[5] Torque 3D features a world editor suite including tools for sculpting terrain and painting forests, drawing rivers and roads, as well as material, particle and decal editing.

It supports the open COLLADA file format as interface to 3D digital content creation software.

[6] The Torque engine and its many derivative products were available for license from GarageGames, a company formed by many members of the Tribes 2 team at Dynamix.

The source code could be compiled for Windows, macOS, Linux, Wii, Xbox 360, and iOS platforms.

TGE shipped with starter kits for a first-person shooter and an off-road racing game.

It was also possible to blend multiple skeletal animations together by playing them simultaneously or automatically tweening the different positions of bones in the skeleton.

The game featured a terrain engine that automatically created LODs of the ground so that it rendered the fewest polygons necessary at any given time.

Torque supported networked games over LAN and the internet with a traditional client-server architecture.

TorqueScript (also known as TS) is a coding language designed specifically for the Torque Game Engine, with a syntax similar to C++.

[14] Originating as a successor to Torque Game Engine Advanced (TGEA), Torque 3D features PhysX support, modern shader features, an advanced deferred lighting model, as well as build support for Windows, macOS and Linux.

[6] DTS and DIF have been superseded by COLLADA, a more commonly supported interactive 3D model file format.

Several Xbox Live Arcade games have been released using the Torque engine, most notably Marble Blast Ultra.

Torque Game Engine Advanced 1.0 supported Direct3D rendering via an API-independent graphics layer.

Fallback materials could be configured to allow support of pixel and vertex 1.x first-generation video cards.

Commercial titles developed using the Torque engine include BoneTown, Blockland, Marble Blast Gold, Minions of Mirth, TubeTwist, Ultimate Duck Hunting, Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, ThinkTanks, The Destiny of Zorro, Penny Arcade Adventures and indie video games The Age of Decadence, BeamNG.drive, The Cat and the Coup, Dead State, Frozen Synapse, S.P.A.Z.