The Talos Principle VR
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 22.2h 46.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 861 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
The Talos Principle VR is a virtual reality version of Croteam's critically acclaimed first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, AMD R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 68 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. On the same math SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) and The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Talos Principle VR
Of the 340 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 259 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 22.2 hours; clearing it takes 47, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to <1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Amazing world filled with philosophy, mystery and contemplation that opened my eyes and touched my soul. Some puzzles also portrayed the importance and immense beauty in teamwork, through the use of machinery helping each other progress further. It was a lot of fun to stream to someone whom actually had the patience to properly watch me solve each puzzle without losing interest, and quietly too. I'm grateful to that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I recently bought the Serious Sam VR bundle on sale for £10.24. Included was The Talos Principle VR game. I am a 68 year old who, prior to my Quest 3 headset, had not been a "gamer", so had not even played ANY Xbox etc. console games. I bought a PC laptop (the Acer Predator Helios 300 1TB SSD, Intel Core i7 11th gen, 16GB ram, GPU = Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, Windows 11, 2.40 GHz processor speed) in order to play Half...
Technically well done, but just play the normal version. This game in VR is exhausting.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Talos Principle VR scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/552440/the-talos-principle-vrReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.