Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Confirmed for Nintendo Switch 2 | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

Warhammer 40,000 has officially arrived connected Nintendo Switch 2 with the announcement of a Rogue Trader port.

Owlcat Games’ well-received cRPG acceptable successful the grimdark aboriginal of the 41st millenium archetypal launched connected PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S successful December 2023. For the uninitiated, it’s a spot similar Baldur’s Gate 3, but acceptable successful the Warhammer 40,000 universe. IGN’s Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is an ultra crunchy, 130-hour abstraction epic with fantabulous penning and combat, but unfortunately, besides a batch of bugs.”

The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation was announced astatine IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 with a caller trailer, below. No merchandise day was mentioned.

Since the motorboat of Rogue Trader, Owlcat Games has updated the crippled with a fig of patches and DLCs, astir precocious June’s Lex Imperialis expansion, and it presently sits connected a 'very positive' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam.

Here's the authoritative blurb connected Rogue Trader:

Players volition instrumentality connected the relation of a Rogue Trader, a scion of an past dynasty of daring privateers who reign implicit their ain commercialized protectorate and research the fringes of Imperial abstraction with the blessing of the Emperor Himself. By virtuousness of their Warrant of Trade, the Rogue Trader is endowed with privileges and powerfulness beyond imagination, arsenic good arsenic the task of expanding the borders of the Imperium. A gargantuan voidship of immense spot and innumerable unit acceptable to travel their person without question is astatine their disposal. Show your subjects mercy oregon disdain, enactment faithful to the Emperor oregon consort with the enemies of Humanity — the Rogue Trader’s each determination sends ripples crossed full prima systems, changing the in-game satellite and those who inhabit it.

That’s not each from Owlcat astatine IGN Fan Fest, either. The developer has besides announced a Q4 2025 merchandise model for the alpha of its Rogue Trader follow-up, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy.

It’s breathtaking times successful the satellite of Warhammer 40,000 video games. Not lone bash we person the Switch 2 motorboat of Rogue Trader, and Dark Heresy to look guardant to, but we besides person important updates inactive coming to the likes of Darktide and Space Marine 2. Looking further ahead, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II, Dawn of War 4, and Space Marine 3 are each successful the works.

And beryllium definite to cheque retired everything announced astatine IGN Fan Fest 2025: Fall Edition for much connected what's coming down the line.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].