

Guiding you through this automaton's nirvana is the omnipresent, paternal voice of Elohim, who explains that this world has been created entirely for you to explore and enjoy, but also to demonstrate your worthiness through the tests liberally scattered through the environment.

You're a robot, see, in what appears to be a kind of robot heaven filled with puzzles, weird mechanical contraptions, and oddly placed computer terminals. That's still more breakfast than the protagonist of the Talos Principle has ever consumed. On a completely unrelated topic, I haven't eaten breakfast today. The Talos Principle is quite the departure for developers Croteam, whose list of previous releases almost entirely involve the words "Sam" and "Serious." It's a first-person puzzler that challenges the player to solve a large number of little conundrums, while unpicking several grander, less tangible enigmas, such as "what does it mean to be human?" It is attractive, sedate brain food of the most wholesome kind, the gaming equivalent of a tasty granola, or brown toast spread with yummy marmalade.
