A prison built from someone else's nightmares, one hand drawn cell at a time
OhNoo Studio's long-awaited sequel traps its creator inside his own simulation, and the screenshots suggest the walls are already listening back.
By Nell Brannigan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The screenshot that stops you is the plain one: a man in a spiked iron cage-mask, kneeling in chains under a shaft of grey light, while a woman in scavenged leather holds out a bowl and tells him he's finally awake. Everything around that line is rot and rope and old stone, but the line itself is almost gentle, which is worse. Tormentum II is OhNoo Studio's follow-up to Tormentum: Dark Sorrow , and according to the studio it has been eight years in the making with a two-person core team. The pitch is that David, who is building a simulation of thinking beings, installs a mysterious coproces...