Lucius with a more streamlined gameplay experience and a pixel graphic style.

The gameplay is relatively similar to the orignal Lucius however instead of being a 3D puzzle game it's a 2D puzzle game. I felt that with the style and the way objects that can be interacted with are differentiated from compared to the original makes this game less of a pain to play and makes most of the puzzles more straight forward and easy to solve without the use of guides.

The art style and music are both done very well, I had an issue once during my playthrough where I tabbed out and it caused an audio bug that played the menu idle sound very loudly when I was playing, which I was able to fix by quiting to the main menu and reloading.

Overall it's an improvment over the original Lucius in terms of playability however it's still essentially the same game, almost all the puzzles carry out in a similar way to the original but are just less obtuse to solve.

The achievements are quite easy and can probably be done without a guide if you played the original before playing this one. If you haven't there are essentially only 2 achievements which could give you trouble that are easily gotten on a replay. There is also no 40 hour achievement like the original which is nice!

Fundamentally, a version of Lucius which plays itself less straight, which works out far better. There are subtle improvements over the original game, such as a reduction in scope (notice the lack of a skill meter!) and more puzzle hints. A lot of what I've grown to be iffy on about the first game is, by and large, still here. Other than that, if you really have to play Lucius, I'd say this is a much better version of Shiver Games' 2012 debut, and for that reason, it's probably the best game they've ever made.