Legend of Grimrock 2
Legend of Grimrock 2 is a dungeon crawling role playing game with a modern execution but an oldschool heart. A group of four prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. The island is filled with ancient crumbled ruins, mysterious shrines and a vast underground network of dungeons and mines. If the prisoners wish to make it out alive, they have to overcome the challenges devised by the ominous mastermind of the island. Powers of perception and logic are more important than sheer force is, since Legend of Grimrock 2 puts a heavy emphasis on exploration, survival and challenging puzzles. Discover powerful ancient artifacts from hidden secret chambers and buried treasures. Arm your champions, cast spells and craft enchanted potions and bombs to aid you in fighting the dreadful monsters in highly tactical real-time combat.
Game Discussion
Steam User 43
Thanks to the allowance of custom portraits I have been able to create the greatest Star Trek game I've ever played: Picard, Riker, Data, and Worf all trapped in a medieval fantasy holodeck adventure!
Steam User 12
On my second playthrough after several years. If there ever was a perfect sequel, this is it. It is an improvement in every way. I'm disappointed that there aren't many other games that capture the same dungeon-crawling experience as this.
Steam User 8
What a wonderful game. A polished and challenging party-based dungeon crawler. Definitely very difficult, especially by my standards, but very rewarding and a lot of depth in it's minute by minute gameplay and I had a great time exploring all the maps.
I'd say the difficulty is pitched almost perfectly aside from a few instances that, to me, felt a bit unfair - for example, sometimes enemies can just attack you multiple times in a row while you're waiting for cooldowns - some of the riddles just feel a little too obtuse for me to work out on my own, and sometimes I felt lost in what I had to do next so had to look up a guide, but really these didn't really detract a whole lot and, generally speaking I felt quite capable to tackle the games challenges and the constant success and failure always allowed me the opportunities to learn from my mistakes - I was constantly trying to manipulate battles to give me better odds (i.e don't fight more than 2 or 3 enemies at once, try to funnel enemies into a corridor to prevent you being attacked from all sides, etc) and the times when I really did spend the time to work out puzzles and riddles felt so rewarding when i finally got them.
I would have liked to see another game in this style but I think the developers have moved on. Big shame. I think there is plenty more ideas to be had from this type of game.
Steam User 8
I don't know why I'm only now playing this years after I bought it, but it was already a deliberate anachronism then. Consequently it still holds up just as well now.
Steam User 6
I started playing this game on release in 2014, finally finished the game today after ragequitting roughly 2/3 in.
Fantastic puzzles, great ambiance, fantastic art and absolutely unfair fights with ♥♥♥♥ coming out of the damn walls. As if the developers wanted to outperform Alien Isolation in that particular category.... 11/10 would recommend!
If there ever is a Legend of Grimrock 3, please don't bring the trickster back. Thank you.
Steam User 4
Loving it! Reminds of the Might and Magic series as well as the Eye of the Beholder series. Big nostalgic hit here, in a good way.
Steam User 8
A direct upgrade to the first game. The graphics hold up well, and there's a lot of build variety and replayability. Most of the puzzles are very fair and can be solved with some thought and experimentation, there were only a few I had to look up. Very recommended, especially for the price.