Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader devs will make more DLC and more 40K games for as long as players want and support them

The Warhammer 40K series is going through a huge spike in popularity with games like Space Marine 2 boosting up the sales of other games. One such game is Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, a deep CRPG for PC and console that offers an amazing story set in the grimdark franchise.

With its second 15-hour story expansion Lex Imperialis now out on all platforms, developer Owlcat is already working on two additional DLCs for the future. Additionally, the studio is working on a second CRPG dubbed Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy, but how much more 40K is the studio willing to do? Well, as much as players want.

Owlcat wants to keep making Warhammer 40K games

Speaking to VideoGamer for an upcoming episode of the VideoGamer Podcast, Owlcat executive producer Anatoly Shestov explained that the team will keep making DLCs for Rogue Trader and new games for as long as fans support them, within reason.

“It’s logical to continue until the people aren’t buying it,” Shestov explained. “Creatively, we’ve got so many things that are still untold. We didn’t even touch the Ork themes, we didn’t touch the Demon theme, we didn’t touch the Witch Hunter theme.”

Shestov explained that the team could make “tens of DLCs twice as long as the ones that are already being done”.

“We would be happy to,” he continued. “In the real world there is a real budget, and money, and time limitation and there is always our audience who either go with us on this road or stops. In a most blatant way, whenever we feel that the audience isn’t on us with this journey, the journey will stop.”

Shestov explained that Owlcat’s foray into the Warhammer 40K universe didn’t just start because Games Workshop approached them. Instead, people within the studio who loved the Rogue Trader tabletop game came together with an idea for adapting the tabletop game into the studio’s CRPG shell. It’s a game by fans, for fans.

Right now, Owlcat’s next two DLCs for Rogue Trader are currently in the early stages of development. There’s an outline there, and a plan for how the team will slot the new content into the already massive game, but they will take a while.

“The third and a fourth DLC is being flashed out, discussed internally, approved by approval committee, discussed with GW and agreed upon,” Shestov said. “There are still lots of things needed to be fleshed out, but the overall voice for these is already known and in really early stages [of] internal development.”

While Dark Heresy is already in development, Owlcat has at least another year of support for Rogue Trader. Sure, a Season Pass 3 isn’t confirmed, but if enough players support the next round of expansions for the game, the team sounds raring to go on another.