The Turing Test

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. PlayStation Country
    Jan 31, 2017
    90
    As a first person puzzle game with a talkative AI character, The Turing Test proves that you can take the formula laid down by Portal and make it your own. This game offers a distinct and atmospheric story, and provides some well designed and challenging puzzles along the way.
  2. Gaming Age
    Mar 16, 2017
    83
    Of course, there's a huge difference between "not as good as Portal 2" and "not worth playing", not least because there's a good argument to be made that Portal 2 is the best game ever. Failing to live up to perfection is only failure in a very broad sense of the term, and The Turing Test hardly counts as a bad game. It won't make you forget that elephant-sized game in the corner of the room by any means, but if you're still wishing that, one way or another, GLaDOS and Chell could return, this probably counts as the closest you're going to get.
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Mar 1, 2017
    70
    It's the quality of the headscratchers that earns Turing a passing score. [March 2017, p.96]
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  5. Metro GameCentral
    Jan 29, 2017
    70
    The comparisons to Portal are many, and obviously intentional, but this smart and ambitious first person puzzler is no mere clone.
  6. Push Square
    Jan 24, 2017
    70
    The Turing Test is both a thoughtful meditation on the implications of artificial intelligence, and a competent first-person puzzler. Its systems are clever, its graphics make for unambiguous play, and its mechanical focus on logic is satisfying. Structural and pacing issues are certainly present, but they aren't egregious enough to meaningfully detract from the experience.

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User Score
6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 21
  3. Negative: 4 out of 21
  1. JazzyJay
    Jan 30, 2017
    9
    I loved this game. I paid $20 for it which seems about right for what I got. It fits in a genre with Portal and The Talos Principle both ofI loved this game. I paid $20 for it which seems about right for what I got. It fits in a genre with Portal and The Talos Principle both of which I like very much. All of the stand alone puzzles or "rooms" are solvable and fairly straight forward. How long this game takes you to finish will be highly dependent on how often you get stuck trying to nuance a red herring solution. I finished the whole game in about 8 hours or so but a high percentage of that was spent on two or three puzzles where I tried an approach that didn't work out and was forced to restart a few times with a new strategy. All that said the driving theme is an interesting if familiar one and the ending, which I don't want to spoil in any way is interesting is a very illuminating way. I'll leave it at that, enjoy.… Full Review »
  2. wesker2012
    Jun 2, 2020
    6
    I was looking forward to playing this game as I love environmental puzzle games. I wanted to like this game but most of the game felt like aI was looking forward to playing this game as I love environmental puzzle games. I wanted to like this game but most of the game felt like a chore to play. It didn't give me that great feeling of achievement great games make you feel. It was more of a relief to finish the puzzle and then move on to the next one. The plot and ending felt paper thin. The best thing about the game was the philosophical dialogue. I wish they had fleshed out the plot more. It had a good foundation. This had the potential to be a great game if more thought went into the puzzles and the plot.… Full Review »
  3. HaloFever
    Jan 29, 2023
    8
    Basically Portal without Portals. Solid puzzles. Interesting dialogue choices. Even a few secret areas. I thoroughly enjoyed my puzzlingBasically Portal without Portals. Solid puzzles. Interesting dialogue choices. Even a few secret areas. I thoroughly enjoyed my puzzling experience.

    The comparison to Portal is unavoidable. Maybe my kid wouldn’t notice. They never played Portal. Absent a Portal 3, this is the kind of puzzle game we need. I like the simplicity of the puzzles. You do not need to know how to read music or program in machine language. The puzzles are all about moving one thing over there and seeing what happens. And like Portal, you can get the idea of how the puzzle makers designed the game and zip through rooms before the game can finish playing the dialogue. The aesthetic is a nice change of pace from the glut of games that take place in the dark.

    The game has a story but it is all in the background. Except for the very end, there is no choice for the player to make other than to complete each puzzle. This was also true of Portal and many other puzzle games. The central premise of the game is free will and of course the question is whether the player has free will if they keep playing the game. This ground is well trod, but few games offer as much high level explanation as “The Turing Test”.

    The puzzle action has a very solid feeling. Some physics based puzzles become frustrating when the physics do not work as intended. Game design has to consider all the ways a player can fail. In “The Turing Test”, I had no trouble with any of the puzzles. Maybe the game was too easy. Really that is an issue of the game’s play time. Harder puzzles take longer to solve. Are they more fun?

    All-in-all, I recommend this game to all the lovers of puzzle games and every devotee of Portal.

    Full disclosure: I downloaded this game from my PS+ Extra collection. Issues such as a games length and value are moot when a game is there to be played or not played.    … Full Review »
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