The Turing Test

A good short game with some delightful puzzles. They were the highlight for sure and some of them were just tricky enough to get me thinking. Progressing through the chapters introduced enough new ways to spice up the puzzles and keep things from getting stale. The story was fine, not mind-blowing, but it was okay. An ambiguous ending can be great, too, I enjoy those a ton, however it didn't feel like this one really made much difference. I guess they wanted it to be thought provoking, but it felt very cut-and-dry to me. (Maybe that says something about me as a person and my morality, idk, but TOM is right.) A lot of the notes around the place doing some of the heavy lifting for backstory and little details were quite tough to read, however, and I gave up on trying to decipher them. Not sure what the deal was, but even on high settings, I was having a hard time reading the text. A text box overlay that had bigger font would have helped immensely. The camera controls were a little off-putting, also. I ended up with a massive headache and some motion sickness. It wasn't too bad, but I'm not normally very sensitive to that kind of thing, so it's probably worse for people who do experience it more often. Still definitely worth a shot if you like puzzles, though, those were quite good.

Can i recommend the game? As very often lately, i can recommend it on a high discount or in a precious bundle, containing the game. It feels like a mixture of "Portal" and "The Talos Principle". The story: You're awakening as "Ava Turing", being instructed by the station's A.I. named "T.O.M.". You have to find out, what happened to your crew. To do so, you're solving puzzles, which - referring to "T.O.M." - are about your relationship to the A.I. and colaborating with each other. Among the game, you will experience, what seemingly happened. Sadly - as the A.I. mentions along - "free will is an illusion". Beat the game, and you'll learn that lesson. Therefore - enjoy playing it. :D PROS: - low ammount of disk space needed; - low hardware-requirements in general (probably running on older systems and modern nutshells); - non-violent (except some Audio-Logs and some later parts) gameplay (the "gun" works similar to "Portal"); - decent and atmospheric visuals for an old game like that (but vga-enthusiasts probably won't like it); - all game-mechanisms, i have encountered, worked 100%-ly as asumed (clean game-design); - slightly increasing complexity of possibilities (enhancing Ava's ways of solving puzzles by..."changing her point of view"); CONTRA: - redundant level-design and repetitive tasks (well, after all it's a puzzle-game, just mentioning it, so you don't exspect a 1st-person-action-shooter with a deep story and various mechanisms); - easily to miss "optional" quests (they usually are on the left, when you finish a level, enter the hallway and the screen turns slightly blue; luckily you can ask the internet/community and figure, where you missed them, then - after finishing the game - manually select the chapter/section, but still...good level-design, wouldn't allow an "accidently passing by"-miss); - subtexts are available, BUT not where they're needed the most (ingame-characters talking = dubbed and subbed, Audio-Logs playing = only dubbed and often in bad quality, volume with white noise and disturbences among, so you barely understand them, though they shall let you know, what happened to the crew); - high price (Steam says, listed since 2016, not sure, if game is not even older already...i took my time and beat the game in a "not fully powered"/slightly tired condition in about 8 hours - partly using hints (except for "Optional 1" no explicit solution, only asumptions, what i might have overlooked and partly being to blind to see a "too easy" mechanism); If you like puzzle-games and prefer a fight with your brain, over caffeine- and energy drink-driven, fast-paced 1st- and 3rd-person-shooters, this game will let you take your time, to unfold your creativity referring to approaching an issue. You don't have to rush the game - there literally is no point in it. "The Talos principle" seemed to be more challenging to me and "Portal" feels more annoying, but if you're a good dog, who likes a nice bone, to slowly chew on, this one surely will be in your favor. And now go, get it...good "boy/girl/whatever you want to be"!

Yeah, not bad if you can get it for cheap. There is a Steam Guide to push the fps up to whatever number you like so if 62 is not high enough for you, check that guide out. It takes 10 seconds to do.

Shamefully underrated. Nice atmosphere and levelled difficult. Excelent for the likes of Portal, Q.U.B.E and ViewFinder.

Fun little puzzle game (around 5 and half ish hours) with great audio, visuals and story telling. Puzzles are on the easier side tho, so if you are looking for a challenge, you're not gonna find it here.

Great medium difficulty puzzler asking philosphical questions about human and robots / AI

It's a nice puzzle game with a nice story, but I'm almost tempted to give a negative review. [spoiler] The ending is missing entirely. Regardless of your choice, the game just rolls to credits hastily. Feels like they ran out of ideas or budget to give the game a proper finale. [/spoiler]

Let the robot inside you.