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The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

The Talos Principle is a puzzle, philosophical and first-person game developed by Croteam and published by Croteam and Devolver Digital.
Released on December 11th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Czech.

It has received 31,861 reviews of which 30,399 were positive and 1,462 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.13€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified The Talos Principle into these genres:

Puzzle Philosophical First-Person Sci-fi Atmospheric Story Rich Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Robots Exploration Adventure Indie Multiple Endings Difficult Mystery Post-apocalyptic Action Simulation Science Artificial Intelligence

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 11 class GPU with 1GB VRAM (nVidia GeForce 480 GTX, AMD Radeon HD 5870)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OSX version Lion 10.7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GT 9600M/320M 512MB VRAM, AMD Radeon HD 4670 512MB VRAM (Intel integrated GPUs are not supported!)
  • Storage: 5 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: OSX 10.5.8 and 10.6.3 can run the legacy version of the game, but it is no longer being updated.
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.04
  • Processor: Dual-core 2.2 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT 512MB VRAM, ATI/AMD Radeon HD2600/3600 512MB VRAM
  • Storage: 5 GB available space

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Feb. 2025
What I did: completed the game and the DLC, only thing I didn't do was gathering the stars. I'm going to start the review writing the conclusion of it: The Talos Principle feels like a true classic of the puzzle genre. After playing Lorelei and the Laser Eyes and The Witness (clearly two games which took inspiration from Talos), the puzzle game itch in me was still strong so I decided to finally pick up a game I was actually planning to play since release, which to my surprise was 10 (!) years ago. I'm talking subjectively here but I think the most important aspects in a puzzle game are probably the puzzles quality (having a solid and fun puzzle concept), the puzzle variety (to keep things fresh as much as possible) and finally a mysterious setting that keeps you going. After all, when the difficulty level rises up lategame it's not rare finding yourself stuck for more than 1 hour on a single puzzle and having that extra incentive to see what's next really helps. If you enjoy doing the puzzles regardless you're the type of player who can like things like the aforementioned The Witness (which has a mysterious setting, yeah, but does not give the players much info to get invested in it) but I'm not one of them and I'm glad The Talos Principle gave me a enigmatic setting to dive myself in. You'll explore a couple of fairly big maps and, as long as you're interested in reading terminals with philosophical texts, ancient logs and... QR codes scattered outside, there's plenty of things to read and think about. The story itself is very peculiar and I think it does a good job for the most part, including the ending. I think the game clears the puzzle quality and variety matters as well. The puzzles utilize a couple of different tools, which will play a part together with the environment, and are set in somewhat big open rooms. Position and timing will be key in most of them so if you fear puzzle games because there may be math or a need for external knowledge you can rest assured there will be none here. The difficulty felt especially balanced to me (though the puzzles using the "double" feature really damaged my brain multiple times), it goes up nicely as you proceed forward and doesn't really get impossible or too cryptic at any point. The puzzles are also mostly "short", meaning that can be completed within 1-2 minutes at most, you don't have to do lots of complicated maneuvers for like 5 or 10 minutes. Being a somewhat old game there are some QoL problems. To mention the biggest issue, you'll likely get stuck (like literally, not for the solution) in a puzzle sometime and to get out your only option is to reset the room entirely (they're addressing this in the soon to be released remake). Another issue is the hint system, because the hints aren't really helpful at all. Speaking about difficulty again, I didn't bother with them because i'm too stupid but trying to get the stars seems like a big challenge and will appeal to those players who find the regular puzzles a tad too easy. If you want more content the dlc is as good as the base game, just be careful because all the puzzles you find there are hard.
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Feb. 2025
from puzzles easy enough to insult your intellect, to puzzles hard enough, you feel embarassed to feel that dumb. great game. can't wait to play the sequel to feel like an idiot, like a genius, like an idiot and like a genius again, in the same rythm you took to read this.
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Dec. 2024
The story is great. The majority of the puzzles are really fun to work. Sometimes just shutting the game down and sleeping on it will genuinely help you solve some of the trickier ones. Some puzzles however. Are quite literally the spawn of Lucifer and deserve no place in this world for others to suffer through. 10/10. - Turned my hair grey from frustration and had some really nice scenery.
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Aug. 2024
if you like puzzle games (like Portal) & you like a good story, this game is a must-play. it deserves every high rating it got. only one downside; if you're like me & some games gives you motion sickness, this game is definitely going to hit you with it. luckily, it has motion sickness options in the menu. lol these are the settings that worked for me, mouse sensitivity: 0.21 field of view: 120.00 (max it out, basically) view bobbing: unchecked preferred view: behind player player speed: slow hope that helps. happy gaming. :)
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June 2024
bought this game because it looked like a fun puzzle game (which it is), but it left me with an existential crisis and my faith in Christianity shatter. 10/10 would recommend
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The Talos Principle is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Talos Principle is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.

The Talos Principle received 30,399 positive votes out of a total of 31,861 achieving an impressive rating of 9.34.
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The Talos Principle was developed by Croteam and published by Croteam and Devolver Digital.

The Talos Principle is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Talos Principle is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Talos Principle is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Talos Principle is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for The Talos Principle. Explore additional content available for The Talos Principle on Steam.

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The Talos Principle
28.99€ -93% 28.99€ 2.13€ -86% 28.99€ 4.13€
9.3
30,399
1,462
Game modes
Features
Online players
124
Developer
Croteam
Publisher
Croteam, Devolver Digital
Release 11 Dec 2014
Platforms
Remote Play
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