Torment: Tides of Numenera

 PlayStation 4
User Score
7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 54 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 84
  3. Negative: 21 out of 84
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. SpawnCap
    Nov 11, 2017
    1
    Made the mistake of listening to the reviews. Made the mistake of not going onto Youtube and watching gameplay. Didn't listen to the one review that said it was no more than an old fashioned text-based game with graphics.

    This game is nothing more than the game ZORK with graphics thrown in on the side. Not worth any amount of money no matter how cheap. I gave it a 1 instead of a 0    Made the mistake of listening to the reviews. Made the mistake of not going onto Youtube and watching gameplay. Didn't listen to the one review that said it was no more than an old fashioned text-based game with graphics.

    This game is nothing more than the game ZORK with graphics thrown in on the side. Not worth any amount of money no matter how cheap. I gave it a 1 instead of a 0 only because it does actually run.    … Expand
  2. KeyboardPlayer
    Mar 10, 2017
    0
    no. no. no. no. NO!
    i'm a fan of the original torment. i was excited for this. THANK GOD i didn't back it up.
    too much dialogues. every character you meet as TONS of lines of dialogues. if someone told me this, i would have thought of it as a good thing... EXCEPT IT'S NOT. it's too much. you talk to a guy, you need to read a novel. You make 2 steps, talk to another guy: another nove. too    no. no. no. no. NO!
    i'm a fan of the original torment. i was excited for this. THANK GOD i didn't back it up.
    too much dialogues. every character you meet as TONS of lines of dialogues. if someone told me this, i would have thought of it as a good thing... EXCEPT IT'S NOT. it's too much. you talk to a guy, you need to read a novel. You make 2 steps, talk to another guy: another nove. too much. too boring. And they're all SUPER SPECIAL!
    and there are almost no animations for things that happen in the game. say, for example, the game writes "the characters makes a polite bow when you approach him"... BUT IT'S ONLY WRITTEN, NOT SHOWN. that character doesn't actually bow, it's only in the description. all the game is like that. it's a damn text adventure with backgrounds.
    "tell don't show"
    or when the game tells you that a character is "incredibly fat" but its sprite is just slightly larger than the others.
    there also are NO portraits of the characters that you're talking to. not even the most important ones.
    the game want to feel special at all times. the skill system is weird and overly complicated. cyphers are a stupid idea. all the vocabulary of the game just DOESN'T WANT SO BADLY to be like the rest, and you have different terms for things you already know. also the way you solve stuff by investing point... yeah, go on, keep trying to be original AT ALL COST: you're also being NOT FUN.
    combat is super boring and buggy.
    you can lose a VERY important skill and a companion in the city if you actually HELP HER by giving her money. and there is no warning for this, and no second tries. It's infuriating.
    this is a complete slander of the name "torment"    … Expand
  3. Vellinaria
    Nov 30, 2021
    3
    Boring piece of crap even for a crpg fan. It's a book of choose your own adventure disguised as a video game. Go play any game from 20 years ago an you'll enjoy it more

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. games(TM)
    May 26, 2017
    80
    The rebirth of true role-playing in games. [Issue#105, p.84]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    May 2, 2017
    70
    The result? A flawed, beautiful contraption – which is appropriate, given how common those are in Tides’ Ninth World. [May 2017, p82]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 11, 2017
    70
    An unusual assembly of parts, but captivatingly weird. [Apr 2017, p.94]
See all critic reviews »