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Taiji
Solve puzzle panels and uncover the meaning of the symbols within. Explore a dense world where secrets are hidden in plain sight.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Solid puzzle game! Classic Witness-style puzzle mechanic "discovery by play" with nice music.”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“This game brought me a great deal of joy. Figuring out the final slate of puzzles was a special delight. It's hard for me to say if this game will bring you joy. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed The Witness though, for sure. I might even say the reverse: if you hated…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“one puzzle would be the most soothing thing i've ever done and the next would be the most confusing frustrating puzzle in existence, if it was consistently one or the other i would have enjoyed it i think edit: i'm currently in the secret puzzles and the only way to solve these…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:20 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Update Notes for Build 10.06.2025
-Patched vulnerability in UnityPlayer.dll (Also patched on mono-moddable branch, though the version number is not changed there)
In-Depth Video Essay on Taiji's Music
Grzegorz Bednorz (the composer for Taiji) just released an in-depth video essay covering much of what we did for the soundtrack in Taiji, as well as similar musical techniques in other games. This was
Taiji 3rd Anniversary Podcast
Hey, it's Matthew, the creator of Taiji, It’s hard to believe that it’s already been three whole years since Taiji originally released. I feel infinitely old just thinking about it. But in order to ce
Update Notes for Build 8.27.2025.5
-Fixed issue where music layers were desynced at startup by the length of the loading screen -Fixed a small culling bug near Mine area
Update Notes for Build 5.29.2025.2
-Changed the stick tutorial icons (unified with Switch) -Slowed tutorial animations to prevent the idea of hammering on the buttons -Fixed the fading behavior of a lantern in the Mine -Added some miss
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Puzzle · Nonlinear · Difficult · Adventure · Walking Simulator · Top-Down · Relaxing · Exploration · Hidden Object · Pixel Graphics · Open World · Controller (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Custom Volume Controls · Playable without Timed Input · Save Anytime · Stereo Sound · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Estonian, Korean |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 12 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://taiji-game.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64-Bit Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 400 / AMD Radeon HD 5000 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 350 MB available space