Tesseract! vs Bend the Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tesseract!
Navigate a unique four-dimensional puzzle by rolling a golden sphere to every surface of a hypercube. Strategically pass through doors to rotate the tesseract and enter new rooms, aiming to reach all walls, floors, and ceilings.
- Four-dimensional puzzle gameplay
- Roll a golden sphere
- Navigate a hypercube
- Rotate the tesseract
- Reach all surfaces of rooms
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A unique four-dimensional puzzle, but please do not expect to solve it easily. The game consists of rolling a golden sphere to each surface of a hypercube. This is done by touching a door to pass through which in turn rotates the tesseract four dimensionally and brings the sphere into a new room. Passing through a series of rooms strategically will put the sphere on the walls and ceilings of rooms it has previously been in. The goal is to reach every wall, floor and ceiling of every room.
Bend the Light
A puzzle game where you manipulate lasers and mirrors to hit targets. It features over 50 pre-made levels and a robust editor for creating and sharing your own challenges with a community of players.
- Over 50 hand-crafted puzzles
- Puzzle editor for custom levels
- Share and play user-made puzzles
- Hint system for assistance
- Laser and mirror deflection gameplay
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Bend the Light is a puzzle game of lasers and mirrors. Your goal is to build constructions that deflect beams so they hit desingated targets. It offers levels ranging from easy distractions to hard challenges. # Features - More than 50 hand-crafted puzzles - A puzzle editor. Build your own levels! - Share your puzzles with other players - Access to other user-made puzzles - Hint function to help you to find the solutions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bend the Light at 5.0 against Tesseract!'s 4.3. Bend the Light also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 66 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Tesseract!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bend the Light sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Tesseract! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bend the Light holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Tesseract!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Bend the Light's.
Tesseract! ships an update every 66 months, Bend the Light every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tesseract! | Bend the Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 66 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anthony Grahn | Stanley Lam |
Customer experience
Tesseract!
Bend the Light
In-app purchases
Tesseract!
No in-app purchases
Bend the Light
- 3 hints$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Premium Pack$0.99
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- 10 hints$1.99
- 30 hints$4.99
- 75 hints$9.99
