
- 70/100
- Players10 ratings
- 45/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic7 critic reviews
- 57/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 64/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.72/5
- Player reviews
- 81% positive9,838 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$19.99
Where to get it

2016 · Rooster Teeth Games · Action · Action-adventure
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.
- Released
- 5 July 2016
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4WindowsXbox OnemacOS
- Genres
- ActionAction-adventureAdventureBeat 'em upFightingIndie
- Developers
- Rooster Teeth Games
- Publishers
- Rooster Teeth Games
- Series
- RWBY
- Modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- Action
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ACB MESRB TPEGI 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 4hmain story31hcompletionist
About
RWBY: Grimm Eclipse is a four-player co-op hack and slash video game and the first video game installment in the RWBY franchise. Developed and published by Rooster Teeth Games, it was released as an early access title on Steam on December 1, 2015, with the full Windows release on July 5, 2016. The game was released for macOS on October 13, 2016, and was later released for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on January 17, 2017. The game's Definitive Edition was released for Nintendo Switch on May 13, 2021, published by Aspyr. The game received mixed reviews from critics, who cited its overall gameplay as the main flaw.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game allows one to four of the main characters to battle through waves of Grimm with the gameplay having experience points that allow the player to upgrade their character's status. The action takes place in the Emerald Forest, Mountain Glenn, Forever Fall and ultimately to an island named after the antagonist, Doctor Merlot.
Story
In the game, teams RWBY and JNPR are sent to Emerald Forest to fix some security grids sabotaged by a device with an unknown mark. Their search for their mysterious adversary brings them to Mountain Glenn, where they encounter some kind of mutated Grimm and in Forever Fall, they find a freighter belonging to Merlot Industries, a company founded by Doctor Merlot, an old acquaintance of Professor Ozpin who is obsessed with the Grimm and played a hand in the Mountain Glenn incident. The heroes arrive at Doctor Merlot's laboratory, which is an island with a green substance that he uses to mutate the Grimm. After destroying Merlot's experiments and his masterpiece, a mutant Deathstalker, the heroes escape on a shuttle as Merlot sets his lab to self-destruct.
Development
For Rooster Teeth's anniversary in 2014, fan Jordan Scott created the game. It was in development for a total of five months.
Based on the events in the first trailer, the demo was a "hack 'n slash survival" featuring Ruby facing escalating waves of Grimm attacks. Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku praised its combo system, which "excellently mirror[ed] its animated counterpart", and its unlockable skills, saying, "you'll feel like an unstoppable badass akin to Ruby in the series."
Reception
The game received an aggregate score of 57/100 on Metacritic for its Xbox One version, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Simone Tagliaferri of Multiplayer.it rated the original PC version 5/10, calling it overly short and lacking in content, and suggesting that only fans would enjoy it.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Based on
- Q13479326
- Downloadable content
- RWBY: Grimm Eclipse - JNPR
- Expanded editions
- RWBY: Grimm Eclipse - Definitive Edition
- Derived from
- RWBY
In the same series
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