Vaporum

This game will surelty scratch your itch for that grid based old school dungeon crawling, it is a grimrock clone and a decent one. But honestly it feels botched, very simplistic maps and puzzles, around halfway through the game you get one of your hardest puzzles; press 4 buttons to open 4 doors in the right order... The game barely has any secrets and you dont feel like searching for them. Pretty much every key action you make (open a door/ pull a lever/ push a button) spawn enemies, so it is much more focused on action as on puzzles like grimrock. My main gripe with combat (which happens alot) is that you have only 1 action with your movement, and you cannot use your secondary weapon waiting on the CD, basically removing combat options and dumbing it down to waiting for your 1 CD weapon to reaload while dodging. I kind of expected the game to played that way so i picked a tank class so i can just sit in monsters faces and spam click them, that way i progress faster through the game. TL;DR Buy it if its on sale

It's worse. Clunky controls, gloomy assets (yeah, yeah, I know it's steampunk, but it's so depressing like in horror titles like Soma), lack of mechanics depth (again in comparison with Grimrock). Oh, and enemies are just fast as lightning - and you can't do anything about it. I was really disappointed after playing this title. Grimrock 1&2 are far better than this.

On map there are no marks for teleports or switches. What year do we have? Compare it to Lands of Lore...

GOG, add a ZERO-star rating. Please. While watching the intro sequence I became suspicious: For an experienced (read “old”) gamer like me (with close to 1000 games owned and played, overall) it felt unimaginative, standard. Nothing caught my attention AT ALL. Standard language, standard sound, standard voice acting… EVERYTHING pointed to a few STANDARD-thinking IT guys making a STANDARD game hoping to make the STANDARD amount of money from STANDARD-thinking… consumers OF STANDARD junk. A few seconds later I became even more suspicious, but I hit the Esc key and went to Options. My suspicions turned out to be justified: There is NO mouse-look… in a 3D game. You hit E and Q to snap 90 degrees left or right, and you scroll sideways or forward/backwards with WSAD. Hmmm. BUT I DIGRESS: Perhaps there is a story somewhere there (which I doubt based on the quality of the Intro). And, while I am old school, I’ve seen a good number of modern games (say, 30-50) and the movement mechanics of Vaporum make me want to say to the developers – NEXT TIME MAKE A POINT-AND-CLICK adventure game if you want to “tell a story”. Make a graphic novel or something.