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2014 · Action · Adventure · Indie

How long isThe Talos Principle?

by Croteam

21 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 35 hours

Does The Talos Principle hold up?

It grows on people: 90% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 99% at 100–200 hours.

How long would it take you?

Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in The Talos Principle, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

@keita holds this page

  1. 1st@keita16 h
  2. 2nd@gwynn77.4 h
  3. 3rd@foxworks3.6 h

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

Is The Talos Principle worth it?

  • 97%recommend it once the refund window has closed
  • 90 → 99%it grows on people: at 2–5 hours, then at 100–200 hours
  • 18 of 72Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

Do the first two hours of The Talos Principle tell you?

In the first two hours74%recommend it

After that97%recommend it

13 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 7 while a refund was still possible.

6% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 74% of those recommend it. After the window, 97% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 67% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4.5 hours in.

Where do players get filtered in The Talos Principle?

The filter

Into The Unknown

18 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Halls of His Temple and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Logic check... OKPass the initial checks.−892% hold it
  3. Halls of His TempleEnter Elohim's temple.−1082% hold it
  4. Into The UnknownSearch for other lands.Filtered −1864% hold it
  5. The Land of DeathRun the sand through your robot hands.−1153% hold it
  6. The Land of Faith−1637% hold it

How far do players get in The Talos Principle?

92% of the players who launched The Talos Principle hold Logic check... OK, its first story achievement on Steam, and 37% hold The Land of Faith, its last. The steepest drop comes between Halls of His Temple (82%) and Into The Unknown (64%).

The Talos Principle grows on you

Grows on you seal

Grows on you

90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 99% at 100–200 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

Made this game? Put the seal on your site.

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Did everyone who owns The Talos Principle play it?

18 of 72

Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it

One case is one library's copy, lit as far as its hours go.Never launched

How well is The Talos Principle remembered?

1 in 142

Name 100 runs say its name, 0.7% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.

How this page counts

The hours
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 21 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 10 hours and 35 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 33,200 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
The price
At Steam's US list price of $29.99, the typical player's 21 hours come to $1.43 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 97% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat.
Where players stop
Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.
Everyone's copy
Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.