Legacy

by rojo

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★41%

You find yourself in a long forgotten chamber in the ruins of an ancient civilization. Strange contraptions and cryptic messages lie in wait as you seek a way out. Your only companions are the notes left by an explorer who came before you - deceased. Will these hints be enough to secure your escape?

IMPORTANT:
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Here are two additional hints not explicitly stated in the game:

*Use and pay attention to your mouse. If your cursor changes, try clicking!
*As you find note scraps their information will be recorded in the appropriate place automatically - you don't need to write it down yourself.
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Legacy is a puzzle game inspired by old school dungeon crawlers with a tiny splash of point and click adventure. A lot is deliberately left up to you to figure out. Some elements are randomized, making each playthrough very slightly different. I created it on my own for the Jam using Unity 5.

Comments14

60fingers14 Dec 2016, 12:29

I had fun playing this, the puzzles are really hard so I did not really achieve anything ;)

Skosnowich18 Dec 2016, 06:15

The game was fun playing, even if I could not solve many puzzles. The movement feels kinda stiff, I personally would prefer that you do not need to press the direction keys repeatedly, but rather can hold them to move.

Ian Morrison20 Dec 2016, 06:46

Awesome entry! Great sense of polish and mood. A little awkward to move; would have been nice if pressing the movement button mid-transition queued it up. I also found myself missing sidestep keys, which would have made some of the puzzles less tedious.

I liked what you did with the audio. The music gets repetitive fast, but it does set the mood; really liked the sound on the floating crates.

Got all the way through to the end; almost thought it was broken until I realized that I'd misread the 3 and 4 tiles (I'd assumed the plaques were moving counterclockwise) and fixed my error. D'oh!

Linear24 Dec 2016, 21:59

Absolutely Excellent!

I beat it :)

Zambini26 Dec 2016, 08:25

Great entry! I love dungeon master and Legend of Grimrock, so right up my alley. The controls were slightly stiff and the puzzles were pretty end-gamey, so I didn't finish it. The mystery and mood is great though, and I'd come back and finish it if I could move faster/strafe. Some ambient sounds would also be killer.

Zambini26 Dec 2016, 08:38

Oh, and the Mac build is working just fine :)

erik26 Dec 2016, 20:46

Really nice job!

*Minor Spoiler below for anyone who hasn't played yet*

I thought everything was super hard until I figured out that I could stand on the last button to permanently solve each puzzle. Things got a lot easier after that.

mirta00026 Dec 2016, 21:38

don't think I'm smart enough to solve the puzzles and walking one square at a time is quite awkward, but the game is very pretty and I loved the collecting the letters part :)

Downtown29 Dec 2016, 03:20

Really Nice puzzle game, kept me busy for quite a while. Pen and paper was a must for figuring it out.

DOXM29 Dec 2016, 13:33

Wow! The game looks amazing, and the puzzle solving feels great. The concept is original too!

handoharken30 Dec 2016, 12:32

The game had a great atmosphere and clearly had some well thought out puzzles. I kept thinking someone was going to jump out at some point haha

Wumbo31 Dec 2016, 04:38

Love the spooky mood and the atmosphere the game creates. While I did like the puzzle solving atmosphere, I thought the controls were a little wonkey, and I kind of think the puzzles would have been more fun if I could have seen the whole thing at once. In three dimensions, visualizing things like a 2D grid just isn't that fun when you are better off getting a piece of paper and pencil out and working it out from a top-down point of view. Cool game though, and loved the music!

NIGIC31 Dec 2016, 07:46

Well, deciphering the messages took longer than I care to admit. Overall the actual puzzle solving was fairly basic, but I still had fun doing it. Putting everything together at the end felt satisfying.

I like the visual style.