The Talos Principle: Gold Edition

Croteam has made a masterpiece out of assets from Serious Sam 3 and what would be used in Serious Sam 4 to make a game that is up there with the two Portals from Valve. And unlike those two games, this game 1. asks deep philosophical questions on what it means to be human or have a soul, and 2. is DRM-free on GOG. You will have a great time with this game in both story and gameplay (which really tests your aptitude for reasoning)! I highly recommend this game! _GO GET THIS GAME!_

I loved the atmosphere, the puzzles were nice too, not too hard, not too easy, though some are too easy. My issue is puzzle variety and gamelength. The story drives this whole game. It keeps you going. existentialism, nihilism, religious topics, a lot of modern and antique topics, what is consciousness, some nice knowledge given to the player, etc. A game to truly think afterwards. Not enough of those around! Big praise from me. A lot to unravel and analyse. Brilliant from croteam THOUGH also a tiny bit pretentious sometimes. I sure as hell though skipped the sheer overkill amount of puzzles at points, too much puzzle content gets you burned out very quickly. I like my puzzle games, challenging, shortkept and well paced. This game is.... so badly paced. Do 100 puzzles here, and 100 more here, sidetrack on this irrelevant little sidelore, etc., before you progress further. My advice to you: just do the tower and don´t overspend too much time in the A,B,C worlds. Only get thr required puzzle pieces. Type of a snoozefest way too early and way too quick. I had the A and B hubworlds completely done and I shouldn´t have, for the 7 levels of the tower were left and burned me out once I started C world and the c world reallllllllly bored me to death and dragged the game beyond its expiration date. You get bored QUICKLY if you don´t make a lot of breaks inbetween puzzles. Also thze game could have used more thematics changes, too much abrahamistic pandering. Asian, nordic, south american themes would surely have given the game more variety. It´s mostly greek, middle east and northern african stages. Not even roman much or babylonian. Real strong greek, phoenician, egyptian, judeo christian focus. Technical aspects: runs flawlessly. biggest cons are definitely that it gets too boring too quickly. biggest pro is the whole thematic premise of the games worlds, as well as the story and the puzzles.

I love this game, first time I play it was as a cracked app for iOS, later when I see how wonderful the game was I buy it on iPhone, later on PC, well I didn't buy it for two reasons was a little expenvise on Steam and was a Denuvo game (and I strongly dislike Denuvo), so I play a couple of sesions on a cracked version on PC and later try to give it some support by play in it with my cousing on the PC Xbox GamePass, and now by surprise to me, is DRM-free so I buy it so I can enjoy its extra content, and I may be even buy one as a gift, I didn't think I would enjoy a puzzle game, but this one with its main under going story and the interesting documents of the computer and the very touching audios from Alexandra Drennan, very well dubbed as far a I've seen, not only in my mother tongue spanish, in others as well and archieving a high level in that amount of dubs is just by itself impressive

I more or less agree with all the reviews here, however, there is no linux version here on GoG as of now (at the time of release), hence only 4/5. Amazing game nevertheless, worth even the full price.

Not exactly fast-paced, but if you feel the need to pick your brain through gorgeous world and soundtrack, that game will scratch that itch.