The Talos Principle
2014 · Croteam · ~20h to finish
Tool-based puzzles that stay scrupulously fair, while the optional stars quietly assume you will break the rules the tutorial spent an hour teaching.
Real resistance. Expect to work for it.
Price on Steam
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The fingerprint
- Puzzle drops 1.1 points — you handle this better than most.
- Obscurity drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
- Assist options shave roughly 2.2 points off, if you use them.
These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.
CalibrateWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULTNo walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.
Assists & accessibility
0/3 SOURCEDCHALLENGE RELIEF
- Save anywhere [unsourced]
HEARING
- Full subtitles [unsourced]
GUIDANCE
- Built-in hint system [unsourced]
Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.
What it is
The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksNearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.
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