Remade old school Dungeon crawler. Totally worth it. Now, if someone would only redo the Eye of the Beholder games

Loved it, some puzzles took me hours to finish but this game truly is unique. It really makes you feel like you're on your own.

Even though I haven't played any classic dungeon crawlers, like Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master, one of the most notable games of my childhood was Might & Magic 8. So the idea of party-based first person role playing game is generally familiar to me. The reason why I decided to try Legends of Grimrock 2 was exactly the nostalgia for this type of gameplay. 
 
And it turned out, that Legends of Grimrock 2 is exactly what I was looking for and even more, because it utilizes the mechanics that I love. 
 
First, this game utilizes the idea of progressively unfolding open world, which reminds me of the first Dark Souls, where locations eventually connect with each other. 
 
Secondly, the game has an extremely well-crafted party building and character progression system. There is a strategic approach, where you need to carefully plan your further game already at the character creation screen, as resources, experience for character progression and equipment in the game are limited. A viable party needs be very diversified. The slow progression in character level makes every skill/stat point very valuable and rewarding, especially in the early game. 
 
And, perhaps, I have not seen any other game, where careful exploration is as rewarding as here. There is no random loot generation, and item placement is relatively smart, supporting the stages of progression. Which also means that an experienced player can also rush to quickly get some of the items in the early game. Like I said above, the resources, equipment and enemies (which grant experience points) are limited, thus you are eager to look up every corner and spend time solving puzzles. Also, I really enjoy the golden keys system: the most valuable pieces of equipment are hidden in the vaults unlocked by the golden keys. But there are more vaults than keys, and keys are extremely hard to find, so you need to carefully choose, which items do you need and at which stage of the game. 
 
On the other hand, taking all the above into consideration, even at the Easy difficulty the game is extremely hardcore. A poorly assembled party will quickly become incapable. The lack of attention will leave valuable items behind. And further you proceed through the game, the more challenging in becomes. The development team surely does not have any mercy. There is a misconception that Dark Souls and other From Software games are hard. No. Try Legend of Grimrock instead. 
 
 There a few things that I do not like:
• A lot of backtracking while having almost no quick travel options. This again reminds of Dark Souls 1, where we got limited teleportation options in the second half of the game. And even with it, you still need to run a lot by foot. 
• Real time gameplay with turn-based mechanics. Well, it's controversial. It makes the game kind of unique, and allows "dancing" around the enemies not to get any damage. But the combat itself is still rather turn-based, with extremely long cooldowns, which is still not very dynamic. 
• While all the damage dealing skills are more or less viable, Firearms look extremely undeveloped: the damage does not scale with increasing of the skill level, and ammo is extremely limited with no way to farm or craft it. 


To summarize, this is a unique game in the modern gaming industry, a representative of the oldschool genre, which caters to sophisticated players, who are tired of the modern AAA industry.

Great game so far. Developers went for an open world dungeon design. Very immersive , a lot of interactive elements. Game can be tough, but fair . 2 thumbs up.

Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge.

I love the original, and this game is better.

If you're into first person dungeon crawlers, and love the feeling of exploration, and like tile based movement, you can't go much better than Legend of Grimrock II.

Just a bigger and better version of the first game, this is how you do a sequel. The only thing that remains mostly untouched is the combat system, which could use a bit more meat around it's bones. Either way it's a fantastic game, nothing else to it.

Fun throwback dungeon crawler that is done in much better fashion than most others. Worth a playthrough.

YEAH BABEY