Control Resonant The Last Taxi Solutions

Every cab was ridden and solved first-hand by Vlad Susanu, founder of Map Master, and the same two rules held in all seven: the payphone is always in the back alley, and no round starts until you’ve spoken to Mila. The Control Resonant Threshold and side story maps link the seven zones.

How Taxi Puzzles Work: Mila’s Call, Then Three Rounds

Getting in a cab drops you at the same foggy intersection every time. Follow the ringing to the payphone, talk to Mila, then come back and choose one cab per round. Three right picks in a row send you home, while a wrong cab flashes a red light and the round simply doesn’t advance, so you can keep testing cabs.

Two taxis end differently. In the Unknown you go back to the payphone for one more word with Mila after the third round, and in The Park the final round ends when you leave the area, not when you climb in. The Unknown map of the southernmost island places that cab near the Patterned Evac Building.

The Four Kinds of Taxi Puzzle in The Last Taxi

Three cabs test the taxis’ own lights. Central, the Evacuation Zone, and Downtown ask you to spot the cab whose sign, headlights, or blinking breaks the pattern, and Downtown’s later rounds only reveal it as you walk up to each car. Watch two or three full cycles before choosing, since a single blink is easy to miscount. Each cab also gives the same puzzle on every playthrough, so a known solution always applies.

The other four change the rules. The West Incursion Zone and the Underpass hide the answer in the streetlights above the cabs, the Unknown hands you a spotlight and asks you to read the shadows, and The Park has you rebuild a wrecked taxi from parts, matching every piece to the cab’s color. The Park map of the garage north of the FBC Base shows its roof entrance.

Taxi Locations That Need Reach, Shift, or a Late Zone

Central and the Evacuation Zone are the first two you can reach. The Evacuation Zone cab is in an alley full of Hiss lasers, and the Evacuation Zone map west of the Evac Building points to it. Downtown’s is on a northeastern street you can only reach after The Subway Fault gives you Reach, as the Downtown map of the northeastern streets shows.

The West Incursion Zone cab is on the Shift streets leading to the Theater Hall, and the West Incursion Zone map of the Theater Hall approach traces that route. The Underpass taxi is on a Mold-covered ledge in the unmapped area east of the Cable Car, and the Underpass map east of the Cable Car gets you to the edge of it.

What The Last Taxi Pays: A Coffee Cup, a Receipt, and a Trophy

Finishing all seven unlocks the Untapped Coffee Cup, one of the Untapped Artifact recipes from side stories. Mila calls one last time after the seventh cab, and the Taxi Receipt then arrives on its own to close out the Civilian Records set.

The Last Taxi is one of three side stories behind Threshold Researcher, alongside Crossing the Threshold and the six labs of Unsupervised Science. The Testing Facility shutdown routes cover the labs, so plan the taxis and the facilities as one run across the same zones.

Finishing All Seven Taxis: Order, Gates, and Missables

The taxis can be done in any order once the quest is running, one in each zone except the Watchtower. Central and the Evacuation Zone come first, Downtown follows Reach, the West Incursion Zone follows Shift, and The Park, the Underpass, and the Unknown open as the story reaches them, and the Last Taxi quest objectives track all seven.

No taxi can be lost for good, because every cab stays in place after the credits. If a run won’t start, you haven’t answered the payphone yet, and if a round won’t advance, stand still and watch every cab, streetlight, or shadow through one more cycle before you pick again.