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FranchisePlanescapeDungeons & DragonsSeriesTorment

Planescape: Torment

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First release
Dec 12, 1999
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Puzzle · Drama, Open world, Fantasy
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, iOS, Linux

A CRPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons setting of Planescape in which The Nameless One, an immortal amnesiac, sets off on a quest across the infinite Planes and gathers a party of conflicted companions to find out who he is and reclaim his mortality. Throughout it, he faces the consequences of the horrors he committed in his past lives and tries to find the root of all the torment plaguing his companions and the Planes.

Also known as Torment

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Storyline
The game's story begins when The Nameless One wakes up in a mortuary. He is immediately approached by a floating skull, Morte, who offers advice on how to escape. Morte also reads the tattoos written on The Nameless One's back, which were inked there as reminders to himself, that contain instructions to find a man named Pharod. After a conversation with the ghost of his former lover, Deionarra, and passing by various undead, The Nameless One leaves the mortuary to explore the slums of Sigil.Read more

The game's story begins when The Nameless One wakes up in a mortuary. He is immediately approached by a floating skull, Morte, who offers advice on how to escape. Morte also reads the tattoos written on The Nameless One's back, which were inked there as reminders to himself, that contain instructions to find a man named Pharod. After a conversation with the ghost of his former lover, Deionarra, and passing by various undead, The Nameless One leaves the mortuary to explore the slums of Sigil.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Dec 12, 1999
Mac
Oct 2014
Linux
Oct 2014
All 4 release dates
iOS
Apr 11, 2017
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main + Extras
50h
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Where to buy
Keywords
worm, amnesia, nudity, teleportation, day/night cycle
… All 107, sword & sorcery, gods, rituals, darkness, boss fight, necromancy, single-player only, licensed game, anthropomorphism, ghosts, bloody, wizards, immortality, magic, summoning support, death, procedural generation, maze, pets, steampunk, hand-to-hand combat, war, multiple protagonists, multiple endings, undead, traps, portals, dialogue trees, platform exclusive, attributes, leveling up, world map, voice acting, shopping, loot gathering, love triangle, skeletons, rat, party system, full motion video, original soundtrack release, descendants of other characters, corpse, treasure chest, moral decisions, royalty, using dialogue to avoid combat, melee, auto-saving, stat tracking, optional boss, difficulty level, quicksaving, combat dialogue, violent plants, based on - tabletop rpg, theft, anti-hero, been here before, sleeping, item combination, pacifist playthrough, live-action cutscene, merchants, multiple enemy boss fights, dimension travel, boss assistance, unskippable cutscene, one-handed gameplay, pausable real time combat, fetch quests, not-so-bad guys, villain turned good, book adaptation, flashback, pickpocketing, lock picking, escaping imprisonment, severed limbs, cockroach, nameless protagonist, restoration, creature compendium, status effects, movement penalty, full-screen attack, sex work, god mode, respawn justification, tragic hero, dark past, secret past, plane shifting, conjuration, class change, comic relief, illusion, monomyth, kill quest, collective conciousness, ancient curse, male protagonist

At a Glance

Critic Score
70
Main + Extras (IGDB)
50h
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  • Deutschinterface, audio
IGDB · recorded 28 Oct 2026
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Language data: IGDB · recorded 28 Oct 2026