Grim Dawn

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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.

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Developer:
Crate Entertainment
Release date:
25 February 2016
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (884)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (39805)

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Description

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.

Key Features

  • 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.

Crate Entertainment is a small indie studio founded by the lead gameplay designer of Titan Quest and includes veterans from such companies as Blizzard North, Irrational and Harmonix. Join the Grim Dawn community and provide feedback on the ongoing development of the game. Help shape the future of development and be among the first to receive news about Grim Dawn by participating in polls and discussions on our forum.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
Processor:
x86 compatible 2.3GHz or faster processor (Intel 2nd generation core i-series or equivalent)
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
512MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon X800 series or better
DirectX:
Version 9.0c
Storage:
5 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card
Additional Notes:
4GB of memory is required to host multiplayer games

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7 / Windows 10
Processor:
x86 compatible 3.2GHz or faster processor (Intel 4th generation core i-series or better)
Memory:
6 GB RAM
Graphics:
1.5GB NVIDIA GeForce 500 series or ATI Radeon 6000 series or better
DirectX:
Version 11
Network:
Broadband Internet connection
Storage:
5 GB available space

User reviews

Daedry
Recommended | 17 Jul 2026
473h played

Of all the ARPGs I've played to scratch the itch for that one classic game we all played (y'know the one), Grim Dawn is the one I keep going back to. GD can be played fully offline as a complete game, and so when I was

Helpful: 3
Odaik
Recommended | 17 Jul 2026
158h played

I played this game in an android tablet with a snapdragon 7 plus gen 3 or something idk what its called, it runs on anything. I think its a good game and it goes for like a dollar, bit more for DLC but it's worth it.

Helpful: 0
Clume
Recommended | 19 Jul 2026
19.5h played

Grim Dawn is a game of sharp contrasts. It wraps top‑tier ARPG depth in an outdated engine. If you love theorycrafting and the thrill of loot drops, and can overlook its aged visuals and weak narrative, it may well

Helpful: 2
szczhur
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
134h played

If there are games that become world heritage, Grim Dawn is definitely one of them. From the dawn of the Diablo era, through the unique years of Titan Quest, to this absolute perfection. This is the one. If you haven't

Helpful: 0
mr_auer
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
248h played

I just wanna have fun playing coop with my partner. We used to play a lot of Torchlight 2 back in the days. Grim Dawn has been fun for years now, continued support is great, and we are both gonna buy the new expansion

Helpful: 0
LogBomb
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
74.8h played

It's a fantastic ARPG. Reminds me more of old schoold D2 then PoE or D3 for instance. I've only tried one build for now but had a great time, the gear progression feels great and the gameplay is fun as well. You can

Helpful: 0