Make the next roll a deliberate choice

Learn the run before chasing a build

Start with the map and turn loop, then choose a hero and a dice plan. These guides distinguish the closed October demo from the planned full release.

• Beginner Guide: Plan Your First Outskirts Run

  Learn GrimKeep’s first-run decisions: choose a hero, shape your dice bag, read enemy intent, and understand the October demo’s limits.

• Demo vs Full Game: Content, Availability and Limits

  Compare GrimKeep’s October demo with the planned full release: Outskirts, three demo heroes, additional regions, the Crucible, and availability.

• Saving and Rerolls: What Carries Over?

  Learn how GrimKeep saves a run, what happens when you quit during combat, and how Huntress, Beast and unused-reroll effects change your decisions.

Understand the numbers before rerolling

Use the worked formula, compare two attacks in the calculator, and check the defense and sacrifice guide before spending health. Boss help is labeled for the October demo.

• Damage Calculation: Dice Points, Combo Points and Mult

  Understand GrimKeep attack scores with worked examples, compare two pairs with a straight, and separate Armored bonuses from unverified defense rules.

• Attack Score Calculator: Compare Two Rolls

  Compare two GrimKeep attack scores from resolved Dice Points, Combo Points and Mult, and count the known Armored Defense bonus without guessing trigger order.

• Defense and Sacrifice: Survive the Next Action

  Understand GrimKeep’s defense sources, the developer-described combo sacrifice, and why sacrificing a combo differs from paying an item’s health cost.

• Demo Boss Preparation: Read Intent and Protect Your Run

  Prepare for GrimKeep’s Outskirts boss encounters with dated balance notes, defense decisions and developer-described sacrifices, without invented phases.

Choose dice for an actual role

The seven official effect types describe what a die adds when activated. The October demo also added face-restricted dice; seven is not an exhaustive item count.

• Dice Types and Build Roles

  Choose GrimKeep dice for damage, defense, gold and healing, with exact official effects and a separate explanation of the October demo additions.

Pick a starting hero deliberately

The Huntress preserves unused rerolls between attacks; The Beast trades health for extra rerolls. Separate confirmed perks from still-unverified unlock conditions.

• Heroes and Unlock Status

  Compare all seven announced GrimKeep heroes, identify the two starters, and separate confirmed demo availability from unverified unlock requirements.

• The Beast: Health and Reroll Decisions

  Use The Beast starting health, paid rerolls and Wide Hat together, with a health-budget example and clear limits for the October demo rules.

• The Feral: Building Around Sixes

  Learn The Feral six-face multiplier, compare a worked attack example, and distinguish her confirmed demo presence from unverified unlock steps.

• The Huntress: Keep or Spend Your Rerolls?

  Understand The Huntress carryover perk, compare reroll spending with item bonuses, and avoid mixing older demo starting items with current rules.

Choose items by the problem they solve

Compare an item with your current score, rerolls and available slots. These are conditional arithmetic examples, not a tested tier list or a promise of a winning build.

• How to Choose Items and Build a Run

  Choose GrimKeep items by their trigger, damage contribution and slot cost, with a practical comparison method and links to supported build routes.

• Item Slots, Dice Slots and Upgrade Consumables

  Tell GrimKeep slot upgrades apart, compare the cost of filling an empty item slot, and avoid treating a max-health upgrade as a verified heal.

• Matching-Dice Builds: Crown, Banner and Wide Hat

  Compare matching-face items in GrimKeep using clear Crown, Banner and Wide Hat examples, with reroll and trigger limits explained.

• Straight Builds: Choosing Points or Mult

  Compare GrimKeep straight items with worked five-die examples, then decide when rerolling for a longer sequence is worth the resources.

Keep demo advice attached to its version

Read dated changes and current demo availability before applying an old guide. November 30 is a planned launch date, not confirmation that version 1.0 has shipped.

• October Demo Updates: What Changed and Why It Matters

  Track GrimKeep’s October 20 patch, October 23 balance changes and October 27 demo closure, with consequences for saves, rerolls and old guides.