Coming later this year
Philosophical pondering and first-person puzzling returns this year withThe Talos Principle 2. The sequel wasdiscreetly announcedmany moons ago, but developers Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital debuted its first trailer at last night’sPlayStation Showcase. Come take a look below and maybe contemplate robo-sentience while you’re at it.
Humankindhas long been extinct, passing our existential dread over to the remaining androids who wonder the world. This sequel puts us on a mission to investigate a mysterious structure - presumably the metal pyramid shown off in the trailer - where we’ll discover more headscratchers and gloomy details about the past. Croteam threatens that we’ll be “confronted with questions about the nature of the cosmos, faith versus reason, and the fear of repeating humankind’s mistakes” during our trek.
The original’s puzzles were great from what I played, featuring a laser-reflecting, turret-dodging, and some timey-wimey stuff. The sequel promises all that cerebral goodness, plus some new mechanics such as gravity manipulation and mind transference. On top of all that puzzling, there’ll also be a massive new world to explore where you’ll be making choices that can lead to multiple endings.
Writers Jonas Kyratzes, Verena Kyratzes, and Tom Jubert are all returning to pen the sequel. The Kyratzes duo took a break from chewing over life’s biggest questions to work on Croteam’s other big project: the run and gunningSerious Sam 4. That’s fitting since the first puzzler actually had an oddSerious Sam crossover DLC. A connected universe perhaps?
We loved the original robopuzzler since it made it onto ourbest puzzle gameslist. Needless to say we’ll be keeping a close eye on the sequel.
