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Simple THE best dungeon crawler, great visuals, excellent puzzles and pretty creepy story ^^ Some of the monsters still haunt me to this day xD

Fun game.

Resolution setting in Options on Mac displays as 'nil' and constantly crashes the game any time you try to change and save any setting.

- Navigate to: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Almost Human/Legend of Grimrock
- Right click: grimrock.cfg
- Open With -> TextEdit
- Type the resolution you want in quotes: "1234 x 1234"
- Change any other setting while here
- CMD + S to save the file
- Launch the game

Finally got around to actually beating this game after owning it for over a decade. I always found it intriguing but for some reason never put the time in to actually get more than a few floors in. Just finished my playthrough on hard difficulty with no map. I tried using a book to make maps but got frustrated by my lack of grid paper and gave up on that fairly quickly. I found that the dungeons weren't too difficult to navigate just by memory but your mileage may vary.

The game is great, hardly anything to complain about. The developers clearly had a certain idea in mind that they executed pretty much flawlessly. I wasn't around to play a lot of the older titles that they are trying to emulate, but the game overall does have a classic old school feel that manages to be a throwback while not being unwelcoming to new players. I think it's a little bit tricky to get the hang of at first, modern gamers aren't used to the idea of having to click to use all your different weapons and items unless it's a turn-based game, and the magic system is definitely something not used today. However, by the end of the first few floors, I got the hang of it and felt like it was actually a very fluid system. As for the puzzles, I felt they were brilliantly designed good fun each time. The game is also beautiful, despite being over 13 years old as of this review. I'd say the entire thing took me about 15-17 hours to beat, but it's hard to say. I did leave it paused overnight once and I'm not sure how that inflates my playthrough timer.

I really don't have much to complain about, honestly. It's a lot of fun, looks great, sounds great, and I just want to play more of it. There's even a level editor that has plenty of community content, and apparently a lot of that is very good so I'll likely check it out for myself.

Forewarning, there are 2 issues relating to a later part of the game that caused me a good amount of annoyance, and while I don't think they are game breaking or anything, I think they are worth mentioning. I'll avoid any direct spoilers, but if you really don't want to know anything, I'll blank it out for you.

On one of the later levels of the game there is an area known as the "checkered room". This puzzle is seemingly difficult enough to warrant its own achievement. My issue is that I spent at least a good hour struggling to solve this puzzle only to realize that the information I was using had nothing to do with the puzzle, and subsequently I had been interpreting the entire thing incorrectly. Perhaps this is just my problem, but I felt it was a bit of an unjustified red herring to place a scroll with very clear hints as to how to solve a major puzzle only a few steps away from what is seemingly the most difficult puzzle in the game (according to achievements), only for those two things to be completely unrelated. I just found that annoying, I feel the scroll should've been placed after the checkered room. Maybe I'm just whining.

My only other issue is that in the final level there is a puzzle where you must find and place 4 different objects in specific places, these objects being hidden in piles of other useless trash. I wasted a good amount of time on this because despite having the correct items, I couldn't place them in their spots. It was a bit of a pixel hunt, and I was left very confused as to whether I was actually doing something wrong. I took the item and clicked all over the damn thing and it just wouldn't work, I eventually gave up and looked it up only to learn that I DID have the correct items, I just wasn't clicking in the exact spot the designers intended. I feel this could've been avoided.

All things considered, those are pretty minor complaints. It's a 10/10 from me. The game is only $15 normally which is a steal, in my opinion. Pick it up, tons of fun.