It is really hard to recommend HeXen II. There are a few moments where everything clicks and the game is great, but the majority of this campaign is a pain to get through. Put simply, the puzzles are confusing and offer little to no direction while the combat is extremely one note. Unfortunately, unlike Heretic and the first Hexen, HeXen II is just not worth the pain and suffering.

PROS:
- Great art style and impressive graphics for the Quake engine
- Fun item system
- Decent length, taking around 6 - 10 hours to complete (depending on your use of a guide)

CONS:
- Terrible port that will need some configuration
- Puzzles are excruciating and ambiguous, a guide is a necessity
- Mana is far too rare for what the game expects
- Enemies have far too much health and engagements become a test of when the player runs out of mana, rather than true difficulty
- Missing the Portal of Praevus expansion

Hexen II is the videogame version of an instrumental interlude of a Black Metal demo from the 90s, limited to 666 cassettes.

I was 12 when it was released, and I fell in love immediately. It has that raw, unrefined touch of demonic dark-fantasy from all early Raven Software titles, long before they started to release generic / uninteresting stuff like the same CoD crap over and over again. It uses a modified version of the Quake engine, and at that time the graphics were awesome: Rich textures, detailed models, destructible environments, etc. The music is also excellent, now it would be considered vintage Dungeon Synth and it would sell well on Bandcamp. It has some RPG elements but it's basically an FPS. You get satanic ♥♥♥♥ everywhere, and enemies straight out of the ninth circle of Hell, what else do you want?

HOWEVER I wouldn't recommend buying the Steam version, as it doesn't include the original CD music, and the mouse support is limited (no free look in all directions, only left and right). I bought the GOG version too, and I am playing that one instead, it's much better in my opinion.