Legend of Grimrock – level 1

Not too hard time in the first level of the game.

In the first room you need to get the torch and the door will open. (it is written on the wall, just click the inscription for translation.)

Also in this room, immediately after you start the game – behind your back is the first secret room with a projectile weapon and a pair of boots. (Thanks to ErPanfi for pointing this out) You will find a loose brick on the south-east wall of the room.

Then you will get some basic things known by reading the walls like pulling levers and chains.

In one of the corridors you will need to leave a stone on a floor plate to open a door. Then few squares further you will see another inscription saying “Loose rock” which means – check the nearby wall for a bit different broken brick and press it.

There is a side corridor with an opened trap door. The inscription says you need to throw a stone to the floor plate behind it so it closes for you to pass over.

I suggest you first FALL in the trap door and loot the secret room on level 2 below (there is a teleport back to level 1). And when you get back – throw a stone to close the trap door and get the items in the alcove there.

Go around (use the right hand rule to make sure you found all stuff). Collect everything you like. There are some rags laying around to equip your characters.

If you feel lost anyway – press Tab (map) or if you are hardliner dungeon crawler – draw your own map. (There is a PDF file in the game install folder for you to print and draw the map with notes).

If you choose to use map (options menu) – Notes are taken by clicking on the map and writing a note.

Notes are deleted by right clicking them. Useful if you put all your heavy useless junk in one room and want to remember where you left it.

Spells are cast by right-clicking, choosing runes and then right-clicking the blue button beside the runes.

First spell you can cast is fireburst. You will find a scroll explaining what rune do you need. (only top-left one that looks like a triangle pointing up). Just don’t cast it against a wall or you will burn badly.

But enough of this… back to exploring.

Few snails will try to bite you. Fighting is done by right-clicking your heroes hands. But you better not go bare handed – equip the knives you found laying around.

Find the key in one of the alcoves and get to the room with the head.

The inscription says you need to return his sight.

Which actually means you need to find 2 sapphires to put instead of eye-balls in this statue.

There are 2 rooms with monsters, one north and one south.

Only the north one is tricky, so you take south one first.

South room has 2 plates, one trap door and 3 snails for killing.

FALL in the trap door and loot the room below. The teleport will return you back. You can unlock this room from level 2, so there is nothing more to do here.

Close the trap door and kill the snails.

Loot the side rooms.

Open the portcullis and get the sapphire.

North room is bad if you try to be hero.

Use the coward tactic instead:

• Stay in front of the portcullis.
• Open.
• Kill mushroom.
• Close portcullis.
• Rest. (R key)
• Rinse and repeat.

(you will probably get your first collective dream while sleeping. Read it all by clicking with the mouse… if you played Ultima Underworld – you will get some memories)

When all mushrooms are down – go get the herbs (you will find mortar and pestle later on level 2) and take the sapphire.

North wall where the sapphire alcove lays has a button opening secret room north from there. Press it and collect the stuff.

Now back to the head.

SAVE the game!

Push the “eyes” in and fight the skeleton.

The shield is good and the pike is … well – let’s say useful for your back heroes to thrust in the battle instead of slacking.

Unlock the hidden room with the small hidden bricks, get the healing from the big blue auto-save stone and go to level 2.

You are done here.

3 secret rooms, 13 monsters (check your stats if you found all of them)

Descend to level 2.