RHEM IV: The Golden Fragments SE

Great game... IMHO there are not enough like this out there. this is NOT some point and click escape room. This is Puzzle mastery. It will bend your mind into odd ways of thinking. fun times. that being said.... The only downside for me was the mind numbingly stupid task of having to enter codes over and over to open the same doors. especially with the amount of back and forth required in this game. some of the puzzles I thought were a bit lazy and were made more difficult than they actually were.. ab ad db cd ca etc puzzle... you'll know when you get there. Let them have your money on this one. if you like to think instead of just smash. :-)

I'm glad that Cyan is doing well with the Myst and Riven remakes, but let's be honest, that's just too many graphics. Too many good graphics in those games. I need the good graphics of 1994, with pre-rendered environments and dithered gradients. I need the puzzles to be made LESS accessible. RHEM IV satisfies these requirements for me, and now I'm going to have to play the other games and dive deeper into this rabbit hole.

ZONE OUT TO THIS

A phenomenal puzzle game, really rewarding patience and carefully jolting down notes.

good puzzles. too much back tracking. couldn't get screenshots to work. interesting as a whole

Though not for everyone, it's very rare that game that obsesses me as much as the Rhem series has. As many others have characterized it, I would put it in the category of point and click games similar to Myst. Whereas Myst has a bit more of a story, better art overall (though I actually love the very mechanical nature of the Rhem art), Rhem has only the bare minimum of a story arc to tie the games together and relating to the mysterious land of Rhem. After a short cut-scene of your cart arriving in Rhem and a note from one of the few story characters, you're dumped into a puzzle experience that has almost no hand-holding and some very difficult puzzles. The puzzle style in Rhem is to have a device/button that initially is unable to be solved (and most are very resistant to brute force solving) but has all the hints needed to solve it somewhere in the world. These hints can be nearby, clear across the map, or even on the back of a door that you need to circle back around to. The puzzles are fair though much harder than Myst's in my opinion. Many also require some deduction and multiple clues pieced together to solve. I'd recommend this game to anyone who enjoys the Myst and Riven g…