Games like The Turing Test
If The Turing Test is your kind of game, the closest matches are Event-D, Soft(A)ware and Observation — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its optional secrets are rewarding, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Turing Test is a 2016 first-person adventure puzzle game developed by BULKHEAD. Set on Jupiter's moon Europa, players assume the role of Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency investigating the disappearance of a ground crew. The gameplay centers on environmental puzzle-solving through camera-and-bot interactions and energy-orb manipulation, with some orbs producing varying effects that players must experiment with. Reviewers highlight that the story unfolds while players maintain control, and philosophical discussions throughout are described by players as meaningful. Players who seek optional secrets will find them rewarding, and the fourth-wall-breaking elements are noted as creative. The game carries an 87% positive rating from over 4,100 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About The Turing Test: The Turing Test is a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. You are Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency (ISA) sent to discover the cause behind the disappearance of the ground crew stationed there.
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Event-D
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Top pick for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Sci-fi Visual Novel (Linear Story). A group of astronauts, scientists and robots is sent to space on a mission to investigate the disturbing disappearance of the first manned spaceship in its journey to Mars.
Soft(A)ware
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
A surreal puzzle-platformer where you bend gravity, rewind time, and disrupt a virtual prison built to contain you.
Observation
WHY THIS
Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Third-strongest match for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Observation is a sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M.
Event[0]
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Ranked #4 for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Always On
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
WalkBot
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Perform your tasks as WalkBot. Help solve puzzles using the unique body-switching mechanic and see the story unfold in front of your eyes.
Green Phoenix
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Green Phoenix is an on-rails arcade-like space shooter melted with a deep narrative experience which focuses on the concept of ego and the true meaning of freedom.
Lightstep Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Ranked #8 for The Turing Test fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
A routine mission fails and Cpt Cain Phoenix's squad is abducted by a mysterious spaceship. Their survival relies on his ability to communicate with the broken AI and puzzle out the grim secrets of the ship in this dark sci-fi text-based adventure.
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Reviewers mention these as similar to The Turing Test
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Portal
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Quantum Conundrum
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Find and rescue your uncle by using his newest invention to work your way through a crazy complex mansion as you switch between dimensions and solve puzzles!
SOMA
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Talos Principle
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
The Witness
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Maize
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Maize is a first-person adventure game about what happens when two scientists misinterpret a memo from the U.S. Government and create sentient corn. And that last sentence is pretty much the least ridiculous thing about the game.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Braid
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Reviewers of The Turing Test cross-mention this title as a similar play.
This is the original version of Braid from 2009, which may not work well on newer systems. For an updated version of the game with nicer graphics, more levels and a large amount of developer commentary, see Braid, Anniversary Edition.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Turing Test at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
PEAK
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Priced ~68% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
It Takes Two
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~96% under The Turing Test on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from BULKHEAD
Other recommendable Steam games by BULKHEAD, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
BATTALION: Legacy
WHY THIS
Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind The Turing Test.
BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.
KILLRUN
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with The Turing Test.
Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind The Turing Test.
Run n' gun parkour speedrunner. Race to set the best times and create the fastest routes. Smash the pro times on every level and unlock new weapon packs as you progress through a prototype playground of replayable FPS mechanics. From the creators of BATTALION.
Pneuma: Breath of Life
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Turing Test.
Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind The Turing Test. Shares Adventure with The Turing Test.
Pneuma: Breath of Life forces you to think outside the box through a narrated story of self-discovery, whilst exploring the ontological mystery of the breath of life. Features award winning voice actor 'Jay Britton' as Pneuma.
WARDOGS
WHY THIS
Another title from BULKHEAD, the studio behind The Turing Test.
WARDOGS is a TACTICAL ALL OUT WARFARE FPS where one hundred players split across three teams fight over the control zone. Set in the derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe on a destructible battlefield where teamwork pays and cash is king.
Frequently asked about The Turing Test
- Does The Turing Test run on Steam Deck?
- The Turing Test is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Turing Test cost?
- The Turing Test is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Turing Test?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Turing Test are Event-D, Soft(A)ware, Observation.
- Who developed The Turing Test?
- The Turing Test was developed by BULKHEAD.
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