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Destroy... Absorb... Grow... GRIME is a fast and unforgiving Action-Adventure RPG in which you crush your foes with living weapons that mutate form and function, and then consume their remains with a black hole to strengthen your vessel as you break apart a world of anatomical horror and intrigue.
GRIME is a metroidvania, souls-like and platformer game
developed by Clover Bite
and published by Akupara Games.
Released on August 02nd 2021 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Hebrew.
It has received 5,788 reviews of which 4,936 were positive and 852 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified GRIME into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 3rd Gen i5/1nd Gen Ryzen
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Recommended
MacOS
- Processor: M1 or newer
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
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Phenomenal 2D Metroidvania - Miles and miles above most others. The Good Grime has massive ambition, slowly unravelling to reveal a more than excellent Metroidvania. The setting is truly bizarre and you learn early on that you're going to get something quite unique... You play as a 'proportioned' being fighting and absorbing more malformed beings. The combat is kinda souls like, with a heavy focus on parrying. It is unforgiving and you will die a lot so if that isn't your bag this game may not be for you. Apart from the art style, everything else in this game gets slowly (and I mean slowly ) dripped down to you--Weapons, Armours, Abilities, Map, Story. It's a slow burner for sure and I can see why a large chunk of people tap out early but the game is definitely better for it. The prominent vibe I got from Grime is that it doesn't treat you like a kid and it expects you to work things out for yourself--there are so many subtle nuanced things in combat and platforming that you just end up stumbling across and it's super engrossing. There are a million different weapons with special abilities for you to choose from that work with different stat spreads, allowing you to suit the combat to your style. There's upgrades and consumables and...yeah, its kinda souls like. For me, the combat came second to the exploration which is where Grime shines best. There are SO MANY secrets to uncover and the movement system through platforming feels really fresh and intricate towards the end. I might be misremembering how hard Celeste was but there is a section in Grime that harked similar feelings. The story is pretty bleak and mostly just hinted at rather than revealed, but the atmosphere is thick. Depressing but in a good way. The Not As Good Both the combat and the platforming have a little bit of jank. For the most part they're very snappy and fluid, but you do get frustrated trying to account for the jank from time to time. Something that you can definitely get used to. I'm far from a masochist, but I did feel like all the bosses were a little easy. You get crushed pretty easily but once you figure out what they're doing it's not hard at all. There was no boss where I thought, "Wow, that was crazy" after beating them. Should you play it? If you enjoy sombre worlds, platforming off the beaten path or curious mythos I would recommend this as a must-play. There has been a sequel announced and I think it is going to be really really special.
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I hope whoever came up with NG+ gets glassed by a pack of rabid kangaroos. Very sad game otherwise.
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“Am I the bad guy?” -Grimes With many, MANY games of this genre coming out these years Grime carves (heh) itself a sport among the best known titles using its “chiseled from stone” looks and parry-centric gameplay. Story In a strange world where life isn’t made equal and is breath into stone you take control of a mysterious and silent blackhole-headed entity with a quest that’ll become clearer as you progress meeting characters that become better and better versed about how this whole strange world works. Gameplay Explore, get blocked by the environment, explore some more, find an upgrade that expands your movement repertoire, explore some more with new moves. Combat is slow, weapons have a little combo string to do damage but the star here lays in the parry mechanic. More generous than in other games, parrying both damages an enemy and opens them up for more damage. Also parrying instantly defeats some enemies, and on most it also unlock special abilities if you use it as a finishing blow. Improvement is donr through the aforementioned parry-absorb, minibosses dropping “hunt points” to activate these abilities, and the classic use of experience at rest sites to level up different stats. X-Factor The metroidvania genre you know and hopefully love since you’re not on this steam page by mistake, now wrapped in stonelikeahestetic, and lots of content. Downsides Weapon balance is broken, with fast striking weapons dealing more overall damage than heavier ones mean that combined with having more windows to attack with the former will make the latter comparatively useless. Animations are often stiff and janky; this wouldn’t normally mean much but they are crucial to engage with the core parry mechanic. Exploration isn’t exactly rewarding, a lot of places have dead ends in their branching paths, an experience reward that often amounts to less of what you get from the enemies just before it, or a single piece of an armor set where you need all 3 before even activating its effects. Even worse is the fact that these dead ends don’t reward with unique vistas or give you a feeling for the world or that you’re mapping it out, instead it’s often a corridor ending in a flat wall with nothing going on in the background. The game actively discourages experimentation as stats, weapon upgrades, and abilities cannot be switched around and there0s a limited annount of upgrade materials each game. There’s one way to respect stats but the items needed are so rare you’ll be able to do it just once in the game and only if you’re really thorough with your exploration. Still a competently made metroidvania with some fun slower-paced combat that asks you to really figure out what the enemies are doing and how to best respond to their attacks, unique looks and lots of content is what makes me give this a thumbs up even at 20$.
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I would put this game in the same position as Blasphemous I. Wouldn't recommend it in its initial state; after many patches and 4 (free!!) expansions it is just a great game!
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Excellent take on the souls like metroidvania genre it has great gameplay the parkour is fun and it has a ton of personality a must buy for any souls fan or platformer enjoyer
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GRIME is currently priced at 20.99€ on Steam.
GRIME is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 20.99€ on Steam.
GRIME received 4,936 positive votes out of a total of 5,788 achieving a rating of 8.27.
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GRIME was developed by Clover Bite and published by Akupara Games.
GRIME is playable and fully supported on Windows.
GRIME is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
GRIME is not playable on Linux.
GRIME is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for GRIME. Explore additional content available for GRIME on Steam.
GRIME does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
GRIME does not support Steam Remote Play.
GRIME is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Clover Bite
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Akupara Games
Release
02 Aug 2021
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