10 Plot Twists That Change How You See Video Games

10. The Turing Test - Droning On

The Turing Test begins as aptly named engineer Ava Turing is woken from stasis by an AI known as T.O.M. This charming chap informs you that he's lost contact with the research crew (phone signal must be pretty bad in outer space) and he needs you to investigate.

You discover that the crew have fashioned the research base into a complex series of puzzle chambers designed to keep artificial intelligences at bay. These are Turing Tests, only solvable by humans (and gamers).

With all this ominous foreshadowing there was bound to be a twist on the way. Turns out that Ava is a drone, a human puppet being remotely operated by T.O.M. The story shifts up a gear from this point on, but what's more surprising is that the gameplay is also augmented in a way rarely seen in video games.

Now that Ava is aware that T.O.M. is controlling her, the player can shift between multiple perspectives, taking control of T.O.M.'s surveillance cameras and robotic rovers to assist Ava in the puzzle solving. It's like playing co-op, but without your mates constantly trying to screw you over.

This twist makes you consider the nature of player characters: are they characters at all? Or are they simply drones obeying your commands?