The first installment is, by far, my favorite puzzle game of all-time! I am definitely interested in this sequel.

In the coming days, I will be publishing a puzzle with a GOG game code for The Talos Principle: Gold Edition embedded within (as a reward for the solver).

Discount code for both games of the series (exchange):
KXLZ7MC4LVV4HMJCC3

Also Serious Sam 2 and Serious Sam HD as well.

Thanks forgot about those for some reason.

This is a very fun, very beautiful game. Wife and I played it together, and it's one of our favorites. There are some neat and fun new mechanics, and the music / graphics are gorgeous. She missed the tetronimo puzzles from the first game, but they do have new bridge puzzles that are similar.

Tempted to pick up a copy here for the inevitable replay when we forget how the puzzles go!

Great news!
Didn't even know they were making a new game. Thanks to the newsletter, got my copy with a good discount.
Thanks GOG!

why games like ss1 & 2 hd version and serious sam 3 are not available on gog croteam devs tell us why please?!

Glad this not so little gem popped up here, instabuy :)

Because there are already enough "bloody" titles, sometimes the mind need a boost.

Thanks for bringing the second game on GOG!

Same here. Felt like it started dragging on quite a bit for its own good. Think I played through like 66-75% of it, but just dropped it one day and never felt the need to finish it. The philosophical mumbo-jumbo also really didn't grab me that much. I'm not opposed to puzzle games with stories, but something like Magrunner for example grabbed me way more.

So will be skipping TP2. Now if Croteam wants my money, put Serious Sam 3 here. Hell, I will buy 5 extra copies and put them into the community giveaway if they do.

First game was 6.5GB and this one has jumped to 78.6GB!! Surely this has to be a typo?

The excuse for SS 3 was that it was too "intertwined" with Steam and that taking it out would be too much work for it to be worth it. It was mentioned on the now defunct Serious Sam forums IIRC by one of the devs. I call BS on that because even though I do have it on Steam, my pirated version works perfectly fine too, even with the Steam Workshop mods. If pirates could do it in a couple of days at most, that excuse really does not check out.

SS 2 digital version was published by Devolver on Steam, it was only the physical one which was done by 2K. So that shouldn't be the reason. No idea what the blocker there is.

EDIT:
They made a statement in 2020 about SS 3 on the Steam forums regarding the game not coming to GOG:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/41070/discussions/0/4633595582109389475/

I might bump the thread in relation to the TP2 release and see if anything happens.

EDIT 2:
Also, game specific forums for Serious Sam 3 and 2 briefly appeared on the GOG forums some time ago. Although they were quickly removed again. Whether it was an error or a glimpse of the future, no way to know.

Nah... you did not solve this riddle properly, it is now 103 GB even! Or do you want to miss out on the DLC? The DLC is huge as well and many new things to explore!

9 years ago the graphic simply was not at the stage it is now, but indeed... the size will increase dramatically with cutting edge graphics. However, the second title is about 30% bigger in game-time than the first one, so even the gameplay "got increased". Nowadays, in the AAA-territory the customer expectations is simply high; people expect the biggest games ever made.

Ah yes, the game is a UE5 game... which can be seen, a lot of details everywhere, surely a "eye candy".

It even got a build in screenshot-mode so even some non players can gaze at it.

I suspect that is the main reason for the bloated size. The original Talos Principle was still running on their in-house engine - the Serious Engine. Which at the time was still pretty technically adept and before they lost the main guy responsible for its development. Seems like they decided to drop the ball (and headaches) associated with maintaining your own engine and jumped ships for UE.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/developer-interviews/inside-croteam-s-transition-from-in-house-tech-to-ue5-for-the-talos-principle-2

It's quite disappointing to be honest. Because the next Serious Sam game (if ever there is any that is), will no longer be made on the engine that created it. But we might get Unreal Sam I guess :P

EDIT:
Found what I was looking for:
https://happygamer.com/alen-ladavac-croteams-co-founder-is-leaving-the-zagreb-studio-for-google-stadia-28890/

In 2019, Croteam lost their Chief Technology Officer and one of the founding guys. Which I think was the death-knell for the Serious Engine, because one of the main persons who was maintaining/developing it left with all his knowledge. Could be why Serious Engine 3 feels like a much more polished engine overall than Serious Engine 4. And at that point, dropping the engine instead of forcing it to keep limping forward was probably the reasonable choice. We don't want another Bethesda with their Gamebryo on our hands after all :D