Upon pressing the hint button once, the player is offered a voice-over subtly prompting them towards the area of the next problem which must be solved. However, some of the puzzles in Torin's Passage have been accused of being too difficult for the younger audience, despite the HUD providing the player with a hint button.
The game's charmingly colorful setting underlines its child-friendly basis, and characters adhere to many fairytale stereotypes in a comic and satirical fashion.
The player follows Torin, solving puzzles and using inventory items in a typical adventure-game manner as its plot develops. I thought: Why isn't there a computer game that my 9-year-old daughter and I could play that works like that? - The game revolves around Torin and his pet (a strange, yet cute, morphing shape-shifting purple cat-like creature) named Boogle. I realized during that film that the audience was laughing in two different pitches: high little giggles when the kids laughed at the slapstick parts of the film, and deep knowing guffaws when the adults caught something that they knew the kids wouldn't get. Designed by Al Lowe, creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series, Torin's Passage was inspired by Al Lowe watching Mrs. Family-friendly adventure game Torin's Passage (1995 Sierra On-Line) is a standard adventure game for the PC.
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