The release date was originally set for December 2014, but was later shifted to late 2015, 2016 and then the first quarter of 2017. At the campaign's conclusion, Torment: Tides of Numenera had surpassed Obsidian Entertainment's Pillars of Eternity as the most funded video game Kickstarter at the time with a total of US$4,188,927 pledged by 74,405 backers. The game was successfully crowdfunded through Kickstarter in the first six hours of the project's launch on March 6, 2013. The game takes place within Monte Cook's new world known as Numenera and seeks to answer one question: What does one life really matter? It is a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment. Single-player Torment: Tides of Numenera is a role-playing video game developed by InXile Entertainment.
