Lightbender

Lightbender (2015)

Math Nerd Productions, LLC · December 18, 2015 · Indie, Casual, Puzzle

Buy Lightbender from Steam at $2.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Positive83% · 23
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$2.99
lowest tracked $1.49
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Lightbender price by region

Lightbender costs £1.99 in the United Kingdom, $1.99 in Georgia (USD), $2.99 in the United States, €2.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$3.29 in Canada, NZ$3.59 in New Zealand and R$6.29 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Lightbender offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £1.99 £1.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $1.99 $1.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $2.99 $2.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €2.99 €2.99 — 1
Canada CA$3.29 CA$3.29 — 1
New Zealand NZ$3.59 NZ$3.59 — 1
Brazil R$6.29 R$6.29 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Lightbender

Lightbender is a bright, colorful, and fun puzzle game based on the physics of light. Use prisms, mirrors, lenses, and dark matter to change the color and direction of light to solve each grid.

Lightbender — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player, Multiplayer, Cross-platform multiplayer
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Oct 21, 2018
As a puzzle game with simple concepts, this game is not good enough to be an elaborately well-made one. This game has some really neat and cute levels, yet many rests of them are disappointed. Each pack includes 30 levels nevertheless many of them are made of same pattern. Levels seem to be randomly arranged with no order of diffculty or other purposed order. With the disorder of difficulty, player may always find a lot of "too easy" or "meaningless" levels in the end of game. Some complicate levels hold obviously useless gears for no reason, and the size of the board makes no sense for the space always be wasted, even some levels are placed in the wrong size pack. Such kinds of problems reveal the inadequacy in game puzzle design. Obviously, the game mechanic allows player seperate or combine the light with lightbend gears. But this mechanic appears to be so limilted. Player needs not consider the matter that more than two functional gears effects in the sametime for the limitation of the game. If player do this, or just put more functional gears together, the game display will be broken. This problem makes the superposition of lights with different colors following no logic.…
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Recommended Apr 13, 2016
I could easily describe this easily to any RuneScape gamers; It's MEP2. It is so insanely frustrating but so much fun
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Recommended Dec 7, 2023
it's a bit buggy, but nevertheless a lot of fun. For 02,99€ an absolute steal. If you like puzzle games like Prelogate, I would absolutely recommend.
Recommended Aug 8, 2017
Great buy for $3. Going through first level of difficulty. Puzzles are fun and get the creative problem-solving gears spinning nicely. So far solutions' difficulties range from straightforward to pleasantly surprisingly.
Recommended Jul 4, 2016
Neat puzzle game! Like the different ways the light colours can be modified and the use of the RGB colour spectrum. Recommended to casual gamers and puzzle fans. One thing to note though is that the level of difficulty is a little random, with no real progression in difficulty from one puzzle to the next.
Recommended Jul 1, 2016
Lightbender has a very simple concept, get the right colour light ti the receiver, there are many levels, some are easy and some are hard. would be nice to have a mouse input but it does not make the game worse. There are 8 packs of puzzles to do minus the tutorial in varying grid sizes and objects make it a challenge, like non-movable mirrors and non-rotatable ones. I do recommend this as for cheap it is very good, and also full price too it is worth it, may not have super high quality graphics but it doesn't matter.

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