Grim Dawn
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $16.92.
- Length
- 21.6h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or ATI Radeon X800 series or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in December 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $16.92 BANGER line 74 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Path of Exile (free, scores 75) and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ($14.99, scores 60).
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 2,964 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
Finishing takes 21.6 hours; clearing it takes 245, which is 11 times the campaign.
It came out 10 years ago and 2.4K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
66% start to 32% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
2,376 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Horrible co-op experience Pros: Very decent game, especially for the price when it's on sale. There's a surprising amount to do and discover, with plenty of different builds and classes to experiment with. Respeccing is easy, which makes trying out different builds pretty painless. I also really liked the portal system for getting around quickly. The secret quests were some of the more fun parts of the game, and the...
This is not a game for employed people. If there are things in your life that demand any amount of time or attention--actually, if there are other things in your life at all, you simply cannot contribute the required time, energy and emotional labor needed to complete this game on Normal mode. It's a skill issue. If I was still 23, waiting tables and drinking cough syrup in my parents' basement, I'd probably love...
I don't give a fuq about the story. But this game turned me into a gamer again-to the point where I was late for work because of a lack of sleep, lol.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Grim Dawn scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/219990/grim-dawnThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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