You play as a grimly hooded figure, in some sort of nightmarish world that looks as if Giger provided character designs for The Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro. And most of all, Tormentum looks incredible. Tormentum looks and plays like a darker, more sophisticated version of that lineage, despite being from entirely other origins. Most especially the Drawn series, which tell spellbinding tales of magical paintings, combined with various puzzles to solve along the way. While a mixture of haughtiness and confused indifference has led many long-time games players to sniffily ignore everything that’s come from the “casual” (eurgh) side of things, there have been some really splendid – and often extremely beautiful – adventures from the likes of Big Fish.
In the genuinely interesting Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, the two finally meet in the middle. The latter shedding its spot-the-difference origins for more puzzle-focused, story-led design, and the former simplifying itself to single-click interaction for a larger audience on tablets. With time, the two have been gradually creeping toward one another. The two sides have finally met in the middle! About ten years back, as adventure gaming continued to trundle along before its recent renaissance, hidden object games became a hugely popular form of “casual game” (a vile term that needs to be removed from our snobbish vocabulary).
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