Tormentum 2 arrives 11 years after the Giger-inspired original

Tormentum 2 is out now on Steam — a standalone point-and-click adventure soaked in the biomechanical nightmare aesthetics of H. R. Giger and Polish surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński. It's been eight years in development, arriving 11 years after the original Tormentum: Dark Sorrow.

The sequel drops you into a simulated world that's spiraled out of control. The digital inhabitants have gained a will of their own and are muttering about gods from distant places. You navigate a series of islands, solving puzzles and pushing toward one of multiple endings — all rendered in the series' signature hand-painted style, heavy on bones, alien faces, and figures fused into walls.

The original Tormentum: Dark Sorrow came out of OhNoo Studio and carved out a niche among fans of dark, painterly adventure games. It sat alongside Scorn as one of the more committed attempts to translate Giger's biomechanical horror into an interactive format — though where Scorn leaned into first-person dread, Tormentum always kept the slower, more contemplative pace of classic point-and-click adventure design.

Tormentum 2 is currently 15% off on Steam at launch, and there's a free demo if you want to test the waters first. The original is also on sale for 67% off — a good entry point if you missed it the first time around.