ReThink | Evolved 3

ReThink Evolved 3 is another entry in the series of first person puzzle games, where the player must use different types of cubes to alter the path of coloured lasers in order to active switches of the same colour, which then unlocks the door to the next puzzle chamber. The “Evolved” games allow the player the freedom to place cubes anywhere and give you full control over the angle the lasers are shined by the cubes. For this reason I always enjoy playing Evolved more than the regular ReThink games, where cube placement is restricted to specific tiles, and you can only turn each cube in specific increments. In Evolved I usually feel like I’m designing my own solution to each puzzle, rather than trying to identify the developer’s intended solution. Evolved 3 added three new puzzle elements to keep the gameplay interesting, and you can see two of them in action in the below screenshot. • Many of the laser beams are generated by crystals that you can swap around, allowing you to change the starting point of those colours. • Coloured forcefields will allow a laser beam of the same colour to pass through, but will reflect different colours. • A new type of cube can be programmed to shine any combination of colours in three directions by simply clicking your desired colours. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2109056354 Evolved 3 contains 40 puzzles and took me just over 5 hours to finish. Some of the later puzzles were challenging without ever becoming frustrating. If you enjoy puzzle games I recommend picking this up at full price or a small sale.

DISCLAIMER : I helped testing this game, and received a free key from the developer. Opinions expressed here are mine, but take them with a grain of salt anyway. Rethink Evolved 3 is pretty good IMO. If you come from the other games in the series you'll be right at home. Expect a game that's maybe easier than the previous titles, but with some cool new ideas and mechanics like color screens decomposing the colors of your lasers, and colored crystals serving as power sources of the lasers that you can swap. If you're new, well, the whole series is about having lasers rays hitting targets of the same color. It's pretty standard fare for a puzzle game, but it's well done and there's multiple elements to take into account : some cubes will split your lasers in two or three, some have two outputs to switch, there's anti gravity fields into which your cubes will float and so on. As said before, this game is a little easier than the others, it's probably your best point of entry if you're interested. I had a really good time messing around and finding the solutions on this game, so if it looks good to you, I'd say give it a go.

A new puzzler in the ReThink series: This means the visuals are deceptively simple in design, but very elegant and just beautiful. You need to use cubes, with various functions - linear redirect, fork, 3 fork, switch between forks etc. - to redirect coloured laser light to specific "detectors" to open glass doors to access the next puzzle. As with the previous games, you are able to e.g. split white light into its R,G,B components, and several puzzles make clever use of combining light colours, redirect that to a certain place, to then split it again. The new features include: Sheets of reflective coloured glass that let light of the same colour pass, and reflect all other colours, this also lets you reflect light via panels on the ceiling (in a few puzzles). The other neat new cube is programmable, i.e. it can split the incoming light into up to 3 directions, and per direction you can control what colour (R,G,B) components you want to pass along. The latter introduces very interesting options. Oh, and portable bi-pyramidal laser energy sources, letting you e.g. change the colour of where a laser originates. Differing from the previous titles the puzzles seem to be placed in completely separate buildings in groups of four, and you move from one building to the next via teleportation. (You used to play a linear winding path from room to room where you could look into future puzzle rooms or look back on already solved ones.) Overall, if you played the previous ReThink games you should be right at home with this game. IMO is actually was easier than the previous games (I am not complaining). If you happen to like elegant puzzle games with interesting game logic, this may be for you.

Difficulty : 1/5 (Very Easy) Global : 1.5/5 (Decent) The Evolved series is far inferior to the main one. ReThink 2 was a huge step up and ReThink 3 and 4 further improved it but the Evolved series follows a different path. This game isn't bad but it's far too easy and less interesting than Evolved 2, which shouldn't be the case (or rather, I hoped and was sure the Evolved series would be harder and harder like the main one). I guess the Evolved series targets a more casual audience. If you like ReThink in general, then you'll obviously still have fun. But except for the last few areas, the game just isn't very interesting puzzle-wise.

Great and neat as before, although this title seems a little easy than evolved 2, but it still offer a good puzzle experience. A great puzzle series that focus on beam-redirect problem, this focus make the newer games more better and creative. Personally I love evolved series more, keep up the good work devs!

Puzzles keep getting tougher, fans of the series won't be disappointed. Yaeko always outdoes himself.

I've been playing all of ReThink games since the first was released, and I love all of them. Every single one has a different look, different mechanics, but the same feel. Please don't stop making these.

I quite enjoy solving the puzzles in this game series. But compared to RE2, the story panels are gone. I kind of liked those, as they added a story element to the game. As in any previous entries, gameplay consists of solving laser-based puzzles using various cubes and mirrors. This one has no moving platforms, but it does have some zero G fields that allow us to move up and down between floors, as well as giant puzzle rooms to solve where it's easy to get lost. If you played and enjoyed other Yaeko games, you cant go wrong.

Puzzle tarzı oyun sevenler için gayet güzel ve fiyatı da uygun bir oyun. İndirimde 10 liranın da altına düşüyor. Bölümleri gitgide karmaşık ve zor hale geliyor. Grafikleri de oldukça göz alıcı. "Overkill" ayarlar için bayağı üst seviye bir sistem gerekiyor. Oyunda bazı hatalara denk geldim. Onların düzeltilmesi lazım. Ve bazı bölümleri "olması gerektiği" şekilden farklı biçimde çözebiliyorsunuz ki bunu yapamamanız lazım normalde. Puzzle oyunlarındaki bölümler, yalnızca istendiği gibi çözülebileceği şekilde tasarlanmalıdır. Ben bazı bölümler üzerinde fazla düşündüğüm için 9 saatte bitirdim. Daha kısa sürede biter aslında. Belki de oyunun adının hakkını vermiş oldum böylece.

This is the fifth entry in the ReThink series and probably the easiest one. Most puzzles are very simple and I did not even have to look into a walkthrough once, despite some new mechanics being introduced. Definitely a recommendation, even if it is a bit easier than previous games.