ReThink | Evolved 4

ReThink Evolved 4 is a first person puzzle game where the player must use a variety of different types of cubes to redirect coloured laser beams and activate switches of the same colour. This is the seventh game in the series so if you’ve played any of the previous games you’ll have a good idea what to expect from the gameplay. RTE4 features a couple of new cube types which affect the puzzles in interesting ways. One cube will output whichever colours are not input, so for example if you shine blue and green into the cube, you’ll receive red back out. The other is a pair of linked cubes that teleport a laser between them, so you could place those cubes in different rooms, shine a laser into the first cube and it will exit from the second cube. Some of the puzzles have multiple solutions which allows the player to be creative, especially towards the end of the game, where I was able to solve some puzzles while not using all of the available cubes. If you like puzzles you should enjoy playing ReThink Evolved 4, as well as the other games in the series.

Difficulty : 2.5/5 (A bit Hard) Global : 2.5/5 (Good) Curator page : [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44695991-Anokturnus/]Anokturnus[/url] ReThink Evolved 4 is a step in the right direction for the Evolved series. The previous Evolved games were too easy, this one is actually pretty balanced. This game contains a lot of big puzzles consisting of several smaller interconnected ones and I love it. My only complaint would be the optimization of the puzzles. There are far too many levels with leftover cubes, and even levels in which you don't have to use the switch. I know the Evolved series gives a lot more freedom to the player so it's riskier to make it harder... but as long as the solution doesn't require unfair laser angles, I don't really see the problem. E-7 is a perfect example of that. It's hard and challenging but if you add just one more cube, the level becomes easy and not that interesting. Some levels probably suffered from that. I already discussed this subject with Yaeko for ReThink 4, but it only had very few non-optimized levels and they were so hard that it didn't really matter. Anyway, each entry is always a pleasure to play. And despite the few flaws, I think Evolved 4 is better than the previous Evolved games. Recommended like any ReThink game, see you for Evolved 5.

This is the seventh game in the ReThink franchise and the fourth game in the ReThink | Evolved series, and this is definitely the best one so far. Some new cubes and new mechanics have been added which allow for more complex puzzles than previous games, and they definitely added to my enjoyment. The core concept of the ReThink games is to light a series of colored targets with laser light. How you combine the lasers to achieve the correct colors and how you place and angle the lasers to hit the correct targets is up to you. Sometimes the puzzles are easy, sometimes the puzzles are difficult, and sometimes the puzzles are quite tricky. There were many times when I was scratching my head for a bit and finally had the "Aha!" moment, which was very fulfilling. Also, from what I recall of the previous games in the franchise, this one is more spacious, with many of the puzzles spanning several sections. I definitely recommend this game to anyone who likes puzzles.

Really nice colors and pretty hard puzzles! Lights and Lasers! It's a fun game, you can't really go into depth about it, what you see is what you get , this is a puzzle game done right, I like it, it's nice! Mechanics are smooth! Youtube Game Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIyIQbmITA&feature=youtu.be

I post this review here (and on the original ReThink page too) since it's the latest game in the series, but it's more like I'm reviewing the franchise as a whole. Imagine you take the redirection cubes and other laser materials (and hard light bridges) from Portal 2 and make a puzzle game out of them with tri-color lasers and no possibility of death (or even injury). Now imagine on top of that you add in a simplified version of the art style of Mirror's Edge (modern, clean, and grayscale with one special color). That's the whole ReThink series in a nutshell. This applies to all the ReThink games: [list][*]The puzzles are good — even a little challenging at times. Mind the name "Evolved" if you will — the "Evolved" series is, perhaps paradoxically, easier than the main ReThink games. [*]The visuals seem to keep getting better and better (though imho this last one overdoes it slightly — by losing its sleek glassy simplicity, it may turn rather ugly). Can't say this is guaranteed to run well on a potato PC though, even with all the setting minimized. [*]The music shuffles the same handful of pleasant, ambient songs, with sleekness to match the visuals; but it doesn't quite get stale... unless you've been playing through the ReThink franchise wondering when there'll be some new sleek ambient tunes (spoiler alert: they use the same music throughout the whole ReThink franchise, with one or two extra additions in some of the later ReThink games).[/list] This applies to the ReThink games as they change over time: [list][*]What little (hi)story there is has evolved little over time. More or less the same tale being retold: the facilities were once used to test prisoners (a tale which faintly parallels Portal's story), and then later (ReThink 2 and onward) used as "escape room" museums. The railcars become more and more prevalent from then on out, whether or not they need to. Oh also, your German is showing, developers, for there are trace amounts of typos and grammatical (and Capitalization) errors, as well as some story inconsistency in the franchise as a whole. [*]The puzzle design keeps changing throughout the series. At times, I couldn't help but feel that there should be one ReThink game and one ReThink | Evolved game with DLC instead of new games. It's as if over the years the developers have been tweaking with the design of the puzzles, for better or for worse (usually better).[/list] Regardless, the best thing about the overall layout is its architecture: you can see (say) puzzle #7 from puzzle #5 (better than the "teleportation" system found in later ReThink games). One minor downside is its linearity, even in the later ReThink games when there are very occasional deviations from the linear path (or when a puzzle needs the lasers from a previous puzzle). Other times there is the illusion of nonlinearity: why not have all the doors be open if they're all going to be right there? The main problem with this series is that it's apparently more niche than it deserves to be. But that won't stop me from recommending it to you. Whether you like puzzle games or not, I suggest you give the original ReThink or ReThink | Evolved (which, apart from the Portal-esque blue and orange color scheme allows you to choose your color at three points in the game) a try.

After Rethink Evolved 1-3 i was hungry for more ... and i finally got it ! Rethink Evolved series is a puzzel game where each series is doing different types of puzzels where you have to rething and think diferently all the time .. The puzzels are not easy and Rethink Evolved 4 holds your hand less then the earlier versions, It also gives a bit less hell then like rething 3 that had even good video tutorials ( The developer often updates and adds new features to it game later so this might have changed later ) Performance has been greate after i set the Shadow setting from high to medium that did not seem to have had any real visual impact. That was the only issue i had where i did go from 28 FPS to 130 FPS with just that one setting . The puzzels so far are as always really great and really diverse, They are also quite allot different. Anyone that loves puzzel games for sure will love this game here. For a 1 man project i can only prais this game and even if a team would made it its really good in my opinion no matter what !

I absolutely love this game. The graphics are beautiful and the puzzles are great fun. I have now purchased all the other ReThink puzzle laser games. HIghly recommend this game.

一人称パズルゲームReThinkの文字通り進化版となるEvolvedシリーズ第四作目。 ルールは前作までと同じ、光源から発せられた赤・青・緑の光線を曲げたり分岐させたり、時には合成/分解しながら配置された全てのセンサーに決められた色の光を通していくステージクリア型のパズルゲーム。 Evolvedシリーズの正常進化版で3次元空間の自由な位置にブロックを置けるのは変わらず、新たなギミックも加わりパズルゲームとしてより楽しくなっている。しかしやはりEvolvedシリーズはReThinkオリジナルシリーズよりも難易度が上がらない傾向は変わらず、比較的パズルは優しめ。手応えを求めるならReThinkオリジナルシリーズをお勧めするが、プレイヤーが積極的にパズルを打ち倒す快感はこちらのEvolvedシリーズの方が高いので好みに応じてどうぞ。難易度の差はあれパズルの質はどのシリーズのどのナンバーも素晴らしいので安心してプレイできる。

Good laser puzzle game. Like the first three ReThink Evolved games, this one has some complicated puzzles, and many of the puzzles can be completed with using some creative (and probably unintended) solutions. The only real negative things I can say about this game is there are no achievements :( Also there are some bugs, the most obvious being color-inverting cube, but sometimes throwing an object by pressing the right mouse button can cause that object to go through walls. Fortunately each level has a reset button, so all is not lost.

Like all of the other rethink games, this one looks great and was fun to play. My only feedback to Yaeko would be that some of the larger moving platforms could be a little slow - which I could imagine is necessary to keep cubes in place - and holders for cubes or crystals were pretty tight fits. They never got to be annoying though and were just very slight inconveniences. Very much looking forward to the next one! Would absolutely recommend this series to first person puzzle lovers, especially if it's on sale.