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Magrunner: Dark Pulse

Frogwares · Jun 20, 2013

PC · PS3

Mature

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You are Dax, one of seven Magrunners selected among the elite to participate in MagTech Corporation's space training program. But, what should be the chance of a lifetime quickly becomes a horrific nightmare. Equipped with your Magtech glove, you must harness the ability to magnetically polarize and manipulate objects in the environment to survive and surpass challenging puzzles. Your reflexes and ingenuity will be pushed to their limits as you make your way through 40+ immense and dangerous levels, including high-tech training rooms and the endless chasms of the lost cosmos, on a path to confront the horrendous creatures of Cthulhu!

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  • PC Gamer

    Marsh Davies · Jul 07, 2013

    6.6
    Suffer through these aggravations and you'll find a game composed of stolid, workmanlike conundrums, wrapped in rather dashing aesthetics. Magrunner: Dark Pulse is rarely scintillating but conceptually sound – an enigma altogether more earthly than its mythos might suggest. Never-quite-stellar puzzling fare punctured by erratic physics and makework. The scenery is nice, though.
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  • Game Front

    Phil Hornshaw · Jul 01, 2013

    7.5
    It might not be quite so engaging a world as that of Cave Johnson and GlaDOS, but Frogwares’ game is a worthy puzzler that manages to step mostly out of Portal’s long shadow — no easy feat. A tighter embrace from Cthulhu’s face-tentacles might have helped set itself apart even further.
  • Destructoid

    Steven Hansen · Jun 27, 2013

    6.5
    Magrunner does enough right that the things it does wrong become so frustrating. It riffs on Portal almost slavishly; the simple bi-color visual mechanic, the arc from clean testing facility to dank, early prototype areas, and so on. At the same time, it messes up the formula, including too many needlessly sprawling and tedious puzzles while jamming in banal characters and an uninteresting plot.
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  • GameSpot

    Leif Johnson · Jun 26, 2013

    7.5
    An ominous final scene isn't impressive enough to make up for the absence of a GLaDOS figure, but as a first-person puzzler, Magrunner: Dark Pulse manages to combine its myriad borrowed and original pieces into a satisfying whole.
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  • IGN

    Richard Cobbett · Jun 25, 2013

    6.8
    Magrunner: Dark Pulse steals from the best, swapping portals for magnets in a clever but uninspired puzzler.
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  • OPSM

    David Meikleham · Jan 22, 2014

    6.0
    An unrefined Portal-lite it may be, but this first-person puzzler occasionally weaves sharply spun noggin teasers to provide some proper ‘Eureka!’ moments.

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