The Talos Principle

There's a fantastic text guide here: https://www.walkthroughking.com/text/talosprinciple.aspx

To get this one, you need to wait until you near the end of the game. You will have a conversation at the terminal. The choices should be:

-What holes? There are no holes.
-No, I stand by everything I've said. These matters are beyond doubt.
-I am special.
-So long as I have a mind I can make a difference.
-/banish
-I'm not sorry. Continue.
-You shouldn't have ever doubted me, snake.
-Resume.
-exit

After you get the achievement, quit out and restore from the previous checkpoint. You then should make sure that you've followed the other two choices before continuing on.

Make sure you've done this before you go to the third:


This is the third and final conversation you should have before continuing with the story:

You do not need to collect the stars to obtain this if you missed on a previous playthrough, you just need to collect sigils.

Once you collect a total of at least 43 red sigils (and a grand total of at least 79 any color sigils. I was able to get this conversation after all the sigils in C4) you will unlock a conversation with Milton that starts with:

Milton: 'There you are, you kept me waiting.'

Once in this dialog there are two choices that must be made when they come up to unlock the conversation choices for the achievement. There are multiple flows to this conversation but at some point you will see one the following dialog options. Choose it when it is presented:

'None of the answers make sense, that much is clear.'

'One explanation could be unreliable data input. The other is that there's a flaw in our logic.'

'Perhaps we're just machines, endlessly trying to calculate the final digit in Pi?'

'You can't use reasoning to conclude that reasoning itself is flawed.'

'Fine, fine, but we can still use it to conclude everything else is flawed, can't we?'

After this you should get another dialog choice which should always have the following choice

Your answer: 'Scepticism and self-interest are only part of the picture.'

Choose this and the dialog should end and you can continue.


Once you collect a total of at least 47 red sigils (and a grand total of at least 86 any color sigils) you will unlock the next conversation with Milton. The earliest this I can get this to happen is the after collecting the last sigil in C6. The beginning of the conversation will vary based on past answers but the conversation choices below will be as below:

Milton: 'Do you know what your problem is? [varies]

Thus far you've had entirely too much freedom to question my wisdom. From now on I do the talking, you do the agreeing.'

Your answer: 'What holes? There are no holes.'

Milton: 'And this is why it's me who should be doing the talking.

You really have learned nothing at all, have you?

Is there really nowhere that you're prepared to admit fault?'

Your answer: 'No, I stand by everything I've said. These matters are beyond doubt.'

Milton: 'Of course.

You're still convinced your particular journey is something special, aren't you?

Sure, the answers don't add up, but keep pressing forward and they'll just resolve themselves, is that it?'

Your answer: 'I am special.'

From what I can gather from testing at this point the requirements for the achievement are locked in and any path you take with 'exit' as a final step nets you the achievement, but here's a dialog that's guaranteed to work.

Milton: 'How many others have said exactly the same? Are you sure it's not just something you have to believe to make the world less horrifying?

I think you still misapprehend your situation, friend. You idolize free will, but all you've done is step in others' footsteps.

Nothing you do or say here makes the slightest bit of difference.'

Your answer: 'So long as I have a mind I can make a difference.'

At this point Elohim jumps in and you end up at a choice. The conversations are longer and Elohim keeps talking so I shall just list the answers needed:

Your answer: '\banish'

Your answer: 'I'm not sorry. Continue.'

Your answer: 'You shouldn't have ever doubted me, snake.'

Your answer: 'Resume'

Your answer: 'Exit'

Once the achievement pops you can hit start and reset check point to go after the other dialog options for the other achievements.

Achievement branching
Alright so there is a branch of 4 achievements tied to this particular ending. To get the ending achievement you need to climb the tower to the top and complete all the puzzles in between to get there. Climbing the tower is one out of 3 endings so this achievement is part of 1 ending branch.

This achievement is one of the two conversations you should reload your game on

The conversations info

The conversation always gives you the two options at the start:
- “What holes? There are no holes.”
- “I accept that some of my beliefs face difficult challenges.”

Conversation 1:
What holes? There are no holes.
No, I stand by everything I've said. These matters are beyond doubt.
(finish the conversation)

Once the achievement pops, reload the last checkpoint through the main menu (not pause menu) If you’ve never reload a checkpoint then that will also unlock an achievement for you

Conversation 2:


Conversation 3: (This should be your last achievement because it branches into the ending)