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Crimson Dawn

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!

Released Apr 11, 2023 Developer Purple Lake Platforms Windows RPGActionRogue-likeRogue-liteBullet Hell
View on Steam ↗ $3.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-19.

64.7%positive380 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“goood game but max 10h gameplay”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“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 played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

60achievements
62.0%median completion
5.8%rarest: Grim Reaper
78.7% of players 78.5% of players 78.0% of players 77.5% of players 75.5% of players 75.2% of players 75.1% of players 74.8% of players 74.2% of players 73.8% of players 73.3% of players 73.3% of players 73.3% of players 71.5% of players 71.3% of players 71.1% of players 70.8% of players 70.8% of players 69.8% of players 69.7% of players 68.5% of players 68.5% of players 67.7% of players 66.2% of players 65.9% of players 64.4% of players 62.7% of players 62.6% of players 62.3% of players 62.1% of players 62.0% of players 61.5% of players 60.5% of players 59.2% of players 58.5% of players 58.5% of players 57.0% of players 55.4% of players 53.6% of players 53.5% of players 52.7% of players 52.4% of players 52.3% of players 49.4% of players 45.8% of players 42.0% of players 41.9% of players 37.0% of players 36.7% of players 33.0% of players 31.8% of players 30.2% of players 29.5% of players 25.7% of players 25.1% of players 24.5% of players 9.9% of players 8.8% of players 7.6% of players 5.8% of players 78.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
78.7%Breakfast — Find 1 healing item in one run.
78.5%Easy Trip — Survive for 1 minute in one run.
78.0%Slayer 1 — Slay 100 monsters in one run.
Rarest badges of honor
5.8%Grim Reaper — Reach the limit for the Soul Reap attribute in one run.
7.6%Untouchable — Reach the limit for the Shadow Step attribute in one run.
8.8%Walking Fortress — Reach the limit for the Defense attribute in one run.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$3.99current · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$0.95lowest since tracking began2026-09-14
US3.99 USD
EU3.99 EUR
UK3.39 GBP
Australia5.95 AUD
Canada4.99 CAD
Japan470 JPY
Brazil13.79 BRL
China18.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$2.7 China Japan Canada US Australia UK EU≈$4.5

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $2.5 $5 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 11, 2023
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

Apr 04, 2023
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

Mar 08, 2023
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

Dec 22, 2022
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

Dec 07, 2022
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.

GenresAction, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG
Player tagsRPG · Action · Rogue-like · Rogue-lite · Bullet Hell · 2D · Pixel Graphics · Action RPG · 1980s · Controller · Singleplayer · Arcade (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish
ControllerFull support
Achievements60
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i3 3300 Memory: 1024 MB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space