Torment: Tides of Numenera wears its strangeness on its sleeve. It begins with a cavalcade of information, of alien descriptions and bizarre memories absent context. You are flung into its dream-like world almost naked and utterly clueless, forced to relive brief sequences where the choices you make will construct your version of the game’s protagonist: the Last Castoff.
Tides of Numenera's precessor, Planescape: Torment, is in our list of the best RPGs on PC.
After wandering through these unusual, often surreal, memories, you’re faced with numerous potential versions of yourself, all dependent on the choices you’ve just made. And then there’s a fight that you can only win by delving into the minds of a menagerie of beasties, and yet more choices to make, and a Choose Your Own Adventure-style flashback that’s as confusing as it is fascinating.
This is just Tides of Numenera’s character creation.
