Talos Principle is a grand puzzle game that makes your brain melt in agony, but then, a few minutes later, melts in victorious triumph. The world is great at building the story around it through various degrees of storytelling: through notes you read, through conversations you have, and through what you're being told! It all builds so well into the theming of questioning the reality and purpose of things.

The puzzles themselves build the mechanics of the game quite gracefully. They build one mechanic into making you learn it well, then throw a wrench into that thought with more crazy puzzles with the same mechanic. But then it also throws in tools to use throughout the game to create more intricate and mind-bending puzzles!

The progression is at a nice pace. You unlock different tools in one area, but you need to do a certain amount of puzzles to obtain them. Which unlocks new puzzles. So you never feel too overwhelmed with the amount of puzzles you need to do.

Some of the puzzles are a bit obtuse, but the solution for these aren't too farfetch'd! It all makes sense. No issues in looking some up. Do what you want. But then, are you really doing what you want, or are you doing what the game wants you to do, as playing it more?!

Highly enjoy Talos Principle and it is definitely one of my favorite puzzle games I've played! Highly recommend!