5. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

Planescape: Torment is a role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and released in December 1999.  An enhanced edition was released on April 11, 2017.  Taking place in Planescape, a Dungeons & Dragons fantasy campaign setting, the game follows the Nameless One as he seeks to reclaim his memories.

The Nameless One is an immortal who sometimes loses his memories of previous lives upon death.  Unite with other playable characters in order to recover your lost memories and uncover a dark truth as well.

The character starts off as a single class, a fighter, but can be altered to a thief or wizard.  The game is not focused on combat, as pretty much all conflicts within the game being avoidable through dialogue or stealth, but instead is purely story driven.  New to the alignments of D&D is the options to choose your alignment throughout the game rather than just at the start.

As it is an enhanced edition, Planescape: Torment sports an updated interface and other modern RPG features such as tab highlighting, area zooming, combat log, quickloot, and etc. 

While not a commercial success in its time, Planescape: Torment still delivers fun and an unequaled RPG experience, deserving of its widespread critical acclaim.  Taking place in the dark obscure world of the Planescape, the developers took advantage of the unknown and crafted an amazing tale which you control from start to finish.

If you choose, battle against creatures and men from different factions alongside your party members.

The game offers many options during dialogues and quests for the Nameless One to take.  Each option has a varying effect on his alignment and/or what happens next in the story.