Grim Quest - Old School RPG

I played the demo of Grim Quest a couple of years ago but found it didn't grab me. Then, earlier this year, I impulsively picked up the second game, a prequel by the name of Grim Tides, and really enjoyed it. That was enough to prompt me to give Grim Quest another go. Like the prequel, Grim Quest is essentially a 2D dungeon crawler, with interludes back in the local town allowing you to improve your abilities and restock on stuff you need. You can definitely see how the second game improved on what was established here, though. Where Grim Quest has a sporadic minigame where you have to defend the town by blindly guessing which type of enemy is attacking (arbitrary guesswork is neither engaging nor satisfying), Grim Tides replaced it with an arena and ship-to-ship combat. Where Grim Quest (appropriately for its title) has a gloomy, oppressive, almost Dark Souls-ish doomed fantasy setting, Grim Tides opted to move the action to a tropical archipelago. Grim Tides, then, is definitely the better game. The differences are relatively minor, though. They do make a difference, but not enough to make or break a game. The core gameplay is consistent across both titles, and while Tides is better, Quest is a solid minimalist dungeon crawl too. There's very little plot here, though you do get a certain amount of flavour text and there's story progression of sorts. It's repetitive and grindy, but in a way that works pretty well. Each dungeon delve is fairly short, with returns to town coming frequently, which means it's easy to pick up for quick play sessions. It does suffer a bit from excessive length though - for how simple and repetitive the gameplay is, 20-ish hours is just too long; 12-15 would probably have been ideal. This is exacerbated by the pace of the late game, where you find yourself in combat every 2-3 steps, which really drags things out. I enjoyed most of my time with Grim Quest, but if you're only going to play one of these two games, the prequel is the one to go for. The story (though still sparse) is better, the setting is more enjoyable, and the some of the activities between delves just work better. On the other hand, if (like me) you enjoyed Grim Tides and feel like more of roughly the same, Grim Quest is still pretty solid in its own right. Too long and a bit too grindy, but a decent minimalist dungeon crawl.

Very good, get it here or in mobile for free.

i don't know what it is about old school rpgs that i'm drawn to so much, and i also don't know what it is about grim quest in particular that i love so much. more than anything, i truly enjoy that i have something else i have to mansge outside of health, something that could be even more debilitating if not watched. really like the sanity feature and, even more so, how it alters encounters (outside of manifestations). the world is not just about you, hell it couldn't really care less for the most part (pre glacial pass). the world is active. when killing the prince of thieves, there's a massive drop in sieges on the city, but especially raids from humans. i really like that difference; feels like it really adds extra wiehgt or meaning behind slaying him

very nice classic grimdark quest rpg 9/10

穷且爆率低，但怪也不难，普通难度最大地图保持补给过关轻轻松松。炼金和铁匠强化依赖打怪爆的或是商店卖的物品，但商店似乎从来没刷出过好东西。但是穷，我不想体验真实的贫穷雇佣兵生活，尤其是在我同时要指挥一个城市并且花钱雇佣另外一批雇佣兵的时候。

It's an extremely simple game loop and the mechanics couldn't possibly be more basic. In the early/mid 2000's, I wrote games for myself in Visual Basic 6 which weren't all that much different than this, and if you have done any hobbyist level programming, you'll think the same. Still though, it's clean. The balance seems good. Graphically it does what it needs to do. And it goes on sale, I bought this for like a dollar and at that price it's nothing, it's no choice at all. Is it worth full price? Not sure I'd go that far, myself. But it's worth picking up. The demo is a spot on representation of what you're getting. How you feel about the demo will be how you feel about the game, so give that a try.

12 hours in on Nightmare difficulty with a gun with poison build with some magic to complete the build (level 14 with Lynx), managed to kill the Orc Chieftain and damn, the need of items in theese boss fights is crazy, had to use 3 or 4 60 hp heals to be able to kill the boss, the game is amazing and worth the money ,on steam deck I do get not unfortunately do not get any sound, Idk if is a bug or not but other than that is perfect, wish there were more items like ,after you kill the orc boss you can find more powerfull items in the shop or something ,maybe a revolver with 3 damage and 2 armor pierce or something, or armor with higher stats than the ones you could get in the begining

Great Game.

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um dos melhores RPGs simplificados que já joguei