Coldfire Keep

TL:DR - See FINAL VERDICT at the bottom. Ok, after playing for a bit. My impression is this is a "dungeon crawl (beyond incredibly) lite" for mobile. It is not for a hardcore RPGer. It is definitely not for a PC gamer who is expecting the depth (whether story or mechanics) that comes from real PC RPGs. IF I played games on my phone (and I dont- I'm VERY anti mobile game, esp those ported to PC - See thread "i hope this is as good as it sounds" for why), and IF I was looking for an RPG to while away some time on the train or whatever, It'd be ok for that. Definitely not a "suck away an entire weekend in dungeon crawling bliss" game though. Ok for starters, yeah. The textures are really uninspired basic texture packs as Gwion noticed and Angelo pointed out. You could probably find the exact same pack on the web for purchase with a few words on google. The story is...Meh. Thats not really surprising. The dungeon crawl genre isnt known for its stories, but for its intricate dungeons...

So little is explained here. If you think that you want a low rent version of Grimrock...you don't. Just go play Grimrock.

Introduction story is poor and its gets worse from then on. The game mechanics are sluggish and not intuative. I'm old enough to remember this style of game in its heyday and it doesn't do them justice at all.

as others have said before me, not worth the price tag :-( having grown up on clasics like, dungeon master series and eye of the beholder i was really hoping this would have improved on the clasics and have gamers once again trawling through dungoens. sadly after playing this i think it would take a miricle to revive any sort of intrest in this type of game that Grimrock rekindled. to also find out its a port from mobiles!! i think it should have stayed there! avoid.

The game isn't bad if you're looking for something light and a little comedic, but of the dungeon crawlers I've played in my day, this is the least of them. I've seen other games that were ported from the mobile market that did fantastically, so that's not my major malfunction. What I do take issue with are these things: -You can't sell anything at the one shop - you're forced to depend entirely on the gold you've collected to buy things, and just dump your old equipment you replaced on the ground. For players like me, that drives me up the wall. -No settings. At all. Nothing. SO WHEN THE GAME IS BLASTING YOU WITH MUSIC WHEN YOU FIRST OPEN IT, YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE VOLUME MIXER IN WINDOWS TO LOWER IT. -The puzzles are stupid easy, like you would have to have some serious mental problem (or be 5 years old) to not understand them. I expected at least a small challenge, and was disappointed. -There's no help area at all. You get the tutorial windows popping up at the first part of th...

I see that this game has received a lot of negative reviews. Some of the reasons given are not wrong, but it's still not a bad game. I just finished it, which took me 14.2 hours according to Steam, and I do not feel like that was a loss of time. While I was inclined to stop after the first try, as it was frustratingly difficult at the beginning, it started to grow on me the longer I played. It cannot measure up to its spiritual daddy, Dungeon Master, and it's not as refined as Legend of Grimrock. However once you start leveling up and find some gear it's fun to play, and definitely worth its money. It's got 17 levels most of which are quite large with many traps, secret passages and riddles. The latter are not very difficult, so they should be really feasible for most everyone.

Not a Pearl, but not entirely bad either. It has some nice ideas, like the wheels and colored doors, but that's it. Everything would have been better, if it would have been a mod for LoG. But it's a nice game to spend some time with it and if you like such kind of games you could have some fun. Most players will probably be disapointed, because everything in the game is rather basic and the game itself is too short and too easy to beat. You could say, it's a dungeon crawler rather for beginner than hardcore RPG player.

I have really wanted to finish this game but around 15th or 16th floor I just cant take it anymore. First few floors are ok but since around level 10 its just empty straight coridors, since lvl 15 filled with more mobs to grab some extra play time. Graphics are fine, style not so much. Same wall on every level so far. "Puzzles" (dont know if I can call it puzzles) are super easy, rarely requiring deeper thoughts. Combat is unnecessarily long and boring. No customization beyond portrait and 4 attributes. Difference in weapons seem to be just in shape. 1-8 long sword is no different than 1-8 mace. First timers or people who just got hyped into this type of games by some of the latest good games should avoid. Wouldnt recommend it even for the people who are desparate for more games in this genre. Just go play your favorite game once more. p.s. one of the Janecs journals describes the feeling after playing this game. Bored. Bored. Bored. Every single word in whole journal entry.

I'm a little surprised to see this game has such a low review score. I first bought and played it when it came out and found it to be an enjoyable Gridder title, of which there were few of on Steam at the time. Even now there is not a huge library of titles in this genre available through Steam, and this title plays as well as most. No, it does not have the features and depth of a game made by a large production company, most indie developed games do not, but neither does it have a price to match that of a game made by the larger companies. If you enjoy the Gridder style of gameplay, or if you just like a fun little dungeon crawl, then go ahead and check out this title. I found it enjoyable to play through with very nice smooth graphics, pleasant ambient sound effects, and easy intuitive controls (I've played some Gridders which have taken a while just to figure out how to attack). The dungeon floors are all very straightforward with mini puzzles required to get past in order to ...

8/10 Quite Fun! It reminds me of the good old days of cRPG but I cant quite decide which one it is similar to. Very much like Might and Magic 1 through 6 but with less story. Also alot like Bards Tale 1. If you liked the older style games (1980's and 1990's) before they became all graphical fluff but dont want to waste time with a story (beyond "Im here to kill sht") then you may like this game too. That said, it is lacking in depth. There is no story beyond "Hey im in a dungeon, lets kill stuff" and it feels more like someones early work rather than a polished full fledged cRPG.