Tormentum 2 is a spiritual successor to the 2015 game Tormentum 1. It is a generously large game where you wander through surreal landscapes of macabre imagery in the style of H.R. Giger and Zdisław Beksiński. You play a game developer who falls into the world he is creating, and then has to try to escape the dark labyrinth. There is plenty of game world from floating islands to frozen catacombs. There is a lot to do to traverse this world, and an illogic logic rules.

The puzzles are not hard which is just as well as there are many of them. There are inventory puzzles, items used and no longer needed vanish from your inventory after use. There are puzzles where you have to do things in the right order, and traditional puzzles like sliding block puzzles. The solutions to puzzles are near to them in the game world. You have a notebook bottom left which records helpful pictures, and an inventory which hides a little in the bottom right.

In the path I took through the game there were two puzzles which required dexterity. The first I survived but the second I had to use an auto clicker to get through. Depending on what you’re playing on, and your ability, these may be trivial may be insuperable.

I said path through game. At points in Tormentum 2 you have choices to make, these choices don’t affect the gameplay I believe but the ending you get. I’m not sure whether the ending I got was good or bad. A game like this is open to interpretation what it all means and I’m happy with that. The artist Zdisław Beksiński wasn’t into explaining his pictures or giving them titles. Tormentum 2 was a delicious dream which I may dive into again to try different options.