History NightmareFuel / PlanescapeTorment

* [[LoveMartyr Deionarra]]'s backstory. For a fantasy game, the notion of [[spoiler:your lover never caring about you, using you for their goal, and murdering you]] is a frighteningly real fear.

** If you obtain a particular magic tome, you can sacrifice one of your allies for power, or sell one of them into slavery for ''even more'' power. [[spoiler: Made particularly cruel for Grace, who actually used to be a slave, and Dak'kon, whose entire race were once slaves of the illithids.]]

* [[LoveMartyr Deionarra]]'s backstory. For a fantasy game, the notion of [[spoiler: [[AdultFear your lover never caring about you, using you for their goal, and murdering you]]]] is a frighteningly real fear.

** It [[FromBadToWorse gets]] [[FromBadToWorse wpr she'll tell you that Ghysis only escaped by [[spoiler: letting the above-mentioned Pillar of Skulls ''eat'' the only other two survivors of his unit in exchange for being told where to find a portal off of Baator and how to use it]]. Even worse, you can actually call him out on this and he'll break down in front of the whole lecture.
* Deionarra's backstory. For a fantasy game, the notion of [[spoiler: [[AdultFear your lover never caring about you, using you, and murdering you]]]] is a frighteningly real fear.

** Making things worse, if you talk to the alu-fiend who runs the Curiosity Shoppe, she'll tell you that Ghysis only escaped by [[spoiler: letting the above-mentioned Pillar of Skulls ''eat'' the only other two survivors of his unit in exchange for being told where to find a portal off of Baator and how to use it]]. Even worse, you can actually call him out on this and he'll break down in front of the whole lecture.

* It is stated that the reason The Nameless One is immortal in the first place is that The First Incarnation did something so unforgivable, so terrible, that he needed ''more than one lifetime to atone for it'' and even then it wasn't enough to save him from this world's version of hell. What makes it even worse is that ''[[NothingIsScarier we never find out what he did...]]''

* It is stated that the reason The Nameless One is immortal in the first place is that The First Incarnation did something so unforgivable, so terrible, that he needed ''more than one lifetime to atone for it'' and even then it wasn't enough to save him from this world's version of hell. What makes it even worse is that [[NothingIsScarier ''we never find out what he did...'']]

* It is stated that the reason The Nameless One is immortal in the first place is that The First Incarnation did something so unforgivable, so terrible, that he needed ''more than one lifetime to atone for it'' and even then it wasn't enough to save him from this world's version of hell. What makes it even worse is that [[NothingIsScarier we are never told what he did...]]

* It is stated that the reason The Nameless One is immortal in the first place is that The First Incarnation did something so unforgivable, so terrible, that he needed ''more than one lifetime to atone for it'' and even then it wasn't enough to save him from this world's version of hell. What makes it even worse is that [[NothingIsScarier we are never told what he did...))

** Fhjull Forked-Tongue has been magically sworn to give charity to anyone who asks for it. Because of this, you can effectively rob him blind of all his most treasured possessions, while he has to [[StepfordSmiler grin and bear it]]. And no, [[PayEvilUntoEvil it doesn't make the act any less evil just because he's a devil.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2Qkx3lN5s This trailer]] looks like a trailer to a horror fantasy.

* ''Everything'' about playing an evil Nameless One. It isn't like in other games, where you play an "evil" character by going on bloody rampages, being selfish, or being mean in a hilarious fashion. Being evil in ''Planescape: Torment'' is just an endless depressing march of sociopathic cruelty. It has been said that the only way to be evil in this game without being so beaten down as to quit is either to skip through all the dialogue and not look at the horrible things you are doing, or to genuinely be a psychopath.
* The memory in the sensory stone called "Messenger". It is a highly descriptive look at Ravel the Night Hag's cruelty through the eyes ([[EyeScream so to speak...]]) of one of her victims... and she was being merciful.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2Qkx3lN5s This trailer...]]

** Some lesser sensory stones are rather unnerving as well, though nowhere near as horrifying as Messenger. Unavoidable Pain, for instance, shows the experience of a person who, while struggling in combat with an enemy, had their hand slowly pushed into a lava floe.

** Adding to the fuel, she was a little girl when she passed through the portal and when you meet her she is an adult but you can't tell which age because of the many wounds and how this life has worn her out. Meaning what happend to her could have been decades or just a few years.

* Deionarra's backstory. For a fantasy game, the notion of [[spoiler: AdultFear your lover never caring about you, using you, and murdering you]] is a frighteningly real fear.

* The Pillar of Skulls. It's a massive tower made up of the skulls of ManipulativeBastard {{Consummate Liar}}s who are aware and screaming in agony. If you have Annah in your party, you can find [[spoiler:Pharod]]'s skull in there, who only appears for a few moments while crying out to Annah for mercy. It's also [[spoiler:where Morte came from... and you can ''[[MoralEventHorizon shove him back in]]''.]] ''You'' can go into it yourself, though not permanently -- the skulls just ''eat you alive'' before spitting you back out, represented by a huge drop in maximum HP.