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You know the shape of the usual upper edition: a soundtrack, a couple of skins, three days of getting in early. This one is put together differently, and it is worth knowing that before you line up the two amounts. The page for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War IV on PC shows four labels. Two of them are editions.
What is actually in the Commander Edition
| Edition | What it adds on top of the base game |
|---|---|
| Standard | The game: four playable factions and their campaigns, skirmish, and the returning survival mode. |
| Commander Edition | A story prologue built around the Blood Ravens, a campaign expansion that brings an additional playable faction with it, the digital soundtrack, and a short head start of a few days. |
Give that second entry another read. An expansion plus a whole faction is season-pass territory, and a season pass drags a question along with it that no skin bundle ever raises: will you still be playing when the content shows up?
Most of the extra money buys something that lands later
The prologue and the head start are yours on day one. The expansion and its faction belong to the first year of support, which makes the upper box half a purchase and half a promise. Nothing wrong with that in itself — it is simply the risk you are taking on. It does explain why a strategy player who runs a campaign once and moves on is better served by the base box.
New studio, and base building comes back
The first three games are not this team's work, and the stated direction is a return to the classic shape of the series: a headquarters and specialised structures, resource points you have to hold, research and upgrades, veterancy, cover that genuinely cuts damage. Factions build in very different ways — one of them skips workers altogether and drops its structures in from orbit — and the launch line-up includes a faction that has never appeared in Dawn of War before. Campaigns branch rather than run down a corridor, and they can be played co-operatively.
One thing to settle before you start comparing: this is a PC release with no console versions, so every offer you see is a Steam activation of one kind or another. The studio has also pushed the launch to December, which moves everybody's calendar back.
What each Dawn of War IV edition includes
Right now the base entry sits at Gaming Dragons, and the Commander box opens at € (with coupon GCDK14DEAL).
Two of those four labels are not editions
Half the offers on that page are delivery methods wearing the clothes of a tier, and mixing up the two categories is how people end up disappointed:
| Label | What it really is |
|---|---|
| Steam Gift | A transfer sent from someone else's account. It reaches your library, and the sender's region reaches it along with them. |
| Steam Account | Access to an account that already owns the game. The cheapest offer on the page, and the one furthest from ownership. |
Sort by amount alone and these two float to the top with the editions buried underneath. That is a poor outcome on a release where the expensive box has real content in it.
- Cdkeys Com — 4.8 / 5 over 224,000+ reviews.
- YUPLAY — 4.8 / 5 over 2,000+ reviews.
- Instant Gaming — 4.7 / 5 over 833,000+ reviews.
- Greenmangaming — 4.7 / 5 over 43,000+ reviews.
- Kinguin — 4.6 / 5 over 120,000+ reviews.
- Fanatical — 4.6 / 5 over 78,000+ reviews.
- Eneba — 4.4 / 5 over 312,000+ reviews.
- Driffle — 4.4 / 5 over 9,000+ reviews.
- K4G — 4.3 / 5 over 17,000+ reviews.
- GamesPlanet — 4.3 / 5 over 629+ reviews.
Before you commit
Do you get the Commander content straight away?
The prologue and the head start, yes. The expansion and its faction belong to the support year, so part of what you are paying for is still a promise.
Is there a console version worth waiting for?
No. This is a PC release, and every offer on the page is a Steam activation.
How has each edition moved so far?
Edition by edition, from our own records rather than a shop's own promo, on the Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War IV price comparison.
The short version
Base box for the campaigns and the skirmishes. Commander box if you already know you will be around when the expansion arrives and you would have bought it anyway. Everything else on that page is a question of format, not of edition. Once you have picked, you can buy Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War IV key from the full price list.
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