21 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 10 hours and 35 hours
74% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
90% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
93% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
96% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
98% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
99% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
99% recommend it at 100 to 200 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
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?
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The Talos Principle
- Steam list price, US
- $29.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 21 h
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
- 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.
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
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.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/the-talos-principle#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/the-talos-principle/seal/grows-on-you.png" width="160" height="160" alt="The Talos Principle: Grows on you. 90% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 99% at 100–200 hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns The Talos Principle play it?
18 of 72
Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
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.



