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Dawn of the Ashen Queen
Dawn of the Ashen Queen is a classic grid-based dungeon crawler. Set out with your party to reveal the legacy of a millennia old curse in a narrative-rich experience. Explore the colorful world of Eshavon, unearth its many secrets and fight dangerous foes sent out to stop you in your mission.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“Highly reccomended if you like grid based RPGS with live combat. I do!”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs played“It’s a real-time combat blobbers where you click the weapon to attack and then have a cooldown, very Eye of the Beholder style, but the difference here is that Eye was fun, had an actual systems based stats and classes and spells and gear, and this game is just a mess of ideas…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2024-11 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 1.8
The last incremental updates brought the following changes: - improved monster animations - improved 2D graphics - fixed a number of text errors - fixed a number spell effects which were rendering inc
Patch 1.7
Small Update: - increased visibility of item "glimmer" when "Visual Effects" settings are below "Epic" - removed a few test items which were accidently left behind in the last patch
Patch 1.6
The last incremental updates brought the following changes: - large mouse cursor option is now available in the options menu - Final Bastion 2 puzzles now work as intended to be more challenging - Hau
Patch 1.5
Patch 1.5 brings the following changes: - changed a number of encounters throughout the game to make them more challenging and unique - reworked monsters stats and modificators, making the game a bit
Patch 1.4
The last couple of incremental updates brought the following changes: Changes It is now possible to load the quicksave from the main menu. Fixes - changed the labels and names for "Path" and "Stat" po
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Dungeon Crawler · Exploration · CRPG · Grid-Based Movement · Story Rich · RPG · Old School · Party-Based RPG · Character Customization · First-Person · Fantasy · Retro (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Official site | https://dawnoftheashenqueen.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel i3 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 760 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 16 GB available space