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It's a genre thing. There is a whole class of these grid-based dungeon crawling games out there and even in the recent ones they stay true to the restriction.

Exactly. It was a design decision that we took from the start. Legend of Grimrock 1 & 2 are a good example of a recent indie game with "old school" controls on purpose. It was a big inspiration for our game.

It seems odd not to consider a control scheme that is so familiar to so many people. Would adding mouse-look break a lot of things?

BTW - this vid seems to show Legend of Grimrock playing with mouse-look: https://youtu.be/xALsxZv0pwg?t=8m53s

BTW 2 - just discovered that cursor keys can rotate. WASD for motion and L/R cursor keys to rotate is waaay better for me.

We could definitely add a mouse-look like in your first video of LoG. It doesn't break the grid-based gameplay. Thanks for the suggestion!

In the genre the world only moves when you do.

I like them. Reminds me of old times (lands of lore) and makes it possible to play this on my phone.

Or go even simpler, back to the days of Wizardry. Up to go forward, left/right to turn.

arrow keys seem to work for movement also