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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Give it 20 hours
Gets good by 20h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 35h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 20% of players who started
Started playing 78% of owners
Steam reviews 70% positive of 4,381
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (65%); after 35h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 35.
- The opening is criticised more than in 93% of games we track.
- 20% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “A City Carved in Stone” (Reached Sagus Cliffs) and “A New Beginning” (Woke up in the Calm after dying): from 82% to 51% of starters.
- 78% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 4,394 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 300 reviews: 33.2h for positive, 11.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (77.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Not Dead Yet Escaped the Sorrow... for now. 100%
- A City Carved in Stone Reached Sagus Cliffs. 82% −18
- A New Beginning Woke up in the Calm after dying. Most players quit here 51% −31
- Monuments to the Past Reached the Valley of Dead Heroes. 34% −18
- Free Minds Defeated the Adversary. 30% −3
- Belly of the Beast Reached the Bloom. 26% −4
- Crystalline Vista Reached the Ascension. 22% −4
- Legacy Completed the game. 20% −3
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (52)
story milestone ending side
- Not Dead Yet Escaped the Sorrow... for now. 100%
- A City Carved in Stone Reached Sagus Cliffs. 82%
- A New Beginning Woke up in the Calm after dying. 51%
- Live Another Life Completed a Mere. 38%
- Always in Touch Found the Hall of Relics. 37%
- Monuments to the Past Reached the Valley of Dead Heroes. 34%
- Free Minds Defeated the Adversary. 30%
- A New Home Learn the truth of where Jherem came from. 29%
- Sanctuary Found Miel Avest. 29%
- Belly of the Beast Reached the Bloom. 26%
- Valley's Hero Freed the Valley from the Children of the Endless Gate. 25%
- Rising Phoenix Helped Phoenix find the answer he seeks. 24%
- Crystalline Vista Reached the Ascension. 22%
- Transdimensional Midwife Brought a new minnim pair to life. 22%
- Ill-gotten Gains Found the murdens' treasure room 21%
- Castoff's Fate Activated the Resonance Chamber. 21%
- Legacy Completed the game. 20%
- Coty Collector Freed Coty from Parsim Flint. 19%
- Terminal Velocity Ended your life before it truly began. 19%
- Limits of Human Capacity Reached maximum character level. 18%
- This is MY Cult Convince the Cult in Sagus Cliffs that you're the Changing God. 17%
- Just a Taste Became the main course in a Dendra O'hur feast. 17%
- Beloved The entire party loves the Last Castoff. 16%
- Going Home Rhin returned to her true home. 15%
- Knowlege Seeker Undertook Tantalum's quest to explore the tombs of the Necropolis. 14%
- Priest Restored Aligern found his friends and family. 13%
- I Clank When I Walk Equipped every one of Jernaugh's upgrades. 13%
- Homeworld Bound Returned the lascars to their home. 12%
- For Knowledge? Slew the Nychthemeron. 12%
- Death Wish Died by drinking too much Bloom juice. 12%
- War Machine Defeated Waits-for-Prey in combat. 10%
- Back to the Farm Freed Erritis from the Audience. 7.8%
- Foremen Don't Forget Discovered Min of Tan Liang's embarrassing secret. 6.9%
- Dangerous Ideals Matkina turned away from her isolation. 6.7%
- Love Restored Helped Tybir make peace with Auvigne. 5.9%
- Ascended Translated Callistege's consciousness into the datasphere. 5.1%
- Successor Matkina became the new Memovira. 4.1%
- Peace Bringer Brought peace to Choi's spirit. 3.7%
- Overload Acquired one too many cyphers. 3.5%
- It's For the Best Rhin found a new family through the House of Empty Time. 3.1%
- All Too Human Callistege became fully human again. 3.0%
- A New Family Rhin stayed with the Last Castoff. 2.6%
- Inside Man Coty betrayed the First on your behalf. 2.6%
- Accidental Savior Rescued the Memorialists in the Valley of Dead Heroes by failing to find them. 2.3%
- Mere Explorer Found all Merecasters. 2.2%
- The Dying Light Powered up Erritis' nanites. 2.2%
- Buckle Down Tybir made a dangerous deal with Tol Maguur. 1.9%
- A God in Human Skin Became The Changing God. 0.9%
- Hall of Memories Unlocked all elements in the Calm. 0.8%
- Keep Your Friends Close Made Aligern believe that you're the Changing God... and earned his love anyway. 0.8%
- Memovira Became the new Memovira. 0.5%
- Despised The entire party dislikes the Last Castoff. 0.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.