Magnibox

This little puzzle game deserves way more recognition. It was sitting on my wishlist and then backlog for a really long time, until I've accidentally launched it and was charmed by its style and simple rules. I think this game finds a good difficulty balance: the puzzles aren't that hard, but also not completely trivial and require some planning. The only stumble I've had was not immediately understanding the cloud concept: these are just boxes that don't fall :) Perfect for the SteamDeck.

The puzzle designs manage to strike a really good balance between brevity and challenge. I very rarely had to look up a solution for any of these. Magnibox kept my interest through every single level, without leaning into a world of obnoxious difficulty and hair-pulling frustration.

Great puzzles, sharp consistent pixelart. Could have been a Gameboy Advance game!

Great little puzzle game! Easy to understand but challenging to solve; exactly what you want from a puzzle game. Lovely pixel art presentation as well, with clear feedback throughout. Plays perfectly on Steam Deck too (despite being unverified at the time of writing this review).

Magnibox is a cute puzzler, with really neat ideas, that is really bogged down by the puzzles themselves. Most of the puzzles, in their opening, look pretty daunting, however, save for some neat exceptions, the actual moves you need to make are very limited, and the solution is very easy to discern. Even when you cannot find the solution, doing random explanatory moves seem to accidentally get you to the solution 50% of the time, I wasn't even using my (relatively small) brain on those. And what is with that secrets achievement? Completely out of place in regards to the game, and was more tedious than anything else. Hate to give this one a negative review, but ultimately the puzzles in this one were not that great.

Loved this game! I would play 10 more hours of this Looking forward to GrappleDog!