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Reflecting on Planescape Torment's legacy, 25 years later
On Planescape Torment's 25th birthday, Eurogamer looks back on this genre-defining RPG and its long-lasting legacy.
That said, even among the pantheon of the era's RPGs such as Baldur's Gate, Fallout, Chrono Trigger, and the Elder Scrolls series, Planescape Torment remains an oddity: largely described as a "commercial disappointment", and too offbeat, abrasive and self-indulgent to appeal to RPG enthusiasts when it was released. There's also Fall-From-Grace, who's a mixed bag of contradictions: a chaste succubus who likes engaging in intellectual conversations so much that she became a proprietress of a brothel - one that specialises in stimulating, intelligent experiences, rather than physical pleasures. Its legacy is reflected in the fervent community discussions that are still going on decades after its release, and the influence it continues to have on modern games, such as the critically acclaimed Disco Elysium, which builds on the Planescape Torment's love for the written word to also suffuse its world with paragraphs of velvety text.
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