Torment: Tides of Numenera

As far as books go, this is one of the better ones. It was interesting to read it and see where the author would take my characters next. The characters in this story have their own personality and sometimes, you can distinguish them from dialogue alone. Still, this is not a good game. In games like the "Divinity" series, there is a lot of reading, but you also get to fight a lot and do the occasional witty quest. In "Torment: Tides of Numenera" it is the same, just without the fighting and the witty quests. Player engagement is minimal and you are forced to read pages upon pages, upon pages of text, which rarely relate to the world building or even the main quest. There is a lot of fluff which could have been trimmed in favour of getting something more than a single battle every 70 pages you read. This game is not like "Diablo" - where you get to constantly murder enemies in-between the occasional paragraph. It is not like "Divine Divinity" - which is also a story-heavy game, where the story presentation has been condensed in order to give you enough to go on, while learning new things of the world. It is its own things with little to no player engagement in-between reading walls of texts. As I said in the beginning as far as books go, this is a pretty good one.

I enjoyed a lot Planescape: Torment ,Baldurs Gates series and Pillars of Eternity and had lots of hopes for this game but after playing it for 2 days I feel bored and disappointed. There is just so much to read that you end up selecting random answer just to get through and it feels like there's hardly any action and when it comes to it the fight it is just not as entertaining as it was with other CRPG titles. If you enjoy reading long books and tons of descriptions you will love this game but other than that you might find it bit over-narrated. The only plus side is that the graphic is really astonishing and detailed.

The world is nice, but smaller than what I expected There is a lot of side quests, wich is good The npc are superficial, without deep nor subtility. There is very few interaction between them even if there is very few npc The game looked very easy and not wellbalanced, i didn't found a lot of challenge. It's simple to max your advantage and end up with no need to use your ressources. I think a had to use mabye 5 cyber and/or usable to finish the game. I found the rank system frustrating. It's not fun for me to have to chose an option wich make no additionnel value for my caracteres. And it's cap to rank 4 but you get enought xp to reach rank 5. So it's an ok game, buty not more and definitively not a match to planescape torment

Really fun and engaging story, if you're interested in reading (lots of reading) then this is worth it. It also has gorgeous settings (sadly with terrible animation layered on top of them) If you're interested in quality game play, this is not the game for you. The turned based combat is clunky and awful, there is virtually no feedback to help you plan what you're doing or why some abilities work and others don't -- the entire challenge is learning how to not mis-click and waste one or more turns. It's also still considerably buggy, I'm on version 1.1.0 and I've had several quests become hopelessly bugged -- if you play this, save often ... particularly around "Anechoic Lazaret" and "Ashen Imitation", and I'm sure plenty more I just wasn't unfortunate enough to run into.

I like many of the reviewers below was looking forward to this game that claimed to be a sequel to Planescape: Torment, luckily I didn't put any money into it. Planescape:Torment is a masterpiece and I recommend people to play it, this game is just a cash grab marketing on people's nostalgia for planescape. There are so many things wrong with this game it's hard to begin to describe it. One of the main problems with this game is all the various bugs, one of the very first quests doesnt work for example so you know how much time they went through the whole thing. Another is the clunky and boring turn based game system, that ultimately isn't fun or challenging, if they wanted to make a point based click adventure, they should have done that. I think a large part of the terrible game system if half the choice they they went back on the previous RTwP system and went for turn based combat, which is fun if you base a game around it, but this game is narrative based and thus the combat is boring as heck. Then the worst bit for me is the story, it comes off as both boring and an inferior attempt to copy planescape. The companion writers seems to subscribe of the school of weird, where the weirder something is the more interesting it is, sadly this is not true and pretty much every companion is a bore, none of them are cool, none of them you enjoy getting into the party. A good example of the opposite of this is FFVII, where I feel bad taking someone out of the party because I enjoy every character. Ultimately the game is boring, feels massively unpolished and the story is a wall of text, which while I enjoy reading in games, it really wasn't interesting enough for me to bother with more than once. The game also doesn't have any replay ability especially with the area of it being so small, unlike the prequel, where every route, evil good, lawful chaotic etc. is so much more interesting.