RWBY: Grimm Eclipse

RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a co-op hack-and-slash action game developed by Rooster Teeth Games, built directly from the animated web series of the same name. You pick one of the four main huntresses - Ruby, Weiss, Blake, or Yang - and cut through waves of Grimm across arena-style levels with up to three friends online. Each character plays noticeably differently: Ruby dashes and spins through crowds, Weiss leans on glyphs and elemental attacks, Blake mixes shadow clones into her combos, and Yang is a bruiser who rewards aggressive play. It is not a deep combat system, but it captures enough of each character's anime flair that fans of the show will feel the connection. The game's honest strength is its co-op atmosphere. Playing with a full squad of four who actually know the source material produces a kind of comfortable, low-stakes chaos - you are not here to master a skill ceiling, you are here to watch Grimm shatter. There is a light progression layer with upgrades and skill trees that give each character a bit more identity over time, and the horde-focused mission structure means sessions stay short and digestible. The level design is functional rather than inspired, and the campaign is brief enough that you can clear it in a single sitting if your group keeps moving. Where Grimm Eclipse shows its limits is almost everywhere outside that core loop. The environments are visually plain, the enemy variety dries up quickly, and the story content is thin even by the standard of licensed action games. Solo play is noticeably lonelier and more repetitive than the co-op experience, and the PC version's online infrastructure has never been its strongest point. If you go in expecting a rich single-player adventure or a mechanically ambitious brawler, the gaps will feel wide. This is, in most honest terms, a fan game that graduated to a commercial release - the production values show that origin. As a piece of handcraft, Grimm Eclipse is scrappy in a way that reads as genuine rather than lazy. The team clearly cared about translating the show's visual identity into playable form, and for a licensed adaptation of a largely independent animation series, that effort holds up in the details - the weapon transformations, the Semblance abilities, the way each character's idle animation echoes their personality. It is the kind of small licensed project that usually gets half the effort and twice the price. The soundtrack borrows enough from the show's distinctive rock-metal sound to keep the energy up through the repetitive stretches. Grimm Eclipse is worth your attention if you are a RWBY fan who wants to spend a few hours inside the world with friends. It does that one thing with enough warmth and enough mechanical competence to justify itself. Everyone else should know what they are walking into: a short, breezy co-op brawler with a licensed coat of paint and a thin layer of progression. It knows roughly what it is, and it mostly stays in that lane.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

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