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Developer(s) | Almost Human |
Publisher(s) | Almost Human |
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Programmer(s) | Petri Häkkinen |
Artist(s) | Juho Salila |
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Platform(s) | Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Nintendo Switch |
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Mode(s) | Single-player |
Legend of Grimrock is a 2012 action role-playing game video game developed and published by Almost Human. The title is a 3D grid-based, real-time dungeon crawler based on the 1987 game Dungeon Master.[1] It was released for Windows in April 2012, OS X and Linux in December 2012, iOS in May 2015,[citation needed] and Nintendo Switch on 15 January 2024.[2]
Legend of Grimrock was the debut game of Almost Human, a four-man Finnish indie development team formed in February 2011, which self-financed the title's development.[3] A sequel, Legend of Grimrock II, was released in 2014.
Legend Of Grimrock isn't a love letter to Dungeon Master, the 1987 blend of subterranean exploration, survival, switches and traps. It's a near-facsimile. But that's not a fact Almost Human is trying to hide; it's the selling point. Legend Of Grimrock replicates a classic faithfully enough to massage the nostalgia glands of anyone who played the original, and it's a test of the timelessness of an almost universally loved game.