Torment: Tides of Numenera
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a game set in the world of Monte Cook's new tabletop RPG setting, Numenera. Torment continues the thematic legacy of Planescape: Torment, the critically acclaimed role-playing…
Torment: Tides of Numenera is an adventure developed by inXile Entertainment, released 27 February 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 41 hrs to finish.
What Torment: Tides of Numenera is
Torment: Tides of Numenera is an adventure game developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2017. It was published by Techland. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Numenera is set in the distant future, where the rise and fall of countless civilizations have left Earth in a roughly medieval state, with most of humanity living in simple settlements, surrounded by relics of the mysterious past. The current age is called the "Ninth World" by its scholars, who believe that eight great ages existed and were destroyed or disappeared for unknown reasons before their time, leaving ruins and various oddities and artifacts behind. These artifacts are known as the "numenera" and represent what is left of the science and technology of these past civilizations. Many of them are irreparably broken, but some are still able to function in ways that are beyond the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 52 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Numenera series
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Numenera series. The next entry was Torment: Tides of Numenera - Immortal Edition in 2017.
How it was received
Torment: Tides of Numenera holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 88 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 41 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 60.8 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Torment: Tides of Numenera launched on 27 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Torment: Tides of Numenera yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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