The early 2010s was boom time for retro revival projects, as Steam’s ascendency and new funding models like Kickstarter prompted a swathe of developers new and old to cast aside pragmatism and build the games they truly wanted to make. One of my favourite projects to emerge during this era is Legend of Grimrock, a first-person dungeon crawler that took the fundamentals of games like Dungeon Master and Wizardry and revitalised them for a new generation.If you missed Legend of Grimrock when it launched in 2012, fret not, because both Legend of Grimrock and its sequel are 80% off on Steam this weekend.The original Legend of Grimrock is an unapologetic throwback, taking place within a twisting subterranean complex deep beneath a mountain and crawling with fantasy beasties. You create your own party, bust out of prison and seek to escape the complex, solving puzzles, avoiding traps, and battling foes in turn-based combat as you go.One of my favourite things about Legend of Grimrock is how tactile its dungeon is. You’re constantly poking and prodding the world, plucking items off the floor with your mouse to stuff in your inventory, feeling along the walls for hidden switches that might reveal secret passageways, wincing as you step carelessly onto a pressure plate and trigger some horrible trap. It does a fantastic job of making you feel like you’re in that Dungeon, even though you never actually see your party. $6 (£5)Legend of Grimrock 2 blows out the scale of the experience, letting…
