Mind Over Magnet

Mind Over Magnet

Worth it · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2024.

Length
2.1h
Value
$1.42/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
−70%78 is the sale score. Normallyat full price.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.

Typical seasonal cut
35% ($6.49)
Deepest seasonal cut
70% ($2.99)

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.42
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,428 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

An attractive puzzle platformer where you use magnetism to escape a factory. Meet a cast of magnet characters and work together to solve logical conundrums.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$1.42/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $4.76/hr
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length2.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds9 of 445 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 12 in the 2 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

At full price it scores 63. The current cut is what makes it a 78.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Laughing to Die ($3.74, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats ElecHead ($9.99, scores 76).

9 of the 445 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 470 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

97% start to 60% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Like probably most people, I am here because of the Game Maker's Toolkit YouTube channel. I enjoyed his videos about the development of this game and wanted to give it a try. There is not that much to say about the game itself besides that it is a solid puzzle game with simple but clever puzzles. It is not especially difficult, but there are still some tricky moments, so probably a good difficulty for the average...
philipRecommendedafter 2.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
It's an inoffensive game. I enjoyed my time with it, despite one groping joke that felt completely out of place. The story is barely there, the soundtrack was nothing to write home about and the graphics are ok at best. But where the game excels at is the difficulty curve and how great it is at introducing new mechanics. I personally just wish the game would aim towards harder and more complex puzzles. I never...
CzarRecommendedafter 1.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
beat this game in 88 minutes, according to steam playtime. initial impressions were great, although the game started getting monotonous by the 2nd half. the entire thing felt like a mobile game, or at the very least a prototype pumped full of indie game juice. characters were shallow, story was a nothingburger, which isn't always a bad thing but worked against the game imo. the puzzles were sometimes clever, and had...
BurpingbubbleboyNot recommendedafter 1.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Mind Over Magnet scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2685900/mind-over-magnet
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGame Maker's Toolkit
PublisherGame Maker's Toolkit
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Achievements9