New to this genre - game suggestions before release date

[frugal_economist]

Hi everyone,

Being a student on a budget, I can't meet the capital investments to play mainstream games anymore.
Hence, I became intrigue with Grimrock and made my pre-order a few days ago.

Since the game won't be released until the 11th, I was wondering if anyone on the forum could suggest other classic games that is similar or inspired Grimrock to give me a feel of the game style?

Thanks

[luthur1964]

You have to play the original "Dungeon Master" which was the game that inspired "Legend of Grimrock".

Go to-
http://ragingmole.com/RTC/

This is a free windows version of the 1987 classic and it follow-up title.

Whether you finish it or not, you will better understand and appreciate LoG.

Cheers!

[maskedhobo]

The closest I have played is the Eye of the Beholder series. I have heard Dungeon Master mentioned here a lot, I have never played it myself.

[Kthanid]

Would definitely recommend Eye of the Beholder. You can probably find it on various abandoneware sites and I'm guessing you can get it to run in DOSBox.

[jfunk]

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/lands_of_lore_1_2

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/might_and_m ... ed_edition

[maskedhobo]

Would definitely recommend Eye of the Beholder. You can probably find it on various abandoneware sites and I'm guessing you can get it to run in DOSBox.

I got it up in DOSBox in about 5 min. It is easy to understand if you know your DOS.

[Kthanid]

Going to have a hard time resisting buying that Might and Magic 6-pack myself. So many good games!

[frugal_economist]

Thanks guys.
I just got started with Dungeon Master.
Just lost my dwarf warrior!

[Fnord]

Just beware that Dungeon Master is rather unforgiving. Eye of the Beholder (mentioned above) is considerably easier to get into, at least if you are familiar with the AD&D ruleset (which was very common in CRPGs during the late 80's and through the 90's). Lands of Lore is also somewhat similar, and does not have a complex ruleset that you have to wrestle with, and it can be legally obtained from GOG.

[Breogan]

You can try Eye of the Beholder I : link removed
or Dungeon Master : link removed

These are links for an auto installation (using drop box). An easy way to play this marvelous game !

Thanks to link removed for all these old games

EDIT: links removed -- sol_hsa