Planescape: Torment

I've just finished the game after spending at least 100 hours playing. Glitches and data corruption that plagued earlier versions for Windows, all seemed to have been fixed in this port, and the game ran well for hours at a time on my 2020 iPad running on battery power and iPadOS 15.5. I don't recommend this for phones and I think even the mini iPads are a bit too small for most people because a lot of useful information is only shown as small on-screen labels. The plot is grimdark and meditative, there are many ways to achieve most of the goals needed to advance the plot, and there are hundreds of subquests to do. If you enjoy micromanaging combat, there are options for that (turn on optional pauses in the settings and increase the difficulty level), or if you want to focus on the story then turn down the difficulty and use default settings (and maybe look at one of the multiple excellent walkthroughs). Doors between locations can be tricky to hit, but I found the following useful: a single targeting cursor is shown if the game thinks you've asked to take your party through a door, instead of the usual multiple target party grouping; pausing can also make door targeting easier. Lots of fun overall, especially considering it's a game from 1999. If you like Spiderweb Software games this will probably scratch a similar itch.

Please add iPhone X’s wider screen support for this game!

Look, it’s a good game, and a mostly tolerable port, but sometimes - and quite regularly - you can spend between a minute to five minutes trying to get through a door because of annoying 1990s programming. Which is bad.

I knew I shouldn’t have wasted my money on this after getting stuck in the tutorials on Baldurs Gate 1 and 2. I’ve played this game for 5 minutes and i’m stuck already, find the scalpel and attack the zombies, how?? I’ve read the instructions 3 times and it doesn’t tell you anywhere how to attack, i’ve found the scalpel, equipped it, click on the zombies and nothing happens, instructions for these games are useless, I want my money back, i’ve spent over £20 on these games and I haven’t got anywhere with any of them!

This isn’t just the best IOS game of all time but it is a solid contender for game of all time. Works great on IOS and has had input from original designer Chris Avellone for script tweaks, this is completely faithful to the original just with a boost in performance and compatibility. The highly engrossing story, amazing locations and lovable characters are all here. Do yourself a favor, buy this game. Turn off the lights. Put on headphones and just get lost in the planes.

The game is fun enough but the interface hasn’t been up scaled for phones so it’s absolutely tiny. Like, so small you can hardly read the text or distinguish between buttons. It makes it such a hassle to play, I’m not really enjoying it. EDIT: After bearing with it for 10 more minutes, I’ve realised this game is actually unplayable on iPhone. The inventory slots are so small that the game doesn’t recognise when you’re trying to take an item from a a shelf or a body etc. I am asking for a refund.

This game is amazing! But please add Cloud Save feature so that players can enjoy seamless gaming experience between iPad and iPhone. Please do take it into consideration! The fifth star will be for that. Thanks!

Enjoyed this little gem from the 90s. It's a bit different to Baldurs Gate in that the story and characters are a bit different, Morte the Skull is lots of fun! There's a lot of dialogue, so if you prefer combat, you might like to try Baldurs Gate first. Otherwise the story is very well written and interesting. It isn't obvious how to complete quests, so it's difficult. I wish they'd produce more of these styled games, they are great!

Enormous narrative driven game with great dialogue and humour. Minor faults are that combat can be confusing when dealing with hordes of enemies (but you can wind down difficulty and introduce pauses until you get the hang of it) and making entrances and exits can be a bit fiddly, however, the gameplay and story more than make up for any faults. It is going to be sometime before I finish this game, it is truly huge and well worth the price, but you have to enjoy reading and dialogue.

Beamdog's work on other Infinity Games has been great, if a little rocky initially. With Planescape, you can tell that they have (largely) mastered their craft. This edition took a lot of work to get right - they had to remake the entire UI using 3D art for starters. The game itself is a classic, though it's actually my first ever play-through! I've sunk about 12 hours into it, which I feel is sufficient for this review. It's not my favourite Infinity Engine game, but it's definitely fun. My biggest complaint with the iPad version is Beamdog's inability to incorporate the right-click function of the PC version that lets you orient your party in a specific direction. This results in having to manually adjust every character, sometimes awkwardly. Also, I sometimes have to close parts of the UI simply to send the characters over to the next screen. This is a relatively small thing, however. On the whole, this is a very good revision of the game. The fundamentals have been maintained while needed tweaks implemented.