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The Talos Principle 2 | Demo on Steam Available Now (youtu.be)

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[-] tuckerm@supermeter.social 35 points 11 months ago

Portal (1 and 2) and The Talos Principle are the only puzzle games I've played that not only had a story, but also managed to make the puzzle gameplay actually make sense within the story. Like, there is an in-universe explanation for why you are solving puzzles. I'm sure there are other games that do it, but those are the only ones I've played and they were fantastic. That's a hard thing to pull off -- how do you make a compelling narrative, complete with characters, around "moving some boxes?"

Looking forward to playing the sequel. Also, the original is $3 on Steam right now!

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Have you played The Witness? Not quite as story driven, but just as cohesive and my personal favourite of the 3 (by a small margin)

[-] pixel_prophet@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Could not really understand the hype for it, having to do the same kind of line puzzle over and over just felt stale.

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If that were the full extent of the game, I'd probably agree. I can't say much more without spoiling it

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I don't see how anyone can consider the sound puzzles in the jungle, the Tetris piece puzzles in the swamp and the color theory puzzles in the greenhouse the same kind of puzzle and be arguing in good faith.

[-] tuckerm@supermeter.social 2 points 11 months ago

I have not -- I'll add it to my list!

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The game has multiple "endings". My only advice: Don't start a second playthrough or browse any online communities until you've reached the credit scroll. I wish someone had told me that before I started...

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 6 points 11 months ago

Like, there is an in-universe explanation for why you are solving puzzles.

That observation actually made me go through my library looking for more examples and, yeah, it's surprisingly few. There's 'The Entropy Centre', which also falls into the "You're a test subject" category. Other than that there's the Zachtronics games, where the reason for puzzle-solving is because it's your work.

[-] raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago

In Zachtronics Infinifactory, the setting is that aliens have kidnapped you and force you to build things for them, in return for kibble and other things humans like, such as a little league third place trophy. Always enjoyed that.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Quantum Conundrum too ! it's excellent, but a bit difficult. I never finished it 🤫

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Did Antichamber have a story? I don't remember if it did, only that I loved that game.

[-] Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago

Try QUBE too, it's great.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looking forward to playing the sequel. Also, the original is $3 on Steam right now!

Hey, thanks for the tip! I totally just gifted this to a couple of my friends.

[-] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Come on, linux support!

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

I just played the demo on Ubuntu and .... perfect. No tweaks, just works.

I also started this community so I'd have others to talk about the games with:

https://lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 7 points 11 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !the_talos_principle@lemm.ee

[-] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Good bot

[-] maniacal_gaff@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Steam complains that the platform is unsupported. So maybe a dumb question, but how do you get the demo?

edit: found it. Steam>Settings>Compatibility>"Enable Steam Play for all other titles". My bad, I only just decided to make the jump to linux gaming about two weeks ago so this is all new to me.