Final verdict
The torment immediately fascinated me, as a person who barely touched the text-based PC games of the first half of the 90s. It seems to take a lot of cues from PC-based D&D campaign design concepts. Of course, being a fully fledged beginner, I started making the choices myself wanted made given the circumstances presented, and died right away.
This served as a brutal reminder that Torment isn’t playing. He doesn’t need you and he doesn’t care to teach you much. He expects you to try, fail and try again.
Again, this kind of experience isn’t for everyone, but as someone who plays a lot of video games, this slow style of reading bulky text that would make Isaac Asimov swoon was refreshing! That’s boring? Perhaps. However, boring is subjective. I found it more “relaxing” or “calming” than boring.
Torment: Tides of Numera is available on PS4, Xbox One and Steam.
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