The Talos Principle

General:
A difficult puzzle game with an amazing idea and the production to match its lofty goals.
---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
---{Gameplay}---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
---{Audio}---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Human
---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

11/10 I laughed, I cried, I couldn't breathe for the transcendent apotheosis.
If you love puzzles, you'll love the gameplay.
If you love thoughtful, emergent storytelling, you'll love the writing.
If, like me, you're slowly but steadily healing from decades of religious abuse, playing through this game will change your life.

This game is essentially what happens when you lock up Plato, Aristotle, Jesus Christ, Lao-Tzu, the Buddha, Epicurus, St. Augustine, Avicenna, Maimonides, al-Ghazali, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Marx, Darwin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Turing, Sartre, and Foucault in a room and ask them to crank up a single-player puzzle together, with each person's input being recorded into collectibles and/or easter eggs.
Seriously, I was convinced I'm a smartass big brain gamer until this pile of philosophical monstrosity singlehandedly shattered and reshaped my worldview. It's probably 10 times better than 90% of those philosophy classes I took in college where they teach you to read some pseudo-profound bs then write up a bunch of rubbish.
My favorite quote from the game: don't doubt, question!

The puzzles are neat. I'd describe them as similar to Portal in terms of difficulty. But there is no timing or motor skills required. It's more like a good game of chess in a way, where you need to figure out the right move at the right time.
But what makes this game extraordinary is its story. It blew my mind, not just the conclusion, but throughout the game, the little fragments of texts you will find and read. I couldn't possibly say anything here, because I don't want to spoil the experience for you.
My advice is: buy when the price seems reasonable (it's often on -85% sale), don't read too many reviews beforehand, just jump in completely unprepared and enjoy.

I learned that existence is meaningless and I'm okay with that. 10/10

This game is fantastic, puzzles couldn't be more fun to do, it looks awesome, sounds awesome and has an awesome storyline. Buy it, play it for 5 minutes and you'll be hooked, it's like a good book that you can't put down.

Portal Existential Crisis Edition.
Warning: Playing may cause feelings of loneliness and insignificance in the face of nature, life, the universe and everything.
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