The Talos Principle
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).
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Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital, Croteam
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech
Tags: Puzzle (1060), Philosophical (623), First-Person (552), Sci-fi (530), Story Rich (501), Atmospheric (499), Singleplayer (483), Great Soundtrack (356), Robots (342), Exploration (287), Adventure (285), Indie (208), Multiple Endings (173), Difficult (169), Mystery (151), Post-apocalyptic (130), Action (113), Simulation (84), Science (49), Artificial Intelligence (39)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, Remote Play on TV, Family Sharing
Release date: Dec 11, 2014
Price: $29.99
Score rank: 99% Userscore: 95% Old userscore: 95% Metascore: 85%
Owners: 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-12 (UTC)
Followers: 180,876
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 137
Playtime total: 14:39 (average) 05:43 (median)
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