It also has the advantage of being less than a tenner. The game is fairly short – I finished it in just over 5 hours – but it has the genuinely creepy and illogical structure of a nightmare and the art, with very little exception, is brilliant.
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As you encounter traps, allies and enemies you’re asked to make a series of choices, some of which are immediately obvious in their moral implications, others the outcome of which don’t become clear until the very end. The story is simple – you begin as a prisoner being taken to a castle for torture and imprisonment with no recollection of who you are or why you’re there. The hooded hero wanders through a frantic nightmare world where buildings, creatures and engines are all built from the same grotesque fusion of people, monsters, decay and steampunk technology. I’d also add the British Fantasy artist Ian Miller as I can see echoes of his brilliantly warped mechanical/organic creations in the game. Giger and the Polish surrealist Zdzislaw Beksinski. The developers said they were inspired by H.
What is striking about the game is its visual style. This means that you’re presented with a sequence of static tableaus (with some animation) along with narrative choices and a bunch of fairly easy puzzles to solve.
Tormentum – Dark Sorrow is an old-style point and click role playing game. Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith, not least because both the logic of dreams, nightmares and madness underpin the gameplay of both. Both are fascinating and frustrating in their own way, but will appeal no end to fans of H.P. Recently I’ve been playing two independent games: Tormentum – Dark Sorrow by the Polish developers OhNoo Studio and Darkest Dungeon by the Canadian company Red Hook Studios. The only drawbacks are that the sheer volume of titles makes the really gems hard to find, and small production houses (or lone coders) are more susceptible to disappearing as time, lack of money or simple boredom stops them supporting their work. This is good news for gamers who either look for the kind of historical accuracy that only really dedicated game creators are interested in, yearn for the often more intricate and intellectually stimulating titles of yesteryear, or are hunting for something other than endless first person shooters with lots of spectacle but little substance. One of the great advantages is that concepts that would never have been touched by the big studios are now being realised by one or two-man/woman bands. Platforms like Steam have opened the game market to a horde of independent developers, some brilliant and some dire. 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Animation Art Astronomy Book Children comic Cyberpunk Dystopia Expressionism Fantasy Film France game German Gothic History Horror Japan Magazine Medieval Music New Wave New Weird Novel Prog Rock Pulps Ragged Claws Retro Romanticism Russia Science Science Fiction Shakespeare Space Race Steampunk Surrealism Symbolism Theatre Thumb Victorian Writing
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