Tormentum II PC (Final version)

Face psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Tormentum II is a dark, surreal point-and-click adventure with elements of psychological horror. Explore a hand-drawn world, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that shape the fates of the characters you meet. It tells a new, standalone story, so no knowledge of the original game is required. A world you created in Tormentum II. A prison you don’t remember. You play as David, who is building a simulation populated by beings capable of human-level thought.

Every night, he dreams of a locked chest and hears a woman’s voice calling to him. When an anonymous seller offers him a mysterious coprocessor, parts of the dream begin to surface while he is awake. David installs the new hardware. He wakes in a prison on an island surrounded by open sea. Somehow, he is inside his own simulation. David remembers little about how he arrived. He soon discovers that his creation contains layers he never designed and has a will he cannot control. The inhabitants speak of gods, beings that come from distant places and disappear just as suddenly. To find a way home, David must cross the islands, explore the unfamiliar layers of his creation.

Conversations and puzzles gradually reveal more about the simulation. Your choices shape the fates of the characters David meets. There is rarely an obvious right answer, and your decisions lead to multiple endings. The gameplay follows the modern point-and-click adventure formula. Instead of selecting different actions for every hotspot, each object has a default interaction triggered with the left mouse button. The cursor changes into an icon that indicates what action will be performed. To help with searching, there’s also a handy button that highlights hotspots across the scene. It is useful, but it cannot be relied on entirely because it does not reveal every interactive element.

The world is grim, unsettling, and wonderfully grotesque, filled with twisted character designs and haunting environments. Some scenes can be disturbing, but they never cross the line into excess. Better yet, Tormentum II constantly introduces fresh sights, so every new location presents something never seen before. The incredible attention to detail stands out in particular. Even areas visited only once contain memorable visual touches that many games would reserve for their biggest set pieces. The cursor can change into several different icons depending on what you’re looking at. An eye lets you examine an object and listen to David’s comments, while a magnifying glass allows for a closer inspection.