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Planescape: Torment

Media Title · RPGs · 18 mentions · 3 subreddits · discussed in r/patientgamers, r/androidapps, r/Fantasy

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Pros

  • Katana ZERO, Carrion, Blasphemous, Dead Cells, Machinarium, Thimbleweed Park, Cube Escape, This is the Police, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale
  • Planescape Torment. The cast, the localities, their stories.
  • I’ve finally started **Planescape: Torment.** ... I’m quite liking it, the mystery of the story is interesting.
  • Pillars of Eternity 1+2 / Tyranny / Planescape Torment / icewind dale / Arcanum / Baldurs Gate 1+2 / Mass Effect series
  • Planescape Torment: I have started this game three times, and put it down 3 times. I do want to try it again. ... I did enjoy what I had discovered. And Mort is a dear.

Cons

  • Between Crusader Kings 2, Dwarf Fortress, Team Fortress 2, Liberal Crime Squad, Covert Action, Mount & Blade, Planescape: Torment, and surely more, there is too much prior art to enforce the Nemesis System patents
  • combat is by far the worst aspect of PS:T.
  • man, I just can't with Planescape. I'm sorry, but this type of game has benefited tremendously from quality of life improvements over the years and I just can't find it in myself to look past that enough.
  • Sometimes the progression could be obtuse. Several times I was at a loss for what to do or where to go, looked it up, and found out I needed to talk to a very easily missable NPC or find a specific item in a specific location. There’s al...
  • PST is Avellone at his best, his "amnesiac-remembers-his-past-actions-through-the-game" trope was still fresh, his overly raunchy design decisions were kept at a minimum and his writing is excellent, reaching an unheard of narrative dept...

Sentiment

10 positive (56%) · 5 mixed (28%) · 3 negative (17%)

Trust + time weighted score: +39% · raw score 39%

What redditors said (10 of 18)

Katana ZERO, Carrion, Blasphemous, Dead Cells, Machinarium, Thimbleweed Park, Cube Escape, This is the Police, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale
positive · u/k****3 · r/androidapps · comment · Dec 16, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Planescape Torment. The cast, the localities, their stories.
positive · u/p****y · r/Fantasy · comment · Aug 31, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Between Crusader Kings 2, Dwarf Fortress, Team Fortress 2, Liberal Crime Squad, Covert Action, Mount & Blade, Planescape: Torment, and surely more, there is too much prior art to enforce the Nemesis System patents
mixed · u/H****l · r/patientgamers · comment · Aug 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I’ve finally started **Planescape: Torment.** ... I’m quite liking it, the mystery of the story is interesting.
positive · u/D****5 · r/patientgamers · comment · Aug 8, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Pillars of Eternity 1+2 / Tyranny / Planescape Torment / icewind dale / Arcanum / Baldurs Gate 1+2 / Mass Effect series
positive · u/C****9 · r/patientgamers · comment · Jul 10, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Planescape Torment: I have started this game three times, and put it down 3 times. I do want to try it again. ... I did enjoy what I had discovered. And Mort is a dear.
positive · u/v****t · r/patientgamers · Feb 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
combat is by far the worst aspect of PS:T.
negative · u/Z****e · r/patientgamers · comment · Feb 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
man, I just can't with Planescape. I'm sorry, but this type of game has benefited tremendously from quality of life improvements over the years and I just can't find it in myself to look past that enough.
negative · u/T****t · r/patientgamers · comment · Feb 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Playing Torment I feel I what I'm doing is shaping the Nameless one fate, opposite ti DE, where you just feel a mere spectator most of the time.
positive · u/S****4 · r/patientgamers · comment · Feb 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Agreed with how incredible the game is.
positive · u/C****e · r/patientgamers · comment · Feb 5, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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