The Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter wrapped up in April 2013 with nearly $4.2 million , but it's still possible to back the project through inXile's in-house crowdfunding campaign. In fact, the studio announced a new stretch goal today that could see the return of the Gullet, one of the areas of the Bloom that was cut earlier in production.
More interesting, I think, is the addition of the stretch goal. It's awfully late in the process for that sort of thing, but the studio said bringing back the Gullet "would add a ton to the Bloom, particularly as it provides more adventure-type gameplay and will better balance out its pacing." The team as it stands is already maxed out, however, so adding a new area will require hiring more environmental artists—thus, the stretch goal.
But because the development is already so far along, this goal has a fairly tight deadline: $4.75 million by October 16, or it's not going to happen. That's a fairly big jump: Torment: Tides of Numenera has raised just a hair over $4.6 million in total, meaning that it's added only around $410,000 in the year-and-a-half since the Kickstarter ended. Ringing up another $175,000 in just one month is going to take a big push from existing backers, as well as a lot of new supporters.
The update also provides some rather cool background to the Endless Battle, which has echoes of Planescape: Torment's Blood War , and a spot of developer Q&A as well. All in all, it's well worth a few minutes of your time if you have any interest at all in the game. Torment: Tides of Numenera is currently scheduled to come out in late 2015 .
