[b]magnibox[/b] is a beautifully-presented puzzler with great music (for a while, can get a bit repetitive) where you have to make the cute blinking magnet roll over to the exit somehow. no timer or turn limit, you fall when you reach a place where you'd normally fall, and you can attract yourself to or distance yourself from magnetic surfaces you're lined up with if facing the right way. you can fall off the edge, there are some dangerous blocks, and you can paint (well, roll) yourself into a corner, but no moving hazards or enemies.
the 160 levels are split into 8 worlds and new mechanics are introduced at a steady pace, right until the end. there are conveyor belts, pushable blocks, pressure plates, teleports, magnetic clouds, etc. and when you complete a level, the next 3 unlock, so you can make progress even if you get stuck. what's more, you can unlock all the levels from the menu, but because of all the new mechanics, I wouldn't recommend it. the difficulty curve is pretty good, no huge spikes if you go in order and most levels are relatively easy.
it's a great game at a great price, should take about 6 hours to complete, and that includes finding the secrets in every world (see [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1809897227]my secrets guide[/url] if you need help), and while it has a pretty good options menu (separate volume settings, screen shake toggle, windowed mode in various sizes) and unlimited undo got patched in as requested, there are a few technical issues as well.
first of all, while the overlay works, you can't take screenshots with f12, nor does the audio turn off when you alt+tab, and even though there's a mouse cursor, it doesn't do anything. I don't mind a keyboard-only game, but then hide the cursor.
a somewhat bigger issue is control-related. all you need to navigate both the menu and the magnet is left, right, select, back, use magnet and undo, and it's great that the game offers various keys for everything, such as arrows and wasd for movement, z and up arrow for magnet use, but the problem is it doesn't always display all the options, and even when it does it isn't always helpful.
it adapts to your control method, which sounds good in theory, so if you go with wasd, it'll tell you the rest of the keys based on that, if you go with arrows, it'll display those. but what if I want to mix things up? there's no rebinding, which is fine in this game, but I really need to know what to press then. and if you go with arrow controls, you'll have no idea how to get back from a menu because [b]the 'back' symbol is something I still haven't been able to identify[/b], so the only way I could exit the options and the credits was with alt+f4, until I read on the forums that the other (working) key is 'k'. for going back a menu. why?! and why don't esc, backspace or both do the same?
sure enough, if you start moving with wasd, it'll disdplay 'k' as your back button, so it's clearly my fault for choosing a more comfortable movemenet layout for a game like this and missing out on extra info that should be displayed anyway. especially if the alternative is a key that doesn't even exist.
as I said, it's a more serious problem, but only until you figure out which keys do what (again: [b]press 'k' to go back in menus[/b]), then it doesn't matter anymore, but it makes a really bad first impression and it should definitely be fixed at some point, along with the other minor issues, then it'll be pretty much perfect, but even in this state it's highly recommended, a really fun game and worth it even at full price.
