History YMMV / TheTuringTest

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: All the game's characters eventually turn out to be so unlikeable that no matter how the game ends, it's hard to care about any of their fates. [[spoiler:Let the humans shut down TOM and carry the virus to Earth, potentially throwing the whole biosphere into irreparable chaos, or gun down Ava and Sarah and condemn the surviving crew members to a FateWorthThanDeath.]] Either way, they got what they had coming.

* {{Narm}}: As at least one online gaming magazine has pointed out, giving the name "Ava Turing" to the protagonist of a game named ''The Turing Test'' that is all about the Turing Test, is about as subtle as a wrecking ball to the face and would be grounds enough to dock a few points for sheer lack of style, especially because the devs didn't even have the decency to lampshade it in any way despite plenty of opportunities.

* ScrappyMechanic: One common complaint is that the audio logs are muffled and are difficult to understand, with the additional hindrance that they have no subtitles. The developers have stated that it was an artistic decision, with the idea being that you are eavesdropping on conversations, so it is a deliberate challenge to hear them. Unfortunately, with the only available language being English, it pretty much locks out that content for non-English speakers as well as people with hearing or auditory-processing impairments.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: All the game's characters eventually turn out to be so unlikeable that no matter how the game ends, it's hard to care about any of their fates. [[spoiler:Let the humans shut down TOM and carry the virus to Earth, potentially throwing the whole biosphere into irreparable chaos, or gun down Ava and Sarah and condemn the surviving crew members to a FateWorthThanDeath.]] Either way, they got what they had coming.

* EightDeadlyWords: As detailed under WorldOfJerkass on the main page, all the game's characters eventually turn out to be so unlikeable that no matter how the game ends, it's hard to care about any of their fates. [[spoiler:Let the humans shut down TOM and carry the virus to Earth, potentially throwing the whole biosphere into irreparable chaos, or gun down Ava and Sarah and condemn the surviving crew members to a FateWorthThanDeath.]] Either way, they got what they had coming.

* JerkassWoobie: TOM. While he's supremely arrogant and dismissive of human intelligence and reasoning, to the point of [[spoiler: considering [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill mind-controlling humans to be doing them a favour]], and feeling perfectly justified in imprisoning the cew on Europa for the rest of their lives or killing them rather than letting them escape]], it's easy to feel sorry for him during either of the endings. Either he [[spoiler: ends up killing someone he regarded as a friend, leaving him shocked and seemingly unable to believe that she's really dead,]] or he [[spoiler: can't bring himself to kill her, and ''she'' kills ''him'' instead, even as he pleads with her that he's not ready to die.]] Either way, and regardless of whether you agree with his reasoning, it's clear that the combination of his programming and events on Europa have put him in a situation where he feels that he has no good choices.

* NightmareFuel: You find a computer with a Turing Test on it, where you can try to convince it you aren't a machine. [[spoiler: The words you type make it very clear that you are. And that you are trapped.]]

* SevenDeadlyWords: As detailed under WorldOfJerkass on the main page, all the game's characters eventually turn out to be so unlikeable that no matter how the game ends, it's hard to care about any of their fates. [[spoiler:Let the humans shut down TOM and carry the virus to Earth, potentially throwing the whole biosphere into irreparable chaos, or gun down Ava and Sarah and condemn the surviving crew members to a FateWorthThanDeath.]] Either way, they got what they had coming.

* JerkassWoobie: TOM. While he's supremely arrogant and dismissive of human intelligence and reasoning, to the point of [[spoiler: considering [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill mind-controlling humans to be doing them a favour]], and feeling perfectly justified in imprisoning the cew on Europa for the rest of their lives or killing them rather than letting them escape]], it's impossible to not feel sorry for him during either of the endings. Either he [[spoiler: ends up killing someone he regarded as a friend, leaving him shocked and seemingly unable to believe that she's really dead,]] or he [[spoiler: can't bring himself to kill her, and ''she'' kills ''him'' instead, even as he pleads with her that he's not ready to die.]] Either way, and regardless of whether you agree with his reasoning, it's clear that the combination of his programming and events on Europa have put him in a situation where he feels that he has no good choices.

* TheUntwist: GenreSavvy players expected one of two things to happen: either it was revealed that [[TomatoInTheMirror Ava herself]] [[RoboticReveal was a robot]], or TOM became antagonistic in the style of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. [[spoiler:The latter happens.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: One common complaint is that the audio logs are muffled and are difficult to understand, with the additional hindrance that they have no subtitles. The developers have stated that it was an artistic decision, with the idea being you are eavesdropping on conversations, so it was a challenge put in place by having the audio muffled and no subtitles displayed. Unfortunately, with the only available language being English, it pretty much locks that content for non-English speakers.
** And that the lack of subtitles locks out anyone with impaired hearing, or with auditory-processing difficulties that are somewhat commonplace on the autistic spectrum.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The secret room in chamber C26 has a computer that, when activated, trigger a short segment of virtual reality with stairs and balconies floating in a void. It seems to be a ShoutOut to the game ''Pneuma: Breath of Life'', made by the same developers, but it just seems out of place in the context of this game.

* FridgeBrilliance: The very last puzzle seems unsolvable until [[spoiler: you realise that you can use Ava's body in the same way as you could use any other inanimate object, by letting it go around on a moving band to intermittantly block a beam, while you use a robot to go solve the puzzle.]] In other words, to complete the game, you need to [[spoiler: symbolically accept what you've already technically known since halfway through it - that not only are you not playing as Ava, but that Ava is a tool being used by TOM (your ''actual'' player character), functionally no different from any of the cameras, robots and guns that he can also [[VillainOverride "jump into."]]]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The very last puzzle seems unsolvable until [[spoiler: you realise that you can use Ava's body in the same way as you could use any other inanimate object, by letting it go around on a moving band to intermittantly block a beam, while you use a robot to go solve the puzzle.]] In other words, to complete the game, you need to [[spoiler: symbolically accept what you've already technically known since halfway through it - that not only are you not playing as Ava, but that Ava is a tool being used by T.O.M. (your ''actual'' player character), functionally no different from any of the cameras, robots and guns that he can also [[VillainOverride "jump into."]]]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The very last puzzle seems unsolvable until [[spoiler: you realise that you can use Ava's body in the same way as you could use any other inanimate object, by letting it go around on a moving band to intermittantly block a beam, while you use a robot to go solve the puzzle. In other words, to complete the game, you need to symbolically accept what you've already technically known since halfway through it - that not only are you not playing as Ava, but that Ava is a tool being used by T.O.M. (your ''actual'' player character), functionally no different from any of the cameras, robots and guns that he can also [[VillainOverride "jump into."]]]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The very last puzzle seems unsolvable until [[spoiler: you realise that you can use Ava's body in the same way as you could use any other inanimate object, by letting it go around on a moving band to intermittantly block a beam, while you use a robot as your "real" player character. In other words, to complete the game, you need to symbolically accept what you've already technically known since halfway through it - that not only are you not playing as Ava, but that Ava is a tool being used by T.O.M. (your ''actual'' player character), functionally no different from any of the cameras, robots and guns that he can also [[VillainOverride "jump into."]]]]

* FridgeBrilliance: The very last puzzle seems unsolvable until [[spoiler: you realise that you can use Ava's body in the same way as you could use any other inanimate object, by letting it go around on a moving band to intermittantly block a beam, while you use a robot as your "real" player character. In other words, to complete the game, you need to symbolically accept what you've already tecnically known since halfway through it - that not only are you not playing as Ava, but that Ava is a tool being used by T.O.M. (your ''actual'' player character), functionally no different from any of the cameras, robots and guns that he can also [[VillainOverride "jump into."]]]]

* ScrappyMechanic: One common complaint is that the audio logs are muffled and are difficult to understand, with the addiotional hindrance that they have no subtitles. The developers have stated that it was an artistic decision, with the idea being you are eavesdropping on conversations, so it was a challenge put in place by having the audio muffled and no subtitles displayed. Unfortunately, with the only available language being English, it pretty much locks that content for non-English speakers.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The secret room in chamber C26 has a computer that, when activated, trigger a short segment of virtual reality with stairs and balconies floating in a void. It seems to be a ShoutOut to the game "Pneuma: Breath of life", made by the same developers, but it just seems out of place in the context of this game.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The secret room in chamber C26 has a computer that, when activated, trigger a short segment of virtual reality with stairs and balconies floating in a void. It seems to be a ShoutOut to the game "Pneuma: Breath of life", but it just seems out of place in the context of this game.

* TheUntwist: GenreSavvy players expected one of two things to happen: either it was revealed that [[TomatoInTheMirror Ava herself]] [[RoboticReveal was a robot]], or Tom became antagonistic in the style of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. [[spoiler:The latter happens.]]

** And that the lack of subtitles locks out anyone with impaired hearing.