9th Dawn III

9th Dawn III

Valorware · 2020 · Hack and Slash, Dungeon Crawler, Collectathon, Exploration, Twin Stick Shooter

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About 9th Dawn III

**Important** This game has been successfully patched to fix the Unity Security Issue from October 2nd 2025.​
9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is a huge 2D open world RPG and collectathon dungeon crawler packed full of adventure! When asked to investigate mysterious, ghostly sightings around the lake of Elmson, you trek through the lands of Cedaltia to uncover the truth. Upon arrival, you catch rumors of an untrustworthy king and become the chosen one to journey to Lorwyck Castle and confront him – a journey that will guide you through ancient fortresses, dark dungeons, perilous swamps, and more!

Soon, you find yourself at the heart of a foreboding prophecy. Equip your best gear and experience a journey across the fields of Ashwick, the snowy regions of Halstom, dense forests of Vlak, the sprawling depths of huge dungeons, and the perilous Hollow Mountains of Scorn on an epic quest to uncover the secrets of a mysterious evil force that threatens the lands.

Can you become the savior of Cadaltia?
Key Features:
  • Explore a huge, seamless open world full of crypts, fortresses, villages, and more.
  • Find your way across deadly dungeons, fight over 270 unique monsters, and acquire loot, treasures, and rare materials.
  • Become the ultimate warrior as you unlock spells and abilities, fine-tune your attributes, and level-up your crafting abilities!
  • Recruit monsters! Turn them into powerful allies with care and combat skill training.
  • Collect 1,400 uniquely drawn items – including more than 300 weapons and 550 pieces of armor and accessories.
  • Customize weapons and armour, go fishing, cook food, collect rare power-ups, and more!
  • Kick back and play Fyued, an original card game played throughout the region with 180 collectable cards!
  • Enjoy an original orchestral soundtrack.
  • Help the townsfolk to prosper with sidequests that range from silly to dangerous!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 15, 2026
Very fun game and have a good open world.
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Recommended Jul 29, 2026
Hidden gem of an RPG. Lots of content and deep build customization. Highly recommended.
Recommended Jul 7, 2026
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Recommended May 10, 2026
I know this game was made by one person, I really liked the game up to a point where the grind pushed aside all the cool elements that have been added to the gameplay. The game has so many different elements that can make it deep and engaging. Yet there are many QoL features that could have been added to make it a more accessible to anyone willing to sink all the hours the game demands you to spend fleshing out all its mechanics. Simple things like a removing the superfluous menus that slow down the navigation through all the items and crafting that this game requires you to interact with. Also the dungeons are almost as bad as unmodded Daggerfall, They rely to heavily on levers to unlock new areas, The levers could be removed entirely and it would make the dungeons more enjoyable. The pace of the combat does not match the amount of map gazing the game requires. Maybe the designer could simply not make the mobs respawn until the player exits the dungeon instead of resetting the entire dungeon everytime the player changes levels inside the dungeon. These are just a few changes, but there could be may others. Maybe there will be more updates. I hope so cause I love it when small dev…
Recommended May 7, 2026
Это реально очень хорошо, игра не надоедает, тут очень много контента и боссов с локациями, лута море, несколько режимов игры. Ну и на крайний случай можно собрать все ♥♥♥♥ золотистые карты с fyued'a.
Recommended Apr 24, 2026
myes, I do love making my own stuff and a highly customizable companion. I still prefer this over the remake >:D

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