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An action RPG with hack and slash combat, Grim Dawn offers dark fantasy loot collection. Released in 2016, it has garnered 89,398 Steam reviews with a 94% positive rating. Crate Entertainment self-published this title.
Overview
Grim Dawn is a 2016 Action game developed by Crate Entertainment and published by Crate Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 90,618 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Crate Entertainment with publisher Crate Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 5.2 million to 12.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Grim Dawn can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
90,618
Positive
94%
Steam appid
219990
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
5,711
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.05.2M to 12.1M
units (median: 8.6M)
≈ $73.7M to $172.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_94% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Grim Dawn at roughly 5.2 million to 12.1 million copies, with a median around 8.6 million, derived from its 90,618 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $122.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
50 observed days · window low $2.49Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-26.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Action RPGHack and SlashLootIsometricDark FantasyRPGDungeon CrawlerCo-opSingleplayerCharacter CustomizationDarkMultiplayerAdventureFantasyActionAtmosphericPost-apocalypticCraftingModdableChoices Matter
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Grim Dawn sold?
- indielist estimates Grim Dawn has sold between 5,165,226 and 12,052,194 units (median 8,608,710), derived from its 90,618 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Grim Dawn?
- Grim Dawn was developed by Crate Entertainment and published by Crate Entertainment.
- Who published Grim Dawn?
- Grim Dawn was published by Crate Entertainment, developed by Crate Entertainment. See Crate Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Grim Dawn released?
- Grim Dawn was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Grim Dawn have on Steam?
- Grim Dawn has 90,618 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
- Is Grim Dawn worth playing?
- Steam players rate Grim Dawn 94% positive across 90,618 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Grim Dawn can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Torchlight II, Last Epoch, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr, Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Crate Entertainment's other releases and Crate Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Grim Dawn sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Grim Dawn page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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