The Talos Principle
Short description
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
- Developer
- Croteam
- Publisher
- Croteam, Devolver Digital
- Release
- Thu, Dec 11, 2014
- Price
- $29.99
- Reviews
- 29,347
- Positive
- 95%
- Followers
- 177,062
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 140
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Indie
- Features
- Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Includes level editor, Remote Play on TV
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $25.77, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $29.99 launch price. That is 14% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
83 data points since Aug 14, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 339 further data points reach back to Aug 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $2.99 on Sep 26, 2023.
Similar games that found an audience
Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with The Talos Principle. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.
| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Talos Principle 2 | Croteam 23 titles | 5 | − Atmospheric + Puzzle-Platformer | $39.99 | 12,724 | 95% | Thu, Nov 02, 2023 | $13.3m $6.8m – $13.3m |
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The Entropy Centre | Stubby Games 2 titles | 4 | − Philosophical − Atmospheric + Futuristic + Funny | $19.99 | 3,328 | 89% | Thu, Nov 03, 2022 | $2.8m $1.2m – $18.4m |
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The Talos Principle: Reawakened | Croteam 23 titles | 4 | − Sci-fi − Story Rich + Adventure + Lore-Rich | $39.99 | 1,057 | 90% | Thu, Apr 10, 2025 | $1.7m $0 – $3m |
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Metamorphosis | Ovid Works 4 titles | 4 | − Philosophical − Sci-fi + Adventure + Singleplayer | $24.99 | 468 | 84% | Wed, Aug 12, 2020 | $448k $426k – $797k |
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Portal 2 | Valve 34 titles | 3 | − Philosophical − Sci-fi − Atmospheric + Singleplayer + Platformer + Dark Humor | $9.99 | 392,021 | 99% | Mon, Apr 18, 2011 | $155m $87.8m – $176m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.