Blade Runner? No LIQUIIIIIDDDDD!!!!!

This is my first review in my blog in the English language, but it will be the first extended review I will do in Steam. The developer was very kind to give me a key of the game, and as an amateur videogame reviewer, so I want to congratulate him for giving me this opportunity at random.

According to the developers and the studio, there are 200 hand-drawn scenes, plus dedicated close-ups that bring the total to nearly 500 individual background images, roughly three times as many as in the original game. Everything is inspired on renown authors like H. R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.

You don’t need to play the original Tormentum - Dark Sorrow , because both games are standalone stories and you don’t require to play any of them first, or even play them in order. Unfortunelly, the game isn't translated to SPANISH...

🎮 Gameplay

There’s not much to say about the mechanics of games who are in this genre we call “Point and Click” because it’s name already describe them. Nevertheless, the game is very kind of giving you clues that David(your player avatar) draws and there are puzzles and things you need to keep up and note on your own, like most of these kind of games.

📘 Story

Being this game a point and click, the game has a narrative that makes you think a lot because the writing is very suggestive.

The setting is a world destroyed by ultra-capitalism in a way that reminds me of Blade Runner, Cyberpunk or Final Fantasy VII. So much, that humanity depends on machines(sorry about the word I’m going to use but, hehe clankers).

David, your avatar/the protagonist, is having dreams and nightmares about very weird places with satanic and occultist aesthetics. He is a programmer who’s work is based around on VR and simulation, but something happens! 

Now is up to you! When you start playing, I can assure you that you will have a different interpretation of the narrative or you will be as confused as I was.

🎨 Audiovisual & Arts

The huge and exhausting work that the two creators Łukasz Rutkowski & Piotr Ruszkowski did, is something that you will appreciate because the game is filled with terrific/scary and very well made paintings. Not only that because the backgrounds are also so good that also great paintings, the character design was very coherent, cohesive and have adequacy according the rest of the art because there isn’t anything out of place. Finally, most of the time the game has background music that was decent and never upset me, neither felt repetitive. But I’ll highlight the few heavy metal songs because they rock!

🌟 Final Thoughts

I’m someone who haven’t played in a serious way in a while a “Point & Click”, yet between the amazing art and the developers reaching to me I just had to at least play it to the end like I usually do. 

Not everything was perfect because there was a brief moment that I was lost for almost an hour because I didn’t saw that there was a key in a location because I was mesmerized with the art and had similar colors to the floor(the Island that has two witches, a fisherman and a man-bird).

Nevertheless, I played the game while being very busy in general. Thanks of the game letting you save at every single moment, and then realizing too late that I should had saved some points because I regret some decisions I made without thinking too much. Still, I’m happy that I had a unique ending, while I still don’t know about what was real or not in the narrative.

Thanks for reading my review!