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Legend of Grimrock

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Linux • 2012

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Quick resume

Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.

Global score

94/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Puzzle

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    Pros

    • Challenging puzzles and combat
    • Strong nostalgic old-school dungeon crawler feel
    • Deep exploration with many secrets
    • Custom party creation and dungeon editor
    • Immersive atmospheric design

    Cons

    • Minimal story and narrative depth
    • Can be frustrating and difficult
    • Repetitive dungeon visuals
    • Clunky combat interface without hotkeys
    • No multiplayer or social features

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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      "The game features challenging combat and puzzles that require skill and mastery, rewarding player effectiveness and learning."

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    • Competition

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      "Focus is on personal progression and exploration without competitive multiplayer or leaderboards."

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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      "Includes a level editor and workshop support allowing players to create and share custom puzzles."

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      "Players can create custom parties and use a dungeon editor to design and share their own levels and puzzles."

    • Domination

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      "No evidence of player dominance over others; interactions are single-player focused without social power dynamics."

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    • Escapism

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      "Immersive atmosphere, lore, and challenging gameplay provide strong escape from reality."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest and nostalgia, with no indication of obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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      "Set in a dark fantasy world with magic, monsters, and surreal environments; strong imaginative fiction."

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    • Fellowship

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      "Primarily a single-player experience with minimal social interaction."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Gameplay is sedentary with no physical activity; players spend long hours in front of the screen."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and continuous engagement; no background or passive play elements."

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    • Intimacy

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      "No social or emotional relationship building; gameplay is solitary and task-focused."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players lead and manage a party of four characters, making tactical decisions and directing their actions."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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      "The game is tense and challenging, often causing frustration and requiring focus rather than relaxation."

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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      "Requires planning, puzzle solving, resource management, and tactical combat decisions."

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026