Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition brings to mobile devices one of the most-cited RPGs in the genre's history, renowned for building mainly on text, dialogue, and philosophical questions instead of combat and bombastic effects. The player takes on the role of the Nameless One, an immortal losing his memories, who in the strange city of Sigil at the border of the planes tries to figure out what he actually is, why he keeps coming back to life, and what his past selves have done. Beamdog, also behind the other Enhanced Edition remasters, kept the enormous amount of written text practically unchanged, with only minor fixes and expanded content.

On a touchscreen, the main challenge is exactly the reading - the game is the most text-heavy entry in the whole series of ports, and a smaller phone is certainly not an ideal surface for long paragraphs of dialogue and descriptions, even though the interface offers text zooming and clear links to individual response choices. Combat in Planescape: Torment is rather secondary and sometimes feels like a burden compared to its main draw; the center of gravity remains in conversations, side characters with their own pasts, and decisions that gradually change how the player perceives both the whole story and the main character.

The original 1999 game still serves today as proof that an RPG can work as a literary work with the same weight as a combat system, and the mobile version only confirms that reputation, even at the cost of some reading comfort.

Why play it: For players willing to read a lot - anyone looking for a story-driven RPG with above-average text, and willing to sacrifice the comfort of a smaller screen, will find here one of the best-written RPGs ever made.