The Talos Principle 3 creators reveal new details about its hopeful grand finale

In 2012, Serious Sam developer Croteam made its mark on the puzzle game genre with a riff on Portal that traded in physical comedy for philosophical musing. As if its exceptional puzzles weren’t brain-bending enough on their own, The Talos Principle looked for higher purpose in a hard sci-fi story that searched for signs of humanity in a world populated by cold androids. It kicked gaming’s dystopian instincts to the curb to deliver an optimistic exploration of artificial intelligence.