The races available include humans, lizardmen, minotaurs and insectoids. There is a healthy selection of options including the traditional trio of classes (fighter, rogue and mage) and a decent set of skills. The second choice available to you is somewhat more significant and allows you to decide whether you will use the pre-built team of four adventurers or make your own.Ĭharacter creation in Legend of Grimrock meets a happy balance of depth and ease of use. Firstly you will have to decide if you want to play in “old school” mode or not this disables the in-game minimap so that you will have to play the cartographer and jot down your own map on grid paper.

From the town of Grimrock, They’re a page right out of historyīeginning a new game in Grimrock involves making a few decisions that will have a substantial influence on your gameplay experience.

Movement and combat involves traversing rooms one square at a time but the game is not turn based and you must react quickly when enemies are encountered. The game involves leading a team of four adventurers through a large dungeon by navigating a grid like labyrinth from a first person perspective. Now that I have had that opportunity I’m pleased to say that Grimrock deserves a lot more than mere curiosity.įor others who are new to the genre, Legend of Grimrock is a revival of a kind of RPG/dungeon crawler represented most memorably by Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder, released in 19, respectively. Having never played the oft referenced Dungeon Master that many hail as Grimrock’s spiritual ancestor I was eager to find out more about this apparently long dormant genre. The long anticipated dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock has been something of a curiosity to me.

If they ever wish to see daylight again and reclaim their freedom the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level. Unbeknownst to their captors, the mountain is riddled with ancient tunnels, dungeons and tombs built by crumbled civilizations long perished now. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution.

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