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Legend of Grimrock release date set for April, pre-orders available

Finnish developer Almost Human is hard at work around the first patch for old skool dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock.

Legend of Grimrock is an indie dungeon crawler inspired by classic RPGs like Eye of the Beholder and Ultima Underworld. You play as a party of four exiles who must turn 90 degrees left, 90 degrees right and sometimes move forwards to flee the infested catacombs of Mount Grimrock. It?s full of traps, ancient prisons, ancient enemies and horrible crawly things able to bite your face off. Expect you'll encounter lots of puzzles, traps and treasure as you fight with the mountain.

The grid movement system can feel slightly odd if you?ve never played old-school crawlers like Dungeon Master, even so it allows for lots of precision and strategy in combat. You can customise the race, class and abilities of your four exiles and upgrade their equipment with spells and weapons you get in the catacombs. It looks like Almost Human do an admirable job resulting in a fast, elegant recreation of this classic exploration format in a very modern 3D engine.

The indie has started develop version 1.1.4 of the game, which launched the other day. The present list of improvements is published below:

- vsync is enabled automatically.

- borderless windows will no longer be topmost.

- pressing ESC closes character sheet.

- fixed unlimited frost arrow exploit.

- bug fix: topmost food selection don't work reliably in 2560?1440 resolution.

- bug fix: wall text translations are usually not dismissed when right-clicking.

- bug fix: inanimate objects may be backstabbed.

- bug fix: projectiles go through doors in a few unusual cases.

- improved display resolution auto-detection at first launch.

- fixed some of typos.

- removed ensure disables high texture resolution setting when running close to video memory (some graphics drivers manage to report available video memory incorrectly).

Legend of Grimrock is due out on April on however the Grimrock site, Steam and GOG. It?s open to pre-order now at 20% off.