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Plan your first demo runs

Neave Blacktalon demo artwork

The demo has two universes, each with its own starter and stage. Malum Caedo begins with Chainsword on Imperial Bastion in Warhammer 40,000. Neave Blacktalon begins with Tempest Axes on The Great Parch in Age of Sigmar. Each universe has its own unlock goals, so pick one universe and one weapon goal before you start.

Malum: aim for Chainsword and Tape Measure

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Survive one minute in Warhammer 40,000 to unlock Tape Measure. Chainsword + Tape Measure evolves into Eviscerator Chainsword, a brutal horizontal slash that inflicts Bleeding.

Unlocking Tape Measure lets it appear as a choice; you still need to pick it up during a run. The evolution is listed on Chainsword’s eighth and last level. Try levelling Chainsword and opening chests, but the required Tape Measure level and exact chest conditions are unknown. Check the evolution pairs before spending slots on other passives.

Neave: Tempest Axes and Sabaton

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Survive one minute in Age of Sigmar to unlock Sabaton. Tempest Axes + Sabaton evolves into Whirlwind Axes, swirling horizontal axes infused with lightning.

Sabaton also leads to a second pair. Reach rank 3 with Sabaton to unlock Nebulous Sea-Fog, and have two Followers in one run to unlock Bugman’s Tankard. Sea-Fog + Tankard evolves into Aquatic Illusions. Both pieces need unlocking first, so treat this as a goal for later runs.

Find the Armoury relic

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Each stage hides a relic that opens its universe’s Armoury menu: the Munitorum Dataslate on Imperial Bastion and the Warscroll on The Great Parch. The Armoury shows evolution recipes, so it is worth finding early. Where the relics appear on the map is not known.

Rescue characters

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Each stage also has two characters to rescue; the stage reference lists them. A character’s starting weapon and that weapon’s unlock are separate. Kozlowski starts with Lasgun, but a separate goal, reaching rank 6 with Lasgun, adds it to the general weapon pool.

Pick goals you can track

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The unlock goals say whether a goal must be done in one run or adds up across runs. Where a goal says “Scope unknown”, watch its progress in the game to see whether attempts add up.

Both universes have a goal to reach level 10 for White Dwarf and to survive ten minutes for Hourglass. They are good fallback goals when the weapon you wanted does not show up.

Sources

Game data: Windows Steam demo, build 25887095 (November 2026). Values and unlock conditions are the demo’s and may change in the full release. Video: OHRye’s demo playthrough (October 26, 2026), read from its English game UI.

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