The Talos Principle 2
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $22.28.
- Length
- 20.4h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Talos Principle 2 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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $22.28. The record reaches that level 21 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77) and SOMA ($29.99, scores 70) both come in lower.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,417 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 460 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
88% start to 6% 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
74 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
let this sink in: while you're out with your f*cking friends having a good time i'm f*cking grinding talos principle 2 and f*cking solving puzzles until my f*cking fingers bleed and my wrists snap in half. we are not the same. (croteam im your biggest fan)
A great game, but not an improvement on the first: some of the additional puzzle elements are interesting but it's mainly just bigger, with more space in between puzzles. Needless running around is not a plus... Anyone who has played the first game and like it should play this. Anyone who hasn't played the first one and likes puzzles should go play that instead.
Deeply nihilistic anti-human reddit-tier philosophy which never questions its own premise that masquerades as being pro human and pro-love. Essentially: humans are greedy, selfish, short-sighted, and self-centered and they deserved to go extinct due to le global warming and these robots (who call themselves humans) aren't going to make the same mistakes. Utterly Godless drivel, which is ironic because the story is...
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Cite this score
The Talos Principle 2 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/835960/the-talos-principle-2Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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