Games like Torment: Tides of Numenera
If Torment: Tides of Numenera is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut and Shadowrun Returns — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Torment: Tides of Numenera is a single-player isometric RPG released in 2017 by inXile Entertainment, continuing the thematic legacy of Planescape: Torment. Set in Monte Cook's Numenera universe, the game presents players with extensive dialogue choices and reading-heavy narrative content alongside turn-based combat and strategic decision-making. Players exploring the Ninth World will encounter the central philosophical question of what one life matters, with choices carrying significant weight throughout the experience. The game is priced at $34.99 and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck. According to 1478 Steam reviews, approximately 71% are positive.
About Torment: Tides of Numenera: Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition
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Top pick for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition is the capstone title in Harebrained Schemes' Shadowrun series - and now includes the all-new, 6+ hr Shadows of Hong Kong Bonus Campaign. Experience the most impressive Shadowrun RPG yet, hailed as one of the best cRPG / strategy games of 2015!
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
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Second-strongest match for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Shadowrun Returns
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Third-strongest match for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
Lords of Xulima
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Ranked #4 for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Lords of Xulima is a challenging Role-playing game set on the mythical continent of Xulima, where Gods and humans once walked side by side. Experience a genuine RPG featuring over 100 hours of gameplay, and discover one of the most epic sagas ever told.
Wasteland 3
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Ranked #5 for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
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Ranked #6 for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
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Ranked #7 for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!
Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
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Ranked #8 for Torment: Tides of Numenera fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
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Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition
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Reviewers of Torment: Tides of Numenera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Uncover secrets of past lives in this story-rich, tactical roleplaying game set in Sigil, a dark fantasy city at the heart of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
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Reviewers of Torment: Tides of Numenera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!
Wasteland 3
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Reviewers of Torment: Tides of Numenera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition
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Reviewers of Torment: Tides of Numenera cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Fate of The Forgotten Realms is in Your Hands. Return to the city of Neverwinter in Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Torment: Tides of Numenera at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~71% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~86% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~57% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~43% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~60% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~57% under Torment: Tides of Numenera on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Other recommendable Steam games by inXile Entertainment, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Wasteland 3
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares Strategy and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares Strategy and Indie with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy
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Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™
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Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares Adventure with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
It will take the combined efforts of two great warriors to explore menacing dungeons, overgrown ruins, and downtrodden towns … and discover the secrets of the Demon’s Forge.
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
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Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares Adventure and RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
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Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
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Another title from inXile Entertainment, the studio behind Torment: Tides of Numenera. Shares RPG with Torment: Tides of Numenera.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
Frequently asked about Torment: Tides of Numenera
- Does Torment: Tides of Numenera run on Steam Deck?
- Torment: Tides of Numenera is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Torment: Tides of Numenera cost?
- Torment: Tides of Numenera is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Torment: Tides of Numenera?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Torment: Tides of Numenera are Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, Shadowrun Returns.
- Who developed Torment: Tides of Numenera?
- Torment: Tides of Numenera was developed by inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios.
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