So you’re saying they are individual games with their own campaigns?ĭawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising were released in that weird time where physical retail sales were still a thing. Confusing since it and the original Dawn of War 2 sit separate from retribution. Some people really liked them, I personally did not. In your case, since you already own Retribution, buying Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising would only give you the campaigns that each of those two came with. Dark Crusade is generally seen as the one that holds up best. Dawn of War and Winter Assault both have linear campaigns, while Dark Crusade and Soulstorm have strategic map campaigns a la Dune 2 and Rise of Nations.
You can decide if you want to dabble in the rest of DoW2 later, and it’s less than $10 for a mountain of content. I was never a big fan of most of the gameplay changes from the first installment to the second, so if you’re not looking for pure eye candy then I would personally recommend the Master Collection, which will give you everything for Dawn of War. Most of these entries are standalone, with varying amounts of content missing from the full package if you happen to own all the various parts. Retribution (the DLC you see is mostly for this) Gold Edition (including Dawn of War and Winter Assault) is a package on Steam, not a separate SKU. So, for Dawn of War 1, the following installments were released: