Grim Core (Demo)

Ash falls on the Ashfields, and the dead walk.

Grim Core is a hand-drawn dark fantasy action RPG in the spirit of the classic loot hunters. Pick one of six heroes, fight through crypts and warrens full of the restless dead, and hunt for the item that changes everything.

Free demo: Chapter I, The Ashen Plague

Play the whole first chapter in your browser. No download, no account.

• The village of Emberwick and the wide, open Ashfields
• Two dungeons with their bosses: the Hollow Warden in the Hollow Crypt and the Gloom Mother in the Gloom Warrens
• The first main quest and four side quests
• All six classes, male or female, up to level 10

Features

• Six classes, six ways to fight. Knight, Barbarian, Ranger, Mage, Assassin and Healer, each with its own resource and a skill tree with three branches.
• Loot worth the hunt. Common to Legendary, random affixes, legendary powers, and tooltips that compare every find with what you wear.
• A world that bites back. Hundreds of monsters across the Ashfields, rare elites with deadly affixes that the map won't warn you about, Ash Rifts that tear open around you, and a traveling peddler with rare wares.
• Gather, brew and forge. Collect herbs, ore, darkwood and ash crystals. Ilsa brews your potions, Brann forges your gear.
• Drawn in ink. Every hero, monster and ruin is drawn in ink, under flickering torches, falling ash and a blood moon.
• Play your way. Keyboard and mouse or a controller, and every key can be rebound. English, German and Italian.

Controls

• WASD walk · Left mouse attack · 1–4 and right mouse skills · Space dodge roll · Q health potion
• E talk, pick up, open · I or Tab inventory · C character · K skills · J quest book · M map · T scroll of return · Esc menu
• Controllers (Xbox layout) work too.

Good to know

• Click the game once so it gets your keyboard. The fullscreen button at the bottom right gives the best view.
• Your hero is saved in your browser, every minute and whenever you switch tabs. Clearing this site's data deletes the save.
• Made for desktop browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox). There are no touch controls.

The full game

Grim Core is in development. The full game adds four more dungeons with their bosses (Thornbarrow, the Old Mine, the Drowned Catacombs and the Burned Abbey), the rest of Act I, the world boss on Scorched Hill, companions, and free roam up to level 60. Acts II and III will follow. Follow Spirevale Games on itch.io to hear when it comes out.

Credits

Made by Spirevale Games.
Music: "Darkness March" and "Dark Quest" by Alexandr Zhelanov (CC-BY 4.0), "Meloncholy Town" by VWolfdog (CC-BY 3.0), "Colossal Boss Battle Theme" by Matthew Pablo (CC-BY 3.0), "Orchestral Battle Music" by Lisboa (CC-BY 3.0), all from OpenGameArt.org. Full credits are in the game.

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