Croteam's game is really two games in one: the philosophical first-person puzzler The Talos Principle, and it's equally philosophical Road To Gehenna expansion. Both are set in a world with elements of Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Everything Really, but with robots, lasers and other future paraphernღalia – and a chatty God figure narrating your thougౠhtful journey.

You're one of those robots, solving puzzle rooms to satisfy your God, Elohim, who's very firm about that big exciting tower you're not allowed to go into. Before you can fully disobey him you'll need to use 'jammers' to disable forcefields and sentries – you'll also need to place tactical cubes, redirect light, propel obje♈cts with the power of wind, and use time travel to give yourself a handy clone.

Its enclosed puzzle rooms, of which there are well over 100, start out simple but soon test ♕you in marve🍨llous ways, even if we've seen most of their constituent elements before.

Your goal in each room is to acquire a sigil, many of which are needed to unlock the three main worlds, and all of which are needed to ascend the tower and see the story through to its proper conclusion. The rooms themselves are linked by dozens of beautiful - and often surprisingly expansive - hub areas, where you 🐲can hunt for hidden messages, audio recordings, or computer terminals that shed more light on the world.

The writi🔯ng is exquisite: smart but funny with it, and deep enough to keep you intrigued, and hungry for the next batch of lore. Meanwhile, the serene environments and soundtrack put you in the perfect mood for puzzle-solving. This would be a great game to unwind with after a stressful day.

The Gehenna expansi🥃on isn't as big as the main game, but it essentially begins where that left off, offering devious stages from the get-go. Here the terminals l🍷og you into a sort of robot message board, which acts as a microcosm for our Internet or, well, society.

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