“Aeon of Sands: The Trail” (“AoS”) is the first – and so far only – release from two-man Indie studio, TwoBits Kid. Released in 2018, “AoS” first came to my attention in 2019, when it was mentioned by the ‘Grid-Based First-Person RPGs’ Steam group. I’m always willing and ready to tackle a new Dungeon Crawler that invokes the mechanics of the true classics of the sub-genre, and “AoS” looked to do just that, with a rather novel post-apocalyptic setting to boot. Unfortunately, while there’s clearly a good deal of love and attention poured into this game by its development duo, the end result isn’t particularly enjoyable.
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“AoS” embraces the old-school aesthetic of series like ‘Dungeon Master’ and ‘Eye of the Beholder’ in that, ... |
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2.5/5 |
