Taiji on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.
Taiji is a puzzle, nonlinear and difficult game
developed and published by Matthew VanDevander.
Released on September 09th 2022 is available only on Windows.
It has received 1,287 reviews of which 1,175 were positive and 112 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on K4G.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64-Bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 400 / AMD Radeon HD 5000
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 350 MB available space
User reviews & Ratings
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Fun puzzle game, think a 2D version of The Witness. All the puzzles had sensible, discoverable solutions. Highly recommended. Edit: Didn't care much for the hidden postgame puzzles, so didn't do them. Completed everything else.
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A 2D puzzle game inspired by one of my most favorite games of all time, The Witness. If you haven't played The Witness for some reason, go play that one too! The beauty of these two games lies in the wonderful journey you take as you, without hand-holding, learn to solve increasingly difficult and visually appealing puzzles in a mysterious world. Sadly, you can really only experience these games fully once (like many puzzle games), as once you know something, you know it. Us true puzzlers find our high in the moments of epiphany in hard-earned discovery. The Witness executed this perfectly and left a huge impression on me as one of the best puzzle games I've ever played, and this game fully did it justice as a derivative work. 10/10 - let me experience the high of getting to replay The Witness like I had never played it before
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It's 2D the Witness. Not quite as good, but it's the Witness. If you've played the Witness, then you've witnessed the first 6 or so hours of Taiji. There are more puzzles beyond that, which you might not have witnessed before, but many are exactly as you witnessed in the Witness. You even get to witness the same kind of pretentious ending as the Witness, but thankfully Taiji had the sense to not outright close the game. Overall pretty decent. Not as streamlined as the Witness, and the tutorialization doesn't feel as satisfying, but completing the meta puzzle was interesting enough. I'd say it's quite a bit easier, but then again, you've witnessed the Witness before, so it's hard to say what it would be like to witness it fresh. The art's great -- worth witnessing, especially for mostly a solo project. If you haven't witnessed the Witness, I would witness it first, unless you're witnessing this on a potato, then you can skip straight to witnessing Taiji instead.
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It's basically 2D The Witness I writting this review just after completing all 445 puzzles in this game, and this game is great, certainly harder than all normal puzzles in The Witness (excluding the harder ones); It suffer the same problems as The Witness where some rules of some puzzles are not as well conveyed as the dev intended The binary puzzle is the biggest example of this, where there's no indicarion that the actual rule is a XOR operation, and not addition or subtration in binary , certainly you will took way more time in some areas of the game bc the tutorial of a certain type of the puzzle didn't taught the actual rule and that can make some people mad at it; Excluding this only problem, the game is full of positive qualities, the art is good, the puzzles are well made when you learn the actual rule of the puzzle and they are really challenging, and it has some secrets where it has the most challenging puzzles in the game, It's really hard even when you have full understanding of the rules; If you like puzzle games like The Witness you will certainly like this game.
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The closest thing to a (sequel? prequel? clone? genremate?) of The Witness we currently have, especially if you consider that Jonathan Blow is listed in the credits in multiple supporting/testing roles. A wonderful puzzler in which learning the rules of the puzzle is part of the puzzle. Had fun solving the various puzzles all throughout the 'normal' end of the game and only struggled on around 3 puzzles. The regular end felt like an appropriate 'final exam' and I had lots of fun solving it. I didn't immediately understand how to access and then solve the special end, but I had ideas that proved correct since I already played The Witness, but the mechanics of the special end puzzles were annoying and clunky to crossreference and I didn't want to spend hours running around the map collecting the relevant data, so I just looked up and entered the solution. Overall, a great puzzle game that I would recommend to any fan of the genre. Puzzles that stumped me: The gallery bit of the map has 2 of the puzzles I struggled with. The red wall is weird, uses a rule used nowhere else in the game or puzzles preceding it and technically would have tons of answers if you were to just consider different colors as solutions, and I didn't see how was I supposed to learn the ones the game wants you to use as a solution, so I had to look it up. And the dancefloor in the basement stumped me until just now as I'm writing this I realized that it was the swirly pattern on the wall, dang it. Had to look the solution to that one, too. The third puzzle I didn't quite understand and bruteforced is the last puzzle in the binary section, when the zero and one combine into a sort of a quantum number that I didn't really understand the behaviour of, but there were only like 4 possible solutions so I just tried all of them and one was accepted.
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Taiji is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Taiji is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Taiji received 1,175 positive votes out of a total of 1,287 achieving a rating of 8.65.
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Taiji was developed and published by Matthew VanDevander.
Taiji is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Taiji is not playable on MacOS.
Taiji is not playable on Linux.
Taiji is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Taiji. Explore additional content available for Taiji on Steam.
Taiji does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Taiji does not support Steam Remote Play.
Taiji is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Taiji.
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Matthew VanDevander
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Matthew VanDevander
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09 Sep 2022
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