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October 5

The Loot Hunt Continues with V1.0.0.6!

The latest update to Grim Dawn is now live!

Seek out your favorite farming spots as 28 new Legendary items and 91 revised Epic items are there for the taking (all of which are also available in the recently released Crucible DLC).

This all comes in addition to bug fixes and balance tweaks that should open up some new build opportunities

Visit the forum for the full list of changes.

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August 24

V1.0.0.5 Hotfixes 1 and 2 are Live

The Crucible DLC has been out for a few weeks and we've been hearing your feedback! In addition to a number of bug fixes, we have released two hotfixes for V1.0.0.5 that have made great improvements to the new DLC, based on your input.

Key changes include:

Checkpoints saved across all Crucibles
Purchaseable Tokens to unlock Crucible difficulties on other characters
More Experience
Better Rewards

Visit the forum for the full list of changes.

Enjoy!

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Reviews

“The "spiritual successor" to Diablo 2 that fans have been pining about for years.”
92 – MMORPG

“Blow for blow, this is one of the best ARPGs in years.”
8.7 – IGN

“Grim Dawn’s the action RPG I’ve enjoyed most in quite some time, and I’m very keen to try the later chapters as they’re released. More so than Torchlight 2, which was a bit too much of a sugar rush experience for me, and certainly more so than Diablo III”
N/A – Rock Paper Shotgun

About This Game

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 you 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. http://www.grimdawn.com

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
Additional Notes: 4GB of memory is recommended to host multiplayer games

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𝓝𝓪𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓼

139 products in account

20 reviews

Posted: September 12

Grim Dawn

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=759054518

At the moment of this review I have played for 119 hours. Previously I have played to Diablo (I,II) Torchlight II, Path of Exile and Van Helsing II and this genre of game is not my favorite.
This game has been in steam early access for a time, and the players feedback and testing were used to improve the game to the version that we can play today.
Do I think this game is good and can I recommend it? YES, absolutely. I bought it on steam sale, but believe me, this game is worth at full price.
A few words about this game? DIABLO 2+TITAN QUEST+PATH OF EXILE= GRIM DAWN.
Is the game alive? Yes. Average of 4000 players/day Steam database source

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=760084435

Graphics:

This game has a dark-gore-Victorian ambience that, personally, I love. All the decoration, the colors, the houses, roads, each cave, the entire map makes you feel that ambience. About that, the scenarios are not randomly generated, each map is almost the same each time you start a game: rocks, bodies, some enemies will change their position, but the maps don't change. And "that" is something really GOOD. Why? If you have been playing to torchlight or diablo, each dungeon are random each time you enter. But it lacks of personality. Here, you will find secret areas, secret caves, which don't appear in the map, are hidden from the sight, sometimes you need to find a secret lever to open the entrance. There are hidden areas, which you will unlock with some explosive help, runes or... well, I won't tell you all the secrets. There are letters and books that will teach you the story of Cairn, or simply a love letter from a dead body to his loved and beside that, the ambience, because here you feel the love that their creators invested everywhere, with little details like a tree, a clock, a sewer, the office of a doctor, the lair of a thief...

You will think that you know a zone perfectly, but you will find secrets that you didn't notice that were there before, and THAT is surprising in this kind of games.

The isometric view is correct, much more better than others like path of exile. The shadows, textures, details etc... excellent (for a game like this, don't compare it with Doom)

Spells and attack effects? Really good. Fire and ice, venom, caos, guns, temblors... Just watch a gameplay and you will see it.

Music:

Do you remember Diablo 2 themes? Some tracks of Grim Dawn makes me remember those moments where I was following to the vagabond "east, always to the east". The atmosphere that the music makes, it's the right balance to this kind of games where you start to walk and your goal is to arrive to a point smashing and murdering everything in front of you.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=760278131

Story:

You begin your steps as the only man/woman that has been able to survive to the possession of a form of life from another dimension, the aetherial. Soon you will know more about this invasion from another world, that has upside down your world, from a prosperous empire to the actual moment, where humanity hardly survive fighting against the aetherial, their puppets, and their rivals, which are not your friends either. That has give you a reason to fight back and maybe you have become into the last hope of humanity.

How much time to finish the main quest? More or less 40 hours. Depends if you like your class from the beginning. In my case, I played a conjurer to level 48 and liked it a lot but tried a warlock and I prefer it, so I have finished the game in normal with this one.

Gameplay:

Just... perfect. In other Action rpg games you lost your objective, and soon you feel like a monkey smashing the same button to kill hundreds of enemies. Grim Dawn with its two classes build style, allows you to search the way you want to play, for fun. At level 1 you will choose your class, at level 10 you will be able to choose an additional class. So, If you are soldier + arcanist you are a Battlemage, sword plus magic. But if you are soldier + demolitionist your are a Commando, sword plus guns. Each class can be played in a lot of ways and if you are interested, I recommend you to visit this forum, where you will find massive information about the different classes and possible builds, guides, gameplay videos... so you can see if that class is the character you will like to play.

Build Comendium

Negative point:

* There's no way to hide the HUD. Max you can do is to downsampling, change to minimal hud scale, hide the map and quest log. Crop and paste that shot.
Besides, If you want to take a shot from another angle, you have to use a mod that allows you to move up and down the camera. That shows you that there's no sky, literally. The sky is black and the roof does not exist. No need to be there because you only play with isometric view xD

* Sometimes when you exit the game, it doesn't, and you get a black screen. In my case, this happened when I used spanish language patch.

* If you want to craft, you have first: get the blueprint (the recipe) then you have to craft the different materials but someones have a very low drop rate from mobs. This can get you mad but if you like this... it's not a negative point.

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PunasaurusRex

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Posted: September 25

Bias: I am a dinosaur. I like to loot and smash things.

This is probably one of my favorite games I have played this past year. Graphics, story and action were all very interesting and intense. I will admit I have placed 30+ hours in the game, I still enjoy playing it - still have not finished it completely on solo. I do have a second character I did start with a friend, which took a bunch of those hours as well.

The game allows for different builds of characters, which can allow for replay-ability with different formats - with melee based, assassin-esque based, mage based characters. Cool feature is the ability to play as a dual class. Which allows for different combos and sets. There is an ability to respec as well via an NPC if you decide to reformat, so you can choose a different format if you find you are having issues.

There are wide range of merchants that usually have the best stuff if you are able to friend a town, faction to the max. You can also hit certain areas again for possible drops, to help improve your weapons and armors. In addition, there are different gems to upgrade abilities of weapons - from shooting fireballs or causing poison damage.

I personally, have nothing to complain about the game. I personally wish I had more time to play.
I would give the game a 10/10, as it is one of my favorite games from this year.
I do hope they create a sequel or even extend the universe more.

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MassDebates

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4 reviews

Posted: September 24

MassDebates New Game Log - Grim Dawn

Start of Day 1

:Saw an advertisement today and figured I'd buy this game to try it out for 2 hours. Looked like a new Diablo 2, but I knew not to get my hopes up too much after what happened with Diablo 3. I'll log my thoughts occasionally as I play, so you can see a time-based breakdown and you know where the game is good & bad.

2:44PM-
It looks pretty good. Graphics are nice; High contrast but I don't feel like I'm on acid (like some games)
2:56PM-
Enjoying combat gameplay and found skill window hotkey. Really cool hybrid skill system. Must explore later.
3:02PM-
I FOUND 3 RARE YELLOW ITEMS! BEFORE MY FIRST MAGIC! OMFG! LOOKING UP KEYBIND FOR INVENTORY NOW!
3:03PM-
Discovered Inventory Hotkey. Items weren't rare. Angered, but still an awesome game. I'll get awesome ♥♥♥♥ later!
3:09PM-
Had to stop gameplay to log a note. The plot is very well done. Story has got excellent writing elements, the characters really work well, and the lore is enoyable to read. I legit feel like I'm a savior to these people! No water, no food, evryone's turning into a total ♥♥♥♥ covered in evil green stuff... they were totally screwed before I came around. Great job, devs!
3:12PM-
Found my first Enemy Hero. Luckily, I've got leech life for days. He looks tough, but I think I can take him!
3:15PM-
DESTROYED HERO WHO EXPLODED IN A SLEW OF GREEN SET ITEMS- CANT WAIT TO SEE IF ANY MATCH!!!
3:16PM-
Unfortunately, my gamer mouse seemed to have spontaneously crushed itself. Strange... Shooting over to the store for another. Oh, and minor, unrelated side note: Greens are not set items, apparently.
3:36PM-
I've returned with a new mouse with metal-reinforced plastic and have resumed savior duties.
3:42PM-
Discovered Devotion Menu after restoring first shrine. Holy ♥♥♥♥, this game's character building has got some serious kick!
5:18PM-
Sorry, Haven't logged lately. Uh, games great and whatever. Hold on, I'll log some of the plot after I clear this Wasp Nest I found. I'm really close to getting a poison mod for shadow rush!
9:57PM-
Uh... totally would tell you the plot but that's a lot of writing. Really in depth though, it's awesome. Better then reading a book ever could be. I need to head to bed soon, so I'll port to town, sell my latest loot, and continue logging tomorrow.
4:02AM-
Ported to town and sold my loot. Sure, it was about 5 hours ago, but I said I'd continue reporting the day after, didn't I? This is for you, Steam Community. Remember that.
4:18AM-
Discovered bounty table. Amazing feature for a game. Diablo needed this. Stepping outside for a smoke real quick after I port to town. It's that time, after all, and I gotta keep up with my Diablo 2 Tradition!
4:32AM-
A bit late; stepping out for a smoke break real quick after I grab that chest I saw. (No room in inventory)
4:35AM-
Collected chest items. Selling loot and then finally getting a smoke break. Nobody is ever on time for 420 anyways.
5:41AM-
I've given up smoking. It is a dirty habit that takes away from the important matters in life.
8:04AM-
Called in sick for work- illness is too great, especially with this reduced resistance curse on me right now.
12:21PM-
Wow, did you know how much better the crafting is in this than DIablo 2? Horadric cube was bomb, don't get me wrong, but man, components, augments, rituals, and powders?GIMMY MY GRIMMY, Puh-LEEZ!
1:11PM-
Girlfriend called me 4 times in a row. Can't she see that she only has to wait until I'm done with the mob I'm fighting!? At any rate, I'm super psyched- She's cooking my favorite cut of steak for dinner tonight at 5:00PM!! She also told me my parents were trying to get a hold of me since 3PM yesterday and haven't seen me.
3:21PM-
I've quelled all immediate threats of danger for an entire town. When they were starving and eating rations of rotten, corrupt meat, I've given them food and the gift of fertile farmland. When they were too thirsty to sweat, I've demolished a river blockade and allowed irrigated water to flow. When they felt unsafe, I provided security. I've personally saved over 40% of this town single-handedly, sometimes repeatedly for the same villagers. and just now, when I find 3 pieces of some ♥♥♥♥-stained fabric handkercheifs in some hazardous-as-♥♥♥♥ ruins (because, y'know, fabric isn't anywhere else, apparently) after 15 minutes of searching, I finally gain enough trust to be treated as "Friendly".Ungrateful ♥♥♥♥♥..
3:44PM-
Found a new town. Cleaned up some worms out of a Farm. Very grateful people. I like 'Homestead' a lot more.
5:28PM-
Girlfriend is furious, says that I lied to her about demonic forces taking over the local area and that I'm no longer invited over for dinner because she threw mine out after eating. After hearing Constance's voice while on the phone with me, she remains convinced that I'm hiding another woman on her. I said, "Nonsense. She's a school teacher. I like my women promiscuous and sultry". She hung up immediately after that while saying "We're Done". Why didn't she beleive me!? I'll smooth it over with her tomorrow.
5:29PM-
Phone died, but I'll plug it in to charge soon.
5:41PM-
I've gotten up for the first time since playing to switch out the bathroom bags and grab the rest of my Mountain Dew & Dorito rations from downstairs Forgot to plug in the phone, but I'll get it on the next stand-up.
7:21PM-
I've stepped foot onto the wastelands known as the 'Obsidian Throne' in my quests and my ambitions for amazing gear. This is one of the coolest areas so far. A whole new dimension, and better than Hell's Sanctuary was.
7:24PM-
Girlfriend busted my room's door in while screaming about all sorts of stuff. She seems really ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
7:26PM-
Just got to 2nd level of Cthonic Rift Portal, and got my first summon (from Devotion's Grim Reaper). I've mentally decided that I'm going to explore the Shaman and Occultist characters after I'm done with this one.
7:52PM-
Girlfriend storms out saying "I give up. I'm not even going to try. Tell your Mom I said thanks for the flowers, because I'm leavning for good." and throws a vase at the wall. Even though it amazingly landed face up, unspilled and unbroken, it was still totally uncalled for.
11:59PM-
I'm out of Mountain Dew, but I have plenty of Doritos left. If it were the other way around, I'd be really annoyed by seeing "Untouched Meal" every 5 minutes.
1:22AM-
I'm now out of doritos, but there's still at least a half-cup of water left in the flower vase. I should be good to go for a while before I go downstairs to refill it.
2:44AM-
The police have arrived at my place and are forcing me to shut off the computer before they take me in. I told them I didn't do anything wrong, that I have an alibi, and that it's all even logged right here! They gave me some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t about a 'missing person' and that they have to bring me in for Fingerprints to make sure they know whether or not I'm 'the guy'.

♥♥♥♥ing idiots... I wasn't missing. I knew where I was the whole time..

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Please, if you value your life, do not get this game.
I've been released after treatment for malnourishment, video game dependence-based anxiety, hallucinations, and an inability to separate fantasy from games. My gf and family have left me.

I'm so alone....
Update: Found multiplayer

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⎛⎝Timoke⎠⎞

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Posted: September 24

Great ARPG, but with certian flaws.

Crate entertaiment are the same guys behind Titan Quest, which was a love letter to D2, and so it Grim Dawn.

Positives:

+ Deep customization.
Rivals PoE (Path of Exile) in terms on customizability.
Level 2, you choose a class, level 10 you choose ANOTHER class, doubling your skills, ablities, and creativity.
You also have another layer ontop of it, called DEVOTION, which is well thought out, 'cause it rewards you for exploration.
DEVOTION is another big skill tree which adds passive skills ONTO your active skills.
You can also add stat points onto your character. It's really dull, 'cause you only got 3 stat points and you get 1 stat point per level up.

Physique (Health and armor)
Cunning (Damage)
Spirit (Magic damage and Mana)

+ Lots of replayablity.
Your first playthrough will get you to level 40, but the level cap is 85, so you got lots to progress towards.
Lengthy campaing consisting of 18-22 hours

+ Has co-op.

Negatives:

- Environment.
Areas in this game can feel very samey, leading to repetition on long play sessions.
"Oh, I'm in a green forest, oh I'm in cave, oh I am in another forest, oh I am in another cave, oh I am in a crypt," yadda yadda.

- Optimization.
Everyone has iffy frames on different kinds of builds, even mine 970 with 8350 chokes really hard, dips to 30's and 20's.
This can be damaging to certain people who want to play 60+ at all times.
Main culprit I can think of, could be that they are using same engine they used in Titan Quest (PathEngine) which is already old.

TL;DR

Long and replayable ARPG with more customization than you could ever asked for, low side for having repetitious enivorments and enemy variety with ♥♥♥♥ poor optimization.

Worth buying full price.

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anonymousrelated

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2 reviews

Posted: September 20

Grim Dawn.

Man, at first I was iffy on this game. I looked at it back when it first was coming out, and thought to myself. "Myself, this looks an awful lot like Titan Quest. Remember that game? Yeah, of course you do," Then I just passed the game by, because well; Bad memories associated with Titan Quest. Add another fifty hours onto my PoE playtime and my buddy all of a sudden pops up on STEAM playing Grim Dawn. I'm just sittin here like, "Are you for serious right meow?" He was; Dead serious actually. Apparently he'd seen a streamer playing it, and decided to pick it up; I'm a sucker for H'n'S games and frankly dual class systems get me wet. So I buy the damn game.

Right now I'm sitting four hours shy of four hundred hours played. Which isn't a lot in comparison to the 1.6k+ hours played of some people, holy crap Batman! I've played a grand total between two accounts 1.5k hours in PoE and in my near four hundred hours played of Grim Dawn, I can say that I've had more fun and a lot more success with Grim Dawn than I have ever had with PoE. Let me break down some pointers for you.

Grim Dawn
{PROS}
Has a Single-Player experience, which presents a lag free environment.
In Offline(Single-Player) mode there is even a pause button to take a break, or an emergency stop.
Multiplayer is not based around a complete server with lots of people, so it's relatively lag free.
Multiplayer servers are hosted by players, connection speed determines connection issues. This potentially eliminates rubber-banding or desync issues.
Dual-Class system allows for lots of replayability and uniqueness to each individual character you build.
A high enough level-cap to get a Godly feeling on a character that's well built.

{CONS}
A lack of current high end gear makes certain builds feel lacking and not as unique appearing as others. As of current there are only so many classes that a person can potentially create, 21 in total.
Current game design has flaws when trying to create 'Movement' skills that don't require a target.
While classes feel unique in comparison to like-classes in other games, their skills are rather lacking in when it comes to classes.(Most classes feel similar after a while.)

[OVERALL]
Great game. Very well done by the awesome people at Crate Entertainment. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us on the other side of that bridge. I also look forward to seeing what the team is going to throw at us as far as new Legendary and Rare gear. Personally speaking I would love to see something like Mythical gear, which would be Orange or Rainbow text. Some crazy epic items that just make your character over the top Godly.

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Vumli

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32 reviews

Posted: September 25

Grim Dawn has all the best elements of an old-school aRPG game, with some new mechanics to keep it fresh. There is never a slow, dull, or boring moment with plenty of content from the Main Quest Line to numerous side quests. The environment is interesting, the classes are fairly archetypal but with a fresh spin, and the hunt for loot keeps you hungry for progression. The character class customization is one of the best, the system allows for dual classing which creates a hybrid class, this allows for a multitude of build designs. The pace is great and there's enough play diversity to offer plenty of replayability, it's a great mix of challenge and depth. In addition to the main and side questing there is a faction system. There are several factions with their own interests in the Grim Dawn world as you develop reputation with them they will offer special faction related bounty quests. Grim Dawn has a robust crafting system and it is always a rush when you discover a rare blueprint for an item. Grim Dawn is a great game and I highly recommend it.

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Siori

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Posted: October 2

After 8h I'm still enjoying the feel of this game. It takes me back to the dungeon crawler hack and slash days with some nice modern additions like days/night cycles.

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darknj

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13 reviews

Posted: October 2

This is not Diablo 3 and it is its best point ever.

D3 where everything is streamlined, you are garantee to have loots for your class and chances for dropping lengedaries are fairly reccurent. Grim Dawn doesn't do that.

It's back to the roots of Diablo2 where you WILL collect tons of crap but suddenly get super excited that you droped a specific loot. You will hoard tons of stuff for your other characters "just in case".

Also, a point I love above all, I don't freaking have to be connected to Internet to play. It helps for Steam Cloud save, but it's by far not mandatory. You won't have game server crash on you because it's unstable, you won't have your instance suddenly go poof while playing because the lag spike.

This is a game for the ppl who liked D2 and disliked what D3 had become.

Plus, multiclassing is quite fun, there are 5 classes and you can mix and match 2 of them. Wanna play a summoner tanker ? Go ahead ! A master of the arcane shamanist ? Sure ! Is all build optimal ? Nope but still you can go and have good 'ol fun with them.

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Lightning

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Posted: September 29

Grim Dawn is a familiar, yet satisfying action role-playing game, with an amazing world to explore and plenty of loot to discover. Grim Dawn is very rich in content, providing many different classes, customization, devotion tree, faction system and many more. I recommend this game to anyone who loves ARPG or is looking to try out a new game.

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Plowbeast

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2 reviews

Posted: September 20

Pros:
+ Game rewards you for exploring and customising character instead of punishing
+ Well done GUI, random generation, recipes, and tools for smooth leveling or looting
+ Good variety of monsters and enemy tactics (No endless recolored enemies)
+ Just the right amount of plot, atmosphere, and exposition

Cons:
- Graphics may not always be appealing and some mild frame stutter
- Heavy randomness mean that your character WILL die and WILL miss its attacks

If you want a solid action RPG that just flows without being too superficial, this is probably the best I've played in five years. A bit deeper than Torchlight but much better gameplay than other RPGs with a large variety of build options, you should be able to enjoy multiple playthroughs.

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Posted: October 10

forgot to upvote sorry. nice game. bought in in EA and it is one of the few games i would buy again at EA. Like the fact that whatever i play kills stuff, which is nice

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Posted: October 10

One of the best RPGs of the modern era. Very simliar to Titan Quest with much better resolution and optimizations for graphics and smoothness of play. Probably the best action RPG since Diablo 2.

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Posted: October 9

Did Diablo 3 took your lunch money and stomped on your childhood memories?

Look no further. This ARPG is the best I had played since old school Diablo 2. No Hello Kitty Island Adventures graphics (Diablo 3/Torchlight) but with a darker and serious yet unique gore art direction. I can't deal with cartoonish graphic that Blizzard seems to go for.

Moreover you can customise your character build as much as you want and not limited to Blizzards skill system that a 1year can design. The dual class as well as old school of skill and stat points are found in Grim Dawn. They further expand the customisation with Devotion points which you have to unlock and you can level the devotion skills and assign them to your minions or skill too!

Did I just mention minions? The minions in Grim Dawn are actually useful unlike Diablo 3's minion which seems to serve aesthetic purposes only since they just tear like paper.

Crafting system is quite well thought in this game too and I love that they gave you a lot of inventory space to hoard your loots. Character progression never seem to miss it mark. Even if you finish 'Normal' mode, there are other devotion skill points to be unlock on other difficulty modes. The amount of tender loving effects put into the game is amazing, I might have epilepsy with all the things going on sometime.

Most ARPG seems to have the bread but missing the nutella topping, Grim Dawn delivers both. Definitely a well made game and you should give it a try.

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Posted: October 9

Fun game

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Posted: October 9

Fun game.

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Posted: October 9

There are games that are too boring to finish, some your glad when you finally finish them and the best ones you are sad when you finish them. This one is the latter.
With so many Diablo type games out, I did not expect alot from this one. I was wrong. It offers so many ways to customize your character. The story is good and the game play is excellent.

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Posted: October 9

This game has come a long way since I originally bought it. I take some long stints of not playing, I tend to overdo it and burn myself out of a game, but I always come back.

Graphics have come a long way, still not amazing, but for an ARPG I don't have very high expectations for huge amounts of detail as I usually play fairly zoomed out.

I'm not one of those people who try to min/max a class, I just pick what I think would enjoy and go for it and try to make it work. I've come out with a glass cannon ranged class that works pretty damn well, but is super squishy. Also a super tanky character who apparently uses a wet noodle as a weapon.

I've done single player for the most part, but it's always fun to have a random person drop in and chat with while clearing groups of mobs. I've actually had some great insight as to how to build my current class just by partying with randoms.

Story bosses are pretty fun and unique. This game also does not have randomly generated dungeons, worlds, etc. like Diablo does which is OK for me, some may not enjoy that. I've come across random scenarios that pop up that I haven't seen on other playthroughs which is pretty interesting, not sure if it's an RNG thing or just pure luck in wandering into the right location.

Since first playing there was only 4 classes to choose from, recently added 2 more (not sure on the exact date). You can mix and match up to 2 classes so far.

Overall I'm a pretty casual player for this game, but it's a great time killer that I always end playing for +4 hours every session without even realizing it.

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Posted: October 9

Grim Dawn is a very appropriate name for this game, especially if you are a fan of the Diablo franchise. Diablo 1 may not have been the first ARPG, but it certainly put the genre of tearing monsters apart until they explode in a shower of blood and shinny items on the map. The game that made birthday pinatas a bit lack luster from there onwards. While Diablo 1 was the promising toddler, Diablo 2 was the 12 year old son who won the science competiton nation wide. Everything seemed to be going well.

Then diablo 3 launched and it was like walking in on your teenage son dying his hair black, cutting his wrist, wearing eye liner, and wearing bandages like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ sonic the hedgehog game. What the ♥♥♥♥ happened, I knew I souldnt have let your creepy black sheep uncle to take you to disney world.

Back to the point, Grim Dawn is both grim in the game setting and grim because playing it is a constant exercise in "what if" when thinking of Diablo 3. Suffice to say if you found Diablo 3s bright art style of smeared water paintings with lighting effects as ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as possible for lower end PCs to run it rather diapointing, as well as its borderline incoherant story and a disjointed world forgettable despite over 100 hours played than you will be in for a nice suprise.

Visually Grim Dawn made me think this is diablo 2 but with better graphics. The game plays on this and it does a very good job for the disenchanted ARPG player. The marshes, caves, ruined settlements, and bleak landscape of Act 1 bring back fond memories of the Rogue Encampment. It makes the whole art petition response look silly in retrospec, along with Reaper of Souls going back on it as well.

While the story and universe is not a high point it is practically shakespeare compared to Diablo 3. The documents you find are well paced and some are pretty disturbing and depressing. On top of that there are moments in the game where your decisions can have ramifications although the steam page does exagerate a bit.

The game is made from a combination of the creators of TitanFall and I believe a few people who worked on the origional Diablo. TitanFall was a baffling game as Im assuming the publisher didnt understand that 50% of what makes these games enjoyable is watching monsters turn into pools of blood. Opting to go for the teen rating and showing a complete ignorance to the genre. I do have a beef with these guys on the part that Titan Falls expansion seemed to never get fixed.....

That said it would seem the ugly practice was left behind in the world of Greek Mythology and didnt carry over to Cairne.

For people like myself who found Blizzards odd skill system or lack there of a skill system bewildering (something that would carry over to World of Warcraft) you will be happy to know that Grim Dawn has more stats than the guy who sits with a spread sheet at a baseball game taking notes on everything for some bizaare reason. Perhaps reliving his desire to be an assistant coach in the dugout. You have stun resistence, stun duration reduction, lightning damage, electricicty damage, fire damage, burn damage, piercing damage, vitality damage, and you get the point.

The wonderful Titan Quest duel class system returns allowing players to mix different classes that seem odd but turn out very interesting. What is nice is that there does not seem to be 1 spec for each of the class combinations. My main is a Warder which is a combination of the soldier and shaman. I focus on 2 handed weapons and lightning damage but there are 2 other viable paths I have read about. I imagine the same is true for other combos.

Certain gear and the fairly elaborate addon system can be a huge part of your build. One item I added to my axe gave me a lightning nova ability which was great for clearing large groups. Lousy on its own but with all my + lightning skills and gear stats very effective.

There is also a faction system. Getting higher rep means you can buy items from said faction and the more hated you are by enemy factions the more rare bosses that spawn. Speaking of loot you wont have to farm for hours only to get items that look like a troll put them in the game.

Unfortunately with a small team does come its problems. The framerate is all over the place depending on where you are with the beginning act being the worse offender. Many enemies simply explode into blood and there are not as many unique death animations as you would get with a larger team. The enemy variety is also limited compared to other games. All of this just makes you wish these guys had more resources at their disposal. Nothing is really game breaking.

In summary I have not enjoyed a game in this genre so much since diablo 2. Torchlight never really did it for me and you all know my opinion of diablo 3 at this point. If anything I say resonates with you then this game will be a nice gem to add to your steam library.

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Posted: October 9

Commit mass murder for an achievement? Challenge accepted.

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Posted: October 9

The Framerate is unstable.
Do not purchase if you don't like the unstable framerate game(randomly stuttering).

my spec, i7 3.4GHz , 16GB Ram , 970M 6GB
ingame setting, turn off cloud saving, all low or off Graphic option.
but unstable.

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