Recent reviews by Oxami

The only game where you'll say "I DON'T WANT TO KILL THAT BOSS HE'S TOO NICE"

Quite possibly one of the best storylines in games ever created, combined with an amazing soundtrack, memorable characters, entertaining gameplay, and so many other perks.

There's more than one story too - you can be a pacifist, and play the game by killing nobody, or be a serial killer, and do the opposite. Or, somewhere in between, and since every character in the game is unique, they'll have an impact on the story (or at least change little details in the journey) depending on what you do to them.

If you haven't played the first game, stop looking at this page and go play that first. It's a great dungeon crawler and will help you enjoy this game so much more. Grimrock 2 is a major improvement over the already enjoyable first game. Compared to the first game, you will now see:

• An open world island with different dungeons, rather than one single linear dungeon. You will revisit most areas now
  
• A serious overhaul on the atmosphere to make it feel like there isn't even a grid system
  
• Textures that look like they're 4k resolution
  
• Harder puzzles and riddles, making it very possible that you will not find all of the secrets on your first run
  
• Chests instead of randomly placed stashes
  
• Much more monsters, including new mini-bosses
  
• Much more items (Firearms as a new weapon type)
  
• Magic works like swype keyboards now, making it faster to cast
  
• Weapons now can be charged to use their special abilities, rather than having you randomly do the effect.
  
• A new race that can fit almost any role
  
• 5 new classes, one of which is completely unique and makes the game somewhat harder
  
• New difficulty settings, like only saving at crystals and one-use crystals
  
• Very smooth optimization and the game only requires 1 gigabyte
  
• More hours of gameplay. My first run took about 38 hours on hard with ironman turned on
  
• More workshop possibilities with the updated development kit

I seriously can't think of any downgrades from Grimrock 1 to 2, other than the removal of set effects on some of the early armors like leather. I would have also liked the ability to change voices for characters to fit your own custom portraits and the ability to create your own classes and races, but the large amount of races and classes is fair. This game is beyond worth $24.

this game is really good other people are just upset