Grim Nights
Side-scrolling survival strategy with village building and nightly undead attacks
Edym Pixels · Released Oct 12, 2018
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 87% of 1,587
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 29, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Jan 13, 2025
What is Grim Nights?
Grim Nights is a single-player, side-scrolling survival strategy game about defending a village from the undead. You gather resources, expand the settlement, explore underground, and train soldiers to repel attacks. It has three maps and a roughly seven-to-eight-hour main game, with the option to continue afterward.
For you if...
- +you like planning settlements and optimizing resource use
Not for you if...
- −you want relaxed difficulty and little need to retry
What players say
87% of 1,587 reviews are positive
Players praise the resource-gathering and defense loop as hard to put down. Some criticize awkward pathfinding and the need to guide units manually between levels.
Screenshots and trailer
Grim Nights system requirements
Minimum: HD 5000, 2 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Grim Nights?
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- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel i3 CPU m370 2.40GHz
- Graphics
- Ati mobility radeon HD 5000
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 140 MB available space
- Notes
- This game is not very demanding at all, but the frame rate might drop on older PCs with low RAM.
Does Grim Nights have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Grim Nights run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 30
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English, Simplified Chinese.
Does Grim Nights use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Strategy
- Tower Defense
- Base Building
- Survival
- 2D
- Side Scroller
- RTS
- Zombies
- Management
- Building
- Singleplayer
- Difficult
- Fantasy
- Pixel Graphics
- Tactical
- Medieval
Recent updates
- Jan 13, 2025 · Achievements working again!
- Jan 5, 2025 · One crash less! (English version fix)
- Jan 2, 2025 · Patch 1.3.3.6 - A few fixes!
- Jan 30, 2023 · Patch 1.3.3.5 - Some fixing!
- Nov 21, 2022 · Patch 1.3.3.3 - Fixes a crash which caused terraces to disappear
1 DLC available.
