Recent reviews by His Majesty

This game does everything right. The puzzles are well-crafted and challenging, and it gives you the tools to solve them without any random guessing. The UI is customizable, so you can adjust most features to appear the way you want them. There is no timer to rush you or keep you superficially glued to the game. It is pure, unadulterated, deduction-based puzzling.

The only downside is that there's no computer-generated "infinite mode," but the hand-crafting is also its strength.

I don't need sleep, I don't need my FICSIT-approved daily break, I just need to Save the Day.

At the beginning I thought This is a great puzzle game, but it's not quite Talos. But the further I got into it, the more I've loved this game. To me, it's not so much a sequel to Talos as a carefully considered response to it. And I think it's easily one of the best games of the year.

It took me a little longer to get into and fully appreciate, but the puzzles are similar yet fresh, the world is large and gorgeous, and I think the thought-provoking aspects are at least as rich as the original if not better. Croteam did amazing work.

A delightful, stress-free little game. It requires no time commitment, it looks like an eastern European children's book, and it has the Devil in it. What more can you want?

From someone who's not usually a fan of isometric RPGs, this is the best-handled and most compelling party-based RPG I've played.

Dave fulfills so many of the the things I miss about games. It's just good.

Easily one of the most satisfying puzzle games of all time. If you like Portal-style puzzles and good ambience, it's a solid game just for that alone. But if you also choose to slow down and digest the ambiguous, thought-provoking aspects, it can be the sort of experience you think about for weeks.
Truly 11/10.

Fun, original, simple, and well-polished. The sort of game you and a friend would both lose all your quarters on in an arcade and then scrounge up your allowances to go back.

Having played both at launch, I think this is a great sequel which improves a lot on the original, particularly with the roguelite mechanics. In DD1, you were punished for every bad RNG roll, and each ruined run felt like a waste of your time and effort. DD2 is just as unfair, but when things go to hell I find myself feeling challenged to improve the next run instead of kicking myself over things I can't control. Some players seem to work the opposite way, but for me, this is a lot more fun.

This game is just as I remembered, but I swear my old SoundBlaster card sounded better than the midi emulation did here, and NUR-AB-SAL demanded MT-32. With 5-10 minutes, you too can appease Mr. Sal via ScummVM and add a few QoL features to boot. Here are a few steps to help make that painless:

1) Install ScummVM, available for free online. (Use the latest version, avoid the old RetroArch core.)
2) Launch ScummVM and add the game. (Find your Steam directory, then "steamapps\common\Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis." Ignore the ATLANTIS subfolder.)
3) Go to Global Options (or game options) and find the MT-32 tab
4) Select "MT-32 Device: MT-32 emulator" and check "True Roland MT-32 (disable GM emulation)"
4a) Ignore the Audio and MIDI tabs. The defaults are fine.
5) Go to the Graphics tab and check "Aspect ratio correction" to avoid stretching.
6) Apply the changes and you're all set! (Use F5 for the Save menu.)

If you want to play around with upscale rendering, you can also do that in the Graphics tab, but consider doing it in Game Options rather than Global if you'll use ScummVM for other old games. Either way, it's trial and error, and most settings look sort of like pixely oil paintings. Using OpenGL Graphics and an Edge 2x Scaler kept the text the most legible IMO, but you do you. (The online ScummVM documentation on "Understanding the graphics settings" has more info and some comparisons.)

Hope this helps someone!