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Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

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Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Mar 4, 2015

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3.39 average rating based on 56 ratings

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TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game. The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed. This unique mixture gave life to a bleak and depressing world. Those are however the least of his problems as the airship lowers its flight towards a huge gloomy castle which soon becomes his prison. Thus begins the surreal story bordering somewhere between dream and reality... Key features:THE GAME WORLD: 3 … More
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game. The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed. This unique mixture gave life to a bleak and depressing world. Those are however the least of his problems as the airship lowers its flight towards a huge gloomy castle which soon becomes his prison. Thus begins the surreal story bordering somewhere between dream and reality... Key features:THE GAME WORLD: 3 realms, differing in architecture and creatures inhabiting them. You'll meet characters with unique personalities who will help you - or try to prevent you from - reaching your goal. ART: 75 hand-painted stages. The game also features over a hundred additional screens as well as dozens of paintings created by the mad painter residing in the cathedral. PUZZLES: During your journey you will come against 24 varied logical puzzles and minigames. STORY: A dark adventure between dream and reality. MUSIC: Exceptional soundtrack with over 40 tracks. Moreover:Moral choices which will affect the game's ending. 34 achievements to complete. 4-6 hours gameplay. Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Italian. Less
Release Dates
Mar 04, 2015 (Worldwide)
Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Mar 04, 2015 (Europe)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Apr 19, 2016 (Worldwide)
Android, iOS
TBD (Worldwide)
Linux
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How Long Is Tormentum: Dark Sorrow?
Main story: 7.0 hours
100% completion: 6.7 hours
Total completions: 3
pixelcrypt
pixelcrypt gave Jan 23, 2022
pixelcrypt gave Jan 23, 2022
Great art, decent gameplay
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version

This is the second game that I replayed because a sequel is supposedly releasing this year (though this one is a lot less likely than True Fear). It’s a good game with extremely impressive artwork… almost unbelievable how refined and detailed it is. But it’s also pretty short, with fairly basic puzzles.

Also think the animations could use work, they feel way more rudimentary and the more difficult to animate sequences were skipped entirely. I understand the art alone must have taken a decade, but I wish it was a bigger team or something to give the game the animation it deserved.

But the gameplay is good enough with standard inventory puzzles along with some mini games (honestly my favorite part). It’s fun and worth playing just for the incredible visuals, but it’s a lot more visually stimulating than anything deeper.

yields
yields gave Apr 7, 2015
yields gave Apr 7, 2015
yields's review of Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Relies too much on it's aesthetics - play Primordia instead.

Possum
Possum gave May 14, 2026
Possum gave May 14, 2026
Decent Enough
This review is for the PC (Microsoft Windows) version

Carried heavily by its art, which is often ruined by some strange filter over it that--had it not been made 11 years ago--I would swear indicated it was manipulated by AI as the art is absolutely covered in poorly disguised artifacting, Tormentum is a decent enough, simplistic adventure game with a wholly unsatisfying ending.

Throughout the game you are met with moral choices, however if you get even a single one wrong (and the answers are often quite unclear and biased by the writer deciding 'killing is always wrong even if killing someone evil,' for instance) you get a bad ending and are condemned to hell. The game, despite its 'edgy' aesthetic, is heavily, glaringly, opaquely Christian and preaches in your face constantly, including by berating you about the concept of suicide being cowardly and sinful.

According to the game's ending, I made two 'evil' choices and 8 'good' choices, which meant I was actually evil and deserving of eternal damnation, because apparently I failed the writer's idea of being a Christian, aka, I wasn't hypocritical and pious enough. Quite stupid. Again, this game is heavily carried by its aesthetic; the writing, when present, is poorly localized and of quite …

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Carried heavily by its art, which is often ruined by some strange filter over it that--had it not been made 11 years ago--I would swear indicated it was manipulated by AI as the art is absolutely covered in poorly disguised artifacting, Tormentum is a decent enough, simplistic adventure game with a wholly unsatisfying ending.

Throughout the game you are met with moral choices, however if you get even a single one wrong (and the answers are often quite unclear and biased by the writer deciding 'killing is always wrong even if killing someone evil,' for instance) you get a bad ending and are condemned to hell. The game, despite its 'edgy' aesthetic, is heavily, glaringly, opaquely Christian and preaches in your face constantly, including by berating you about the concept of suicide being cowardly and sinful.

According to the game's ending, I made two 'evil' choices and 8 'good' choices, which meant I was actually evil and deserving of eternal damnation, because apparently I failed the writer's idea of being a Christian, aka, I wasn't hypocritical and pious enough. Quite stupid. Again, this game is heavily carried by its aesthetic; the writing, when present, is poorly localized and of quite poor-quality. Not to mention, again, the very heavy and pervasive religious overtones.

I'm unsure if I will play the creator's next game, maybe at a heavy discount, but I don't presume it will be any more wowing than this one, and I'm not all that fond of being preached at by what accounts to a biker t-shirt designer's rendition of HR Giger.

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Torgo
Torgo updated their status Apr 19, 2016
Torgo updated their status Apr 19, 2016

This game looks really interesting. A point-n-click adventure game with a very detailed and peculiar aesthetic. The first time in many months that steam has made a good suggestion.