Torment: Tides of Numenera
Skip · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.39/hr
- Reviews▼
- 70% of 4,380
- Critics
- 81 players 11 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 59% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.2h
- To 100%
- 48.6h 1.9x the story
- Finish
- 15% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 52
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $8.74 December 2022
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 4% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 32% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones ($19.99, scores 17).
More about Torment: Tides of Numenera
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 81 against 70 percent.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 25.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 474 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
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...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you're a fan of world building and fantasy literature. If you're tired of tropes and want something different, a world that is creative and unique and you gain enjoyment from reading. Play this.
After 22 hours of esoteric nonsense, I just couldn't take it anymore. There is way way way too much dialogue and lore thrown at you. The main storyline gets sidetracked by way too many random and obscure side stories and characters that it just makes it difficult to track anything. I ended up following a guide and ignoring most of the walls of text just to realize that I was just playing the game as an attempt to...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Torment: Tides of Numenera scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/272270/torment-tides-of-numeneraReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.