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The famous computer role-playing game Planescape: Torment, and the new video game Torment: Tides of Numenera are peas in a pod, linked by the same deep, philosophical themes - their joint heritage referenced by the shared Torment title. But whereas Planescape is a weird Dungeons & Dragons setting we've had years to get our heads around, Numenera is a role-playing setting that's completely new - and no less strange.Numenera takes place in the Ninth World, which is to say eight have come before it - eight whole civilisations risen and fallen. We're talking a billion years into the future here, which, call me a dinosaur, is an amount of time I can't even begin to understand.
The Ninth World has such places and faces as we've never encountered (unless you've played the Numenera pen-and-paper game) and remnants of technology so advanced they may as well be magical.
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