Grinding Gear launches Path of Exile fan art competition tied to latest expansions

Grinding Gear Games has opened a fan art competition inspired by the two most recent Path of Exile expansions — Return of the Ancients for Path of Exile 2 and Curse of the Allflame for Path of Exile 1. Submissions are open now and close on Wednesday, September 2nd at 10 PM PDT.

The competition accepts still art only — paintings, drawings, and physical model creations all qualify, but video submissions are out. AI-generated work is explicitly banned, and Grinding Gear reserves the right to disqualify any entry it suspects of being AI-made. All work must be original and created after the competition launch. Multiple entries are encouraged.

Prizes are split across several tiers. The top three winners each receive a developer-signed poster, two T-shirts, a custom forum avatar based on their submission, Chaos Orb socks, a Chaos Orb deskpad, an Exalted Orb cap, two random PoE pins, and their choice of an armour set, portal effect, and footprints effect. Places four and five get one T-shirt, socks, a deskpad, two pins, and the same in-game cosmetic choices. Places six through ten receive a T-shirt, socks, one pin, a portal effect, and footprints. Places eleven through twenty win a portal effect. Everyone else who enters gets a Curse of the Allflame Mystery Box as a runner-up prize. Grinding Gear also noted it may expand the prize pool if the competition draws an unusually high volume of strong entries.

Winners will be announced in the days following the September 2nd deadline. Anyone wanting to enter can find the submission thread linked on the official Path of Exile forum.