Torin's Passage (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Torin's Passage

Torin's Passage is a game for children, but like all really good games, books, and movies with similar target audience it also has that knowing wink towards older audience, and the best thing about this game…

70 31 October 1995

What Torin's Passage is

Torin's Passage is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1995. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SCI.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Curse the quick thinking of the Arch Authority, snatching the child away before his doom was sealed. Had the lad been with the rest, surely my suffering would have ceased years ago. At last I have found him, but in a world of isolation and innocence. He has no idea of the twists and turns his life has taken thus far, nor the path I have planned for his very short future. Just let him try to discover the truth, and learn the secrets of Strata's five nested worlds. Watching his struggle will be an amusement. Facing him will be horribly wonderful.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Torin's Passage holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Torin's Passage launched on 31 October 1995, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby and Mission Critical. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby, Mission Critical.

Cheats and codes

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