Grim Dawn is absolutely fabulous. My favourite ARPG.

Having played nearly every major ARPG since Diablo 2, I find Grim Dawn to be the most well designed and overall satisfying experience in the genre. The number of QoL advancements this game made, has caused me to pretty much stop playing all similar games that came before it. From the first time I played it in early access more than 5 years back, I knew this game would eat up a major portion of my life. And it did.

11:11 Hey, I actually think the story and world-building is one of the strong points of Grim Dawn. Without it I definitely would not have been sucked into the game. The handcrafted environments also match with the lore very well and give as sense of exploration and wonder. Let's not send the message to game developers that players don't care about these elements.

i played Grim Dawn in 2020 for the first time and it is one of the most beautifully made games i've played, ever. IMO it will be worth playing for a long long time.

Mom joke plus a reallly well crafted script that covers briefly a lot of aspects of the game, great job man! Here a 3000+ hours GD player, this game fucking rocks!

As someone who just started playing this in 2022, and currently feeling “stuck” as a level 28, this video was very helpful in continuing to stick it out. Great video.

What stands out about _Grim Dawn_ to me is that it is made by devs for devs. i.e. They built a game they wanted to play with constant balancing and tweaking. The graphics and music are excellent. They also embraced the community and natively incorporated a loot filter. Everything about Crate reminds me of Blizzard pre-WoW days. This mini-documentary is excellent -- filling in some of the developmental timeline.

The most underrated aspect of this game - the soundtrack it's simultaneously zen, terrifying and completely and utterly badass.

2.5K hours and counting. One of the best ARPG ever made

Grim Dawn was the first ARPG to pull me in. Love this game, its excellent in atmosphere and design. I later got Titan Quest, and could see the lineage, Grim Dawn is an improved version, at least to me.

My most played game on Steam and a game which I quite quickly fell in love with and spent a very good deal of time playing in 2019 and I still play it. There are a lot of others out there with more time than me, of course and it's all possible because this game just brings quite a few things to the table that other games did not. I of course played Diablo, Torchlight, Dungeon Siege, Path of Exile... this seems to be my absolute favorite, though and I have not really gotten tired of playing it. It has been with me through some tough times and that's even more reason to love it. The atmosphere it has is something I love, the way things like the lore are plotted out, not only in notes, but in short descriptions in items, in the Devotion tree, in interactions with characters and on the skills you use themselves is something you do not see often. Something you do not see at all in most cases. "The armor of famed tactician, General Markovian, who valiantly joined his men on the frontlines in every battle." as a description for an in-game item set. Pure awesome. Too bad General Markovian is not in the game, haha, but totally down to collect that set and use it on a character just by reading that description. Getting to know more about this guy really fleshes out on what a badass he must have been and the game does this in a fantastic way which I will not spoil further. If you are not playing this game, you are missing out. I found the action great, the animations too, I do not really mind small things like that and I loved the story. There is more than one bad guy so that's explained a bit too loosely here. There is a good deal of gray area fuckery going around and that really adds to the feel. Disclaimer, I was not a big fan of these types of RPGs, I was never turbo into Diablo or the others, but I am really stuck on Grim Dawn. It grabbed me, plain and simple and it can grab a lot of people. I STRONGLY recommend you try to get caught and bring friends. This game synergizes with friends in ways other games do not because of the way classes and skills are built in this game. You open 10 cans of whoop-ass a minute with the right combo... I love the co-op, but not all people do. I think it does shine on its own. It sure helps gain a quicker understanding of the game if you play with close friends.

I’ve noticed that Grim Dawn has had a pretty big comeback lately. I’m super glad about that, it’s my favorite RPG ever, and I’ve gotten 2 of my friends to play w me

To me Grim Dawn is a great middle ground between POE and D3, you don't need to read a 500 pages essay before playing the game, it has the right amount of complexity to be interesting and not overwhelming.

Great video. I'd also like to mention the great item filter built into the game. It's a little thing, but it makes game play much better. It's the most comprehensive filter I know of.

3.5 K hours so far. One of the best games that I have ever played.

You didn't even mention what stands out for me the most: you can make every character either melee or ranged. How cool is that?

omg, the background music, memories for years :)

Tried diablo 3, Poe, and Grim dawn recently. Grim dawn is the one I decided as the most worthy of consuming my life (still wanna try last epoch though).

Been playing it since early 2018. Got a bit of burnout, recovered, burnout again and now finally decided to take the leap to learn the mod tools that are provided with the game to make my own end-game sets. Halfway done with the first one.

Best arpg on the market currently, though i have high hopes for Last Epoch. Now we can only hope that Crate has the motivation and will to make GD 2.

**Diablo 3:** _Drinking_ man's game **Path of Exile:** _Linking_ man's game **Grim Dawn:** _Thinking_ man's game

grim dawn and path of exile are my favorite ARPG...

God the main quest of the base game was surprisingly huge. I still get overwhelmed when I drag the map up the left side of the screen and it just keeps going

Divine Divinity is my favorite RPG of all time, and I'm sad that's it not that talked about by more people. I'm happy to hear you briefly mention the game here, but I'd love to see you make a video fully discussing Divine Divinity.

I love the systems in this game, it honestly tries to add great things to the ARPG genre, I just hope other games in the future try something similar. The factions & nemesis system, bounties, transmog. And the loot system honestly feels like one of the most satisfying ones I've ever seen.

13:00 I wanted to address this part about wide open maps a bit. In general, this is correct, but I have one major pet peeve with what is otherwise one of my favorite games. In various zones, you'll find your progress stymied by indestructible obstructions within the level architecture/geometry that force you to take different paths through a zone. It's usually not that much of an issue, but there's a few places where it's so bad that you have what looks essentially like a wide open zone with only one really long and winding way through it because almost every other potential passage is blocked. The worst contenders of this style of level design are the city of Malmouth and Port Valbury. I mean, I get it from a plot angle, those are cities that were swallowed by what is essentially a horde of aetherial zombies so there's barricades everywhere. Doesn't make it any less of a hassle to navigate through those zones, though.

the absolute best ARPG

This has been in my steam library for years, and I have yet to play it. I need to boot this up. Looks fun.

I own Grim Dawn, have for about 16 months. I went and looked...I had 62 minutes of playing time on it. I do not recall what caused me to stop playing it, but after watching this I am adding it to my list of games to check out (again) soon. In the meantime, the premise of Black Legion sounds very interesting, and I'd be down for this game seeing the light of development.

Hell ya man. I played this when it was in early access and just started again a few weeks ago. Still just as good, and I’ve been digging the hell out of it and it’s expansions.

I play Arpg’s for the story. After i finish that i loose interest quickly, i dont like grinding without any goal or purpose other than leveling or getting the best gears and equipment. I do replay them, just so that i can try the other classes.

7 years later, still worth playing.

I'd always play grimdawn regardless of being killed at level 80's.. Yes I played hardcore mode.

I just started playing again last night and was hooked for 4 hours. Great game!

Just started playing Grim Dawn ... seems .... GREAT.

Grim dawn was very good it was the only game i played for so long even a couple of my friends were like dude whats that game your always playing and then i convinced them to play as well and then they were hooked to lol.

Great video, great behind the scenes info. Over all well made. I picked it up myself as most videos I've watched about Grim Dawn are very positive.

19:00 I think it's 36 combinations, it doesn't matter the order you pick the masteries in haha!

near 30 minutes, time to refill my drink. thanks for another banger man :)

Such a great video about an amazing game. Didn't expect this level of quality when starting the video; I hope more people will appreciate the game thanks to it.

I still play both Titan Quest and Grim Dawn. Their are some down right awesome mods for Titan Quest so it still has a lot of playability.

I haven't played Grim Dawn, but thanks for the wonderful video as always. This is one of my favorite channels on KZfaq. 👍

This video is fabulous! You managed to gather all game features, compare with other games, show the difference in gameplay and provide some valuable tips. Excellent!

One of my fav ARPG's, great video man!

On the regular, my friends want to play through some new diablo clone. I play for a week with them, then come back and make a new character and run thru Grim Dawn. It's like coming home, or like a palate cleanser.

I love how astoundingly similar our taste in games really is. It's as if we were childhood neighbours :D nice video

Fantastic video as always C4G, already bought the game. Its amazing lol

My kids got me Grim Dawn for Xmas this year - My fav ARPG!

I agree with your view on the game absolutely. It has all that a good arpg should have and even more. The murky setting along with music creates great atmosphere. What i really appreciate is the great amount of lore which can be found in the game, thanks to that the world feels more consistent and living what adds a big boost to immersion. For me personally the best arpg i've played since Diablo 2.

1k hours of grimm dawn and its still my favorite ARPG. I love that they made it Possible to play with a Controller witch i can highly recommend for all new and old gd fans

Excellent video. Fantastic opening!

I love Grimdawn also. So addictive and you're true, the music is great

Grim Dawn is one of my favorite games.

Perfect video - well done! You really covered it all. Great ARPG - Highly recommend it! Highly recommend the Dawn of Masteries mod compilation as well - you really do get almost infinite class building options.

A game about The Black Legion would be nice👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Found you about a month back been watching old content, not found a video I’ve disliked amazing content man.

Best ARPG. I still play it today.

Currently playing Grim Dawn shield breaker first time play through in 2021 because of this video! Ty ty

Here we are in 2023 with a huge update (1.2) and the announcement of a new expansion! Grim Dawn smells diablo blood in the water :D

Glad your interviewed devs. Please put this info in the title or thumbnail and description box.

Grim dawn is a great game, loved it in all its glory.

No internet required? Lan coop? Better than D3? No micro bills? 10/10

Grim Dawn is my favorite ARPG.

I'ts my favourite arpg, i always come back to it.

The music, it creates the mood, very eerie and morbid! I like it. Awesome game!!!

nice intro man. puts you in perspective

Nice video! Some decent content right here!

I have just bought this, and sunk about 50 hours into it... It is superb.

i have couple of builds, and time to time i come back to the game, one of my favorits, while waiting for new ARPGs .

I just started playing this and I love it, when you kill a whole bunch of fodder with lightning for example they have a very satisfactory *splat* sound and fly all over the place. It gives you the feeling you’re really powerful,.. even at level 10 lol

Grim Dawn is my first ARPG and what a way to kick things off

Made me happy that you mention Divine Divinity. Will you make a review of this game? :O -love tom

It is a bit of slowing down after 1000 hours in Path of Exile but I now appreciate the relaxing but deep systems in Grim Dawn. Thank you for the video.

Great game. Never knew about the ties it had to Titan Quest, also a game that kept me busy for years

Definitely my favorite ARPG. If any of you still haven’t played this game, please give it a shot.

Grim dawn is starting to feel like a rare type of game. It’s got this wholesome vibe with the devs only trying to sell you expansion packs. The whole game is there for you to explore and absorb at your own rate. The coolest shit is not in a cash shop, but out in the world or from within a well done crafting system! It boggles the mind that there is no battle pass to buy! Other devs should take note of how this goes, I’ve nearly checked out of the games as a service predation we have going on that permeates nearly everything outside of indies, and I’m likely to fanboy these devs and buy without hesitation whatever comes next.

I just bought definitive edition. You're a good salesmen, haha ;)

Grim Dawn is without a doubt the best arpg ever made IMO. I legit haven't been able to enjoy another one since. Every arpg I play just makes me think "I'd rather replay Grim Dawn" I need to get a Steam Deck so I can play it on the go.

Awesome video!!! Awesome games!

1:48 LOL those games are always there

Beyond all the points here I revel in the atmosphere and sound design and aesthetic in general is a loving ode to Lovecraft. The writing reminded me of many of his short stories as well!!!

The game looks so much better and more immersive if you turn off the damage numbers and health bars over the monsters.

I'm playing Grim Dawn on a Ryzen 7 and 16gb ram but i was worried the Radeon vega 7 integrated graphics (512mb dedicated memory but shares system memory also) wouldn't quite like it but i was pleasantly surprised. I do have all the settings on low or off even though i could probably bump them up a bit, but i think it looks great, and when zooming in to look at the character the details of armor ect all look good and detailed. - Fantastic game.

Still play it to the day. D2, titan quest, and grim dawn all day baby.

You can use Core Switcher to help with the stuttering. There's also a ReShader auto-setup that improves the look of the game

Grim Dawn is hands down one of my favourite ARPG's and I've played it on and off since it was released. Anyone playing it today for the first time will fall in love with it in no time (though they will find the learning curve to be a challenge). I have over 2000hrs invested so far

9010 hours and still counting. Love this game

After 800 hour, I love it!

Retrospective? I still play this :D (I know that's not what it means)

I still randomly hum songs from this game. Easily my favorite.

MASTERPIECE!!!

This game certainly has a special place in my heart, it is one of the most remarkable games in my life... i stopped playing it recently but i got 8500 hours on steam! For so cheap it's incredible how much content you can get.

To whoever doesn't play this game yet, it worth your time. There is even a mod that increase the basic 9 classes to 55 classes (mostly from other game such as D2, D3, titan quest) and very interesting to combine 2 of them nonetheless.

Steve Prado is amazing and Grim Dawn has one of the best soundtracks in a game. Ever. Its right up there with Diablo imo and I don't say that lightly being an old school Diablo fan.

Absolutely agree. Grim Dawn is imo the best ARPG so far. And i have played them all for several hundred of hours. The pacing, the mechanics, the possibility of character buidling. Outstanding. I highly recommend the Mod Nydiamar Ultimate Version (with Diablo 3 classes available), if you have GD Vanilla played out a lot.

this is one of the best arpg ever. it will always be my number 1 arpg. can't wait to try other arpg in the future.

I love it!

You're playing grim dawn the day i redownload it:))

It's cool that now it's also available for consoles.

Regarding story in ARPGs, I think D2 is an amazing example. Solid story, occasionally interesting side quests, and amazing dialogue with most NPCs. It contributes to that game's legendary status. I'd also put GD's lore notes on a list of best-in-class story features. They're amazing!