Grim Dawn
2016 action role-playing game
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- Grim Dawn is an action role-playing game for Windows developed by Crate Entertainment and published in February 2016.
- Developed using the Titan Quest engine, it is set in a thematically dark fictional world loosely based on the Victorian era.
- Plot Grim Dawn takes place in Cairn, a setting in which humanity has been brought to near extinction by a trans-dimensional war.
- Using what was learned from these entities, they open a portal to bring one into their own dimension and learn that the Aetherials could possess humans, and that these humans would retain enhanced abilities after the spirit was removed from the host.
- This attracted the attention of another race known as the Cthonians, who declared war to destroy humanity before it could be completely dominated.
Grim Dawn is an action role-playing game for Windows developed by Crate Entertainment and published in February 2016. A version for Xbox One was released in December 2021. Developed using the Titan Quest engine, it is set in a thematically dark fictional world loosely based on the Victorian era. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and had sold 7 million units (including its DLC) by February 2022.
Plot
Grim Dawn takes place in Cairn, a setting in which humanity has been brought to near extinction by a trans-dimensional war.
The conflict begins when the humans in the setting begin to contact Aetherial entities from another dimension. Using what was learned from these entities, they open a portal to bring one into their own dimension and learn that the Aetherials could possess humans, and that these humans would retain enhanced abilities after the spirit was removed from the host. The people then released more Aetherials into the world, who themselves opened more portals and would intend to use humanity for their own purposes.
This attracted the attention of another race known as the Cthonians, who declared war to destroy humanity before it could be completely dominated. The war caused enormous numbers of casualties to the human population and damaged the fabric of reality, causing additional horrors to manifest.
The remaining human survivors reside in scattered enclaves, observing the war to learn of their enemies' weaknesses and using powers gained from exposure to the warp to prepare to retaliate at the invaders.
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