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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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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Played D1-3, Torchlight 1-2, PoE (5 years! =))) and of course Titan Quest. Now GD one of my fav ARPGs as singleplayer game and PoE as MP but i'm tired and waiting for PoE 2.0 =)
It was amazing to explore great maps and change builds on the fly!) Highly recommend!
I don't have much experience with the ARPG genre, but I've really enjoyed beating this game twice and already have plans for the third walkthrough on a higher difficulty or with a new character. I decided to try the game out after finishing Titan Quest, and hearing that Grim Dawn is virtually its spiritual successor got me sold.
The gameplay is simple but capturing, and I found myself playing for hours and hours. "I promise, this will be the last dungeon for today!" I also really like the game's responsiveness which makes it play smoothly even in 2024. Besides Grim Dawn I played Titan Quest and Torchlight, and while I enjoyed them too, Grim Dawn seems to be a more polished experience which makes it more fun for me.
Of course, the post apocalyptic atmosphere and soundtrack by SkewSound studio contributed to the game a lot too, making it a memorable adventure.
Coming from a PoE/Diablo II background, Grim Dawn is a treat that can be played off-line, unlike the former, and is a MUCH smoother experience in 2019 than the latter. Some personal highlights:
- Lots of customization. Any two classes per character (each with active and passive skills), a constellation system (passives and “trigger on x” skills) and items that also grant (sometimes unique) abilities.
- Many quality of life features: Minimap, huge inventory, detailed stat breakdown, quest tracker, no identify or town portal scrolls and even the ability to change your equipment’s appearance so your character doesn’t look like a patchwork doll - wide variety of visually distinct pieces of gear too.
- Content packed – 37 hours to finish the non-expansion content (2 HC deaths).
- Genuinely grotesque setting\bosses.
The history and characters so far didn’t do much for me but at least they aren’t intrusive and sell the premise of the setting well. I also found the font on the written notes to be a tad small. Overall, very enjoyable.
If you like Diablo 2 LOD madly and if you don`t like Diablo 3 so much that you haven`t even bought and the Path of Exile seems a little bit toneless for you, in this case the Grim Dawn is a good option.
In addition to good graphics and amazing gameplay you can feel the growing developer skill in comparison to the previous games of this company.
At high difficult levels this game is sometimes very hardcore and doesn't forgive mistakes.
In my opinion considering the current all DLS is the best game in this genre.
Beautiful game though it did get a bit redundant towards the end and I found myself wishing there was a tad more variety to the monsters and that there were some evil female enemies too as most of the opposing characters were skeletons, plant-based monsters, zombies, male wendigos, etc. Just would've been nice to have a bit more eye candy and breadth (like have in Hellsing, for example).
That being said, I spent like 40 hours playing it and thoroughly enjoyed it so my gripes are totally minor.
Definitely worth it.
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