Screens pan along with the mouse, but to move to another area you just click one of the arrow buttons on the side of the screen. In fact there’s barely any animation in the entire game, making the whole thing appear like a flash game that can be played in a browser. Now Tormentum is an unusual adventure game in that the main character doesn’t move. I could pick any screenshot of this game and I'd want to hang it on my wall. As an adventure game Tormentum is instead all about imagery, atmosphere, exploration, and of course puzzles.
That’s it really, although there are at least some cool choices you have to make like whether characters live or die (which can either help or hinder you in certain ways). There are comments by the player character on most things, occasional bits of dialogue from the few characters (although only usually a few repeating lines), and notes around the game that add to the plot. You have to escape from the nightmarish castle in which you’re trapped, which is hard enough, but things don’t get better once you leave the castle’s walls.Īs mentioned, this is not a plot or writing-heavy game. Basically your unnamed faceless character has been captured by some crazed religious cult intent on purging him/her of his/her sins in as gruesome a fashion as possible. The story is kept fairly minimal, allowing OhNoo to concentrate on the freaky atmosphere and visuals, but they do offer dribs and drabs of plot throughout the game.
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