It’s been in my library for years and I didn’t know much about it. Randomly started playing it a few days ago and I’ve been having a blast solving the puzzles. It’s been a while since a game has really made me want to finish it and see what is at the ending.
I’m at the end now working on the final (I think) puzzle.
(this is also my first ever lemmy post)
If you like puzzle games in general, I can recommend a few.
The entire The Room series. Good stuff some of my favorite puzzle games.
The House of Davinci series. A bit similar to The Room series. Really enjoyed all of them.
Qube series. Been a while since I played these so I don’t remember much about them.
The Turing Test. Been a while for this one as well.
Quern. I struggled with this one, but still enjoyed it. I believe it’s subtitled Undying Thoughts, but not 100 percent sure.
Monument Valley series. These are also on mobile if you prefer to play them on your phone. Very highly recommend, excellent games.
I would add Antichamber to that list.
Brilliant game, isn’t it? It’s one of my favourites.
Unfortunately there is only one DLC for it, but it is worth it.
The Talos Principle II is scheduled to be released this year, so you’re in luck.
Loved Talos. I’m usually a patient gamer but Talos 2 might be the first time I buy a game for full price in a decade. See how it reviews first though
I’m a big fan of Croteam’s work (Serious Sam, Talos), but I still haven’t bought Serious Sam 4 (released Sept. 4, 2020). I just checked and it is still at €38.99 on Steam. I’m a patient man, I’ll wait. Maybe I’ll buy Talos II full price, but I doubt it. The savings I’ll make from waiting will go to (amongst other things) better hardware to run those games properly.
I’m going to give the unpopular opinion that I didn’t really enjoy it. I think I got over half way and the puzzles started to feel a bit too samey to me. I really wanted to like it.
Same. The puzzles were pretty average, and the writing was like something put together by someone who has just taken a first-year philosophy course and is now convinced that all of their ideas are Very Deep and completely original.
I had fun for about the first two worlds. After that the puzzles became to grindy and frustrating and I didn’t have much fun with the puzzles with the recorders and the exploding enemies in particular. Also as someone who fears heights, the last section was pretty much unplayable.
I enjoyed it until the timed puzzles. I did’t enjoy knowing the solution but being forced to play again and again and again to time it right.
That’s fair. I admit it feels grindy with some puzzle types.
If you want something similar after you might check out The Witness
I liked the Witness better than Talos personally. It just hung together so beautifully and artistically.
Never heard of it. Added it to my wishlist, if it it gets cheap enough I’ll grab it. Thanks!
I second ‘The Witness’. Its a great game and the puzzles get very interesting as you progress and begin to understand the world you have been thrown into.
If you end up enjoying the Witness I wholeheartedly recommend the parody of it, the Looker. It’s the kind of parody that can only have been made by someone who really loved the original, because it has genuinely good and clever versions of the mechanics, and it’s also free
The Looker is fantastic. I was particularly disappointed to learn that Blow took it as an insult, though.
Gotta disagree with you here. The Witness is a piece of art. The Looker is a cheap parody at best, which pokes fun at The Witness while completely failing to recognise what made it great.
Well each to their own, of course! I personally thought that the Looker managed to really effectively capture that same way of wordlessly teaching mechanics and encouraging you to push at the boundaries of those mechanics, which is what made the Witness great for me. It does poke a lot of fun at things in the Witness like the slow animations and the philosophical audiologs, but much of that poking fun only makes sense if you honestly engaged with at least a good chunk of the original stuff in the Witness in the first place. There’s definitely not as much to the Looker as there is to the Witness, but, well, it’s a parody. That’s to be expected. I see it as a fun and more light-hearted expansion to be played afterwards, not a competitor or replacement.
Witness was awesome!
I’m like 99% sure this is in my library too, probably one of those Epic freebies at some point? And after reading this thread, I’m convinced to give it a shot. Sounds fun!
This is a really fun game in VR, FYI. It’s a separate purchase, but I only played it in VR, so I didn’t get it twice.
