Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.Dual Class - Combine any of six distinct clas...
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
Dual Class - Combine any of six distinct classes with over 25 skills and modifiers per class. Base classes include Soldier, Demolitionist, Occultist, Nightblade, Arcanist and Shaman.
Hundreds of Item Skills - Augment your class build with a diverse array of over 250 unique skills granted by items and equipment add-ons.
Collect hundreds of Items - Common, magical, rare, epic and legendary classes of loot. Plus over 20,000 possible magical affix combinations and over 200 rare affixes.
Quests with Choice and Consequence - You will face tough decisions that leave significant impacts upon the world. Strangers on the road, desperate families and even entire villages may live or perish based on your actions. Currently over 35 quests with 75+ lore notes to be collected.
Friendly and Enemy Factions - Earn favor with human factions to unlock additional quest lines, vendor discounts and special faction-based items and augments. Some neutral factions can be turned into allies but aiding one will make the enemy of another. Hostile factions will remember your deeds and deepen their hatred of you, sending out large packs and elite heroes to hunt you down.
Devotion, an additional layer of skill customization allows you to acquire bonuses and powerful secondary effects for your class skills. These are unlocked from a giant constellation map with points acquired by finding and restoring destroyed or corrupted shrines hidden throughout the world.
Rebuild the World - Help human enclaves survive and flourish by securing vital necessities, rebuilding structures and rescuing survivors who can then lend their services to your cause.
4 Person Multiplayer - Connect with Friends or make new allies in glorious multiplayer. Multiplayer encounters will put your teamwork to the ultimate challenge.
Fast-paced Visceral Combat - Enemy blood spatters, ragdoll physics and satisfying enemy death effects. Smash in doors and fight house to house, leaving a path of demolished furniture in your wake.
Rotatable Camera - If you choose to survey the full beauty of the world and always fight from the most optimal angle. Levels are still designed so that players are not forced to rotate the camera; it is purely optional.
Secrets and Perils Abound - 200+ Enemy heroes and bosses, hand-configured with their own unique arrays of deadly skills. 20+ secret areas hidden behind crumbling walls, hidden gaps and mysterious locked doors. Explode obstacles or repair structures to open new paths.
Rogue-Like Dungeons - Descend into special locked challenge dungeons that require a rare crafted key, where enemy levels increase as you progress and player teleport is disabled. There is no way out except to complete the dungeon or die trying.
Dynamic Weather - The world is brought to life with region-specific climates and a variety of weather effects. A sunny day can cloud over with mild rain showers that builds into a booming thunderstorm. Variable wind gusts blow grass and affect objects like windmills.
Recipe Based Crafting - Collect over 250 crafting recipes that allow you to combine salvaged components into unique crafted items and then, later, use those basic crafted items with higher-tiered recipes to complete items of amazing power.
Reclaim Skill Points - The ability to pay to reclaim points alleviates the fear and frustration of having to make early, uninformed skill choices that could permanently gimp a character.
Grim Dawn is the intellectual property of Crate Entertainment LLC, all rights reserved.
Popular achievements
Monster Slayer
Eradicate 25 Heroic Monsters (marked by a Star).
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57.48%
Heroic Slayer
Eradicate 100 Heroic Monsters (marked by a Star).
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37.51%
The End to Depravity
Slay Salazar, Blade of Ch'thon in the Depraved Sanctuary.
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39.47%
Delivering Justice
Slay Warden Krieg in the Hidden Laboratory.
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59.36%
An Old Threat
Slay Darius Cronley.
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52.1%
Blood for Blood
Slay Karroz, Sigil of Ch'thon.
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36.19%
Cleansing the Conflagration
Slay the Herald of Flame in the Conflagration.
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35.56%
Gutting Gutworm
Slay Gutworm in Smuggler's Basin.
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38.16%
Tinkering is Her Specialty
Rescue Darlet in Burrwitch.
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61.57%
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Multiplayer Notice: Please note that GOG GALAXY is required to access Multiplayer.
Local Area Network (LAN) does not require GOG GALAXY.
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You like dark atmosphere, gore and monsters from nigthmares? You're a Diablo fan? Ever heard of Titan Quest? And most important - are you disappointed with Diablo 3? Well, if at least one of your answers is YES, Grim Dawn is worth trying. For me, this is a title that was build on what was best in my favourite ARPGs, i.e. Diablo/Diablo 2 and Titan Quest.
As a big fan of Diablo I & II I snapped up Diablo III in an instant when it was released and have had nothing but disappointment with the generic cliche rehashed story, ridiculous rift grinding for any halfway decent equipment, and obnoxious online only single player campaign that boots me out of those long and grindy rifts if my internet has so much as a minor hiccup while I'm playing.
Grim Dawn plays like Diablo II, with a LOT of content across a pretty big map even without any expansions, and has a much more balanced loot system as well as allowing you to play completely offline or (with some fiddling) over a LAN.
It's not as fluid as Victor Vran, doesn't have the dodging and kiting of Vikings: Wolves of Midgard, and doesn't start as strong as Van Helsing but it holds a great game for much longer than any of those and manages to keep me coming back long after I gave up on the later poorly made parts of Van Helsing and finished Victor Vran. Grim Dawn and Vikings both hold my interest, even after many hours (most of which Galaxy doesn't seem to have counted) of play, and I find myself picking between the two based on if I want more exploration and loot hunting (Grim Dawn) of faster gameplay and boss fights (Vikings) when I sit down to play.
The only complaint I have is that this seems to hit the hardware a LOT harder than comparable titles, I have an i7-7700 and a GTX1060 (way above the system requirements) in my PC and I still run into the occasional lag spike when a bunch of enemies spawn all at once, but since I play a pet heavy build I've not had much of an issue with it as the few seconds I'm not able to respond aren't enough for them to break through my pets and take me out.
I've played Grim Dawn off-and-on since 2018. It's got enough depth that I keep coming back to it, despite having leveled many characters to their ultimate end-game builds.
It's also the only game that's ever inspired me to dig into the game's database internals to understand it better! https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/how-to-determine-the-drop-chance-for-an-mi-w-specific-affixes/133442
There is a ton to love here for ARP fans. Many layered and complex builds, a couple of branching story choices, and a random generator mode allows for a lot of replayability. All with a strange diesel punk ascetic.
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