The Talos Principle

It's great. Finding some of the bonus stuff is really cool. Finding all the bonus stuff feel at time random and like kind of a waste. At the very least, all the main puzzle are wonderfully craft and have a great difficultly curve.

Bought this thinking it was another game and I am glad I did. Excellent puzzle game with a neat world and narrative. Kind of a hidden gem. Check it out if you like puzzly games at all, or philosophy.

Puzzle design is interesting, but the narrative has absolutely nothing to do with what you're doing in the game, which is a mortal game design sin in my book. If it were just a puzzle game, I'd probably give it like a 6, but if I wanted this narrative I'd read a book instead of having the game force me to read a book.

both the puzzle design and the philosophy are far from perfect, especially when comparing to stuff like the witness and stephen's sausage roll, but the combination is just so welcoming that i loved it anyway. my favourite textual aspect was not the paradise lost/snake vs god allegory stuff, but those weirdly anachronistic retellings of greek and egyptian myth.