 Crate Entertainment announced on July 27, 2009 that they had licensed the "Titan Quest" engine from Iron Lore and announced "Grim Dawn"'s development on January 21, 2010.Initially, few details were revealed, with Crate Entertainment simply stating that "Grim Dawn" is set in a thematically dark fictional world loosely based on the Victorian era.The game takes place in Cairn, a dark, war-torn world where a once proud empire has been brought to ruin and the human race driven to the edge of extinction.