Tormentum 2 launches 11 years after the Giger-inspired original

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H. R. Giger's biomechanical nightmares have inspired plenty of videogames. If we go way back, his work was repurposed for baffling puzzle adventure Dark Seed , and more recently there was the fleshy horror of Scorn . Tormentum: Dark Sorrow was more in the vein of the former than the latter, a point-and-click adventure that took Giger's stylings (and those of Zdzisław Beksiński too) as inspiration for its hand-painted horrors.

A full 11 years after its release, and after eight years of development, Tormentum finally has a sequel. Tormentum 2 is a standalone game though, just one in a similar style, which is to say that it's full of bones and alien faces and naked people who are embedded in walls.

In Tormentum 2 you're trapped inside a simulated world that's got out of hand, the supposedly digital characters within suddenly out of control and talking about gods from distant places. You have to cross the islands that make up this world, solving puzzles as you go, and working your way toward one of multiple endings.

Tormentum 2 is currently available for 15% off on Steam , where there's also a demo if you want to give it a try before you buy. The original, Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, is also on sale for 67% off .

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