The Turing Test

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6.8

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  1. Joe_Friday
    Sep 14, 2016
    7
    A fun, but very short game. It looks like a Portal clone, and mixes in Talos Principle style philosophy, but never equals it's inspirations. The puzzles and metaphysics were both simplistic. Would be worth a buy during a 50% off sale.
  2. MartinX33
    Oct 3, 2016
    8
    An excellent puzzle game that definitely draws inspiration from other classics in the genre such as Portal and The Talos Principle (there are even a few direct nods to the latter if you look close enough). That is certainly not a bad thing though, as the result is a puzzler with interesting gameplay mechanics and an engaging storyline (albeit with some loose ends left to the imagination).An excellent puzzle game that definitely draws inspiration from other classics in the genre such as Portal and The Talos Principle (there are even a few direct nods to the latter if you look close enough). That is certainly not a bad thing though, as the result is a puzzler with interesting gameplay mechanics and an engaging storyline (albeit with some loose ends left to the imagination).

    The game could have beem a bit more challenging in my opinion, however, as the different puzzles (with a few exceptions) rarely took more than a few minutes to solve. Even some of the later ones seemed a bit rushed and too easy to solve, but again, it could just be me. There were also some audio logs which were barely audible (subtitles don't show up for the logs either for some reason) and some odd spelling/grammatical mistakes in the texts here and there, but that's just nitpicking.

    Great game overall, be sure to check it out if you want some brain exercise coupled with an interesting story!    … Expand
  3. psylife
    Nov 2, 2016
    5
    There is nothing about this game's mechanics that remotely resembles an actual Turing-like test. Furthermore, there is nothing in here that games like "Portal" and "The Talos Principles" haven't done better a few years prior. I feel the name of the game is misleading, in which it seems to imply that the game mechanics are cleverly designed as to have the player experience an intelligentThere is nothing about this game's mechanics that remotely resembles an actual Turing-like test. Furthermore, there is nothing in here that games like "Portal" and "The Talos Principles" haven't done better a few years prior. I feel the name of the game is misleading, in which it seems to imply that the game mechanics are cleverly designed as to have the player experience an intelligent set of 'Man" vs "Machines" differentiation tests while in reality the game consists of a series of relatively easy yet slightly convoluted puzzles, that are fundamentally uninspiring and repetitive. This is not a bad game, it's just a monotonous game, a descent pass-time, that is hard to recommend above and beyond far superior games in the genre,… Expand
  4. Tubey
    Sep 16, 2016
    5
    This is Talos Principle and Portal, mashed together but only doing what made those two games great half as well. That's the review, nothing more needs to be said. If you enjoyed the two aforementioned games and fancy playing a mish-mash of the two done really averagely, here's your game.
  5. AcidOxidant
    Sep 6, 2017
    9
    An enjoyable game that forces you to think abstractly. A plethora of interacting mechanisms gave decent satisfaction once solving each puzzle, once you get past the introductory fluff. I played this game over a 3 month period doing 2-4 puzzles each sitting. Many other user reviews here say it falls short of delivering a Portal 2 or Talos Principle quality game and I'll cop that but it's aAn enjoyable game that forces you to think abstractly. A plethora of interacting mechanisms gave decent satisfaction once solving each puzzle, once you get past the introductory fluff. I played this game over a 3 month period doing 2-4 puzzles each sitting. Many other user reviews here say it falls short of delivering a Portal 2 or Talos Principle quality game and I'll cop that but it's a unique and fun game nonetheless.

    GOOD ENDING.    … Expand
  6. AndreRLZ
    Aug 3, 2017
    8
    É un puzzle game sullo stile di Portal , anche se le meccaniche di gioco sono completamente diverse. Si vede subito che é ispirato al capolavoro di Valve, e fa bene! Il gameplay é "a stanze" , con un crescendo di difficoltá e di possibilitá di gioco. L' ambientazione é quella di una stazione spaziale molto lontana, abbandonata, nella quale non riusciamo a trovare il personale e non capiamoÉ un puzzle game sullo stile di Portal , anche se le meccaniche di gioco sono completamente diverse. Si vede subito che é ispirato al capolavoro di Valve, e fa bene! Il gameplay é "a stanze" , con un crescendo di difficoltá e di possibilitá di gioco. L' ambientazione é quella di una stazione spaziale molto lontana, abbandonata, nella quale non riusciamo a trovare il personale e non capiamo il perché sia scomparso. Il gioco si presenta molto bene, addirittura con una scena fuori all'aperto e qualche sporadica finestra che ci fa scrutare fuori (adoro questi dettagli). Ritengo che il gioco sia molto equilibrato, ben narrato e in generale molto ben fatto. L'aspetto tecnico é eccezionale, con un Unreal Engine 4 sfruttato benissimo. Le musiche sono azzeccate e le voci narranti sono piacevoli da sentire. Anche la storia ha un suo perché. É un gioco abbastanza "semplice" come struttura ma talmente ben messo assieme che lo consiglio caldamente a tutti coloro che hanno amato Portal (1 e 2). Una perla, nel suo genere.… Expand
  7. RadDog
    Mar 4, 2017
    9
    Love a game that challenges you enough without taxing you too much, nice story, good computer/character interaction. The game offers a taste of history if you have the patience to read the docs you find. I give it a 9 out of 10.
    Bringing Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace together is the perfect computer history story!
  8. Jack0458
    Jun 22, 2019
    9
    Great game that explores an interesting topic. written well with fun puzzles to keep you engaged. Pretty short game as I finished it in a day. A must play for sure!
  9. TitaniumDragon
    May 20, 2017
    4
    The Turing Test is yet another first person puzzle game where the player is stuck in a strange environment with a possibly malevolent “mission control” (yet another AI, this time), solving a series of puzzles to try and navigate through an environment.

    In this case, you are controlling a woman called Ava Turing, who is being commanded by TOM, the AI of the mission, to go down to the    The Turing Test is yet another first person puzzle game where the player is stuck in a strange environment with a possibly malevolent “mission control” (yet another AI, this time), solving a series of puzzles to try and navigate through an environment.

    In this case, you are controlling a woman called Ava Turing, who is being commanded by TOM, the AI of the mission, to go down to the surface, reacquire communications with the crew (which is rebelling against him), and to eventually help him to stop the crew from escaping Europa with an organism they found there which potentially threatens life on Earth.

    The core story here is actually fairly decent – the premise of the tests being set up to prove you are human (as they are designed to keep out TOM, the AI, but not Ava, the human), as TOM is not programmed to be creative (in fact, he is specifically programmed not to be, making him inflexible and rigid – exactly what the mission needs in its AI). As you go through the tests, TOM and Ava talk about the Turing Test, the Chinese Room, and various other ideas about free will and whether or not AIs are really “intelligent”. TOM himself seems to argue both sides when convenient; he claims he is nothing more than a calculator, but clearly has feelings and emotions and gets angry when treated like nothing more than a machine.

    There’s a twist about halfway through the story; I had thought it was going to be either that the whole thing was a simulation (i.e. none of it was real, it was all a test of the AI to determine how it would respond to a situation like this) or that it was going to just repeat the Bioshock plot twist straight up. Instead it went for something a bit new, which I liked, as while I’ve thought about that particular twist before, I’ve never seen a game actually do it.

    Sadly, while the twist ultimately unlocks the last gameplay element, the gameplay element of looking through cameras and controlling robots and triggering switches through them is something that Watch Dogs did several years ago. And given that the other puzzle mechanics of the game are standing on switches, putting heavy things on switches, and grabbing and manipulating balls of light from a distance to put into power slots to power things… it ain’t exactly the most innovative game ever.

    Indeed, the actual puzzle gameplay is just not very good. The rooms are thankfully very short, each relying on a particular bit of lateral thinking, and are mostly quite simple puzzles, with only a few really being all that long. This is mostly a good thing, but it ultimately makes the game feel a bit shallow – I never got any great sense of achievement or reward for solving the puzzles, and most of them were very easy. There were 77 puzzles in all in the game, and overall it took me about 6 hours to 100% it.

    And I have to say, even on top of that, I wasn’t overly fond of the characters, either. TOM at least has some personality, but Ava is pretty bland, and by the end of it, I never really identified a single major character trait from her. The other characters – who you get to hear the audio logs of – are not particularly interesting either, with only the captain feeling like he has more than one note to his personality. And even TOM doesn’t always feel like he is written all that consistently – he argues with the crew about how he is really a person, and argues with Ava about how he isn’t. While him being two-faced and untrustworthy is a big part of the plot, it would have been nice for him to more directly acknowledge his own hypocrisy – instead, not even the characters arguing with him do so.

    The result was that this game didn’t really touch me. It had a couple interesting ideas in its story and playing with its medium as a game, but as a game, it felt dull, uninspired, and unoriginal, without any memorable gameplay or setpieces. While it tries to be philosophical, it is nowhere near the level of something like The Talos Principle, and while the sterile testing environment (and some of the elements, like the switches and light bridges) are reminiscent of Portal, it is lacking in the character of those games as well.

    Ultimately the game as a whole just ends up being rather flat. It never really did anything particularly interesting with itself, the story isn’t good enough to be worth playing through the game for, and the characters aren’t memorable. Is it terrible? No. But it doesn’t excel in any way.

    You’ve got better things to do with your time and money than play this game.    … Expand
  10. wasabigirl
    Sep 30, 2016
    6
    It is fun, entertaining and has some clever twists - however, it comes short regarding really telling the story and it is in general too short at all.
  11. darkn1k3
    Oct 5, 2016
    6
    I was disappointed by the ending of the game. through the game you would expect something bigger than whats coming. It wasn't surprising at all, you could expect that from the middle of the game.
    Except that, the puzzles weren't that hard and u could finish the game in few hours, so im not sure if its worth the full price, maybe if its on a sale.
  12. Yijaaaaa
    Sep 22, 2019
    0
    No esta en español, le podian haber puesto subtitulos en español, q no creo q sea tant caro
  13. almirfus
    Sep 13, 2016
    4
    I'm sorry but this game pissed me off. It's a poor version of The Talos Principle. Only less creative. All the game is about big empty spaces with door puzzles to solve it. I was thinking big Europa Station to be explored, a lot of rooms, a lot of secrets but all I got was door puzzles. It's not a "smart" game like many critics are saying. Believe me. It's one of those that really pissesI'm sorry but this game pissed me off. It's a poor version of The Talos Principle. Only less creative. All the game is about big empty spaces with door puzzles to solve it. I was thinking big Europa Station to be explored, a lot of rooms, a lot of secrets but all I got was door puzzles. It's not a "smart" game like many critics are saying. Believe me. It's one of those that really pisses you off at the end.

    Oh I forgot to mention: BUGs. Lots and lots of bugs. You better prepared yourself for loooooong loading times. But do a little research and there's a lot of help on the internet.    … Expand
  14. gloriouspotato
    Jan 25, 2018
    6
    The Turing Test attempts to say something meaningful, but its message is dulled by a poorly thought out narrative and mediocre writing. The way the story and philosophical elements are introduced is done in a very blunt and contrived manner, with little subtlety and nuance. When we get snippets of dialogue between Ava and Tom, this is supposed to highlight an engaging debate about theThe Turing Test attempts to say something meaningful, but its message is dulled by a poorly thought out narrative and mediocre writing. The way the story and philosophical elements are introduced is done in a very blunt and contrived manner, with little subtlety and nuance. When we get snippets of dialogue between Ava and Tom, this is supposed to highlight an engaging debate about the capabilities and limitations of AI and humans, yet the arguments posited from both sides are weak and unconvincing. I also should mention that the setup of the story is pretty weak as well. The whole notion that an extremophile organism with DNA repair capacity somehow definitively translates to immortality for all life-forms is pretty ridiculous.

    Overall rating - 6.2/10    … Expand
  15. ExpertPL
    Nov 11, 2016
    8
    This game is very short, but I have to say, as a fan of Portal games, it's even better. I think that the relation between human and AI is better represented in The Turing Test than in Portal, which is it's huge advantage.
  16. pawq
    Apr 9, 2019
    6
    In short, an aesthetically-pleasing puzzle game in a space environment with a fairly OK narrative.

    However, it is a copy-cat of Portal to an embarrassing degree, with some elements from Watch_Dogs and other games. Very low on the innovativeness scale. The mechanics were introduced well though, so that it's fairly unlikely to not feel comfortable with them. The puzzles themselves were    In short, an aesthetically-pleasing puzzle game in a space environment with a fairly OK narrative.

    However, it is a copy-cat of Portal to an embarrassing degree, with some elements from Watch_Dogs and other games. Very low on the innovativeness scale. The mechanics were introduced well though, so that it's fairly unlikely to not feel comfortable with them. The puzzles themselves were OK, but also pretty uneven. Most were very simple and short (some, even towards the end, made me go "what? already?), but now and then there was a really long and fairly difficult one. It felt like the progression wasn't smooth at all.

    The story behind the gameplay, philosophical to a large extent, clearly had a lot of thought put into it, but ultimately felt rather shallow and disappointing, especially towards the end. The AI's main accusation of Ava Turing was that she's naive, and I couldn't agree more. The game is very pleasing visually too, with colourful lighting effects much to my liking, and a neat dynamic implementation of pupillary light reflex.

    All in all, fairly entertaining for a few hours, if you're not in an overly demanding mood. I wouldn't say it's worth the full price though, considering you can get something like The Witcher 3 on sale for less.    … Expand
  17. naufri27
    Oct 21, 2020
    6
    Se refleja demasiado en la saga Portal para ofrecer una serie de rompecabezas cuyo mayor logro es la sensación de que ya te los has pasado si has jugado a la saga de Valve.

    Gráficamente resultón nos llega sin traducir, por lo que muchos detalles de la historia se nos pasarán por alto. Los 1000 puntos de logros son sencillos y rápidos de conseguir. Tiene también algunos guiños al    Se refleja demasiado en la saga Portal para ofrecer una serie de rompecabezas cuyo mayor logro es la sensación de que ya te los has pasado si has jugado a la saga de Valve.

    Gráficamente resultón nos llega sin traducir, por lo que muchos detalles de la historia se nos pasarán por alto. Los 1000 puntos de logros son sencillos y rápidos de conseguir.

    Tiene también algunos guiños al juego Pneuma: Breath of Life, de carácter similar pero con otra ambientación.

    Necesita pocos detalles para mejorar, porque el juego no está nada mal, pero los necesita sobre todo para buscar una identidad propia.    … Expand
  18. PublicNuisance
    Oct 30, 2019
    8
    I was way off about what I expected from The Turing Test. For some reason I expected it to be a walking sim. What I got was a puzzle game like Portal but with a much better story. The story is fantastic and if you like sci-fi will be worth it all by itself. Luckily the gameplay is good and kept me engaged enough regardless. Communication has been lost with a crew of astronauts on EuropaI was way off about what I expected from The Turing Test. For some reason I expected it to be a walking sim. What I got was a puzzle game like Portal but with a much better story. The story is fantastic and if you like sci-fi will be worth it all by itself. Luckily the gameplay is good and kept me engaged enough regardless. Communication has been lost with a crew of astronauts on Europa and an AI, Tom, and human, Ava, must venture there to figure out what went wrong. The crew has setup a series of rooms that you will have to solve various puzzles in order to advance. After each room there is back and forth between Ava and Tom as both figure out what went wrong and how to solve the issues at hand. You solve the puzzles by using energy cores to open doors, taking control of cameras and bots to manipulate pressure pads and electric locks. One thing I liked was how the game sometimes would throw you a curveball and provide you with tools for the toom that you didn’t require. I spent extra time trying to figure out how it wanted me to use a cube or camera that wasn’t needed. It kept me on my toes. I kind of predicted the possible endings a ways before it happened but it didn’t spoil the fun. The game doesn’t give any long winded explanation about how things played out after the game was done which leaves me to fill in my own ideas which I enjoy.

    The graphics are fairly decent. There is a nice clean and crisp style going on which reminds me of 70’s scifi movies that use a lot of blends of white and primary colors. They won’t wow you but they are far from an eye sore. The soundtrack is great and really complimented what was happening well. The voice acting was well done all around but Tom was especially great and provided the right blend of dull logical voices you expect from a computer combined with a hint of emotion at times.

    I played The Turing Test on Linux using Proton. Every time I ran the game it would want to install something for UE4 and it would fail. The good news is it didn’t seem to be needed as the game ran fine after you closed that. Trying to use DX12 resulted in a crash at launch but DX11 ran just fine. The game didn’t crash at all during gameplay. I noticed no glitches or bugs. There were five graphics settings as well as four setings for AA; Vsync; and an FOV slider. The FOV slider went from 60-120. There was a cap of 60 FPS regardless of Vsync being on or off. The game ran at a solid 60 FPS except for a few drops to the 40’s but they only lasted a second or two and weren’t frequent. This was with all settings at highest at 1080P and an FOV of 100. During gameplay my total system RAM usage was around 3-3.3GB; my CPU usage was around 11-18%; my GPU usage was around 40-55% and my VRAM usage was around 2.5-2.7GB. There was no manual saving option, just checkpoints after each room.You can choose to restart an entire chapter or just the room if you get stuck. The game uses the Unreal 4 engine.

    As I stated before I really enjoyed the story of The Turing Test. It was the standout feature of the game and had a lot of depth that left you pondering over many moral scenarios and questions. The puzzles were overall pretty good with the odd annoying one. I finished the game in 7 hours. I didn’t finish the optional rooms so it could have taken longer. I paid $6.59 CAD for the game and would say it was easily worth $20.

    My Score: 8/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 19.2.2 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Manjaro 18.1.2 | Mate 1.22.2 | Kernel 5.3.7-2-MANJARO | Proton 4.11-7    … Expand
  19. Garybaldo
    Mar 3, 2020
    7
    Puzzles are cool, animations are smooth, cool game to buy if you've played Portal 2 and The Talos Principle and are thirsty for more of the same style of puzzle-games.
  20. Soullex
    Nov 29, 2022
    7
    Gayet güzel bulamacaları var. Biraz daha zorlu olsa daha güzel olacakmış.
  21. dotrem
    May 23, 2021
    3
    I played 2 hours, made 3 chapters, and it was boring. Game not funny, you need no brain activity or reaction to solve puzzles. You just walk, do switches, press buttons, listening boring as fk monologues. Btw people still playing Portal 2.

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Jul 5, 2017
    60
    The Turing Test gets a high passing grade for its many engaging puzzles, but marks deducted for a storyline that never fully connects.
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  2. IGN Spain
    Nov 22, 2016
    80
    The Turing Test really proves the player's abilities and make us swim into a deep pool of reflections and ideas about the human mind.
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  3. CD-Action
    Nov 18, 2016
    80
    Even if the The Turing Test sometimes wanders into the realm of clichés in terms of both gameplay and the story, the developers tackled the subject of artificial intelligence really well and created an engaging game. [11/2016, p.50]
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