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Grimm's Hollow cover art

Grimm's Hollow

ghosthunter · 2019-10-30

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 31, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

6
playing now
99%
positive of 15k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
IGDB user rating (34 ratings)
2h
to beat · completionist 3h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Grimm's Hollow is a 2019 role-playing video game developed by Mahum Najam under the alias Ghosthunter. It was released as freeware on Steam and Itch.io on Halloween for Microsoft Windows.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 583 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~73/week).
  • · Review velocity up 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
55255220192026Week of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 552 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 409 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 290 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 184 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 225 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 492 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 460 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 389 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 310 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 369 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 397 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 351 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 337 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 467 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 511 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 199 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-08-06 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 9 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 4 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 11 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

2DRPGCuteIndieRPGMakerAdventureEmotionalStory RichTurn-BasedFree to Play

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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