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Grim Dawn is an apocalyptic fantasy ARPG that initially released back in 2016.
This game has had 3 major DLC releases since launch with a 4th new expansion recently announced for 2024.
This year I’ve covered quite a few ARPGs, I’ve revisited Last Epoch, Wolcen and Diablo 4 as well as just becoming more of an ARPG fan in general, the last time I covered Grim Dawn was back in 2016 so I decided now would be a good time for a revisit to see how it compares to newer ARPG releases, especially with the new expansion on the horizon.
What do think about Grim Dawn in 2023? Is this ARPG still work playing? what's your best class or build in Grim Dawn? let me know in the comments below!
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Grim Dawn 2023 Steam ARPG 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 effects. Smash in doors and fight house to house, leaving a path of demolished furniture in your wake.
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.
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IMO Grim Dawn is currently the BEST ARPG on the market. Been playing about 6 months now. Only game I constantly return to. Even when playing Last Epoch, D4 and Titan Quest. Loving this game!
i saw grim dawn being speedran today, was surprised
am i the only one who thinks u look like Anduin in the latest wow expansion cinematics?
Crate are releasing update 1.2 for Grim Dawn soon (expected within a month), which is adding a default universal dodge button, improving loot drop quality and reducing clutter, and taking health and mana pots out of the inventory and making them infinite on a cool-down, among other QoL changes. I hope you come back to show more of the game off to your audience after :)
Personally nearing 1000 hours in Grim Dawn and hands down it is my favourite aRPG by a mile.
what the hell they're adding dodge? dam gotta get back into this game lol
How about endgame ? It is in game ? Something like maps or dungeons ?
Dang, GD was already a good game, but this might make me reinstall again. Amazing changes.
it also runs great on steam deck... this is about to be HYPE
Sounds amazing, I'm working through Forgotten Gods DLC at the moment, looking forward to this update
I return to Grim Dawn every few months.
It sits among my most played games on Steam and agree with you on the pros and cons.
The new expansion announcement came out of nowhere following years of steady balancing and patches.
Love this game and the devs.
The really funny part, is Crate are the same people that made Farthest Frontier...such a huge diversion from GD and still good
Oh yeah, I've got 1044 hours played lol
It got old though and I have so many other games to play that I decided not to play it anymore.
@@flamerollerx01 I hear you.
I really enjoy seeing other people have fun with grim dawn. it's one of my all time favorite games.
it is an amazing game. my fav ARPG
As a new player, should i buy all dlc? or any recommendation?
@@1621lionheartnow they have the definitive edition with all dlc included
I was disappointed back when they didn't get to make Titan Quest 2, because I loved the first part at release, but Grim Dawn turned out to be amazing and has been improved like crazy over the years.
Thematically I liked Titan Quest better because the whole lore of Grim Dawn is not sufficiently conveyed, or I simply didn't get everything, but its atmosphere and music make more than up for it.
I tried this game awhile back and i couldn't get into it for some reason, i think i disliked the skills available and i also remember choosing arcanist. Might have to give it another shot.
Grim Dawn is criminally underrated. It's such a fantastic ARPG.
It could not be further from underrated. It is VERY frequently in people's best ARPGs of all time lists, it has 93% overwhelmingly positive reviews out of almost 75k reviews on steam (well above average), got 8/10s minimum when it came out in 2016, and any "grim dawn in 20xx" videos on youtube talk about how amazing it is for half an hour.
I strongly believe it is the best ARPG on the market currently.
@@_Aynix cant flex the 65 dollar horse on others you mean d4.
The video came out to early. He should have waited till 1.2 in three days. :D The game get such a massive overhaul for parts of the game like itemization (less loot, more useful stuff), endless flasks or a dash/jump button. Hope they updated the dash animation because it was really horrible in first beta.
@@ProdikiosProbably not underrated, but it is less well known compared to others like Diablo.
The pit boss you faced is based off of winners of the community pvp tournament. There are 3 of them (plus the original boss), and the one you fought was Rekt (a grim dawn youtuber/streamer). These bosses are some of the hardest normal bosses in the game.
THIS is so cool!!! Why don't games do this as a norm?!
@@Zm0rPoE also does this with a special map called Hall of Grandmasters. All the enemies in that map are copies of player builds. Though, to be fair, I love Grim Dawns implementation better as everyone gets to see it since it is part of the normal progression of the campaign rather than a rare unique map.
just WOW, i have no idea that... now make sense, super cool
@@epyjacek thats why theres trading..
@@epyjacek I can clear all the end game uber bosses, but that map still wrecks me. To this day i still haven't finished it (summoner build), probably because my build is just "PVE" content to these PVP builds.
Hands down the most fun I've had in an AARPG. And the devs are just the best.
Plus all the mods 🙂 infinite replayability, just like skyrim
Freakin awesome that you are covering Grim Dawn. This game needs way more attention than it got over the last couple of years. It is definitly in my top 10 games of all time!
Also great that you see how great it is.
I have almost 1400 hours on this game in Steam. I remember playing when the only content was up to the Warden. Always holds a special place in my heart.
grim dawn is pure class. I revisit often and create builds.
Grim Dawn is such a sleeper gem of an ARPG. One of my favorites. The exploration, the world setting and lore, the character building and gearing... it's just absolutely addictive and a joy to play!
how is a sleeper?itsthe 3rd rated action rpg on steam,its actualy nr 1 among isometric diablolike games,even above poe
@@deenman23maybe it’s number one but it’s such a chore being number one…. Makes it sleepy.
One of my favourite games! The NPC who killed you at 13:04 is named after the biggest Grim Dawn UA-camr/streamer RektByProtoss!
Ah yes, that also reminds me of the story about Praetorian Zedlee in Homestead.
Awesome thing is that those NPCs weren't just named after notable streamers. In addition to Rekt, the others that spawn in that pit area were all community PVP champions and had their exact builds replicated to basically wreck face to those who decide to peek in. Amazing to see Crate embrace their community with these subtle nods and a great way to test builds to see if they measure up!
This game has so much heart and soul. Love it, and still play it to this day.
My favorite ARPG. Forgot how many times I’ve finished it. So glad you took the time to revisit this masterpiece! Can’t wait for the update!
They also have a total "conversion" mod that adds all the classes from Diablo 2 as well as the entire games of Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 to play through. Grim Dawn is *amazing*.
This. D2 mod is one of the best. Heck of a good time!
Ah yeah reign of terror.
Grim Dawn is just amazing. I'm also replaying it ATM, running a Sentinel (Oathkeeper/Occultist) and having an absolute blast. Humorously, I began playing PoE a couple of months ago and it just made me crave that Grim Dawn goodness, so here I am.
Playing D4 sent me hurtling back to GD. Sooooooo much fun, amazing game, can't wait to see what's next!
In Path of RMT most of the viable builds are double wielding credit card ones, so totally understandable ...
@@phatschtuff @phatschtuff Uhh, WTF are you even talking about??? Microtransactions are PURELY cosmetic & do not affect gameplay AT ALL, so that is totally & completely absolutely wrong AF.
@@barryg.5224he means that most builds are not efficient or fun to run without mirror tier investment (buils power discrepancy) and even if except no lifers no ones gonna grind so much in 3-4 months. It highly rewards those though, that's why the game attacts bots and RMTER buyers & sellers, which is kinds true.
Played this years ago. I can't believe after all these years and after all shiny new ARPG coming out, this game still looks appealing to me.
Doing the achievement of killing the warden under level 10 really taught me how important it is to use your at will town portal to save your progress through a map, something I didn't see you doing much.
Grim Dawn >>>>> D3 and D4
Seriously though, it's a criminally underrated game and I'm glad to see you're doing a video on it
big agree
how is literaly the nr 1 rated isometric arpg on steam ''underrated''?
Thank you for bringing Grim Dawn back into my mind. I have over 300 hours in this game that I've built up over time, and for some reason I'd forgotten about it. I'm diving back in tonight, and I couldn't be more excited.
I absolutely love the replayability of this game, while you're running around finding loot for other builds, and stashing away loot in the shared chest, you could find a great combo of items that make you just want to roll a new class for a build idea that just pops out of the amazing itemization.
300? you gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
@@Only1BandIsTheBand thanks to this video, those hours are on the way up for sure haha
Exactly this. Finding items for other build makes you want to try other builds. And there's so much of that, it sends excitement through the roof
As an altoholic, the end game for me is pretty much just finding loot for a new toon 😅
That is another one of my favorite things about Grim Dawn, you start getting cocky, thinking your OP, and then a boss stomps you and makes you kite it and play it multiple times to beat it lol. Ya know I usually don't like "lets play style videos" but you cut this one together really well so that it felt like a fun experience seeing you experience the game instead of TONS of boring downtime that an uncut version would bring. You've got my like and subscribe sir, good work!
One thing I really appreciate about Grim Dawn is that you can make builds that you can't make in any other ARPG. You can do full-defense/retaliation, for example. There are so many different possibilities and the builds are almost always really strong
Thorns were in Diablo 2 though?
While I agree with you that grim dawn gives a lot of choice in terms of build creation...and may even allow for stuff that you don't see in other games, using thorns was a pretty bad example since even D3 has thorns.
@@davidrosensin7985 yeah the reflected dmg build is pretty much a staple of arpgs
Over 500 hours in this game. It's a beautiful ARPG! Easily best ARPG I've ever played. The dual class system is so good and it lets you replay the game in so many ways!
Glad to see you enjoy one of my top 3 favourite ARPGs. Shame you didn't make this video like a week later, after 1.2 dropped. Lots of QoL updates like a dedicated dodge and unlimited health and spirit potions
I have been playing Grim Dawn since some early betas, I have over 1000 hours in it, I have leveled over a dozen different characters to 100 and I still occasionally come back to it with the thought of "well, THIS one new build might be interesting...". And I have beaten every single boss and difficult encounter, except one super secret joke boss, without ever looking at any build guides. To be fair, I don't think that boss is really beatable with most classes in the game anyways - requires a very specific type of abuse to beat.
In just a couple days when Crate releases the 1.2 patch, I will take one of my old not-so-well-performing characters to make a new build for it. I already have a lot of ideas.
Grim Dawn is one of those games where you can definitely succeed without looking up the meta builds, with your own build ideas, without being a cakewalk. You definitely need to think and calculate your builds for them to succeed, and you will run into dead ends occasionally, but you will almost always be able to fix them.
A wonderful game. Keep playing it! I can't wait for you to find out all the cool stuff still in storage. And yes, the game definitely doesn't end at 100! You still have a lot of fun min-maxing and building left after hitting 100. And then rolling new characters, trading gear between them, trying out new builds and so on. Grim Dawn even has extra XP items & potions to make leveling go that much faster, just so you can try out fun new things.
Playing this gem since its first release in 2016. Devs are really amazing. They listen to their players and always updating beyond expectations!
so, I bought the game yesterday, being as easily influenced as I am, and currently between content in my mina game, FF14. I'm also going the easy 1 button notion you present here, :p , being also a big fan of simpler! it's rocking. Built my first relic , too, with the currency Warden dropped. One tip I received after posing the question to the steam GD community: as I bought the full package and expacs, once I kill the Warden, I was offered to go to the FG expacs. I took the quest, popped in, but went back to finish the OG expac content. in fact, the community suggested complete OG>then ashes> then FG. So, I'll go that route. They also suggested looking up build guides etc, which for now, I have no intention, as long as my uber 1 button build holds. I killed Warden simply enough, only 1 death in 10 hours of play, and not on the warden. Thanks again, LP! Oh, and I Love the music in this game. freakin sweet!
One of my top 5 games of all time. Love that you saw the value of the game and what it does well
Yo, one of the most enjoyable videos you've done. You and your editor did a great job- instant buy.
Glad to see you enjoyed one of my favorite aRPGs. If you ever happen to revisit it, please consider using the tools "Grim Internals" and "Rainbow Filters" to enhance your experience. Grim Internals will help you control some of the UI aspects of the game and you can also adjust the overall game clock speed to make the game a little faster if the default pace is a little too slow. Rainbow filters will basically fix what's wrong with the loot filtering system with no further adjustments needed.
It's a really good game indeed and the developers are amazing.
For years they wanted to do something else because some of them had been doing nothing but ARPGs for 20 years, since Titan Quest, and the engine is now old and hard to maintain / improve.
And they did with "Farthest Frontier", but they never stopped caring about the game and their fans and pumped out patches with such an amount of changes, additions and bugfixes that they put almost every other studio to shame.
Can't wait to see the new expansion. Especially the planned QoL improvements will make the game feel a bit more modern.
The new expansion was one of the biggest surprises of this year along with TitanQuest 2 announcement. I too thought the game was done when the devs said they wanted to move on to something. I don't blame them for feeling like that at all and was ready to support their next project. With their passion and dedication I believe they can make any genre amazing.
@@BrendonLee I bought Farthest Frontier pretty much blindly because of how well they kept supporting GD and I didn't regret it, though it still has some very flawed logistics.
The Warden's most dangerous attack is his crossbow, but he won't use it if you stay in melee (It's Crate's way to balance melee v range classes, giving monsters/bosses an extra mechanic that they only do when you are out of melee range)
Grim Dawn is both simultaneously the most overlooked ARPG ever, and also the greatest.
Nothing compares, everything else just makes you want to go back to Grim Dawn
Only recently discovered this game after being disappointed with D4. I cant get enough. Such a great game, and it feels like the devs actually care about making a fun game for players to enjoy. I watched another video saying this game was a love letter to classic RPGs but to me it also feels like a love letter to their fans. I know we wont get a sequel any time soon, but when we do, I absolutely will be picking it up on day one.
lets hope titan quest 2 is similar to this and not diablo
GD is one of the best ARPGs ever created if you can get past the visual aspect, which in 2023 is outdated. It has a lot of stuff in it though, and the new expansion that's been recently announced will literally add whole new systems to the game. It has that classic ARPG feel to it.
The best thing is that GD 2 is planned already so there will be a continuation of this masterpiece. Probably a competitor to D5 rather than D4 though.
Grim dawn graphics looks fine though? I can't understand why most people consider the graphics outdated@@DoctorStrange01
Grim Dawn is one of my personal favourite ARPGs. I love the classes, the builds you can make and the post apocalyptic world. My first class was a demolitionist whose build I based on a 40k space marine. But my absolute favourite was the necromancer, it was so much fun sending an army of undead minions to maul anything which got in my way.
Grim dawn is the type of game where you can spend as much time (or more) theorycrafting builds as you do playing it. Its just a great game.
Had this game in my steam library for years, I guess its finally time to give it a try, I absolutely love the artstyle.
You won’t be disappointed :D
Yup, when I first saw the _screenshots_ on GOG I didn't like it too much (largely due to a fact that the GOG screenshots for base game seem to be too dark). But I decided to give it a try anyway and I actually love what it looks like in motion!
@@strixcz The map is "hand drawn" i.e. not procedurally generated, apart from mobs and breakables,. the rest is designed by hand, the assets meticulously placed to fit an atmosphere for an act/zone/subzone. Crate devs know their thing and know how to execute it well.
@@PhilipAlexanderHassialis I know. I've already spent hundreds of hours with GD and I also visit their forum so this is nothing new to me ;)
I'm surprised you haven't tried the best ARPG in your steam library
Another note, at the top of the map, there are 'mutators' which modify the monsters (and you sometimes), and some of those can make bosses nearly impossible.
I just had a look through steam 30 day reviews to confirm what I felt in my heart. That this is the best ARPG to date. To my happiness, I found that the nearest contender on steam is Last Epoch at a full 8 points lower!!
It's not even close on the 30 day. Grim Dawn beats everything hands down. So, congratulations Crate Entertainment, and cheers to a bright/grim future in the world of Cairn!
Played it multiple times. Highly recommend it even over PoE and Diablo 4.
Although I'd say it is only worth playing through once as there isn't randomized maps but that's fine because that alone would take you over 100 hours
"Although I'd say it is only worth playing through once" -- I think its fun doing it with difference classes
also the main goal is to beat this game in all difficulty level, the first level is a joke compared to elite level
I've had the game and its expansions gathering dust in my steam library for ~3 years, never tried it once. Picked it up to play last weekend, been playing since, and it's so good! Just finished all acts on ultimate on an Eye of Reckoning Warlord and had blast.
Grim Dawn by far is one of the best ARPG's out there, love it that you covered it!
I'm honestly so glad you're shining light to this aRPG. Its such an underrated gem and not only is it finally getting love from the devs, someone like you, a bigger youtuber, is shining light upon it. Its literally EVERY aRPG happy medium. A solid A towards a ranking system of F-S.
I'd even put it at S tier tbh
This may have been one of those 'gold star' Kickstarter backings for me ^_^ Seriously, these guys knocked it out of the park.
And their follow-up? A bloody town builder that is amazing as well. The heck!? Farthest Frontier for those curious.
Farthest Frontier is decent but honestly it was a hugely missed opportunity they went with generic America/European theme rather than to just set it in the world of Grim Dawn. I have played a million colony games that have such a similar theme that Farthest Frontier really doesn't stand out.
@@Frostea Fair, though at the same time that is kinda the most common setting for these things. The few outliers that are post apocc tend to all be zombie survival, and that IS kinda Grimm Dawn at the end of the day (At least a fair chunk) so I can see them wanting to get away from that.
Funny thing, at the time when they announced what they were working on, I thought it was going to be an expansion of Grimm, and commented about that on their FB page. They said I was pretty off the mark and that it was a new game, but DID really like the idea of trying to do your own outposts in GD, so who knows, if they dont shelve things, maybe we will get something weirder down the line ;)
@@Tillman581 I lump post apoc into the same pile of "million colony games" given that few of them really do anything creative. What I mean by creative is something like Timberborn, where the handling of water really makes or breaks your colony, or Against the Storm that brilliantly melds the rogue-like genre into colony building.
I read an interview where they were really worried about staying in the ARPG space. The main competitor to Grim Dawn, Path of Exile, is free to play, and they wanted to create a game that was completely different, because they didn't want to compete with "free." I'm pleasantly surprised they came back to GD. It sounded as though they might be done forever. @@Frostea
@@aarons3014 that's fair. I do think that game companies need to be very aware of how their IPs can turn out. That is to say that they should fully leverage the world's that they have built, not let it languish in obscurity. It was definitely a misstep to leave such a richly built world behind.
As someone with 3000+ hrs logged in Grim Dawn I'm so happy to see more streamers give it a go. The game has a lot more depth than you even realize initially, I had to play through the game many times before I even fully understood how to farm runes, blacksmith crafting, the importance of resistance stacking, all the hidden devotion points and the need for defensive cds.
The mix and match class system, devotion tree and runes/sigils allow for endless customization. Once you're hooked and start getting loot for other build types you immediately start new characters to try them out. Dual wield frost reaper, super tank self healing totem warden, 2h gun toting elementalist throwing grenades and using magic shield spells, etc.
The new expansion is adding a barbarian werewolf/animal summoning build that will allow for 9 new class combos, I'm excited.
This game is what you would call a hidden gem. I remember when i played it the first time a couple of years ago and over one weekend i had 27 hours played on Steam. Its a really fun and amazing game with a classic arpg vibe.
how is it hidden when its literaly the nr 1 rated isometric rpg and 3rd action rpg on steam?
Grim Dawn is also my favorite ARPG. Glad to see it bringing joy to others.
Awesome review. Every time I go back and play more I discover a new depth to the game I never knew about before.
Also, the real fun begins in Ultimate difficulty - enjoy!
Yoo my fav ARPG, nice that it gets more attention and coverage!
I'm really hyped for the next dlc.
Thanks for the great video. 😊
Sorry for bullying you in the pit :P
GD is my favorite game, I am already 2k hours in and cleared all content in SC and HC and have to say you did a great job starting out and showing the beauty of building a character in this game! Using components on gear as soon as possible, specializing 1 spell for max dps, getting 1 point passive bonuses while having +1 to all skills in the class, and just having fun and trying stuff out while presenting fair criticism. Really liked your video!
I have been waiting for this review for years, so happy to see you picked it up again, its solid solid 9/10 and i think i put in most hours out of any ARPG on this one, maybe titan quest in 2023 next?
Glad to see you had as much fun and awe while revisiting Grim Dawn as I have! 100 hours B.D.IV and 550+ hours A.D.IV (Before & After D4)
Yessssssss! Such a underrated gem
Tips for new player's:
Enable AutoPickUp
Increase Minimap Size (Yellow button next to the energy bar)
Try Hardcore. If you do, store items in your "Shared Stash". You keep those items on all characters. You also keep every blue print.
I never went back to softcore.
The aRPG I have the most hours in and just started playing AGAIN again again for the eleventeenth time.
Ty for giving this game some spotlight. It seems like Diablo and path of exile get all the praise when it comes to arpgs but I've had the most fun with Grim Dawn. I can make whatever build I want work and have a blast doing it. Hope to see you in the new expansion!
Grim Dawn is a masterpiece.
You are mostly right about what you said but there is a small caveat. You were playing on normal where essencially anything works, pick a skill you like, invbest all towards making it better and you can just push through no problem. Elite that's harder to make it work but you can still brute force it albeit with much more difficulty. Ultimate however you will need a fairly well tunned machine of a build or you will keep banging your head against a wall and the wall won't give in first.
On another note, 1.2 comes out tomorrow and it comes with a lot of QoL improvements. Less loot drops but much better drops to address the issue of lots of junk droping while overall giving more good stuff. You can acutally level up to 100 in normal difficulty too instead of having to go through all difficulties which can help you level up a build and there are many other good stuff.
On a side note, yeah, necromancers are fun. You know what's better than to kill thousands of enemies? Having minions do it for you. You are above needing to dirty your hands xD.
I hope they will do Grimm dawn 2
it's been talked about
I think its pretty much confirmed they're building the new engine for it
They are going to start development on grim dawn 2 as soon as the new engine is complete
Just from curiosity, why? What would or could Grimm dawn 2 do better than the original version?
I’m definitely a casual ARPG player but have had a lot of fun playing this game. Dual wielding fiery pistols, throwing molotovs and electric spike traps. Demolitionist/Inquisitor has been a blast.
this is a much better game than Diablo 4
better and more diverse class builds
better lore and story
more diverse environments
environments that actually change when you complete certain quests (like the farmlands quests and the fabrics quests)
the reputation system is very cool
better items
actually allows you to put points into stats
the only thing I don't like is the rag doll deaths of some enemies
This perfectly describes the state I and my brother were in when Grim Dawn first came out. Just couldn't stop playing until noticed the morning light was peeking through the window.
the fully 3d world and movable camera is what really stands out compared to other arpgs. like how is it that newer arpgs dont have a 3d camera??
Grim Dawn is a great game with a lot of variety. And if you ever get bored with the classes there are mods that change/rebalance/add them, for example the absolute monstrocity of a mod - Dawn of Masteries, which adds 53(?) more classes (basically merges the most popular class mods into 1 huge one) which, of course, can be multiclassed.
Oh, and Rainbow Filter mod is such a huge QoL mod. It highlights stats on items in different colors so it's way easier to quickly check if it's any good. Huge recommend.
Best ARPG ever made right behind Diablo 2 and yes that includes D3 and D4 and POE. This game is absolutely incredible
Oh man, Arcanist with Panettis is so fun! My old main was a full-on summoner necromancer (with occultist as second class). You should absolutely give that a try, it’s really fun. Really glad that you enjoyed the game. GD is the spiritual successor to Diablo 2, and is such a great game! I personally believe it’s the best arpg out there. 😊
My favourite part of this game is the dual class system. By mixing and matching different classes, you can completely change now the build is played. Usually most people will build 1 class as the main class, with the second class used for its passives and support skills. One class for offence, one class for defence.
This game is already my all time favorite arpg and I'm glad to see it pop on youtube with reviews so many years after. Goes to show, it takes a good and dedicated team to make a great game, not a multi million / billion dollar studio.
I would say, for the most part, everything is easy to understand except 3 things (4 if you count armor and that each body part is attacked randomly).
1 is damage conversion. You can only convert damage once, and if it is over 100%, it is scaled down to 100%. Transmuters (skill points that alter a skill) and MIs (special items) that convert damage happen first. If you have 2, they happen at the same time and go over 100%. Global conversion comes next.
2. Resistance Reduction. -XX% Resistance Reduction stacks. This is also the first one that is applied. If you have a very high -XX% RR, the other types aren't as valuable, such as when both classes you are playing have this. Every 1% of this is a major damage boost, as this can actually take Resistances into the negative. Next is flat RR, like "Reduces targets Resistances by XXX" which applies after all the -XX% RR has been applied. This can not take a target below 0. This stat is important for a lot of bosses, because most have around 90 resistance to certain damage types, and with this plus your -XX% RR, you get them to 0 resistance. The third time is XX% Reduced target's resistance. This takes the remaining amount of the target's resistance (as it is the third to apply) and reduces it by a %. If they still have 100 resistance and you have 30% reduced RR, they now have 70, but if they have 10 after all your resistance shred, they have 7, so its value is not high is a double RR build, but it is invaluable in a single RR build.
3. Default weapon replacers (DARs) and Weapon Pool Skills (WPSs). DARs basically are modified default attacks. WPSs proc off of default attacks and DARs. The Damage a WPS does is added to your default attack or your DAR, so having a DAR means your WPS do more damage. WPSs can only get to 100%, and if your total is above 100%, then it is scaled down. DW has a natural WPS (attack with MH, OH and both weapons), but this is scale crushed up to 100%, but from everything I've tested, it can never be 0%, so when DW, you want to aim for 97%, not 100%. If you have a transmuter or MI that changes the damage type of your DAR, every WPS that procs from that DAR will have the same conversion applied to it.
There are a few other confusing things, but nothing that really hampers enjoyment (even those don't really matter that much)
Grim Dawn is my #1 top game of all time. I have countless hours in it and bought it and the expansions in both Steam and Gog. It's easy to just pick up and play for whatever length of time you want, and that time, is full of addictive action.
Grim dawn is actually one of the few ARPG's where choices actually matter as does reading some of the quest logs, something alot of people these days can't handle, its all about rushing through it all these days.
I've been playing this game since early access and its just alot of fun, both in how many options u have on how to build your character as well.
Its also one of the few offline ARPG's out there, so if u have bad internet just play this game(or Torchlight).
I love how u can use 2 classes, and how it changes the dialogue and choices u can do becouse some factions don't like who u are becouse of your class.
It also has alot of secrets, like hidden areas that u don't see on the map and even secret quests!
Have alot of fun with it and just enjoy it all.
The timing of this video, holy... I literally just typed "Grim Dawn state 2023" and your video popped up. :-D
I'll also say that it's also rather unique due to the more 'modern' post apoc setting. We have guns and clockwork contraptions, while it's really 'just another ranged weapon' in the end, it gives that Van Hellsing vibe I really like, the big hats certainly help there lol.
Grim Dawn is the spiritual successor to Titan Quest, if you like Grim Dawn you should really give Titan Quest a go, yes it’s old but it’s amazing and Titan Quest 2 have just been announced 🥳🥳🥳
I was completely obsessed with this game at one point. The needing to go to bed but really not wanting to, is so understandable. This makes me want to redownload and take it for another spin. Didn't know about the upcoming DLC. Probably will dive right into that when it comes.
Grim Dawn and the older game Titan Quest are APRG's I returned to every other year or so. I have well over a thousand hours in each one. Both are my two favorite rpgs since D2 back in the day.
TQ2 is coming in the nearish future
I played the game a bit when it first came out. Then the pandemic hit and I realized there was some DLCs. I then put around 600 hours into the game during the early part of the pandemic. I beat this game multiple times on Hardcore and tried so many different kind of builds.
Happy to see you return to this game and loved the video
Would love for you to revisit/go over the big 1.2 update changes! These are just things you don't see from most devs. Absolutely love crate for this
I watched this a few months ago, and I watched your original video too. It's great to see that you're enjoying this wonderful game. I have gotten 4 toons to lvl 100, and I still have so many more I want to play.
Grim Dawn's predecessor, Titan Quest, was my 2nd favorite ARPG after Diablo 2 and Grim Dawn reclaimed that title. After Diablo 3, Path of Exile, Last Epoch and a handfull of other ARPGs, I settled on GD and didn't look back. Cool dual mastery (class) system, decent itemization and crafting, huge build variety, well crafted world, good visuals and audio, gameplay that feels just right in terms of pacing and complexity, nice mods and a fact that there's no modern monetization fuckery cemented Grim Dawn as my main ARPG. I hope more people discover how good it is.
Grim Dawn rocks. The rarity order is yellow, green, blue, and purple. The end game is a trip, grinding for end-game gear with my sorc, doing about 47K dps.
One other main thing I love about Grim Dawn is there are mods available where you can change just about anything, you can make the enemies harder, more numerous, drop more exp, give you more gold, less gold, anything you want.
Don't forget my man how much fun you had when you first played Last Epoch! I am loving Last Epoch and have over 400 hours on it and that's coming from someone who has probably over 1500 hours of POE.
at some point you will need a proper build :) and gear set with maxed resistances and life leech. i remember playing like this and i hit the brick wall at Elite difficulty.
Fun facts: i played with my friend as Blademaster and he played i think Sorcerer. I was unable to drop/complete my armor set for Blademaster, because i had caster drops like all the time. From 100 items dropped i was able to use maybe one or two items. My friend had exactly the same with melee drops. So we were aware of items we need and eventually we were able to complete out sets. I remember i was missing one crucial item for my build for hundreds of hours and at one point i got message from my friend with screenshot "i got this, it is it ?" i was screaming of joy ...
Or at some points rocking at Ultimate difficulty i got this INSANE 2 hander sword for Reaper/Death Knight. The item you make a build around it. The item dropped and i was like "what the f ..." and i knew i need to create another character because at that time you were unable to change classes once you picked two (only with mods/trainers and i did not want to do that). The sword requirement was level 100, so huraaaaay lets start leveling again ...
Its so amazing seeing Grim Dawn revitalized this year! GD has been my number one arpg for a long time now. I've been running new characters on the new beta patch and its been a nice breath of fresh air and I cant wait till the xpac!
I have played this game many times but always stopped fairly far into the game. But you definitely made me get a spark to start playing again.
To add to a plus, Grim Dawn also has awesome controller support. It's one of my favorite games to play on my Steam Deck because of that.
I bought it and it’s the only game I’m playing now. Went back on Steam and bought all the Packs for support. I don’t even think about other ARPG’s now because they don’t have the charm Grim Dawn has. 10/10.
I cannot stop smiling watching this video, Grim Dawn is suchhhhhh an amazing/awesome game! So much so that, after playing for hundreds & hundreds (& hundreds!!!) of hours on PC, I bought an Xbox just to play it on console. Over 730 hours on PC, now I'm starting over & I'm excited!
So much fun, so much build diversity, & testing new builds is fun. Cannot wait for the next expansion!
Great stuff, glad you enjoyed it, not being able to just stop playing & log off is always a good indicator of how much fun a game is, love it!
So cool to see grim dawn receive some love after all these years. It might not be as flashy as poe/diablo, but its atmosphere is just taking you in.
I have so many games back logged to play as a dad gamer, but after watching you Mr Peon I've just reinstalled Grim Dawn for the 5th time since I bought it to make another character and go deep into the DPS madness.
What have you done to me?!
I just started playing Grim Dawn. After spending many, many hours in Diablo II and D2R it's so nice to focus on a fresh game experience rather than min-maxing.
There is a ton of epic and legendary gear that have interesting abilities and look amazing in transmog. Large shared stash means having alt characters is fun and rewarding. The biggest thing I did not see here is defense/resistances. These become a major part of your gear setups and low resistances/armor can lead to very quick deaths, as evidenced numerous times in this video. Bosses faceroll you when they can exploit weaknesses in your setup.
Saw it was on sale on Steam and can’t believe I’ve just now found and learned about this game, as someone who loved Diablo II Grim Dawn is a gem.
One of my favorite games of all time. I come back and play again every year or two.
It's kind of nice having a not online arpg to play sometimes . The game is so satisfying to try new builds in every time .
Crate just keeps updating it over time and adding even more, even when you think they are done.
Couldn't believe they announced another expansion.
Some pieces of advice: Spend attribute points of health increase and build full resistances asap. Glass cannon is not the way. Every death is punished by xp loss. Look out for defensive skills and devotions esp. health regen. Beware of the floor, you can be killed just by standing in some acidic stuff while browsing your inventory.
for whatever reason I feel like this game doesn't stream well but I would 10000000000000% recommend anyone that likes this genre to purchase this game. The first 20 levels are kinda rough but it goes quick. Look up a simple guide to understand what you should do to get your skill and devotion points. You dual class which is super cool and you can pretty much build and play whatever you want. If you want to be a be a ranged/melee/summoner/reflector of damage, whatever you want to do it's there. There are basic rules you want to follow to have a successful build. Grim Tools is a really good tool, rainbow filter. If anyone is a Last Epoch player, Grim Tools is the same platform.
I'm an older gamer and I remember the days when you got a complete game for the box price. ARPG's also happen to be my jam, all the way back to the days of d1 and d2. Grim Dawn is the best ARPG I have ever played hands down. You haven't even scratched the surface of all the available content. There are a multitude of super bosses and hidden quests once you reach the endgame and some of your justified complaints were just addressed in patch 1.2 a few days ago. I can not recommend this game enough to anyone out there. As an important aside there is a community run seasonal mod if you ever feel like taking on the game from a fresh start.