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The Talos Principle

11 December 20148.2/ 10 · 33 votesT5

How long to beat

from 12 players

11h

Rushed

main story only

20h

Normally

story and some extras

42h

Completionist

everything in it

Trailer

Screenshots (5)

Artwork (1)

About

In The Talos Principle you awake finding yourself in ruins. You can not recognize the place, nor, in truth, who or what you are. The ruins resemble a Greek mythology setting, but are crowded of lasers, turrets, robotic devices and technological items such as fans. The place is a mixture of past and future. You yourself might be a human, or a robot, or half of both. The goal of each area is reaching where a Tetris-like piece lies and collect it, being allowed to advance. You exploit your abilities and the environment to do so, reflecting lasers, activating or deactivating fans, moving or stacking blocks. It is possible to go backwards in time, undoing game play, like in Braid.

While solving puzzles, an unidentifiable beholder, introducing itself as a god, and behaving like an artificial intelligence, talks, opening philosophical questions before you. You can choose your behaviour, from more faithful to more doubtful. The purpose of yours will be to overcome the puzzles as well as find the real answer to the dilemmas, which include your identity and the general meaning of things, if this is possible.

Ways to play

Modes

Single player

Perspective

First personThird person

Languages (13)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)

Also known as

Das Talos-PrinzipGerman title

El principio de TalosSpanish title

Le Principe de TalosFrench title

O Princípio de TalosBrazilian Portuguese title

Talos no GenriJapanese title

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Facts

Developer

Croteam

Publisher

Devolver Digital, Croteam

Released

11 December 2014

Series

Talos Principle

Platforms

PCLinuxWindowsMacMobileiOSAndroidiPad

Age ratings

PEGI7ESRBTGRACALLCLASS_IND10USK12ACBPG

Standing

Top 2% by 24hr peak players

Official website

Tags

1st-personBehind viewDirect controlSci-fi / futuristic