Posted on: June 8, 2025

Vrenattila

Games: 49 Reviews: 17

Too unbalanced

Random encounters are too unbalanced

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Posted on: June 16, 2025

Wolfy777

Games: 2771 Reviews: 30

Totally nonintuitive set up, horrid dev

The manual already reveals 2 things: 1 You're treated as someone who has never played a video game before. 2 Everything is needlessly complicated and convoluted to infinity (e.g. who the F needs 2 or 3 spells for discovering secrets and another 1 or 2 commands to act on what was found). On top of that, the game functionally foes not work well: e.g. you can't Alt Tab out and you'll be forced to use the power button to turn off the PC, as you'll get stuck with nonresponsive game window and the inability to open or select any other program (and the Task Manager). Selecting the most basic thing is also set up in the dumbest way possible: e.g. why can't I press escape to bring up the save and exit option like in any other game, or how the UI is set up in such a dumb way I'd be hunting for the movement controls or anything else to actually play. On top of all that, the dev is a jerk with a god complex. E.g. he will actively belittle and insult people for solid, informative and constructive negative reviews on Steam in such a way it would be too charitable to call it childish and immature. The worst Internet trolls do not reach his level.

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Posted on: December 21, 2019

Dorateen

Games: 17 Reviews: 1

Masterpiece

Played over 300 hours of Grimoire through several updates on Steam, and recently completed version 2 content. Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is a faithful call back to early 1990's computer role-playing games, specifically the D.W. Bradley Wizardry titles. Outstanding exploration of a rich gameworld, with a party of up to eight characters that the player can generate. Its complexity is such that many will fail to grasp every feature, mechanics and systems all at once. Casuals need not apply.

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Posted on: December 16, 2019

SentinelWolf

Verified owner

Games: 218 Reviews: 1

Grimoire at Last

A labour of passion for old school games that loved the good old Wizard series. What the game lacks in sound and graphics makes up in mechanics, classes, dialogues, item descriptions, humor (and it has a lot of it), exploration, etc. If you are looking for a solid dungeon crawler in the vein of Wizard 7, you are in for a treat. The game is light hearted, funny, with many class and races, a good variety of items (regular and unique) and its incredibly long. Lack of content is something that you won't complain about.

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Posted on: December 17, 2019

gamers-incline-up

Verified owner

Games: 1 Reviews: 1

The perfect cave painting

The perfect cave painting - approaches casual efforts by toddlers born thousands of years ago in the Lascaux caves. Seriously, it took him 20 years. And yes, it's awesome. I was gifted this game and I have played (and completed) it before, and I cheated and it took me over 150 hours. I think it is simple. If you don't play grimoire, if you don't purchase it, you don't deserve it. You don't deserve to hate it. If you don't like it, you're still on the other side of the fence. That's all there is to it. You've never played anything like this before and you never will. The Lead Dev, that Neanderthal, he put in crazy efforts, pointed micro-issue tracking and honestly insane amount of efforts to bring this game to YOU. Grimoire was my drug of choice for 3 months. I don't even drink coffee. When 2019 started, I thought I might try out grimoire. I started at the end of January and I have no idea where the next 3 months went. Cleve's warning in the video came true. People started asking about me during those 3 months, and more than a few were surprised at me having the gall to call them friends after my cold shoulder. Honestly, I remember nothing except grimoire from those three months. As to whether that story was a warning or something in jest or just entertainment, idk. There's more to Cleve than meets the eye and I'll be the first to say that anyone who says he really "gets" Cleve has like a couple of shelves left to read for context. Would I do this all over, spend my time playing this video game, effectively erase three months from my life and then come whine about it on GOG and get mocked by people? Maybe they'll even question me thinking about the game, thinking I'm probably an insane idiot who somehow got a PC in his hands and managed to vomit gibberish. Grimoire does not haunt me anymore, but I'd be lying if I said that it doesn't take me for a five-minute (minimum!) spin in my own head whenever I am (un?)fortunate enough to think about it. Yes, yes I would.

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