9th Dawn III RPG

Valorware

About this game

**Important** This game has been successfully patched to fix the Unity Security Issue from October 2nd 2025.​

9th Dawn III: Shadow of Erthil is a massive 2D open world RPG and collectathon dungeon crawler packed full of adventure! When asked to investigate mysterious, ghostly sightings around the lake of Elmson, you trek through the lands of Cedaltia to uncover the truth. Upon arrival, you hear rumors of an untrustworthy king. Taking the path of the Chosen One, you journey to Lorwyck Castle to confront a powerful enemy – traversing ancient fortresses, dark dungeons, perilous swamps, and more!

Soon, you find yourself at the heart of a foreboding prophecy. Equip your best gear and adventure across the fields of Ashwick, the snowy regions of Halstom, dense forests of Vlak, the sprawling depths of huge dungeons, and the perilous Hollow Mountains of Scorn on an epic quest to uncover the secrets of a mysterious evil force ...

Can you become the savior of Cadaltia?

• Explore a huge, seamless open world full of crypts, fortresses, villages, and more.
• Find your way across deadly dungeons, fight over 270 unique monsters, and acquire loot, treasures, and rare materials.
• Become the ultimate warrior as you unlock spells and abilities, fine-tune your attributes, and level-up your crafting abilities!
• Recruit monsters! Turn them into powerful allies with care and combat skill training.
• Collect 1,400 uniquely drawn items – including more than 300 weapons and 550 pieces of armor and accessories.
• Customize weapons and armour, go fishing, cook food, collect gems, and more!
• Kick back and play Fyued, an original card game played throughout the region with 180 collectable cards!
• Enjoy an original orchestral soundtrack.
• Help the townsfolk to prosper with sidequests that range from silly to dangerous!

Valorware is a UK-based game development and publishing company. Valorware is led by a solo-developer, focusing on producing content-rich Role Playing Games (RPGs).

Ratings and reviews

Finally a great RPG with full controller support! I love games where you collect a bunch of stuff, can craft with it or sell off junk, has a day/night/time system for shops to open/close, plenty of quests to do, a ton of upgradability to your character, a neat mechanic for the card game, awesome graphics, I could go on. I love it.

Full controller support!!! Got this game on sale. After playing for awhile I actually wish there was a way I could just tip the devs the extra 5 bucks. Because this game is amazing. If you have a Backbone, Kishi, or similar controller, it feels like playing a $50 console game. I've barely scratched the surface, and already I'm thinking about different things I can try when it's time for a second playthrough. (I also love how the dev is still "engaged" with the community on discord)

😎 This game is great. I downloaded it from a less than reputable source at first and had fun but got super frustrated, because I wasn't playing correctly. Big mistake on my end. Decided to do the right thing and pay for it, now I'm having a blast. Just cleared the serpent pit and am so excited to see what else this behemoth of a game has to offer. Super stoked to start taming creatures. Shout out to everyone who worked on this game, the art, music, level design, they're all A plus. 🌠😏🥰

What’s new

Unity Engine Security Fix