Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun Boom lands on mobile with August release date

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun Boom is aiming to do something mobile shooters rarely promise and even less often deliver: a premium, retro-style FPS that looks built for phones without sounding like a compromise. Nitro Games said the game is headed to Android and iOS, with pre-registration already open and an App Store date pointing to August 26, 2026.

The pitch is clear from the store listings. Boltgun Boom is framed as a brutal retro-inspired Warhammer 40,000 FPS forged for mobile devices, built around fast movement, mobile-optimized controls, iconic weapons and enemies, and a large single-player campaign across multiple worlds. The iOS listing also says it will be a premium experience with no ads or energy mechanics, while still allowing optional in-app purchases. On Apple devices, the game requires iOS 17.0 or later and comes in at 3.4 GB.

Nitro Games is leaning hard into the identity that made the Boltgun name matter in the first place. The original Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun launched on May 23, 2023 on PC and consoles, and Auroch Digital is also building Boltgun 2. That follow-up already points to a branching single-player campaign and two playable characters, including Malum Caedo, the Space Marine at the center of the Boltgun line. Boltgun Boom continues that same thread, putting players back in Malum Caedo’s armor to tear through Chaos forces with the series’ trademark heavy weaponry and grimdark excess.

The mobile version is not being sold as a cut-down side project. Nitro Games says Boltgun Boom will feature different chapters of the Boltgun series, which gives the release more weight than a typical franchise tie-in. The Google Play description pushes the same message, promising massive campaigns filled with cultists, traitors, daemons, hidden paths, and towering war machines. The tone is all speed and impact, with the kind of blood-soaked, gothic spectacle that fits the franchise’s boomer-shooter revival.

Nitro Games chief executive Jussi Tähtinen said the project fits the studio’s experience bringing shooter brands to mobile, and that the goal is to introduce the “perfected Boltgun experience” to a global mobile audience. That is the real hook here. Mobile has plenty of shooters, but very few with this kind of franchise recognition and this kind of premium-first framing. If Boltgun Boom lands the controls and keeps the combat as chunky as the name suggests, August 26 could be a rare date for mobile players who want a real Warhammer FPS in their pocket.