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The Turing Test

The Turing Test is a first person puzzler that explores the phenomena of consciousness and challenges the meaning of human intuition. Take control of Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency…

76 30 August 2016

The Turing Test is an adventure developed by Bulkhead, released 30 August 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Google Stadia. The main story takes about 7.6 hrs to finish.

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What The Turing Test is

The Turing Test is an adventure game developed by Bulkhead and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix Collective. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the far future, engineer Ava Turing is one of several members of a research team sent via the International Space Agency (ISA) to excavate Jupiter's moon Europa. While Ava remains in cyrogenic slumber, the other team members are woken and travel to the moon to set up their base and begin conducting their studies, with Ava scheduled to wake once the base is completed. Sometime later, Ava is awoken by the Technical Operations Machine (T.O.M.), an artificial intelligence that monitors the project. T.O.M. tells Ava that her crewmates are in danger and she needs to go down there to help them out. She quickly sets out in a lander and enters the base on Europa. T.O.M. quickly recognizes that…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

The Turing Test holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 120 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 7.6 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core i3 / Athlon 64 X2 6400, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD 5770. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

The Turing Test launched on 30 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: No Man's Sky, Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

The Turing Test — frequently asked questions

When did The Turing Test come out?
The Turing Test was released on 30 August 2016 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for The Turing Test?
At minimum, The Turing Test needs Core i3 / Athlon 64 X2 6400, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics, 10 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat The Turing Test?
The main story of The Turing Test takes around 7.6 hrs, or 8 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is The Turing Test?
The PC version needs about 10 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("10 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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