Grimshire
Acute Owl Studio · 2025 · Dark, Farming Sim, Pixel Graphics, Cozy, Survival
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 2,898
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About Grimshire
You’ve barely escaped the chaos that consumed your hometown overnight. The friendly residents of Grimshire, an isolated mountain village, offer you a new home. Restore the cozy old farmhouse, and tend the fields. But beware, the plague is coming. The community must work together if everyone is to survive.
Feed Them
Feed Them
- Keep the root cellar stocked, balance the needs of both herbivores and carnivores.
- Prevent food from rotting away by salting, pickling, drying, and smoking.
- Cultivate a field of crops, and plant an orchard of fruit and nut trees.
- Tame wild critters and raise them for a steady supply of eggs, milk, and meat.
- Forage for seeds, flowers, herbs, nuts, roots and berries.
- Go fishing in nearby marshes, rivers, and lakes.
- Gather materials and construct village projects to strengthen the community.
- Donate specimens for research and discover new methods to increase the odds of survival.
- Befriend the adorable villagers of Grimshire. But don't get too attached... It's possible that not everyone will survive.
- Dive deep in the mines of Grimshire valley, and root out every vein of ore.
- Experience beautiful shifting dynamic seasons and weather.
- Decorate your home and farm with a variety of furniture, fences, pathing stones, and more!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players consistently praise the game's compelling storytelling, charming pixel art, and successful subversion of the farming sim formula by giving farming activities meaningful purpose through character relationships and survival stakes. The game is described as polished for early access with engaging gameplay that combines farming, ranching, and resource management in ways that feel fresh compared to other titles in the genre. Some minor technical issues like hitching are noted, but players find the overall experience more than worth the price and are eager to replay with different characters
10/10 storytelling. I played on easy mode because I'm a wimp but I plan to play again and again using different characters and will probably try on default mode because easy mode was pretty relaxed. I'm already obsessed and I've played it for like 4 days.
It's really good. The best kind of early access game, where the first year of story is already complete. There's a lot of polish that can happen, and the social systems need to be expanded, but there is more than enough for the price to be well worth what's already there. This isn't a title you buy in hopes of it one day living up to what you paid for it. As someone completely burned out on the cozy farming sim genre despite my love of Stardew, etc., I found this game to be a delightful subversion. It gives you a purpose for farming, ranching, gathering, and — most importantly — preserving food beyond personal finances, customization, or progress for its own sake. You care about the people you're trying to support. You don't want these story-book-style animal people to die. And depending on the difficulty you play on, and how well you plan ahead, some just might anyway. Without sharing too much, you are tasked with helping an isolated village survive while something akin to a zombie apocalypse ravages the trading partners your village once relied upon for food. Help your fellow villagers overcome an ever-increasing barrage of unfortunate circumstances and make it through the …
A fun and stressful farming game that's right up your alley if you ever wanted to put Redwall, Harvest Moon, and Oregon Trail into a blender and beat yourself over the head with it. The game hitches sometimes but it is early access and I am playing on an all in one. However even in early access its become one of my favorite games. Ten out of ten, would play a sheep if offered and definitely not start a cult in the name of a three eyed cat god of death out in the woods.
I adore this game. The characters are cute, the storyline is super fun so far, and the grind is so cozy and fun.
I'm really enjoying this game! It's incredibly promising for early access, and has a lot of heart and talent put in, plus the art direction is incredible. There's a lot of character and personality in the pixel art, and it's incredibly charming without feeling overly cutesy, commercialized, or "attractive" for lack of better word. I've been playing Harvest Moon games since I was a kid, as well as Rune Factory, and ofc Stardew Valley, so I'm pretty bored with farming sims that don't have a lot to offer besides cute characters. That is NOT the case for this game at all. There are enough big twists on the formula to make things feel fresh and interesting, but more importantly, the twists WORK and are incredibly compelling. I'm not super far in the game but felt like I had to leave a review just because of how much I want this project to succeed. I've spent every shift at work since I've bought this game counting down the hours until I can get home and play for awhile, which is not normally something I'd say about a farming sim in 2026. All that to say... please make Gruff and Edgar romanceable. <3
really great game all around.
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