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Is Torment: Tides of Numenera worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Single-player RPG players who want story and decisions to drive progression
- Fans of philosophical fantasy settings who prefer unusual worlds over conventional medieval settings
- Players seeking RPG encounters that include social interaction, stealth, and puzzles alongside combat
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking multiplayer or cooperative play, since the game is single-player
- Players who want combat to be the sole focus, since encounters also use dialogue, puzzles, stealth, and other approaches
- Players looking for a straightforward moral system, since the game presents morality as more complex than simple right and wrong
- Players seeking a contemporary setting rather than a science-fantasy world
Our take on Torment: Tides of Numenera
The store presentation gives substantial space to edition extras, including soundtracks, maps, novellas, art, and guides. Those materials are separate digital files placed in the installation folder, while the core game is a single-player narrative RPG built around choices and Crisis encounters.
What is Torment: Tides of Numenera?
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a single-player, isometric RPG set in Monte Cook’s Ninth World.
Players control a new mind inhabiting the body once used by the immortal Changing God and pursue answers while escaping the creature known as the Sorrow. The game centers on narrative choices, philosophical questions, unusual companions, and consequences shaped by decisions and reputation. Its Crisis system combines combat with environmental puzzles, social interaction, stealth, and other approaches in handcrafted encounters. The Legacy Edition adds 6 digital extras, including a 50-track soundtrack and two digital novellas. The Immortal Edition Upgrade adds 12 extras, including a 143-page strategy guide and five digital novellas.
How Torment: Tides of Numenera plays
- 01Choice-driven narrative
- Dialogue, decisions, actions, and reputation affect characters and the outcomes of events.
- 02Crisis encounters
- Handcrafted scenarios can combine fighting with environmental puzzles, conversation, and stealth.
- 03Ninth World setting
- The game uses Monte Cook’s Numenera universe, with unusual items, magical feats, and unconventional locations.
- 04Digital edition extras
- The Legacy Edition includes 6 extras, while the Immortal Edition Upgrade includes 12 and also contains the Legacy items.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera: platforms & release
Is Torment: Tides of Numenera worth it?
It is worth it if: single-player RPG players who want story and decisions to drive progression. Skip it if: players seeking multiplayer or cooperative play, since the game is single-player.
Where can I download Torment: Tides of Numenera?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Torment: Tides of Numenera's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Torment: Tides of Numenera on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
