As in Commandos, you control a group of characters with different skills, strengths and weaknesses.

Lewis Gordondone a review for Eurogamerand he makes it sound extremely appealing, half-cooked plot and tricksy controls notwithstanding.

Being a game set in a monastery, The Stone Of Madness naturally makes the connection explicit.

A character selection screen in The Stone Of Madness, showing a group of glum-looking people in a stone chamber

I’ll hopefully have something lengthier to say about all that in the next few weeks.

For the moment, The Stone Of Madness seems worth a stab.

There’s stilla Steam demolive at the time of writing.