The Torment: Tides of Numenera Beta Delayed

inXile wants to "cleaning up some rough edges."

InXile Entertainment has announced that The Torment: Tides of Numenera beta has been delayed into 2016.

"Torment is in that exciting stage where things are coming together rapidly, and it's been amazing over the last few months to see so many elements of the game take shape," inXile's Chris Keenan said in the most recent Kickstarter update. "We want to continue cleaning up some rough edges so that you can have the best experience possible. For that reason, we are planning to release the Torment Beta Test early next year so we can deliver a more polished and complete Beta Test."

Keenan also said that the beta will be a "legitimate hands-on," with more than ten hours of gameplay "on a normal playthrough."

"The Order of Truth is dedicated to the study of numenera—artifacts of long-dead civilizations that inhabited Earth millions of years ago. Its adherents, known as Aeon Priests, have established enclaves throughout much of the known world. In the city of Sagus Cliffs, far from the lands where the Order arose, the Aeon Priests are few, and not all of them share the high principles of their distant brethren," designer George Ziets explained. "Fortunately for them, Sagus Cliffs sits atop a massive trove of numenera, layer upon layer of ancient cities and long-forgotten technologies, waiting to be unearthed. The local headquarters of the Order is inside an ancient starship, abandoned countless millennia in the past and locked in the accumulated sediments of the ages."