RWBY: Grimm Eclipse (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a 4 player Co-op, hack-n-slash game based upon Rooster Teeth’s international hit series RWBY. Get ready for intense combat action as you battle Grimm across familiar locations of Remnant…

45 5 July 2016

What RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is an adventure game developed by Rooster Teeth Games and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a 4 player Co-op, hack-n-slash game based upon Rooster Teeth’s international hit series RWBY. Get ready for intense combat action as you battle Grimm across familiar locations of Remnant including new areas never before seen in the show. Play as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang in this character-driven adventure that explores new storylines, new Grimm types, and a new villain! The gameplay takes inspiration from games such as Dynasty Warriors and Left 4 Dead offering over-the-top combat along with engaging missions and storytelling.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the RWBY series

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is the first of 10 entries we hold in the RWBY series. The next entry was RWBY: Grimm Eclipse - JNPR in 2016. Its critic score of 45 is 19 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle at 77.

See all 10 RWBY games in release order →

How it was received

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 23 points below the year average.

What it launched against

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse launched on 5 July 2016, within three weeks of Inside, Starbound, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action and Furi. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Inside, Starbound, VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, Furi.

Official trailer