Torment: Tides of Numenera
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $34.99.
- Length
- 25.2h
- Value
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews
- 70% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $8.74, set in December 2022. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 69) and Shadowrun Returns ($14.99, scores 70) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 81 against 70 percent.
Steam's global achievement data says about 15 percent of players ever finish it. On a 25.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 473 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
78% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Great RPG and the closest thing to Planescape:Torment you can find True adventure with a captivating story, memorable characters, and an atmospheric soundtrack. The biggest selling point of Torment: ToN, though, is a truly unique, inimitable science fantasy world the devs managed to create for this game. It's interesting to talk to every character, explore every level, and finish every quest because you never know...
Ready to kick back and do a whole lot of reading, conversing, wandering, and all that other RPG goodness? Then by all means, visit the Ninth World and find your destiny as a discarded body of a god, meet a girl who carries gods in her pockets, and play god if you so desire. Overall a good time, flows with the tides (pun definitely intended), moments of ups and downs with a variety of quirky characters to keep you...
Unfinishable on Steam Deck at least due to constant loss of control during combat. Life is too short to endlessly repeat the combat in this game. Shame, was getting into the lore.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/272270/torment-tides-of-numeneraThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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