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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 33.1Kreviews | 95% | — | $22M |
| $5.99−80% | 4Kratings | 94% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 878 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I know it's a good game when I have only a few minor complaints. Some puzzles are probably a bit too easy but I am enjoying finding the hidden stars. Feels like a mix of The Witness and Portal in a way. EDIT: After coming closer to the end of the game I realized that many of the puzzles are just rinse and repeat of older puzzles, just longer. After the first couple worlds there seems to not be enough new stuff or new gimmics, making the game more of a slog than a puzzle solver. Some solutions are quite easy just long to do, requiring to wait still for long times or run back and forth a bunch. It's not a bad game per se but the first half shines compared to the rest and it's a shame.
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Russian*, Japanese*, Korean*, Polish*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Simplified Chinese*, Traditional Chinese* +1 more
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 884 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Remembered watching my father play this when I was young and did not yet understand English. Essentially all I remembered was the jammer. This game was beyond amazing, and had one of the (if not THE) most well written and conveyed stories of any game I have ever played or watched someone else play. Side note: Also very good puzzles.
One of the coolest puzzle games I've played. Really makes you think. Amazing story and atmosphere. 10/10
It's good! I like it. Very clever and thoughtful puzzle game. Be aware that it's one of... three? games that have made me severely motion sick in a way that gives me migraines if I engage with it for too long. I think taking breaks and not having my eyes locked on the middle of the screen may help, but it's been a while since I've tried bashing my head into this, The Witness, or Infinifactory (the other games that rock my boat too hard)
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游戏很牛逼，就是太费脑细胞，游戏后期可以说是我玩过的所有解谜游戏中最特么费脑细胞的游戏
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I don't recomend this game espesially to Christians!
I avoided this game for a long time because I thought it was just another generic Croteam asset flip. I haven’t had the best experiences with that studio, so my expectations were pretty low. In the end, the game completely exceeded them. The puzzle difficulty felt well balanced, not too hard or too easy. That said, some of the star puzzles were annoying, looking at you "use your phone to scan QR code" or “hug every surface until you find a hidden entrance.”, those were bs, tbh. Taken as a whole, the puzzle design worked really well. The story was solid, but the biggest downside for me was how it was told mostly through computer terminals. Some parts were also very esoteric and required a lot of interpretation. Personally, the narrative didn’t fully click for me until the Road to Gehenna DLC. The puzzles were harder but still completely doable without guides, and the overall atmosphere and story just felt way better. For me, this was easily the best part of the game.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
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Players also reviewed
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