Check out mindbending puzzles in The Talos Principle 2's specially made demo
The demo for The Talos Principle 2 is out now, building steam in the hype engine for what will probably be the premier first-person puzzler of 2023. Developers Croteam have made it special for you, standalone and set apart from the final game's flow and puzzles.
«You can jump in to get a taste of this long-awaited sequel by playing a specially tailored demo. In this demo, play through some of the puzzles from the very beginning of the game, before moving forward to roughly a halfway point and seeing how things evolve,» they said.
The original The Talos Principle was a much-beloved first person puzzle game about light and lasers, though it definitely went a bit further than that. If you like the genre and didn't play the first one then I'd say it holds up pretty well as one of the best post-Portal puzzle games. Our Phil Savage wasn't really sure that it needed a sequel—though once he had some time with The Talos Principle 2 he was pretty excited for it.
It's a sequel that intends to be a bit bigger, a bit grander, than the first game was. It's also stranger, about a colony of post-human robots rather than individual humans. It's a game about societies rather than individuals as the first one was. The metaphysical focus has shifted from a philosophy of the individual to a philosophy of the group. Your character is the final robot to be born, the 1,000th in a society purposefully restricted to a population of 1,000.
«For some, your character's birth is a cause of celebration—the end of their expansion and the beginning of the final form of their society. For others, it's a bitter pill. The city is struggling for the resources they need to build and repair, causing some to argue for continued growth and further exploitation
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