations for sustaining the fun with new content and service” in a press release announcing their collaboration.

This canceled Age of Sigmar game would’ve seen players control “war hosts of the God-king Sigmar and his allies as they fight to bring order back to the realms” and was intended to be released across PC, consoles, and mobile. It ultimately wasn’t meant to be, according to a statement Thought Pennies provided Eurogamer. “While the partnership worked well and we got a lot of good input from Nexon, Nexon made a strategic change. Late last year we agreed to end the project and Nexon is helping as a board member,” Thought Pennies explained.

While this Age of Sigmar game will never see the light of day, others based on the tabletop RPG exist. Realms of Ruin is a real-time strategy game from Planet Coaster studio Frontier Developments, while Storm Ground is a turn-based strategy roguelike from Focus Entertainment.