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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.

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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.

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