The Talos Principle II is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges. Long after a virus wiped out humanity, the knowledge of the human race lives on in a civilization of androids who inherited the earth. Guided by the legacy of Athena, the first android to awaken, these machines built the city of New Jerusalem and set themselves a goal: to grow their population to exactly one thousand. The story begins as the thousandth android, known simply as 1k, is activated and welcomed as the fulfillment of that long-standing goal. During the celebration, a ghostly projection of a figure named Prometheus warns of new trials ahead, and distant sensors detect a massive surge of energy far from the city. Free of the political disagreements dividing the androids, 1k joins an expedition to investigate, uncovering a vast pyramid-like megastructure whose physics-defying technologies confront the androids with unsettling questions about consciousness, knowledge, and their own future.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
- Developer
- Croteam
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- November 2, 2023
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Third person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Time to beat
- 23 h rushed · 34 h main story · 39 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.9/10 from 64 ratings.
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