The Talos Principle 2

The Talos Principle 2

Developers
	Croteam
Publishers
	Devolver Digital
Engines
	Unreal Engine 5
Release dates
Windows	November 2, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	88
OpenCritic	89
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Puzzle
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	The Talos Principle

The Talos Principle
Sigils of Elohim	2014
The Talos Principle	2014
The Talos Principle VR	2017
The Talos Principle 2	2023

The Talos Principle 2 is a singleplayer first-person and third-person puzzle game in the The Talos Principle series.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
Humble Store
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available.

Version differences

The Deluxe Edition includes the base game, as well as a digital artbook and soundtrack.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	None

Essential improvements

Skip intro video

Delete the intro video file
Delete the file Logo_All.bk2 from <path-to-game>\Talos2\Content\PrerenderedMovies\Bink. Notes The game now skips to the Health warning screen right away. This may need to be redone every time a new patch drops.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Talos2\Saved\Config\Windows\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/835960/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Talos2\Saved\SaveGames\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/835960/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		60° to 120°.
Windowed		Limited selection of resolutions.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Low, Medium, High, Ultra, DLAA. No option to disable anti-aliasing.
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 3.0, DLSS 3.5, XeSS 1.2, TSR, TAAU TAAU, FSR, DLSS, and TSR can be used at native quality. Frame Generation is supported for DLSS and FSR.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Frame Rate Limit can be set to any value between 30 and 540, or Unlimited.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)		Software Lumen only.
Color blind mode		Has settings which change colors for Deuteranopia, Protanopia, and Tritanopia, can adjust strength of color blind filters.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 5 page for more details.

Input

Control settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Esc cannot be rebinded.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse Acceleration setting actually enables mouse smoothing without acceleration.
Mouse sensitivity		Sensitivity can be adjusted for both axes.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Movement axis, camera axis, and pause button cannot be changed.
Controller sensitivity		8 predefined values.
Controller Y-axis inversion		X axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers		Game doesn't support DS4 controller natively, yet has options for button prompts.
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Button prompts		Xbox Controller, Dualsense, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Switch button prompts can be selected manually.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Shifts between prompts.

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  Keyboard and mouse key bindings

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  Controller button bindings

Audio

Sound settings

Gameplay settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Background Audio, Master, Music, Dialogue, Effects, Ambience
Surround sound		7.0 Surround
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Muted if Background Audio slider is set to 0.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Issues fixed

"DirectX 12 is not supported on your system. Try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument." error when starting the game

The message itself is misleading. It actually means that system does not meet required hardware and/or software level. There is no point in adding or removing such command line arguments.

Update Windows 10 and videocard drivers, check system requirements
Use the Update Assistant to upgrade Windows 10 to the latest version if it's earlier than 21H2. Windows 11 does not require any action. Update videocard driver to a version from year 2023 or later. If there is no such driver then videocard is below system requirements. Check system requirements. Integrated graphics is not supported. Old CPUs like AMD Phenom II do not work.

DLSS Frame Generation is disabled

Install Nvidia driver version between 535.xx and 540.xx.

Enable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10 (version 2004)
Processor (CPU)	4 core 2.5 GHz (AMD Ryzen 5, Intel Core i3/i5)	6 or 8 core 3.0 GHz (AMD Ryzen 7, Intel Core i5/i7)
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	75 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 470 4 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 AMD Radeon RX 6800 8 GB of VRAM
Other	Intel integrated GPUs are not supported.

A 64-bit operating system is required.