Legend of Grimrock

[TinCow]

I picked the game up on the Steam Summer Sale a while ago for $6 (normal price is $15). Played it this weekend, and thought it worth writing a post about. If you aren't aware, it's a modern version of the old school first person RPG popularized by Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and Ultima Underworld. You get a party of up to 4 characters from 4 races and 3 classes (fighter, mage, thief), and you navigate a grid-based dungeon fighting monsters, solving puzzles, leveling up, and getting loot. If you ever played (and liked) any of those older games, I highly recommend Legend of Grimrock. It'll make you feel young again. It's a very basic game, but it's a lot of fun and there are some very clever puzzles. It's hard enough to make you sit and think for several minutes on a regular basis, but not so hard to send you screaming for google. I admit that I did that a couple times, but only for two optional treasure rooms I couldn't figure out how to open, rather than the main areas. There are tons and tons of secrets, and a total of 13 dungeon levels to explore. Given the amount of secrets, you could easily get multiple play-throughs out of the game, particularly with different party configurations and difficulty settings. There's also an old-school method, which disables in-game auto-mapping and requires that you use a pen and paper to map the game (I'm not that hardcore). All in all, a great resurrection of an old-school game style by a small indie team, and pretty good value-for-money.

[Vladimir]

Very interesting. I was wondering what that was. It's a great value.

[Ser Clegane]

Playing that game is really a great nostalgic trip and I am having good fun with it.

It is nice to see some recent games ("Legend of Grimrock", "Panzer Corps") that show building on an "old" concept and polishing it can result in very good games