Posted on: March 9, 2025
LokeshSharma
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Amazing but Hard Puzzle Adventure
Amazing but Hard Puzzle Adventure
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The Talos Principle: Gold Edition
Description
As if awakening from a deep sleep, you find yourself in a strange, contradictory world of ancient ruins and advanced technology. Tasked by your creator with solving a series of increasingly complex puzzles, you must decide whether to have faith or to ask the difficult questions: Who are you? What is your purpose? And what are you going to do about it?
Features:
- Overcome more than 120 immersive puzzles in a stunning world.
- Divert drones, manipulate laser beams and even replicate time to prove your worth - or to find a way out.
- Explore a story about humanity, technology and civilization. Uncover clues, devise theories, and make up your own mind.
- Choose your own path through the game's non-linear world, solving puzzles your way.
- But remember: choices have consequences and somebody's always watching you.
Prototype DLC includes:
- Prototype Levels - Includes more than 100 puzzles from early prototype development stage and 1 exclusive level from early beta version, not present in the final game.
- Elohim Voice - US version - Elohim voice narrated by Serious Sam narrator Bill Jurney.
- Elohim Voice - Writer's prototype - Elohim voice narrated by The Talos Principle's writer Jonas Kyratzes.
The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna follows the narrative of Uriel, Elohim's messenger, as he explores a strange, hidden part of the simulation on a mission of mercy and redemption in an attempt to free the souls of the damned at all costs.
This substantial expansion consists of four episodes that take experienced players through some of the most advanced and challenging puzzles yet. The Talos Principle writers Tom Jubert and Jonas Kyratzes have returned to pen the expansion and show players an entirely different side of Elohim's world through a journey to Gehenna filled with new characters and a new society with its own history and philosophy.
The new Serious DLC replaces the godlike voice of Elohim with completely NEW, rewritten and humorous Serious Sam script.
Serious Sam voice has been recorded by longtime Serious Sam voice actor John J. Dick.
It also includes a new Serious Sam player model for use in The Talos Principle.
The Talos Principle - Bonus Content includes:
• Documentary Video* - Making-Of The Talos Principle video featuring behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive developer interviews with Croteam members. This documentary takes a look at how the game was made.
• Digital Terminal Booklet** - The digital terminal booklet contains over 100 pages of text found in game terminals.
• Box Art** - Includes DVD label and DVD sleeve (front and back), so you can create your own retail The Talos Principle DVD box.
• Wallpapers - Eight exclusive hi-res (1920x1080) images as wallpapers.
• Posters, Stickers and Postcards - Three posters used at E3 2014 show, one sticker art for printing Talos related stickers on sticker paper and two postcards (two front and one back) used at Gamescom 2014 show.
• Banners - Two roll-up banners used at Pax Prime 2014 show.
* This item is only available in Croatian audio with English sub-titles
** English version only
The Talos Principle - Soundtrack is the official soundtrack which includes a collection of 25 amazing tracks from the game, plus 2 bonus tracks, composed and now also specially remixed by Serious Sam's composer Damjan Mravunac. TRACK LIST:
01. Welcome To Heaven (2:21)
02. When In Rome (2:27)
03. Trials (3:48)
04. The Sigils Of Our Name (2:32)
05. Temple Of My Father (2:48)
06. Made Of Words (4:45)
07. Sanctuary (1:54)
08. A Land Of Great Beauty (3:18)
09. A Land Of Ruins (2:42)
10. Before Was Only Chaos (2:16)
11. All Else Is Decay (2:53)
12. The Worlds Of My Garden Are Many (2:49)
13. The Temple Of The Sands (2:00)
14. The Guardians (2:20)
15. The Dance Of Eternity (1:24)
16. Your Wisdom Grows (2:09)
17. Blessed And Beloved (1:49)
18. A Land Of Tombs (2:16)
19. To Seek Salvation (2:21)
20. Do With It As You Will (2:09)
21. Virgo Serena (1:31)
22. The Forbidden Tower (3:44)
23. Out There (2:49)
24. Heavenly Clouds (2:40)
25. False God (3:57)
BONUS TRACKS:
26. Extra Bonus - Blessed Messenger (0:58)
27. Extra Bonus - The End Of The Process (Finale) (3:29)
© 2014-2019 Croteam. All rights reserved.
Popular achievements
Halls of His Temple
Enter Elohim's temple.
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77.13%
Into The Unknown
Search for other lands.
common
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53.11%
The Land of Death
Run the sand through your robot hands.
common
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37.56%
Logic check... OK
Pass the initial checks.
common
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94.97%
Make Connections
Use the connectors to win a prize!
common
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52.88%
Not a Cube
...but let's be honest, it works the same.
common
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48.84%
Off The Radar
A little curiosity never killed the cat.
common
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31.94%
See Double
Successfully engage in co-op mode with yourself.
common
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31.95%
Sigils Are Not Enough
Pick up a star.
common
·
59.03%
Goodies
Bonus Content
soundtrack (FLAC)
soundtrack (WMA)
soundtrack (OGG)
soundtrack (AAC)
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Provided language support refers to the base game. Prototype DLC features only English audio. Road to Ghenna DLC features English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian audio.
Recommended system requirements:
Provided language support refers to the base game. Prototype DLC features only English audio. Road to Ghenna DLC features English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian audio.
Time to beat
15.5 hMain
21 h Main + Sides
29 h Completionist
21 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
IGN
8.3/10
Much like Portal, The Talos Principle makes you feel smart just by playing it, as the bulk of the puzzles hit that sweet spot between too easy and near-impossible.
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84/100
An adept and satisfying puzzle game with a narrative that requires a bit of player investment to yield its biggest rewards.
Read full review »Game Informer
9/10
If you love brainteasers and philosophy, then The Talos Principle is better than a night at the movies
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Posted on: March 10, 2025
Devall
Verified ownerGames: 137 Reviews: 1
Fantastic and beautiful game
The Talos Principle is so very good. Evocative an provocative. A puzzle game wrapped around a philosophy seminar. Highly recommend.
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Posted on: March 19, 2025
beiju_
Verified ownerGames: 281 Reviews: 19
complex, fun, graphics outdated
Overall a very good game. If you like puzzling and thinking you are gonna love this game. Otherwise you are going to hate it. And it is not an action game, like the tag by gog is saying. Despite you are able to play from first or third person view.
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Posted on: April 9, 2025
IsabellaAshido
Verified ownerGames: 15 Reviews: 1
made me sick
I turned of motion sick and it still made me feel sick. :(
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Posted on: June 8, 2025
guiltf33der13
Games: 80 Reviews: 34
Better as a story than a puzzle game
I just finished the game and got all 3 endings, so this review is fresh out of the oven. If you've played Portal, then you already know what the gameplay has to offer. Switches, lasers, hazards, giant floor buttons, emotional support cubes, and more. The only thing that's missing is the portal gun, which means there is A LOT of running around... And there are more than 100 of these puzzles. In short, the game overstays its welcome. The game starts of very strong, but quickly drops into a repetitive slog. I'd say 4/5 puzzles are super easy, but they can still be time-consuming which makes them feel more like a chore. I felt like I was only completing them for sake of progressing the game, not because they were engaging. Of the remaining 1/5 puzzles, it's a mixed bag of good puzzles, and obtuse, confusing, and frustrating puzzles. You will probably need to look up a guide for several of them. I actually got frustrated enough in the latter fourth of the game I stopped caring about trying to solve the puzzles myself and using the guide so I could finish the game and simply be done with it. And this is coming from a guy who completed the original Riven without a guide. I won't spoil the story, but I will say it was nice to see real philosophy at the center of the story instead of shallow and hyperbolic moral conundrums. The story is provided in a very slow drip of text and audio logs. The sense of mystery is interesting, until it isn't. I would say the slow drip harmed my sense of progress more than it encouraged me to push forward. Fortunately, it does pick up towards the end, but not enough to make me want to buy The Talos Principle 2. If you choose play The Talos Principle, I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
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