Mind Over Magnet Steam Charts & Stats

A very polished but short puzzle game with a simple story and easy-medium difficulty puzzles. The game has a hint system on the offchance you get stuck. The developer has thoroughly documented the creation process of the game on his YouTube channel. There is no level editor and limited replayability (second playthrough with developer commentary enabled).

A short game with neat puzzles, not so challenging but feels good to solve them. Satisfying sound effects. 8/10

If you have a few houers to kill i can recomend it is good puzzeling fun but not to long

Wow Mark! What an achievement. I followed the development but the cleverness of your puzzles is truly surprising. What a great balance of difficulty.

This was a fun game, but it's too short and too simple. The gameplay is smooth, the controls are good, but the puzzles are easy. When I finished the game after a couple hours of playtime, I was looking forward to unlocking the challenging mode. Then there was no challenging mode. This could be a great game for younger kids, very casual gamers, or gamers new to the hobby. But otherwise, it's not worth the price of admission.

Mind Over Magnet is a short puzzle game that took about an hour an a half for me to fully complete. I would say it is short enough, with only about 63 levels, and then the credits. This does mean that if you don't get this game on sale, each puzzle is costing you 16 cents give or take. With the simple nature of the puzzles, I would say it may not be worth the price. Honestly, I would recommend this game. As I stated, the pricing isn't necessarily great, but its a cool concept. However, with the game having its last bit of content added back in November of 2024, its to early to know if the developer is done with the game completely, I personally don't believe the developer from Game Maker's Toolkit will add more content as in new puzzles. A nice addition may be a level editor, but other than that, I don't see us getting new content, even a level editor is a stretch. I do recommend this game, but wait to get the game until it is on sale if you are planning on it.

A linear puzzle game, in a 2d world revolving around magnets. As you might guess, this puzzle game revolves around the concept of attraction via your friendly magnet companions. Use magnets to pull yourself up, weigh down various contraptions and eventually change their polarity to setup some interesting puzzle solutions. There are other mechanics, such as pulling levers, jumping, standing on things and more (don’t want to spoil things) and these are all used to make some pretty creative puzzles. The tone is very friendly and fun, and the majority of the puzzles themselves are also fun, interesting and creative. I guess I should also mention that I found out about this game from the developers Unity tutorials. He actually has a nice series talking about this game’s development, which gives some good insight into how games are made and how they can fail or succeed. This kind of added a layer to the game that made me enjoy it even more. The positives are the puzzles and the light, casual, fun atmosphere. Like I said, they used all the games mechanics in interesting ways, that kept me engaged the whole way through. There were a couple of puzzles that maybe didn’t really explain some of the mechanics well enough before expecting you to solve some pretty complicated things, and there were a couple that were a little too fiddly but otherwise a really fun, light experience. And even though I say, fun and light, there are still many puzzles that will get you thinking. It does its job well. There is a hint system too, which I think I used 3 times, so you shouldn’t really get stuck. Even though those hints can be pretty subtle sometimes (too subtle in one case). Beyond the puzzles, just great presentation, with really cute little characters, good sounds, etc. The only true negatives would be some keyboard controls that are a bit hard to pull off. Having to move (WASD) and change polarity (F) at the same time can be awkward. Also, as I mentioned earlier, there were a couple of mechanics that could have been fleshed out more before being used in a full blown, challenging puzzle. I don’t want to go into details as they would be hard to explain without spoiling some puzzles. I guess a few mechanics were also a bit underused and the game is very short. The length felt about right, but maybe adding a few more mechanics and levels could have worked. Overall, a solid recommend, but also something that will come and go quickly. It’s a very fun, but short, puzzle game with some interesting mechanics. The puzzles lean more into the fun side, then the brain bending side, but there are many that will take some real effort too.

The mechanics and visuals are well-made, but the puzzle-solving is fairly uninspired. Mechanics are introduced and well-tutorialized, only to be used a couple times before moving onto the next thing. The biggest issue for me is that there are just so few options on what to do in each level. You often "accidentally" solve puzzles just by doing what is most natural. Sometimes there's one red herring, but rarely anything more than that. There's so little room for experimentation, and if you like finding secrets or alternative solutions, you won't get them with this game. I understand that this project took multiple years and the game design is well-documented, but it really doesn't stand on its own. 10$ for a 2 hour experience is fine with me if it's innovative and memorable, but unfortunately, this game is neither.

If you're buying this game, chances are it has more to do with being a fan of GMTK than for the game itself. The game is well polished, but it feels kind of empty. You can breeze through the puzzles pretty quick, which are pretty uneven in application, and then there's nothing left. No secrets, no extras, nothing. A bit disappointing really

It's a nice and short little puzzle game. I enjoyed it.