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The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.

The Talos Principle VR is a adventure, vr and puzzle game developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital and Croteam Publishing.
Released on October 17th 2017 is available on Windows and Linux in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 829 reviews of which 692 were positive and 137 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.75€ on Gamivo.

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

Adventure VR Puzzle Action Indie Philosophical First-Person Atmospheric Singleplayer

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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
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 64bit
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 - 4590 equivalent
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 6 GB available space
  • VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
  • Additional Notes: HTC Vive or Oculus Rift VR headset plus hand controllers. Internet connection required for product activation for the first time. After that, a persistent connection is not required to play the game.
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 14.04
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 - 4590 equivalent
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970
  • Storage: 10 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: HTC Vive VR headset plus hand controllers. Internet connection required for product activation for the first time. After that, a persistent connection is not required to the game.

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May 2025
One of the best puzzle game for VR. Would love to see Talos Principle 2 VR port.
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April 2025
[url=store.steampowered.com/app/257510/The_Talos_Principle/]The Talos Principle is one of my favourite games of all time, and I'm also a big fan of VR games, so I was excited to see what my experience would be when these two worlds collided. Fortunately, I had a good experience with this game, but it wasn't without flaws, and I probably wouldn't recommend this game unless you've already played the original game and you're a big VR fan. In most ways, this game is very similar to the original version. The story is still phenomenal and the puzzles are still very creative and interesting. However, you're now experiencing the world through the lens of VR, and there's just something about walking through the world and feeling like you're physically picking up the jammers and connectors that just makes everything feel more alive. The feeling of actually picking up the tetris pieces to solve those puzzles in VR was probably my favourite part (although it did come with one major downside, which I'll mention shortly). Unfortunately, playing the game in VR came with some fairly major caveats as well. First of all, I sometimes found the controls for the Valve Index difficult to use, which often left me frustrated: [*] Picking up objects is done by squeezing the controller while your hand is over an object, but squeezing harder makes the character jump, which is bizarre and a bit disorienting. [*] The game doesn't consider whether you're hand is already closed or not when it interacts with an object, so it's easy to just be holding your controller and then accidentally pick up objects that are behind you, which irritated me more than a few times. [*] The touchpad on the Valve Index controllers is used to pick up pieces in the tetris puzzles (along with the trigger), which was very cool and made it feel like I was actually holding the pieces, but for some reason the touchpad is also mapped to character movement, which meant every time I picked up a piece, my camera would move slightly. This made these tetris puzzles feel very nauseating at times. [*] Pressing buttons on a terminal is pretty imprecise as well, and I was often worried about pressing the wrong ones. There's also some really nice features from the base game that seem to be missing from the VR version. There doesn't seem to be any sprint button, so you're forced to move through the entire game at the same speed, there is no journal for terminal entries or time capsules, so you can't read or listen to them again later, and worst of all, there doesn't seem to be any way to pick up jammers or lasers without resetting their assignments like you can in the original game, requiring you to reassign them every time, making some puzzles take a lot longer. It's too bad that all of these are missing, as I really felt their absence while playing through the game. The game still looks alright, although the graphics did feel a lot more dated in the VR version. The performance was also alright, but I did get some stuttering once in a while. I also encountered a few bugs I never encountered in the base game, such as the UI being rendered outside of my field of view, occasionally being unable to grab objects when I was too close to them, or certain events not triggering properly when certain puzzles were completed. I should also mention that there's a process to transfer save files between the base and VR versions of this game, but this can only be done from the base version to the VR version, not the other way around . This is really unfortunate, as you can't continue your game if VR ends up being too much for you, or you decide you'd rather finish it in the original version. TL;DR This VR version of one of my favourite puzzle games of all time still has a fantastic story and interesting puzzles, but the controls are sometimes frustrating or unintuitive, some quality-of-life features from the base game are noticeably absent, the game doesn't run quite as well and has a number of bugs that don't seem to be in the base game, and there's no way to transfer your save from the VR version to the base game. I still love this game, so I still recommend it, but only if you've already played the base version (as it's definitely better) and you're a VR fan that's willing to put up with an imperfect VR port.
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April 2025
A really good VR experience, except for that one jumpscare in the desert level.
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Sept. 2024
there is a way to carry over saves from the non-vr version of the game and I've been playing from where I left off years ago just around when red sigils start to appear. I would say the game is a lot more engaging in VR. It pretty much was made for it.
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Sept. 2024
The same beautiful and amazing game, but in VR One upside of playing this version, apart from it just being more immersive, is you can't really cheat puzzles, accidentally or not What I found lacking from the regular game, is you can't take connectors without breaking connections (I googled and it is apparently supposed to be possible after some patch, but I couldn't) And for some reason when you use the time speedup feature (by holding both grip buttons), some objects get dropped, while others don't, a bit annoying Overall, it's not a must-have, since it's not as full-featured as some other VR games, but if it's on sale or if you're a big fan of Talos, I'd suggest getting it, for sure
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Frequently Asked Questions

The Talos Principle VR is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

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

The Talos Principle VR received 692 positive votes out of a total of 829 achieving a rating of 7.90.
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The Talos Principle VR was developed by Croteam VR and published by Devolver Digital and Croteam Publishing.

The Talos Principle VR is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Talos Principle VR is not playable on MacOS.

The Talos Principle VR is playable and fully supported on Linux.

The Talos Principle VR is a single-player game.

The Talos Principle VR does not currently offer any DLC.

The Talos Principle VR is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

The Talos Principle VR does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Talos Principle VR 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.

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The Talos Principle VR
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