Talos is overrated and dull, Want something 10x more atmospheric & immersive? Better soundtrack, graphics, puzzles and a vastly larger world. Riven. And all the Myst sequels. Also, most games made by "the adventure company" are very atmospheric and immersive full of a variety of puzzles with great story lines to bring it all together. Talos and the witness are dull games with simple repetitive puzzles. So boring 😩
@@janX9 Myst has boring puzzles. At least talos had some clever extra puzzles in the dlc. Witness started great, but ended horribly. The best puzzle game you and play at the moment is Baba is you. It's so far above everything else that it will make other games feel conceptually bland.
@@janX9 Bro i just got done playing every single Myst game. Yes I love myst, but it's not magical like Talos. If you think its boring, then you haven't paid attention to anything in the game. The puzzles are not repetitive, and require outside the box thinking (unlike the myst games). Talos has so much emotion even though its so quiet. Im sad you feel this way, and I hope you can take another look at such a magical game.
The talos principle in my opinion is the most underrated puzzle game of all time, it should be easily atleast number 3 in the video (in my opinion number 1 but it should be atleast number 3 for sure), the story of the talos principle easliy is the best story ever was in a video game if you like thinking philosophy and you really complete the game 100%
idk bout you, but it made me feel something which made me happy. Weird kinda feeling, like after I'd finished playing for a bit I'd go outside at night and just stare at the stars.
Why is the talos principle underrated? It doesn't only consist of puzzles, but a very complex story that isn't for everyone either. This game must have been made to satisfy curious minds and natural philosophers and not the average gamer.
Do you guys recommed me to buy it even nowadays? I love Portal and I was playing Ever forward (a new interesting puzzle game) and searching I found this Talos game that I never heard of before and many people saying it is good.
If you don't live in a vault and use Internet, it's nearly impossible to avoid spoilers for the game that was out there for seven years, in half of the game related videos on RU-vid.
Portal is an amazing game, no doubt, one of the best of all time I might even say. But as a puzzle game, The Witness remains as the best game, IMHO. Every single centimetre of that world is designed to perfection, every little detail is there for a reason and the puzzles made me throw my hand to my head and think "...wow" countless times..
Seriously. I've never had so many rewarding epiphanies during a single game. The Witness is such a beautiful piece of work that I've begun forcing my friends to play through it. They say "Oh I'm not big into video games" or "I don't really like puzzle games" but once they are 20 minutes in, they are completely hooked.
Are you sure you can even think? How much of your brain has to be replaced by machine before you no longer believe you are in control of it? Would you even know if your brain is your own? Yeah. It left it's impression on me too haha.
+Noobish that is not true. It is still one of the biggest questions out there. "Do we have free will? Or is free will just an illusion?" if you ask me, neither "yes" or "no" is a satisfying answer.
You shouldn't take a computer game so seriously. The game isn't some universal brain with all the knowledge of the universe, it's a game premise made by some guy sitting at his computer. You don't even know if the physiological ideas in the game are actually the views of the game creator but just some ideas that would make for good game play.
Its excruciating to think about how they decided "world of goo" is some how third place and the talos principle number 7. The talos principle was a masterpiece. Possibly one of the greatest games in existence
Absolutely agree!!! Portal was my favorite game of all time until I played Talos Principle. Ive replayed TP so many times over the years, and Ill always keep coming back to it (cause I always forget how to do the really hard ones and some stars haha)
I love Portal and Portal 2 so much. But Talos takes my top spot. It's so challenging, thought provoking, and there's so many freakin Easter eggs. I had to work so much more for Talos which is probably why I love it more. Ooo and Monument Valley. Loved that one too
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So glad someone mentioned this. FEZ never gets enough love these days. The last monolith puzzle still has not been solved properly without brute force. Edit: Sorry, it was solved, but took a while. There are still unanswered questions, like the meanings behind that stuff in the soundtrack and if it applies to anything in the game.
Absolutely, can't understand why Fez doesn't get wider appreciation. Maybe people only see the initial impression and switch off too early, but it definitely has some of the best eureka moments in any game.
IT'S A REQUIREMENT TO PLAY TALOS PRINCIPLE!!!!!!!! If you love puzzle games, this will be your all time favorite. Very challenging (you'll get stuck so many times but it's a non-linear game so you can leave and come back to puzzles), very thought provoking, incredibly interesting storylines, different endings, different paths, tons of easter eggs, an amazing environment and feeling, and the graphics are wonderful!!! I've replayed this so many times. It's magical. Nothing is like it at all. It is BETTER than portal and that comes from someone who's favorite game was portal for years and have replayed it so many times. Talos is so long that you forget how you solved everything and so you replay it every year or two! There's an amazing DLC too. Plus you can spend 25-40+ hours completing the entire game and all 3 different endings (and 50+ if you like to read all the extra writings in it!). You need to play this. Trust me, you will not regret buying this game!!!!! (it has never been topped, its been my favorite game since I first played it in 2015!!)
My list would probably be: 1) _Professor Layton and the Unwound Future_ 2) _Stretchmo_ 3) _Boxlife_ 4) _The Witness_ 5) _Snakebird_ 6) _Portal_ 7) _Braid_ 8) _Pokémon Picross_ 9) _Aero Porter_ 10) _Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker_ Honorable mentions: _Portal 2, Monument Valley, Impasse, I wish I were the Moon, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Picross 3D, Starseed Pilgrim, Threes!, Faultline, The Cave of Atman, Cut the Rope, BoxBoy!, The Last Rocket, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes, Zengage_ It's a shame the _Pushmo_ series isn't represented here. Puzzle gameplay doesn't get any better than that.
@@Gadget-Walkmen I don’t found the puzzles so well made and clever like talos principle or portal 2. It was too easy, there’s a lot of nonsense solutions and the history is just not too charismatic. Generic version of portal
Made me happy to see professor Layton on the list. I tend to forget about the series though I bc It’s one of the earlier “difficult” puzzle games I remember playing. The nostalgia is real 👌🏼
Limbo is hardly a puzzle game, it's got puzzles but they are simple. Machinarium is a point and click adventure. Yeah its puzzle-y but less so. Also machinarium was cool, but it's a buggy mess and very unpolished, and I think that holds it back
Great list, I've played most of those games and the ones that stand out to me are Portal 2, The Witness, The Room, Monument Valley, but in my opinion, the greatest on the list is Talos Principle for it's serenity, spirituality, thought provoking story, amazing backdrops, soundtrack, puzzle construction, and replay value. It's a true logic puzzle full of Easter Eggs, multiple endings, the Star Maps. A game of puzzles within puzzles. It's virtually perfect on every possible level and of the approximately 2,000 games I own, it's my favorite!
I remember playing a game very similar to the Talos Principle but I can't remember the title. It was a very short game, looked very nice. It ended with the protagonist becoming aware of the player being in control of its movements.
Portal 2 community test chambers - another level of portal puzzles, there are literally thousands of them, some of them seemingly impossible. It will take something special to dethrone this game.
Obduction was awesome. Beat it a couple weeks ago. Quern had is annoying interface/movement, but after some settings-tweaks, it turned out to be an awesome game.
I would recommend you to play *Tap & Clapp* - it also has map editor to create you own levels. And the fact that I am the developer of this game is not the only reason for my recommendation :)
I didn’t like inside. It’s puzzles are ridiculously repetitive, it’s super short, and they can’t bother thinking of a story so they make you imagine one yourself
Stretching it a bit to call World of Goo "mind bending" but I agree 100% with Portal (1 and 2) being at Number 1. Others to consider... Psychonauts - has some amazing sequences and is getting old but perhaps more an action-adventure. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood - more of a platform puzzler but inventive and mildly mind-blowing when I first played it. Papo & Yo - Underrated 3D platformer with lots of jumping puzzles but very clever rather than challenging.
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is pretty mind-bending at times, using magnetic fields, platforms and boxes to avoid creatures from the mind of H.P.Lovecraft. No really, it's basically a unique rendition of Portal with Cthulhu monsters as occasional enemies. I love that Antichamber is on here, I've played that so much but have never beaten it as it's one game that a guide would ruin. There are a ton of awesome, mind-warping puzzle games for free on the internet, check out Mind Fcuk (it's misspelled differently wherever you play it) and Spewer, which were made by Edmund McMillen, the man behind Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac. Another gem is Sarah's Run, where after passing through a spot marked on the ground, you can run all over the walls and ceilings and change the direction of gravity.
For me Portal 2 was tops untill I played Talos Principle. It's better in every way, imho. Witness is No. 2, but as a purely puzzle game - it's probably No. 1. Then there's Portal 2, Antichamber and Mind: Path to Thalamus (a monumental achievement, imho). Would like to add Vanishing of Ethan Carter for its sheer technical brilliance, but it is not a purely puzzle game :/
Talos Principle made me rethink my life. Way too deep "most famous English detective" Sherlock? Hello? you have to admit portal is just one of the best games ever
I felt the same way. But on the other hand some of my friends had problems with some pretty easy levels. In my opinion Portal 3 (Valve, make it happen!) needs to have some levels with normal difficulty which are required to complete the story. But there should also be some hidden or extra levels which make you bend your mind.
