The Talos Principle
Worth it · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4985% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.91/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 33,227
- Critics
- 85 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.7h
- To 100%
- 29.7h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 98 on record
- Typical cut
- 85% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 September 2023
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 83 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
92% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 98 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $19.50. The record reaches that level 95 times.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outer Wilds ($24.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats SOMA ($29.99, scores 70).
More about The Talos Principle
85 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,077 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,762 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This might be the most personally impactful game I have played to date. I don't mean that it was life-changing right there in the moment while playing it for the first or second time, after reaching the first ending and feeling let down, or upon returning to fully complete it over a decade later. Rather, over all that time it functioned as a catalyst for me to discover and consider questions that I've spent years...
2 more reviews
You know you're about to play a certified baller a$$ game when you boot it up for the first time and they immediately hit you with that DOMINUS TECUM VIRGO SERENAAA
One of the most rewarding, but also frustrating games there is. I really enjoyed how the story unfolded and the world is just beautiful. Some of the puzzles were hard, but nothing impossible. At least the normal puzzles. Even after finishing the game, there is so much to find and discover that i'm still enjoying it. One of the best games I have ever played. Thank you Steam for showing me this, 5€ on sale is a steal...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the 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).
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 11 class GPU with 1GB VRAM (nVidia GeForce 480 GTX, AMD Radeon HD 5870), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
The Talos Principle scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/257510/the-talos-principleReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.