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Crimson Dawn
Crimson Dawn is a roguelite horde survival game with RPG elements. Recruit mercenaries and survive 5 stages by fighting the hordes of evil. Unlock more characters and weapons with unique abilities. Carve your path to stop the hordes of evil once and for all!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“Crimson Dawn is a fun but basic survivors like. It's pretty clear that this game was left unfinished and you can feel it as you play. It doesn't add anything new to the genre but what is here is entertaining enough if you just want to play basic bullet heaven mechanics. I like…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“goood game but max 10h gameplay”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Not recommended - it has the same core issues as every single game in the genre - uselessly short pick up range, weapons that do not even close to enough damage, utter repetitiveness, forced to lose unless you use certain broken weapons while the rest are borderline useless and…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Crimson Dawn - Game Release!
Gamers, get ready! The time has finally come! Crimson Dawn is officially releasing from Early Access TODAY! We want to extend a huge thank you to our amazing community for their support during Early A
Crimson Dawn - Leaving Early Access on 11.04!
Attention everyone! We are thrilled to announce that Crimson Dawn is leaving early access on 11.04! And we couldn't have done it without the awesome support of our community! We just wanted to say a h
Update #4 – Map Bosses, Massive Balance Changes and Improved Optimisation!
Hey fellow adventures! It has been a while since our last update and this is the best time to introduce the new Crimson Dawn in-game changes. In update #4 we once again focused on improving the game b
Winter Major Update #3 – New Map, New Class and New Weapons!
Hey everyone! It's been more than two months since Crimson Dawn was released in Early Access and It's hard to convey how much your support motivates us to continue creating new content for the game an
Update #2 – New Class and New Weapons!
Hey everyone! It's been now almost 3 weeks since our last update and due to a recent Covid illness, we had to slightly delay the date as well as the amount of planned content for the current Crimson D
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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, Casual, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Action · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Bullet Hell · 2D · Pixel Graphics · Action RPG · 1980s · Controller · Singleplayer · Arcade (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 60 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i3 3300 Memory: 1024 MB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space