#Tormentum dark sorrow rat full

Adding to the mood is the game’s dark ambient soundtrack, with understated orchestral sweeps lending an additional sense of almost romantic desolation. All the scenes are hand-painted, and they’re all gorgeous you’ll find yourself lingering on each scene just to take in all of the little details.

It’s over the top in its sense of unrelenting grimness, but it’s more moody than terrifying. Later scenes, once you escape the castle, are similarly evocative and almost post-apocalyptic, with lots of deserted ruins and ancient monuments decaying in forgotten wastelands, but poetic, more Zdzislaw Beksinki than Mad Max. Giger, dead bodies fused with machinery and architecture, and the occasional inhabitants you encounter are whimsically hideous, a little bit Hieronymous Bosch and a little bit Clive Barker. The castle’s architecture owes more than a little to H.R. Missing your memory and delivered by airship to a castle devoted to torture, you’ll need to escape your confinement and rediscover your identity.

Take away the aesthetic, though, and that’s about what you’ve got: an indie counterpoint to the original Myst that’s less otherworldly dreamscape than fever-induced nightmare.

#Tormentum dark sorrow rat full

With its bleak philosophical themes of redemption through torment and gorgeously horrifying (or horrifyingly gorgeous) art, full of tortured corpses and twisted monstrosities, Polish developer OhNoo Studio‘s Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is miles away from the whimsical humor of most point-and-click adventures.