The game takes place in a world where humanity is gone and intelligent machines have inherited what remains. Instead of focusing on survival or disaster, the game asks different questions: What happens after? What kind of future do we build? What values do we keep?

The world is absolutely gorgeous. Ancient ruins stand next to futuristic structures. Forests, deserts, beaches, snowy mountains — every area feels carefully designed to make you stop and look around. More than once I found myself standing on a cliff, forgetting there was even a puzzle to solve, simply enjoying the view.

I spent a lot of time wandering around, reading messages, listening to conversations, finding small secrets and checking every terminal I could find. Not because the game told me to, but because I genuinely wanted to know more about this world and the people living in it. Every new area felt like it had another story waiting to be discovered.

The citizens of New Jerusalem have friendships, disagreements, hobbies, ambitions and fears. They joke with each other. They argue. They make mistakes. They love. Their conversations felt surprisingly human. Not because they act like humans, but because they struggle with the same questions we do. Some want to preserve what they have. Others want to push forward into the unknown. Some are excited about the future. Others are terrified of it.

And the more I explored, the more I realized that this game isn't really about them.

It's about us.

About what we leave behind.
About whether future generations should follow our path or create their own.
About what makes a society worth building in the first place.

The game doesn't spend hours trying to convince you of a single answer. Instead, it presents different perspectives and trusts you to think for yourself.

The puzzles themselves are fantastic. They start simple enough to teach you the mechanics, but later become genuinely challenging. What I appreciate most is that the game rarely feels unfair. When you're stuck, it's usually because you're looking at the problem the wrong way. Some puzzles made me feel like a genius. Others made me walk around in circles for twenty minutes before realizing the solution was right in front of me. Both experiences were equally memorable.

What surprised me most was how emotional the game becomes toward the end. There's so much hope and love in it. Many science-fiction stories are built around the idea that humanity will destroy itself, that technology will ruin everything or that the future is something to fear. This game acknowledges humanity's mistakes, but it also remembers our achievements. It looks at everything we've done, the good and the bad, and asks whether something better can grow from it.

This is a game that trusts the player to think. A game that isn't afraid to discuss big ideas while still being entertaining.

By the end, the game leaves you wondering whether the future might actually be worth looking forward to. And somehow, it feels like hope might be just enough.

Great game, builds on and improves on the first part in every way!

EpigOnlineSpyware.dll included, so that's an auto-"no."

Plus the game can be beaten in 15 mins, refuse to join the expedition. Congrats, you beat TTP2 you can freely refund it within the 2 hour window!</joke ending, BTW>

More seriously: It's more of the Talos Principle. You know what you're getting here: First person (with a third person view switching option) puzzles a-la Portal 1-2, but with lasers, positioning, body-doubles/body-swaps, fan/jumps/platforming and a few other twists along with a continuation of the TTP1's story.

If you enjoyed the first one, you're more than likely going to enjoy this one.

Runs on a Hard-Drive despite the game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about it being on one over a Solid State drive. Only issues is texture/polygon loading, but that's an Unreal Engine 5 issue (bleh), but that's so minor that the game runs fine for hours without it and when performance degrades (Steam overlay with Youtube would cause it to say the drive was defragmented, which is weird. RAM/VRAM issue?), just restart the game and it runs fine again after that.

Though with the performance increases coming with TTP3, it's going to be REAL hard to justify the same performance as TTP2's requirements on that one.