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The Talos Principle

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App ID 257510
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Devolver Digital, Croteam
Franchise The Talos Principle, Croteam, Devolver Digital
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies Serious_Engine Engine
Last Changenumber 28970938
Last Record Update 14 May 2025 – 00:47:38 UTC ()
Release Date 11 December 2014 – 17:02:00 UTC ()
😍 93.40%
31k reviews
83
In-Game

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).

Additional Information

Developer Croteam
metacritic_name The Talos Principle
controller_support full
metacritic_score 85
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-talos-principle?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Devolver Digital
Store Release Date 11 December 2014 – 17:03:00 UTC ()
osarch empty string
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://www.facebook.com/TheTalosPrinciple/
https://x.com/TalosPrinciple
https://www.youtube.com/croteam/
Primary Genre Indie (23)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 11 December 2014 – 17:02:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 10 April 2025 – 23:27:11 UTC () (1744327631)
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name_localized
schinese塔罗斯的法则
review_score 9
review_percentage 95
Detected Technologies (?) Serious_Engine Engine, AMD_GPU_Services SDK, Autodesk_FBX SDK, Lua SDK, OpenAL SDK, Tobii SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
  • Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  •  
  • SteamOS:
  • This game runs successfully on SteamOS
  • Note: Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
  •  
  • category: Playable
  • steamos_compatibility: Compatible
  • test_timestamp: 1 July 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 3897867
  • configuration:
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    requires_manual_keyboard_invoke1
    requires_non_controller_launcher_nav0
    primary_player_is_controller_slot_00
    non_deck_display_glyphs1
    small_text0
    requires_internet_for_setup0
    requires_internet_for_singleplayer0
    recommended_runtimenative
    requires_h2640
    requires_voice_files0
    gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported0
    hdr_support0
controllertagwizard Yes
First seen on SteamDB 28 September 2013 – 19:28:30 UTC (), in changelist #293298

Supported Languages

13 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traditional Chinese Yes Yes Yes Yes
Czech Yes Yes

Tags

🧩 Puzzle 🧙‍♂ Philosophical 🙌 First-Person 🚀 Sci-fi 🌫 Atmospheric 📚 Story Rich 👤 Singleplayer 🎶 Great Soundtrack 🤖 Robots 🗺 Exploration 🗺️ Adventure 🌱 Indie 🔚 Multiple Endings 😓 Difficult 🤫 Mystery ☢️ Post-apocalyptic 💥 Action 🖥️ Simulation 🔬 Science 🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Workshop Steam Cloud Includes level editor Remote Play on TV Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

Assets

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timestamp10 April 2025 – 23:27:19 UTC
Trailers
2036095 ↴
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2035453 ↴
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2032752 ↴
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
228990 Windows Shared InstallDepot from 228980DirectX Jun 2010 Redist No size
257511 Windows GameBin_Windows 63.05 MiB 18.81 MiB
257512 macOS GameBin_OSX 79.40 MiB 21.49 MiB
257513 Linux GameBin_Linux 106.03 MiB 26.86 MiB
257515 Common 5.28 GiB 5.29 GiB
257516 Windows Common_Windows 32.62 MiB 9.50 MiB
257517 macOS Common_OSX 446.61 KiB 58.97 KiB
257518 Linux Common_Linux 192.87 KiB 40.88 KiB
257519 CommonCatalog 0 B 0 B
257521 Windows UnusedBugReporter_Windows No size
322021 DLC 322021The Talos Principle - Bonus Content (322021) Depot 756.85 MiB 742.61 MiB
322022 DLC 322022The Talos Principle - Prototype (322022) Depot 192.25 MiB 193.24 MiB
358470 DLC 358470The Talos Principle - Road To Gehenna DLC (358470) Depot 842.34 MiB 843.97 MiB
360820 DLC 360820The Talos Principle - Serious Sam DLC (360820) Depot 47.79 MiB 48.31 MiB

Total size on disk is 7.35 GiB and total download size is 7.15 GiB.

Total size on disk is 5.37 GiB and total download size is 5.32 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 3897867 13 June 2019 – 12:01:02 UTC
legacy pre-SE2017 build 2228502 22 May 2019 – 12:36:27 UTC
legacy_winxp For Windows XP 941253 21 April 2016 – 13:35:12 UTC
legacylinux For Ubuntu 13.10 or older 941253
legacyosx For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 844671
previousversion 2228502 28 March 2019 – 21:18:40 UTC
publicbeta Public testing 3897867 7 June 2019 – 13:21:18 UTC
speedrun-244371 A legacy build for the Speed Running Community - Last Instant Portals version 4713431 25 February 2020 – 13:33:56 UTC

Other

Name Value
overridescddb 1
markdlcdepots 1
baselanguages English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil
workshopdepot The Talos Principle (257510)
privatebranches 1
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