The Talos Principle: Reawakened
Worth it · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2025.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($19.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 4 GB VRAM; Radeon RX 470, GeForce GTX 970, Intel Arc A580, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Step back into a world of thought-provoking puzzles, philosophical intrigue, and breathtaking visuals with The Talos Principle: Reawakened - a first-person puzzle masterpiece for both new players and long-time fans alike.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 12 times in the 1 year tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $9.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 60. With it, 80.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77) and Riven ($34.99, scores 60) both come in lower.
9 of the 402 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.1 hours; clearing it takes 34, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 9% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
If you never tried the original, but heard of the game and/or like puzzle games - this one is a must try. It is a hidden gem. It's a great puzzle game with nice visuals and very, very good soundtrack. The story and writing are great as well, but be prepared to read a rather significant amount. It's worth it by the way. If you have played the original and completed/liked it, it is not a bad idea to pick up the game...
Are frogs people? I wasn't sure at first when the remaster was announced, but I enjoyed TP2 so much that the TP3 announcement convinced me to replay TP1, and I'm happy I did. The game looks great again, accompanied by the relaxing soundtrack. UE5 is a bit controversial due to it's performance hit but I can understand the decision, since Talos Principle is very much about it's atmosphere, and it's only a puzzle game...
Computer hardware, huh? The layer that stretches invisibly over all our activities and only makes itself rudely known as a point of failure, leaving us nowhere to redirect our rage. Yes, the custom maps run so horribly for me that I'm literally unable to play them until I build myself a better rig. That's a real shame. I'm also quite confused why you'd give us an editor for this and not one that covers the new...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Talos Principle: Reawakened scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2806640/the-talos-principle-reawakenedReviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 2.
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