The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition
The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the Serious Sam series, and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (Infinite Ocean). Players…
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition is an adventure developed by Croteam, released 13 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition is
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition is an adventure game developed by Croteam and released in 2015. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It runs on Serious Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Talos Principle is a 2014 puzzle video game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. It was simultaneously released on Linux, OS X and Windows in December 2014. It was released for Android in May 2015, for PlayStation 4 in October 2015, for iOS in October 2017, for Xbox One in August 2018, and Nintendo Switch in December 2019. Virtual reality-enabled versions for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were released on 18 October 2017. The downloadable content Road to Gehenna was released on 23 July 2015.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 24 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition launched on 13 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
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