Hello Exiles, We are now a little over one week after the release of Torment! It's been amazing to see the reception that the game received. The game has been an extremely strong success critically, with praise, awards and even several perfect scores along the way. If you want to read some of the reviews, we’ve posted a Steam forum thread compiling them, and we also have a new accolades trailer. More importantly, we've been seeing your feedback throughout the forums, comments and social media.
We've heard from hundreds of you who have reached out to say that that Torment: Tides of Numenera is a worthy successor to Planescape: Torment they had been waiting for, and that is something we are extremely pleased and humbled to hear. We'd love for you to get out there and keep spreading the word, leaving reviews, posting comments, sharing your experiences, and more. There’s a lot to discover in this game, and we’re looking forward to seeing you guys discuss the story and events of the game for years to come! The RPG community gave us an incredible opportunity to make a game that would never have happened otherwise. It's through your support that these kinds of games will continue to get made. You have our everlasting thanks for providing us the ability to bring true CRPGs back.

What Comes Next?

Since release, we have been tirelessly reading your feedback, comments, and reports, and using that to plan at least one or two patches for the near future. These will be primarily focused on fixing some pesky bugs that a some of our players have encountered, as well as performance and stability optimizations. You can expect to see our first patch coming in the next couple of weeks. But, we also want to address the longer term. Four years is an extended development timeline for an RPG, and it is a hallmark of our ambition for the game. Torment has the longest script we've ever produced at over 1.2 million words, and provides more nuanced reactivity and more complicated quests and stories than we have ever done before.

Despite that, there were some features we wanted to include in the game that we weren’t able to finish in time for release. Companions, in particular, were a production trade-off where we reduced the number slightly. Not only does a single companion take many months of work from writers, scripters, designers, and artists, but because we wanted companions to interact and react to the game world and conversations in a deep way. Their implementation needed to happen later in the development process, when quests and area design were mostly complete. As we were iterating on the companions, we felt the time was best spent building them out deeper as opposed to slamming in a few more on a surface level. These development decisions are never black and white, but we always approach it from a position of what we truly believe is best for the game. But, there's a saying that no work of art is ever truly complete. We certainly know that many of you were looking forward to some of the things we couldn't squeeze into our release build, and it just didn't sit well with us leaving those behind. Now that we have had a time to see your feedback on the game, we also have a better sense of where we can focus our resources to improve. To that end, we are pleased to announce that we will be working on additional content and updates for Torment post-release. These updates will include:

Oom ("The Toy" companion).
Voluminous Codex.
Crisis system improvements.

Our initial updates to the game will focused on bug fixes, optimizations, and other improvements, while the content additions will come later down the line. Both the patches and content updates will, of course, be completely free for all Torment owners. We will have more news on these in the coming weeks and months! It's your incredible support that allows us to continue making the games we love. We can't stress to you enough how amazing a journey working on this new Torment game has been, and we are excited to see how we can continue to improve it even further. Thank you, inXile Entertainment

[ 2017-03-09 20:05:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Torment: Tides of Numenera

inXile Entertainment Developer

Techland Publishing Publisher

2017-02-27 Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer Tags

GameBillet: 39.95 €

Game News Posts: 14

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support

Mostly Positive (1958 reviews)

https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Torment: Tides of Numenera - LINUX [8.71 G]

Available DLCs:

Torment: Tides of Numenera - Legacy Edition Upgrade
Torment: Tides of Numenera - Immortal Edition Upgrade

You are born falling from orbit, a new mind in a body once occupied by the Changing God, a being who has cheated death for millennia. If you survive, your journey through the Ninth World will only get stranger… and deadlier.

With a host of strange companions – whose motives and goals may help or harm you – you must escape an ancient, unstoppable creature called the Sorrow and answer the question that defines your existence: What does one life matter?

Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved role-playing games of all time. Torment: Tides of Numenera is a single-player, isometric, narrative-driven role-playing game set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe, and brought to you by the creative team behind Planescape: Torment and the award-winning Wasteland 2.

Features:

A Deep, Thematically Satisfying Story. The philosophical underpinnings of Torment drive the game, both mechanically and narratively. Your words, choices, and actions are your primary weapons.
A World Unlike Any Other. Journey across the Ninth World, a fantastic, original setting, with awe-inspiring visuals, offbeat and unpredictable items to use in and out of battle, and stunning feats of magic. Powered by technology used in the award-winning Pillars of Eternity by Obsidian Entertainment, the Numenera setting by Monte Cook provides endless wonders and impossibly imaginative locations for you to explore.
A Rich, Personal Narrative. Thoughtful and character-driven, the story is epic in feel but deeply personal in substance, with nontraditional characters and companions whose motivations and desires shape their actions throughout the game.
Reactivity, Replayability, and the Tides. Your choices matter, and morality in the Ninth World is not a simple matter of “right” and “wrong”. You will decide the fates of those around you, and characters will react to your decisions and reputation. The result is a deeply replayable experience that arises naturally from your actions throughout the game.
A New Take on Combat. With the Crisis system, combat is more than just bashing your enemies. Plan your way through hand-crafted set-pieces which combine battles with environmental puzzles, social interaction, stealth, and more.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04 or later (64-bit). SDL 2.0 or later
Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent
Storage: 15 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.10 or later (64-bit). SDL 2.0.5 or later
Processor: Intel i5 series or equivalentMemory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or equivalent (proprietary driver 375.26 or later)
Storage: 15 GB available space

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