Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar (V2)

Lead a custom party of adventurers through a large fantasy world of dungeons, towns, and other areas to explore. The game uses first-person, grid-based movement and offers multiple beginnings and endings.

Create characters from a range of races and professions, then develop their skills as they gain experience. Explore maps, encounter monsters, speak with intelligent NPCs using full-sentence communication, and pursue quests and mini-quests.

Combat is turn-based and strategic, with spells, character abilities, and enemies with distinct powers and defenses. The game also features puzzles, interactive dungeons, complex lockpicking, item crafting, a quest journal, and an automap.

Some players enjoy the game as a substantial throwback to classic party-based dungeon crawlers, especially for its breadth, character-building options, and the satisfaction of learning its systems. Others find those systems and the interface difficult to understand, and several reviews describe frustrations with combat, lockpicking, or running the game.