I haven't touched Grim Dawn in ages, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I first wrote about it 16 years ago (for a completely different site), when Crate Entertainment was fiddling around with something called "crowd contributed" game development: Give people an opportunity to pay now so they can play later, and kick in a few extras to make it worth their while. It took longer than expected to come out—instead of arriving in 2011 as planned, Grim Dawn launched in 2016—but the end result was well worth the wait.
Crate Entertainment has stuck with it since, adding two expansions, a handful of smaller DLC, and numerous updates, and despite not having the cachet of, say, Diablo or Path of Exile, Grim Dawn remains a big favorite among fans of the action RPG genre, racking up a "very positive" user rating across nearly 88,000 user reviews on Steam. But with yesterday—February 25—marking the game's 10th anniversary, it's finally time to wrap things up.
