Legend of Grimrock

If you liked games like Dungeon Master, Black Crypt and Eye of the Beholder series, then you'll be at home with this little gem. Play it, you'll never regret, and the sequel is even better. But play this first.

Not quite as good as the grandmaster but what is? as close as it get's though. Great job by Almost Human at reviving a genre from the old school with a modern take. Some of these indie teams are putting AAA games to shame!

Enjoyable for a while, but the mazes/puzzles are too hard to play it, unless you really invest time and thought in it. Comparing to, for e.g., Ultima Underworld 2, it's not even a 3 out of 10, with UU2 being 10.

I was going to put this at the end, but then I realized it's something important: I like this game very much, but I lost interest. I don't think I'll finish it. If this sounds like you, keep an eye for that. I'm too young to have played the classic dungeon crawlers this game imitates, but I feel that, by delivering such beautiful graphics and sound design, this game brings me closer to what I would've felt back in those days playing one of those games. The game just flows. As they say, easy to get started, difficult to master. You will get stuck though, and you will thank your particular god for the Internet and the guides therein.

First off the things I really liked about this game: - There are no elves, gnomes or other typically good cratures in this game. There a Minotaurs, Humans, Insectoids and Lizardmen, which I find more suiting for the typical prison situation. - The maps of the dungeons are well designed, keeping secrets and hidden items in sometimes unexpected places. - The enemy design is really good, from the ai to the models and their sound and textures. - The looks of the dungeon is as realistic as it could get. - The difficulty steep is pretty good balanced. - The magic system is great and also one of the only ways to actually break the game, as the character can cast any spell as long as you know the rune combination. Now to the things I didn't like that much: - There are poisonous enemies, ones that set you on fire and then there are holes everywhere in the floor. In the end you fight them all. I've rarely had a final boss fight this tedious and frustrating in a long time. - Who built this dungeon? The deeper you descend the weirder the surroundings get. There are no transitions between the areas. - The ending is kind of weird too. Why did we fight that cube? To get free? - Some of the puzzles are just plain annoying. All in all I wish for more games like this, because after all it is fun to play it.