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9th Dawn III
9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is a massive open world RPG/dungeon crawler packed full of content – featuring more than 270 monsters to fight and capture, a fun card game with 180 cards to collect, and over 1,400 unique items to hoard!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“this is straight up drova with creature taming with up to twenty active pets at one time after you level up the skill by first leveling up cooking with apple juice and eventually selling boring broth gettin cash then buying monster bait and dropping it around mobs levels it up…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Very fun game and have a good open world.”
— a player, Steam review · 52 hrs played“As wide as an ocean, as deep as a puddle. This game has loads of content but is very shallow for an RPG. It's a fine game if you want to turn your brain off and kill some mobs. However, the level design isn't really "open world", with tons of locked doors you need to go through…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:03 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Small Windows 11 fix
Fixed a small issue with the launcher to ensure it launches the game properly on newer Windows 11 PCs
Unity Security Issue Fix
Today, Unity notified developers about a security issue with all Unity apps, advising developers to update their apps for PC and Android. This game has now successfully been updated with the new secur
Update to fix pet reviving bug hopefully!
There has been a niche pet revival bug that's been eluding me for a while.. with some help from a community member I think this may potentially be resolved? I also added a little link to the new game
9th Dawn Remake game announcement!
I am proud to announce my new game '9th Dawn Remake' - a full remake of the original game which started the 9th Dawn series 12 years ago. Watch the Teaser Trailer and wishlist on Steam! https://store.
New patch :)
-Fixed shops roguelike mode with controller -Fixed armour not working -Fixed obscure pet reviving bug -Fixed shop sell price going down as bartering increased bug -Increased droprate of Valchist Heart
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Hack and Slash · Dungeon Crawler · Collectathon · Twin Stick Shooter · Exploration · Open World · RPG · Fishing · Hunting · Mining · Action-Adventure · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 50 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://valorware.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Pentium 4 or better Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics Storage: 750 MB available space Sound Card: Integrated