The worthy thematic and structural successor to 1999's cult classic Planescape: Torment has finally arrived. Torment: Tides of Numenera (PC) by inXile Entertainment is a narrative-heavy, flexible in its storyteling, compelling tribute to one of the greatest RPGs of all time: Planescape: Torment. Bizarre world The setting of Torment: Tides of Numenera is taken straight from the pen-and-paper rulebooks for Monte Cook's Numenera system. Nanotechnology can look like spells, power cores from ancient robots might as well be magic crystals, and mutations made much of the wildlife little different from monsters. The Ninth World is Earth in a billion years, but don't expect to see many familiar sights: even the ground is mostly made up of nanomachines. Gripping story You start the game falling from orbit and then things start getting crazy. You are the Last Castoff, an artificially grown body which until very recently held the consciousness of an ancient scientist, who has been jumping bodies f