ReThink
Fair · Short indie · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $0.89, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2017. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 3.9h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 293 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
As an inmate of a government-controlled Correctional Facility in the year 2275, you have the right to prove yourself worthy of being part of Society again. Show your skills in logical thinking by solving puzzles of varying size, type and difficulty in this first-Person puzzle game, and redeem your freedom!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD R9 270X / nvidia GTX 950, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. It has been discounted 104 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Machinika: Museum ($1.19, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats The Ball ($9.99, scores 35).
The drop-off
78% start to 17% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Pretty nice brainteaser that can easily be finished in 2-3 sessions (totaling ~3-4 hours). I liked it a lot, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys games like Portal or The Talos Principle.
2 more reviews
Straightforward puzzle game, in which your goal is to aim, mix and split laser beams in order to light up colored orbs. In the reworked version (for which this review is for) there are 38 levels with fixed laser cubes, increasing and balanced difficulty and new mechanics, but the basic gameplay is the same throughout the game. Pretty much sums it up, as there is no real story apart from some text in the beginning of...
The puzzles are tough, especially towards the end. Oddly, many puzzles give you more cubes than you need, which is confusing for no reason (eg. for the final puzzle my solution left three cubes unused). It feels like the developer designed the puzzles by just randomly placing a few cubes, lasers, and nodes down (making sure all the nodes were activated) without checking that their solution is unique, or even...
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Cite this score
ReThink scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/603800/rethinkReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.