The Turing Test

Good little puzzle game that never got too frustrating.

Short first person puzzler. Some interesting if not especially challenging puzzles. The setting is a bit cliche but implemented and acted solidly enough.

i had fun.

cool quick game! good puzzles, intriguing story, some good psychological banter

not good

Just a straight forward fun puzzle game.

[Gifted by a friend] From a gameplay perspective this is an excellent Portal-like 3D puzzle game. Rich atmosphere and stunning graphical presentation really add so much to the experience as well. I was running this game on the default Ultra settings on Steam Deck at 60fps and it looked just as good as a current gen game, with only one or two sections of minor slowdown. Now I'm not sure if this was a Steam Deck specific problem, but the game was literally unplayable when launching with DirectX 12 and would freeze after a minute or so of gameplay. If you're on Deck, be sure to use the non-DX12 option. I'm more split on the story. T.O.M. and Ava are both engaging characters with solid voice performances. The rest of the cast have some moments to shine but they're mostly relegated to the classic narrative FPS trope of scattered audio logs lying around, and some of the voice performances there were...questionable. Overall I'm not sure if the story is served well by how shockingly brief the ending is. The whole game feels like extensive narrative build-up only to be resolved in about 30 seconds. Not joking. There are some twists and turns along the way that aren't that narratively surprising (kind of easy to guess ahead of time) but they cleverly use one of the big twists to change up the gameplay in a unique and fresh way - I really appreciated that. And, of course, expect lots of philosophical pondering about life, free will, the nature of consciousness...all that good stuff the title implies. So as an overall package it's very solid. I just wish there was a bit more falling action for the ending and maybe a little more to differentiate it from its clear inspiration of the Portal games. I like to reflect on how often a puzzle game made me toe the line of frustration and then grin like a baboon while muttering "clever" to myself as I realize the brilliance of the solution. On that scale, The Turing Test passes time and time again.