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Grimhook

Unlimited Fries · 2023-12-08

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 09, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Bounce, dash, and grapple through flooded caverns in this fast-paced first-person action platformer. Descend into Grimhook's sunken ruins as Dart, mastering Lovecraftian powers and decimating robotic foes. Explore, battle, and unravel the mysteries below Miletos.

Grimhook is a 2023 Action, Adventure, and Indie game that is free-to-play, with an owner estimate of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a review sentiment of Overwhelmingly Positive (98% of 4176 reviews).

1
playing now
98%
positive of 4.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Grimhook trailer thumbnail

Grimhook - Official Release Trailer

≈9,109 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 327 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~41/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 27,656 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
48148120232026Week of 2023-12-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 326 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 251 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 374 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 481 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-14 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-01-04 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFPSActionCombatShooterStylizedAdventureDystopian PlatformerAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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