The Talos Principle on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 31,660 reviews of which 30,206 were positive and 1,454 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 4.13€ on Instant Gaming.

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Additional Notes: OSX 10.5.8 and 10.6.3 can run the legacy version of the game, but it is no longer being updated.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

User reviews & Ratings

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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.

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. :)

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

April 2024

I think that this game would be hard to recommend to a lot of people, because I think most people's idea of a video game is something they can sit down and learn the basic steps, and then do very little thinking outside of what the game throws at you. It might get progressively harder if its singleplayer, or your experiences may vary in mutliplayer. But The Talos Principle is a game in which there is only the simple premise, to solve puzzles. That's the gameplay. And to a lot of people on the face, it is boring. I thought it was possibly going to be boring. What I ended up playing was a game that I felt was doing its best to challenge my preexisting view of humanity, of the self, and of what it means to have free will. Sure, other games can do this as well but I think this game is perfect for an avenue of thought like that. You're both thinking about the puzzles, but thinking about the information the games presents to you through dialogue at the same time. You ask yourself "Why?" over and over again, and you get the feeling if you just keep pushing, just solve another few puzzles or levels that you'll eventually figure it all out. What exactly? Well, I leave that to you to find out. And you can be ignorant of all this the whole game, and just solve the puzzles too at the same time. It makes me realize that everyone's experience with this game will reflect their own curiosity and wonder, or it might reflect someone's more linear and goal-oriented mind with only wishing to solve the puzzles. I don't want to presume it's super deep and puts forward new ideas never explored; a lot of this stuff could be explained to someone in a college lecture or another story of course. However, I think that The Talos Principle uniquely sets itself up to really engage the average layman with this if they only choose to at least have an open mind and try to press forward as much as they can. No one puts it better as Alexandra Drennan: "Games are part of what makes us human, we see the world as a mystery, a puzzle, because we've always been a species of problem solvers." I have been thoroughly enjoying the second one, and I think these games will become one burned into the far edges of my brain until the day it stops working.

April 2024

In the beginning were the words and the words made the world. I am the words. The words are everything. Where the words end the world ends. You cannot go forward in the absence of space.

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