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Little Lake Games · Published by Little Lake Games
Content notice: References to fictional violence during certain events
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Free the forgotten souls trapped inside a cursed board game. In this roguelike deckbuilder, time is against you. Place and explore a board of enchanted tiles, craft unique decks and fight twisted wooden creatures in the safety of daylight, rushing back to the town before nightfall.
Indie, Strategy · More free games
Explore and craft in The Grimwood Hex, an indie strategy game where each move counts. Free trapped spirits by outsmarting twisted creatures under the watchful eye of time.
About this game
Build your deck, expand the board, and survive the night in this Grimm fairytale inspired roguelike deckbuilder.
Curate Your Deck and Outmaneuver Enemies
A deckbuilder at heart, The Grimwood Hex has a wide variety of cards to choose from. Each with their own synergies allowing for you to choose how you want to play. These are utilised in a unique, hex based, combat system where maneuverability and use of the environment are the difference between life and death.
Build and Explore Grimwood
During the day, place hex tiles to build out the mysterious Grimwood. Explore it's secrets, construct your deck, gain a variety of enchanted items and survive encounters with the twisted creatures that lurk within. Ensure your path back to town is well plotted, as when night falls, the Nightwatcher will emerge from the darkness to hunt you down.
Meet the Forest's Inhabitants
Not all creatures that inhabit Grimwood are immediately hostile. Help these odd folk and they will offer their aid and wisdom in return. However, remember that in Grimwood, nothing comes without a cost.
Race Against Time
Spend your time wisely. A threat looms on the night of the third day and without adequate preparation your run will end in defeat.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i5-760
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti
- Storage: 3 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Community & EventsOfficial
Enemy Design Contest - Discord Exclusive
We’re looking for a new wooden piece to haunt the combat encounters in The Grimwood Hex. Are you interested in building strategy? Crafting cursed lore? We want your vision brought to life!It’s been a month since the release of our demo! Now we’re working hard to get The Grimwood Hex to full release designing new Events, new Rings, and new Items amongst other things.Including new Enemies… Which is where you come in!Over the course of this month we’re offering the chance for members of our Discord server to contribute to the design and development of an Enemy encountered in the Grimwood.We’ll be accepting submissions for your enemy designs in our Discord from now until the 30th of June. Make sure to check it out for more details on how you can get involved!We can’t wait to see what creative ideas you come up with!Join our Discord Here!Read full article on Community Announcements (nineft2)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update 1.1: Combat Balancing, Audio Improvements (+What's Next!)
It's been 1 week since the demo for The Grimwood Hex was released! The response has been amazing to see, and we're so happy that you've enjoyed playing what we have so far. That being said, we have made a few improvements where needed.DifficultyThe game before was too hard. We haven't seen many players get to the boss and defeat it, let alone play any of the optional challenges. For this reason, we've decided to reduce the amount of enemies that spawn per arena by 1. This should provide new players a better experience where they can progress further, while still maintaining a higher difficulty for our more confident players with the optional challenges.AudioThere was some aspects of the demo that were missing audio which have now been introduced. These include:Combat musicPicking up cardsThe toad croaks!Loot chest openingMoving ForwardWe've gotten a lot of helpful feedback that we'll be applying to The Grimwood Hex in the coming months. Some of which include making the "why am I playing this board game?" more appealing, by adding some more narrative context and interesting gameplay moments. We'll also be adding much more content, such as more enemies, obstacles, cards, items and rings.There's also some usability issues that have been brought up, such as some players feeling like they're constantly battling the camera.We aim to fix or implement these feedback points for when we release, which is still TBA.Thank you so much for playing!!!Read full article on Community Announcements (littlelakegames)
