Tormentum: Dark Sorrow 2015

Is it still worth playing?

OhNoo Studio's point and click adventure, made by a three person team in Poland, released in March 2015 for Windows and Mac after an Indiegogo campaign. You play a hooded figure with no name, imprisoned in a nightmarish castle and trying to find a remembered stone sculpture to earn redemption. It is traditional point and click: a notebook at the lower left tracks information and a leather bag at the lower right holds the inventory. Puzzles are solved by logical interaction with the environment and your items, and areas of interest are surrounded by a glowing, pulsating light. You cannot die, and the game saves automatically on exit. The art is surreal and grotesque, inspired by the painters Giger and Beksiński, and it runs about five to six hours. Glowing hints on every hotspot still let you spend those hours on the strange scenery and not on hunting pixels.