Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is a rpg, isometric and story rich game developed and published by inXile Entertainment.
Released on February 27th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.

It has received 4,237 reviews of which 2,980 were positive and 1,257 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Torment: Tides of Numenera into these genres:

RPG Isometric Story Rich Adventure CRPG Indie Singleplayer Choices Matter Turn-Based Combat Strategy Atmospheric Sci-fi Fantasy Kickstarter Turn-Based Party-Based RPG Dark Fantasy Great Soundtrack Female Protagonist Turn-Based Tactics

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

MacOS

OS: Mac OSX 10.8 or higher (64 bit)
Processor: Intel i5 series or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 700M series or equivalent
Storage: 15 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 or later (64-bit), SDL 2.0 or later
Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent
Storage: 15 GB available space
Sound Card: Pulse Audio compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

There are exquisite moments in this game, fantastic writing and character design. A few moments capture the namesake, but this feels very different from planescape. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in the setting, enjoys reading lots of text and can tolerate a sprinkle of boring combat. However, the game is confused, there are many items, skills and abilities that are meant for the least significant part of the game, the combat. This is almost a point and click adventure, but it does not have the narrative polish and pacing of one. There is a version of this game that is cohesive, continues the polish of the opening scene throughout and made up its mind on whether to have good combat or none at all. But not this version. This version clearly had lots of love, but doesnt fully payoff the promises it sets up.

Dec. 2024

This is a good game. Don't let the reviews throw you. But there are a few things you should know before getting started Don't come at this game with the intention of it being planescape, it's not. This is also okay. Numenera is a good setting it's apples and oranges comparing the two. Don't come at this game with the intention of creating a character to beat or smash everything that's not what it's about there are many solutions to problems and many problems with no right answers. Don't come at this game with the need to win all the time. You can't don't even try. What you should come at this game with. Is a open mind, and a willingness to read everything to take it slow and easy. Over the years the balance has been fixed nano is still the best way to avoid combat but Jack and Glaive have been made better. Mechanically Yeah it's not the most engaging combat but it's combat, if you want a combat game go play Diablo that's not where the heart of this game is. Don't take this game or the reviews at face value, play the game on it's level and you will not be disappointed.

Nov. 2024

Short version: If you're a hardcore CRPG fan and have played all of the most well known games in the genre then yeah, give this a go. Otherwise, don't bother. Long Version: Where to even start. Firstly, it's only Torment in title. Compared to PST, it's less polished, worse combat, worse dialogue, worse lore, worse story, worse companions, more bugs and has zero connection to PST. In fact, I'd say the same things when compared to any modern CRPG such as DOS, POE, Tyranny, BG3 etc etc. That's not to say this is a bad game, but it's not great either. While I can't prove it, there's this overwhelming feeling I get that this has a lot of cut content from it. Some characters just have too much dialogue for no reason. This would be ok if the world was interesting but it just isn't. From my understanding, the devs based this version of Torment on an upcoming TRPG called Numenera that was being Kickstarted at the same time, most likely for budget reasons. For lack of a better term, Numenera just feels like it's 'trying too hard' and doesn't even come close to the genuine bizarre yet interesting feel that is found in Sigil. There is way too much descriptive text that eventually I just started to skip it. The Merecaster system initially comes across as interesting and different but ends up just being annoying as it's just a mini choose your own adventure novel often having to get 'good endings' down to luck or repeated save scumming. You can basically just talk your way through the entire game or resort to combat. The combat is passable but very easy and minimal. If you're not interested in combat then you can just persuade speech check (or some other skill check option) your way through basically everything. However, it never feels interesting when you do this. When you have the option to use persuasion on almost every NPC you talk to it starts to not feel like an accomplishment. As mentioned above the game lacks polish. A lot of quests are buggy and often people would be unresponsive when you try to talk to them, resulting in multiple attempts to start dialogue. If loot drops but someone is standing in front of you, you can forget about that loot. There's even a bug where if you talk too much in a single dialogue box, the game slows to a halt. Often I'd have to choose half of the dialogue options, exit conversation, then start talking to them again to avoid this. This is very frustrating in such a dialogue heavy game. I can only assume that due to low sales, the devs stopped providing patches. Honestly, the ending just felt like a padded out slog and I was glad to be done with it. However, I love this genre and I still somewhat enjoyed this game. It's still an ok CRPG and in such a niche genre I welcome it. I really wonder if the devs were happy with the final product of this game. I'd give it a 6/10 if you're a fan of the genre. Otherwise you'll probably hate it.

June 2024

Loved the game. Loved the setting, the atmosphere, loved reading dialogues and making choices, loved how combat is easy yet still engaging (difficult combat is the reason why I haven't finished Planescape Torment) If you enjoy text-heavy CRPGs with weird game worlds and great art, you'll probably like this one

May 2024

The game is not for everyone, there will be those who will point out flaws the games flaws and while they still ring true. Let me reassure that the story is something worth experiencing, the world is something worth exploring, there are secrets to be found, failure may sometimes result in unexpected gain, revisiting characters and dialogue options is worth it whenever possible. I played this game once before on another platform, but the moment I saw it on Steam I knew, I needed this experience once more. The Tides are ever-changing.

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29.99€

6.9

2,980

1,257

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Developer

inXile Entertainment

Publisher

inXile Entertainment

Release 27 Feb 2017

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