Magnetic: Cage Closed

Magnetic: Cage Closed

Skip · Action · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 17, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3.5h 8.5h to 100%
Value
$4.28/hr
Reviews
68% of 344 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.49 (90% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews68% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 58 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

About the game

Magnetic: Cage Closed is a first person puzzle game where the player manipulates magnetic forces to accomplish their goals. The mechanics are focused around a single tool: The Magnet Gun which allows you to create electromagnetic fields with either positive or negative charges.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB vram), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 89 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) and INMOST ($14.99, scores 62) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Magnetic: Cage Closed

Finishing takes 3.5 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.4 times the campaign.

The drop-off

61% start to 3% 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

What players say

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.5hFeb 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Difficulty : 0/5 (Extremely Easy) Global : 0/5 (Bad) One of the worst puzzle games.
AnokturnusNot recommendedafter 3.1hJan 2023Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Magnetic: Cage Closed scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/344410/magnetic-cage-closed
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+7
Critics61
Players68
Metacritic critics · 344 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGuru Games
PublisherGood Shepherd Entertainment
GenreAction
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29