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Game
Game2018
Torn
Developer Aspyr
Torn is a virtual reality, sci-fi, adventure game developed by Aspyr Media played from a first-person view. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
196 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
116 positive · 71 negative
95% range 55–69%
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| Steam reviews | 116 | 71 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
9 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
168 of 270 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 196 · most liked firstTorn over how I feel about the silhouette game in the new Tomodachi Life having the same problem as the old game. On one hand, it’s frustrating to be shown a perfect oval and asked which of three meals it is. On the other, there’s something funny about it. That’s a plate asshole
unlabelledView post →Space Marine 2 dialogue is so funny. Main Game: "I don't trust you, brother!" "Nor do I, brother!" "I distrust you also, brother!" Co-op mode: "Brother! Your hair is so silky smooth. How do you do it?" "Head and shoulders, Brother!" "Oh! Torn from our enemies?" "... Shampoo, brother."
unlabelledView post →Torn on this one bc on one hand Mac Jones but on the other hand I feel like Kyle is going to call the game of his life
unlabelledView post →Torn between not wanting to tell y’all the game in my backlog I started playing because I don’t want to risk y’all accidentally spoiling it for me after dodging spoilers for decades and wanting to publicly ask for help about it because the combat is dense and confusing as fuck lmao
unlabelledView post →This is the first game I've ever reviewed, and I just feel like I need to tell people about it... This is the most deeply unsatisfying game I've ever played. The only thing that I found mildly amusing about it is that the gameplay seems to revolve around ruining this poor man's house, tossing his crap everywhere, making a huge mess, just to get these little collectibles. The only other positive point is that the game is short. I clocked in at around 5 hours, and I was taking my sweet time…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent game. Maxed all graphic settings and it appears to be very well optimized. This uses an unreal engine that left me in shock because of the Lush greens, old rotted iron, lighting, sharpness looks especially nice, textures are really nice. It has 3 ways to move around from teleportation to locomotion. I highly recommend this game. Voice acting, graphics, controls, are way excellent. Feels like a AAA title. As for game play.....ehehe! I will not say a word. It is very nice.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Torn between “wow it’s dark that they shuttered the studio before their game even came out” and “inafune probably did something to warrant this”
unlabelledView post →This game did many things very right, but too many completely wrong. The graphics and environments were fantastic, the story telling was pretty good, and interactions with obects were great. However, the gameplay was extrmetly boring and repetitive. The entire gameplay mechanic that did not change at all was matching highlighted shapes on objects to shapes on the walls. Gameplay was never interesting. Movement was too slow physically and it matched the slow story. I was tired of doing the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Torn was Black Isle Studios' final RPG (2001). Taking place in a unique universe, it featured the Lithtech engine for a 3D real time (also for battles) environment, with a world torn by the fight between Order and Chaos. The game was cancelled less than 3 months after being announced.
unlabelledView post →In all good conscience I can't recocommend this game. The puzzles are wonderful, the graphics fabulous and the story intriguing. But the ending. Oh My God. Not going to spoil it, but when you're faced with realising that an ending of "It was all a dream" would have actually been preferable to the one you got? To the writers - don't pull a swifty like that on someone who has invested 10 hours in the story. It doesn't make you clever, it's just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ move.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In this game you play the world's worst Interior Redecorator working for the world's worst Mad Scientist. This is only slightly an overstatement. The puzzles are basically moving items in the room around to the right spots reminiscent of a circuit board. It's an interesting use of the vr controls and encourages some exploration through the small environments, but it's never challenging, never interesting, and always senseless. Gameplay-wise, the game is better as a tech demo and can really only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/7EXhyB9Vq74 Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers This is one of those games where the Mixed Review status is well-earned. I bought this game during the Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2019 for $14.99 USD and I actually wanted to stop playing and request a refund after 1 hour of game time. However, I decided to give this game a fair chance and trudge along because we don't get many VR games with a full story with cinematics and voice-acting. My complete playthrough…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Have played like 10 minutes, but I can't understand why there are still developers struggling with smooth locomotion. 1 - It needs to be fast, at least similar to what you cand do teleporting or dashing. It's so slow know that's it enfuriating. 2 - The direction of the movement should follow de direction of the controller, not fixed to the touchpad. 3 - You can't "click" the vive comfortably, so it should be touch to move. I'm thinking about a refund, or maybe just playing with dashed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damn this is an interesting game. A lot of the reviewers are being overly harsh in my opinion. The graphics and game environment look awesome, with a very interesting sort of steam punk aesthetic. Pretty much all objects in the game have physics, with even some having cloth physics. You frequently have to move items around as part of the puzzles. The 'gravity tool' that you use to manipulate things can be a little iffy with aiming at times, but it's pretty straightforward to use. Rooms will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Torn between saving up and buying a game console. 🙃
unlabelledView post →this game basically is about to wreck each room you enter in order to find furniture with parts of circuits on them and match them into a circuit flowing through the room. this is it. while doing that, you will be nagged every 10 - 30 seconds to not forget the key by a glowing light flying around your head. also you will be listening to the thoughts of a morally very questionable woman - who you are playing - and to the stories of a most likely dead man while visiting him who is missing his…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible horrible smooth locomotion.....Hand orientied that is. First, movement is WAYYYY too slow. Like snail pace slow wtf? Second, it's hold touchpad to move when it should be TOUCH to move. The touchpad on the vive is very bad and hard to press, that's why literally every lcomotion based vr game (pavlov, skyrim, fallout, serious sam, onward, etc..) is touch to move. Third, if i'm pressing the upper part of touchpad to move forward, it does BUT, if i point my hand left or right i STILL…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not Recommended
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Torn between "it's just one game" and "I want Helle here Saturday"
unlabelledView post →I don't know how i got this game but it does one thing that a VR game should never do, it gives your character a voice. And the most annoying woman who sounds like she never voice acted before is doing it. The puzzles are too simple and the searching for little white dots is too tedious. Most of my time in the game is looking for them and I got stuck when I skipped dialog by accident and couldn't replay it. Edit: Now that I have played Half-Life Alyx my view on voiced vr players has changed,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewed using HTC Vive Pro Narrative-Driven Puzzles for Katherine who’s on her next big story when she meets Dr. Talbot, not in person but a spirit 👻 A quality of detail only ever found in few other VR titles❗️ ✔️ Excellent Graphics and Great Sounds ✔️ Loads of objects you can interact with 🙃 ✔️ Hint Help, Joy to play, Get this One❗ https://youtu.be/NVf_ntpsmH4
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No so cool as it can be... Game cool, story, graphics, PHISICS! But alot of bad things... Bad locomotion... Why not to use both hends to pickup things?.... Stuck some times after open dors with key... Annoing light and his "Dont forget the key..." why repeat this all the time? To boring to make the same things over and over again... I hope i can beat the game...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pro: * Environments are very detailed * Graphics are utilitarian and very performant Cons: * Story is slow/very sparse * All the tasks are essentially the same(move object to matching wall socket) * Physics interactions are unreliable, your hands randomly push or entirely pass through the same object * No ingame turning * Controller bindings unsuitable for index controllers/knuckles In short: Looks good, feels bad. Additional Details Operating System Debian GNU/Linux…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+Fun +Somewhat Puzzle-ish +Walking simulator +Good narration -/+Price for content -Really easy on the puzzle aspect -Character always mad? -Crashes frequently (at least for me whenever I walked up to a locked door) 3/5 This is a fun little puzzle/walking simulator, the puzzles are interesting and fun though extremely simple and basic. The story is fun and well made, the controls are great, only problem I had were the constant crashes every time I walked towards a locked door which was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate to say it, but I am really disappointed in the gameplay so far. Now, granted, I am only ~90 minutes into the game, so I will update my review if I encounter something that changes my current opinion. The graphics and physics in Torn are stunning. When I ran my hand through the curtains, I was taken aback at how fluid and natural it seemed - honestly that's my favorite part of the game. The voiceovers are okay. The main character seems so aloof and self centered with seemingly zero…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't find the button to start the game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great music, great audio, and I love throwing stuff around. The socket puzzles are repetitive, but still very satisfying to interact with. The characters are pretty unlikable, but the plot is intriguing, at least until the end where it jam 5 laughable twist endings together and rolls the credits. Despite the terrible ending, I enjoyed most of my time with the game. The mansion looks great and it's awesome how much of it has interactive physics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoyable game, lots of great enviroments to enjoy, including a few scenes that will make you pause (the garden room is nice). I really liked the paintings and artwork throughout, they made good use of the level of detail available on current gen VR. Only downside would be the puzzles themselves. While fun, they are quite simple when you're accustomed to Talos or Portal. Regardless, time well spent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice looking house with very cool fabric physics...and now the bad news... Here's the gameplay in a nutshell: You go through each room and move objects from one place to another. Where you move objects depends on the simple glowing pattern on the object, and finding the matching pattern on the ground or walls. The analogy is to place the square peg into the square hole, and so forth with every other shape. You literally do this from room to room to room. That's the ENTIRE game. It feels like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've finish the game. I would recommend this for the detailed world they created and the story. Both have kept me interested. The puzzles feel about the same all the way through, but the rooms give them variety. They get a little more complicated at the end, but not much more. I was immediately frustrated with the motion as smooth walking is really slow. I ended up going with teleporting, which is limited to a short distance but you can spam teleports to move faster than walking. Be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The puzzles were repetitive and the female player character was INSUFFERABLE. you wanted her to shut up but she kept talking and saying the most inane things. This is a prime example on why VR Player characters should be silent protagonists. she was saying stuff that i wouldn't say in the situation and it was irritating. The worst part though was the ending. Without spoilers i'll just say, if you were looking forward to the story wrapping up in a satisfying way after learning everything you did…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →None of these characters ever shut up and my hands are backwards.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's worth getting the negatives out of the way first. The HMD-relative locomotion is dated and clunky (lacking even a strafe option). The locomotion is slowwww even when running. And the core puzzle system is a glorified game of snap, which never really evolves... But... Taken purely as an interactive walking sim, this is a fairly wonderful VR experience. The dog-eared mansion is piled high with physics items for you to bat about and rummage through. Your physics gun heaves…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took me about 6 hours to complete this game, and I spent maybe an hour just throwing stuff around looking for specks. This is the clumsiest game I have ever played, in all categories. The physics are crazy. Speck-loaded items jetting into the void. Patterson getting stuck in doors and walls. Stuff getting stuck in other stuff, like they're glued together. The story was quite interesting, at first. It kept being interesting until the last cutscene, after finishing in the lab. It was THE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had an interesting start to it. I loved the mansion and the puzzles were interesting at first. But after a short while, they were more of a time waster. The flying talking orb was a nuisance almost the entire time. It kept giving me hints when they were totally unnecessary. It did so over and over. I liked it when it was adding to the ambiance of the game. But most of the time it was just horribly annoying. The controls were a little odd and sluggish for using the controller to walk.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an amazing game but I can't recommend it right now, and this comes down to one simple thing: Slow, annoying movement! You need to press and hold two buttons to "run" and it is still suuuuuuuper slooooooow. Come on devs! Give me a normal walking speed like in VRChat where I just have to press the touch pad, don't force me to press it again if I collide with an object in order to walk again (super frustrating, other games have auto-sprint to avoid this from happening so if you collide but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tepid recommendation. The graphics and settings are very good, and the voice acting is great. The overall immersion is well done. All objects can be manipulated, a big plus for VR. The puzzles are repetitive to the point of irritation. When you have to repeat the same very basic shape matching puzzle over and over with a voice in your ear saying "very good" everytime you match shapes like a child, it gets old fast. The pace is slow and lacks the sense of mystery that the game should…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All in all, Torn is fun at first but quickly becomes repetitive (which I why I got a refund as its price/value didn't impress me). I've encountered a few bugs such as my controllers being inverted (easily solved by switching controllers) and game crashes. I'd say what the game does best is the graphics, and what it does worst is the repetitiveness of the puzzles. I guess I'd recommend the game to people who just want to relax and enjoy a quiet VR puzzle game. 6.5/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely love this game. The production value is very high. Great graphics, great sound, great voice acting, great story. I just wanted to keep playing and keep playing. If it wasn't for me having to sleep I would have kept playing. The puzzles are very easy but I don't mind it. If u are like me the story will keep u going. I really want to know what happens next.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1st Impressions with Commentary // Oculus Rift + Touch // GTX 1060 (6GB): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Y4e5RYY50 Torn will surprise you, it will inspire you and it will blow you away. The attention to detail is second to none and everything about this game just oozes quality, care and attention. It's very rare we get a game of this quality in VR and its a game I would want to show people NEW to VR for the first time. During my initial game-play session I couldn't help wondering what a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There may be a good game somewhere under the bad control and other issues, but at this point I would simply consider this abandon ware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great looking Puzzle game with nice physics and ok story, but its repetitive. I 100% the game, took me ~7hrs to find everything, it probably can be done faster as i took my time. The voices are great, the house is filled with personality and looks great, it takes you on a great adventure... that maybe lasts a bit too long. And thats because even if the Puzzle works well and is satisfying to do... doing it over and over and over is repetitive, not to say it doesnt add a little difference…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless you really liked this [url=https://cf.shopee.com.my/file/feeadc45541993dd643597f7bf463db2] toy link you had as a toddler where you fit different shapes into the same shaped holes, you aren't going to get much out of this game. The graphics are quite lovely and the voice acting is very well done, but the plot and ending are really poor and don't hold together well, and particularly infuriating (and dont read unless you actually seriously want the game spoiled) Game Developers, please…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm conflicted about recommending this game. The core mechanic of object hunting and dismissively wrecking the mansion is fine. That ending though. What were the developers thinking? Here's what I do recommend, stop playing when you unlock the lab and replace the ending with this: The professor found is wife's mind but her body was too decomposed to reanimate. In the lab he replaces your mind with hers.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of those games that is hard to not recommend but in it's current state (nice looking world but plays like crap, jitters and jumps despite having a rig that says I'm above 90 fps) and lack of dev input make me say stay away until it's fixed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought this game was frustrating. It has easy puzzles that are made tedious because you have to tear up the room to find the pieces. So instead of using your brain, it's like you have to just go around looking for your lost car keys. And then when you solve the puzzle, you get to talk to some eccentric British ghost who is answered by you (a bewildered woman). Maybe the game's story gets better, but the game is lacking game play. I would rather just watch a movie. Also the puzzles involve…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lacks basic functionality. Checking the "View update history" shows that there has NEVER been an update.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short but sweet. Only paid £2 on a third party site. Cool
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thoroughly enjoyed the game The story was very engaging and the puzzles were enjoyable and not infuriating the only thing that it's missing is smooth turning.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting and interactive experience that basically involves putting puzzle pieces in the correct places and exploring an old mansion. Looks pretty real with decent graphics using the Unreal Engine. Not incredibly long at around 7 hours for me, but it felt like it was played at a good pace and ended at the right time. I got this game as part of a bundle, but I'd say it would be worth it to get for around $10-15. Better than I expected and relaxing for a VR title with an entertaining…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is held back by it's bad compatibility with future headsets. I was on an Index and my hands were backwards the entire time. But I was able to get all the controls to work. And this game was a treat. The physics are awesome, the environment is great, and the story is just the right length. I'd say get it on sale, and install Advanced VR settings so you can get artificial turn.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoy 30 seconds. That`s how long you`re gonna like this game. After that it will turn into a boring hell of connecting cables here and there
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game does a good job of building a fairly convincing and fantastical mansion. It has options for teleportation, blinking forward, and smooth locomotion. Despite having rooms full of physics objects, performance stays generally solid. What it does not do a good job of is having compelling gameplay. It's fairly common for dialog audio to hitch as it plays. For me, this is very much an exercise in slogging through gameplay to get the next story bit. I haven't gotten to the end of this thing,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2 Minute Video Review → https://youtu.be/v6ibq9cQhzU Torn is a narrative mystery in which you explore the abandoned mansion of Dr. Talbot. He guides you on the journey with his consciousness represented by a fairy-like floating light. Early in the game you’re granted the Gravity Tool. It can move almost any object and you’ll be using it a lot throughout the game. For most of the game you’ll be connecting lines of energy throughout the mansion using various props and furniture that contain…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ineffective movement, slow as watching paint dry. The fact that I could get stuck in boxes or crates ruined the immersion for me. Also, the curtains do not move in any special way, I just went through them like a ghost. Sorry, despite the nice graphics, these details ruined it for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →no longer able to play this game on a meta quest 3 using virtual desktop. I fixed the crashing by using a launch command. Unfortunately I can't rotate the camera using the controllers making this unplayable for me
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →graphics very blurry, terrible control because game not support touch controller. This game is dead, no future support since 2018. Don't buy it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls for this gave were just infuriatingly broken on the index to the point of being unplayable. The story and everything seems great, but I got frustrated and just quit after a while of the controls not working.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Strong no recommendation. Using the controls on my G2 made moving things around in an intelligent manner impossible. For object placement, I would fight my way through it. But, I hit a room where you need to control the movement to solve the puzzle. I had to give up because the random movement of the controls made it impossible. I tried rebinding the controls, but it didn't seem to have any effect. I would love to finish exploring this game, but it doesn't look like there is any support…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a very relaxing physics-mess-around simulator. you walk into a room and you need to grab some items to specific places, and while doing so you make a gigantic mess in the room full of physics objects. all of the rooms are very detailed and have hundreds of objects that collide with each other. its just fun to create and see the carnage afterwards. the puzzles aren't hard at all and you can just breeze through them. has options for blink, teleport and walk - although the walking option is…
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