The first rideable animal, or "mount", in the Soulsborne series, he can be summoned and sent away using a special gold whistle bequeathed to the player early on in the game by the character Melina.

Torrent has been praised by various critics as one of the best video game mounts due to his immediate summoning and responsive controls while on horseback, enabling significant freedom of movement.

Torrent is first gained by the player very early in the game, when they rest at the Site of Grace (a checkpoint) near the Gatefront Ruins, along the path to the first main dungeon, Stormveil Castle.

Possibly removed due to being too difficult to land, the animation was reused with several mounted enemies, including the Royal Knight Loretta boss fight.

Wen continued on to laud the horseback combat, noting that one of his favorite moves was "riding while charging up a sword attack, with the blade running along the ground [...] before releasing the trigger to swing it up straight into your enemy’s face".

[1] Nicole Clark of Polygon, similarly, characterized Torrent as "the ultimate horse companion", saying that he made the world more manageable, "enhancing freedom, exploration, and tomfoolery".

Saying that "to ride Torrent is to know peace, if only briefly", she stated that being able to have a mount "made playing a FromSoftware game much more approachable for a first timer", due to the ability to battle on horseback, run from difficult fights and gallop through densely-packed hostile areas.

[10] Torrent was not universally praised, and Rich Stanton of PC Gamer criticized the horse as "not having much utility" compared to using fast travel, and having a large turning radius.

These include giving Torrent the appearance of horses ridden by enemy NPCs,[12] and more outlandish ones such as making him a modern main battle tank, or even a Honda Accord, referencing dialogue by Melina early on in the game.